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March 8, 2001
Editorials
Assault on the judiciary
A bill to give the governor power to pick all members of the judicial nominating commissions would set Florida justice back 30 years.
Keep autopsy photos public
The Florida Legislature never looks so bad, or does so badly, as when it surfs the crest of some current hysteria. One such time came in 1971, when a court-martial convicted Lt. William Calley of murder in the My Lai massacre. Inexplicably, Calley was a hero to enough unthinking people that legislators introduced a resolution in support of him. Wiser members managed to delay and defeat it.
Letters
A compassionate government is less oppressive
Re: Rules test Bush's compassion, March 5.
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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