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January 18, 2001
Editorials
Fathers need equal protection
There was a time when the law prevented women from practicing law, working over a certain number of hours or owning property if married. Our legal code was laden with gender-specific rules based on traditional sex roles and generalizations about men and women.
Ungrateful
Dade County shouldn't fight to put an airport on the former Homestead Air Force Base, which was given as a gift and not to be used as an airport.
Shelter shows leadership
The St. Petersburg City Council did the right thing by approving the Society of St. Vincent de Paul's bid to resurrect the old Florida Hospital as a homeless shelter and food center. The move should benefit the city, the neighborhood and the homeless.
Letters
Ashcroft showed contempt for the legal process
During the past controversy concerning the confirmation of Linda Chavez, many "political pundits" said that what separates John Ashcroft from Linda Chavez was that Chavez actually broke the law. They maintained that despite being more conservative than Patrick Buchanan and believing that only his religious ilk will have a pleasant afterlife, George W. Bush is entitled to his own choices in his Cabinet unless there is wrongdoing. In the case of Ashcroft, there is wrongdoing.
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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