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May 19, 2000

Editorials
Board overboard
The Board of Regents is dead, even if some members don't know it yet. And Florida's universities aren't feeling so well themselves.

AIDS in Africa calls for action
It isn't much, but it will pass for good news in AIDS-ravaged Africa, where 5500 people die every day from the disease. One day after President Clinton cleared the way for African countries to make or import generic HIV-AIDS drugs free from fear of U.S. retaliation, five pharmaceutical giants agreed to negotiate the sale of these drugs at sharply reduced prices in regions hit hardest by the epidemic. This move at least indicates that the outside world is beginning to awaken to the horror story that AIDS has become in Africa, where 11-million people already have died from the disease and another 23-million are carrying the HIV virus.

Putin's dirty tricks revealed
Not for nothing was Vladimir Putin trained by the KGB. The new president of Russia seems a little too nostalgic for the old days when government controlled information and intimidated the press, just like in the worst days of the Soviet Union.

Letters
Trade deal with China would be a big mistake
Re: Advantages of trade. editorial, May 16.  

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.