January 10, 2001
Editorials
The future of voting
While we can probably say goodbye to punch cards, it's less clear what new methods the election task force will recommend.
Fair play on the field of justice
Hillsborough State Attorney Mark Ober's first week in office was punctuated by an unusual -- and thoroughly refreshing -- move toward greater justice for all.
Editorial Notebook: Deborah Hardin Wagner
When shaken babies survive
If anything is as wrenching as the death of a child by a violent shaking, it's the life of a child who survives in spite of one.
Letters
Times depiction of drug report was incomplete
The report of the statewide grand jury on Florida's efforts to cut drug abuse is a significant public service. Over a period of eight months, the grand jury called -- by its own account -- a host of witnesses, heard expert testimony, researched the broad expanse of the issues and considered a myriad of approaches to the problem. The result is a remarkably comprehensive, in-depth report intended to decrease the demand for and supply of illegal drugs in Florida.
Bill Maxwell
Experience colors our view of history
While on Christmas vacation in the frozen North, I heard Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Henry Allen discuss his recent book, What It Felt Like Living in the American Century, on National Public Radio's program Talk of the Nation with host Juan Williams and his call-in guests. The book is a treat for history buffs who color the past outside the lines.
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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