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February 8, 2001
Editorials
Israel's old warrior
Ariel Sharon is an unlikely agent of peace, but Washington can do little until Sharon and YasserArafat show they are serious about new negotiations.
Struggling to stay afloat
New Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson has a strong mandate to build on the welfare reform philosophy he shared during his Senate confirmation hearings: "For welfare to be successful, you have to make an investment up front. It can't be done on the cheap." It is a philosophy Thompson put into practice as governor of Wisconsin, where welfare reform was accompanied by generous increases in state support for families making the transition.
Letters
Accountability has to accept student reality
Re: Teachers need to be accountable, too, by Ronald Brownstein, Feb. 6.
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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