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April 11, 2001
Editorials
A minimum age for execution
In a rare moment of enlightenment, the Florida House of Representatives tentatively voted last week to exempt all juveniles from the death penalty. Those who said it was too good to be true were right. In a monumental double-cross, the House leadership pulled the bill from the floor Tuesday to keep it from passing.
Censorship rampant on campus
The advertisement that conservative convert David Horowitz has been placing, or trying to place, in college newspapers across the country is not the racist manifesto it's been made out to be, but it is decidedly offensive to many African-Americans.
Attack on public records
Inexperience is no excuse for the bills moving through the Legislature that threatenour state's open-government laws.
Letters
We should treat drug addiction as medical problem
When, oh, when are lawmen, politicians and especially prosecutors going to realize that drug addiction is a medical problem and not a criminal problem?
Bill Maxwell
The list of ugly names for blacks is long
Although words and names are the tools of my trade, I am awed by their power to incite and excite. Most recently, I was reminded of the power of words when I used the term "peckerwood" in a column. Its use brought a hue and cry from many white males.
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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