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May 5, 2000

Devil Rays
At last, U.S. fights AIDS in Africa
Well, better late than never.

A wise nursing home approach
While this session may best be remembered for the lightning speed with which Republican lawmakers overhauled -- with little forethought or debate -- everything from education to environmental policy, there's one area where the Florida Legislature deserves credit for taking it slow: the nursing-home liability "crisis." Here, if nowhere else, lawmakers appear to be interested in getting the facts before they make sweeping changes.

An unprincipled budget
Far from "principled," as House Speaker John Thrasher called it, next year's state budget fails to address real needs while instead funding unnecessary pet projects. Equally troubling, it came together in secret.

Letters
Don't misstate FSU's views on higher education
Re: In for the kill, April 19.  

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.