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May 18, 2000

Editorials
Health bill problematic
A small-business insurance bill that would base employers' rates on the health of its workers may lead to health discrimination in the hiring process.

Sierra Leone's new beginning
There is some good news out of Africa. The U.N. forces and British paratroops sent into Sierra Leone have successfully evacuated foreigners, moved children to places of safety, secured the streets of Freetown, the capital city, and scattered the insurgents of the Revolutionary United Front who, despite a "peace agreement" signed last July, have been battling the ragged remnants of the Sierra Leonean government.

Brown's actions tarnish Congress
U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown seems incapable of coming clean as questions mount about her judgment, integrity and business ethics.

Martin Dyckman
Senator's slush sinks disclosure bill
State Sen. Ron Silver, D-North Miami Beach, cheerfully did his part toward carrying out the Senate's plan for the next-to-last day of the legislative session.

Letters
Our lawmakers ought to oppose secret evidence
Re: Accused of being suspicious.

 

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.