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May 23, 2000

Editorials
Serbia's freedoms dissolving
Last week, Slobodan Milosevic struck another blow against his own people. Armed government goons stormed the Belgrade headquarters of Studio B, the only independent national television station to survive the war, and pulled the plug. Serbian police also shut down Yugoslavia's highest-circulation newspaper, Blic, and several other television and radio stations. When they were finished, only one small independent station, Radio Pancevo, was still on the air -- and their managers feared they would be next.

Politics U.
By volunteering Sens. Graham and Mack as potential University of Florida presidents, Gov. Jeb Bush added to the political meddling in higher education.

Letters
With water so limited, let's limit development, too
Re: Water shortage.

Martin Dyckman
Gambling issue is bigger than politics
A reader called not long ago to challenge my credentials as a liberal because of my opposition to casino gambling, which I think is uglier than dirt.  

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.