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January 18, 2002
Editorials
USF's firestorm
The Sami Al-Arian controversy won't go away until university officials either reinstate the professor or come up with a better reason for firing him.
Stay strong on clean air
President Bush's administration is sending a mixed message on clean air. On Wednesday, the Justice Department said it would prosecute cases brought by the Clinton administration against coal-fired power plants and oil refineries that refused to install pollution controls as required by the Clean Air Act. At the same time, the White House and Environmental Protection Agency are considering weakening the very rules that are used to enforce the act.
Letters
Lower taxes offer liberation from big government
The Jan. 12 column, Florida sliding back to its Old South ways, is nothing more than a mean-spirited attack on my administration that tries to equate some of my policies -- especially my support of lower taxes -- to those of a particularly dark period in the South's past.
Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.
Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.
Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.
Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.
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