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March 27, 2001
Editorials
Honor in not executing
The Legislature can bring honor to our state by not allowing execution as punishment for the mentally retarded.
Judge gives integration a chance
Hillsborough County's longstanding school desegregation case, which a federal appeals court brought to an end this month, was a paradox of success and indifference. Generations of black and white students have grown up with the normalcy of attending the same schools. But the warring parties for 43 years, the school district and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, never showed the same accommodation -- on busing, racial ratios or student achievement -- that could have resolved the litigation long ago and left the community in better shape.
Times recommends
St. Petersburg voters go to the polls today to elect a mayor, five council members and to decide 12 charter and referendum issues. Here is a summary of our recommendations:
Letters
It's time money was given back to the taxpayers
I just completed my 2000 federal tax return and I cannot believe I actually owe Washington more money than last year.
Martin Dyckman
Developmentally disabled need the help
TALLAHASSEE -- My son's peers were more perceptive than the professionals he had seen.
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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