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February 28, 2002
Martin Dyckman
Remembered for his ethics and wit
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida runs short on heroes from time to time, and I think we're at one of those low points now. But there was once was a Bob Mann, and maybe someday there will be another.Darrell Fry
Mr. McDaniel: In a class by himself
TAMPA -- He'll get up around the crack of dawn and make it to work long before most of the others arrive. It's a thankless gig. High demand. Low pay. Few perks. Skimpy resources. Mary Jo Melone
Boar's death is but a part of the radio boor's act
Like it or not, and I don't, but Bubba's probably going to walk. Tampa Uncuffed
Law school or Grand Ole Opry?
That could be the choice facing Erica Larson, a 20-year-old receptionist at the State Attorney's Office. Larson, having won a WQYK-99.5 radio contest by inhaling helium, singing karaoke and juggling vegetables, got to spend a weekend near Nashville in December as part of a Patty Loveless-Travis Tritt video.
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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