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July 10, 2002
Editorial
Business as usual
As Wall Street's negative reaction indicated, President Bush's speech on corporate responsibility didn't signal a serious effort at reform.
Letters
Accused judge has a right to defend himself
It is a sad day in our community when its leading newspaper, in an intemperate editorial, calls for the removal of a sitting judge with 10 years of distinguished and selfless service, not for what he did wrong, but for what he did right. In your editorial, Cope's injudiciousness (June 27), you rehash a six-year-old incident for which Cope was totally vindicated. And having firmly established the poisonous tenor of what follows, you make baseless accusations against Cope which reduce ultimately to the indigestible porridge that a judge should not defend himself from malicious criminal charges.
Bill Maxwell
Nellie Monk held Thelonious together
Nellie Monk's recent death did not produce big headlines. The St. Petersburg Times carried a 97-word tribute on Page 5A. From what I knew of her, she probably would have wanted it that way.
Columns today
Howard Troxler
Don't kill the lawyers, just the frivolous lawsuits
Please indulge me in a little more discussion about the role of lawyers and lawsuits in our society.
Robert Trigaux
Shades of gray dim Bush's speech
Heard the latest flap over the director of a public corporation who sold his shares for $848,560 just before the company reported heavy losses? This same director served on the company's audit committee, which okayed how to count the sale of a subsidiary. But the SEC later forced the company to restate its books to reflect $10-million in losses hidden by that sale.
Bill Maxwell
Nellie Monk held Thelonious together
Nellie Monk's recent death did not produce big headlines. The St. Petersburg Times carried a 97-word tribute on Page 5A. From what I knew of her, she probably would have wanted it that way.
John Romano
A dangerous game of follow the leader
The time has come for extensive drug testing in major league baseball.
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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