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May 17, 2000

Editorials
Logical transfer of duty
Supervisor of Elections Dorothy Ruggles, who is struggling with breast cancer, has made the right choice for her replacement: her assistant Deborah Clark.

Sacred cow is a profane chagrin
The cowering bureaucrats nominally in charge of Indiana University say it would have been wrong for them to fire Hoosier basketball coach Bob Knight this week, because the coach had never been given a set of guidelines regulating his behavior.

Letters
Marchers' hopes for gun control are misguided
Re: Million Mom March.

Bill Maxwell
'Black' means tolerating criminality?
Few people are more contemptible than some self-anointed Keeper of Negritude who attempts to teach other blacks how to be black. This is precisely what happened on May 7, when the St. Petersburg Times published a letter of a well-known former head of the local chapter of the NAACP.

 

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.