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May 1, 2001
Editorials
A drug warrior
The same old, same old approach to drug polices isn't what was expected for President Bush's choice for drug czar, a supply-side drug warrior.
Not their finest hour
It is true, as Senate President John McKay remarked Monday, that there were many ways by which he could have brought the controversial career service bill to the Senate calendar. But it is also true that he chose the worst of those ways to do it.
Smokey's new message
After 54 years, Smokey Bear's message is changing and that could help Florida. Smokey's famous slogan -- "only you can prevent forest fires" -- will be replaced with a very similar one -- "only you can prevent wildfires."
Letters
Florida needs laws prohibiting cell-phone use
Re: A phone rings; suddenly, a man lies dead, April 26.
Martin Dyckman
Poor reform to a September primary
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida's election supervisors, who have wanted for years to be rid of the runoff primary, complained that they couldn't conduct three elections in nine weeks without doing injustice to absentee voters overseas. So the tail has wagged the dog, and they'll get their wish.
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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