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January 21, 2002
Martin Dyckman
USF hasn't learned from its past
Another atrocity in Israel: A Palestinian gunman shoots up a bat mitzvah celebration, killing six people, injuring 30. When Sami Al-Arian infamously shouted, "Death to Israel!," was that the sort of thing he had in mind? Though the suspended University of South Florida professor insists he meant it merely as a political metaphor, many people are understandably unpersuaded.
Editorials
No quick weight loss supplements
Many of us discover, as Janet Makinen did, that as we age it becomes easier to put weight on than to take it off. She probably knew in her heart that exercising more and eating less were the only sure ways to lose weight, but as many do each day, she chose easy over sure. Makinen paid $150 for a product called Evening Weight Loss Formula from Body Solutions. Drink a tablespoonful every night before bed, the product promised, and while you sleep you "lose weight while building lean." The result: After 90 days, Makinen had gained 6 pounds.
Florida's injustice on spousal death
A retired couple from Ohio were killed three years ago in a Polk County collision. Each had grown children from prior marriages. His got a modest settlement from the rental car company that owned the vehicle at fault. Her children got nothing.
Enron's free ride
Enron used loopholes to avoid paying income taxes for four of the past five years and was entitled to a rebate of $382-million.
Letters
Injunctions save lives in domestic violence cases
Re: Shattered unions, rapid solutions, Dec. 30.
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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