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January 27, 2001
Editorials
A budget flaw
Gov. Jeb Bush's commendable social-services budget proposal is marred by its rollback of vital services for low-income pregnant women.
A human stain on the Galapagos
Environmental degradation has become so common that it takes an exceptional event to grab our attention. So when an oil tanker ran aground off the coast of Ecuador, the world took notice. It wasn't the size of the spill -- 160,000 gallons of diesel and heavy bunker fuel -- but the location: the Galapagos Islands.
Be honest about problems at USF
Special counsel Joseph Hatchett did a commendable job of untangling all the complaints of racial harassment in the University of South Florida women's basketball program. But USF President Judy Genshaft's response to Hatchett's report was disappointing. Genshaft said all the right things about racial sensitivity, but she minimized a top administrator's role in making this legal mess worse.
Letters
Why do we use sex to measure a leader's morality?
Re: Judging morality in our leaders, by Michael Eric Dyson, Jan. 23.
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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