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February 22, 2001
Editorials
Protecting parks
State officials shouldn't be so quick to give up their valuable parkland, or they could damage the preservation process.
Social Security needs not divide
The debate over how to shore up Social Security needs not damage the bond between America's generations, which is why U.S. Rep. Bill Thomas should clean up his act. Thomas, the brash new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, told a recent gathering of AARP members that current retirees have cashed in on "the largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history." He added: "Frankly, you shouldn't be the winners you are."
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Letters
Tax views of the wealthy are hard to relate to
Re: Wealthy against tax cut, Feb. 16.
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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