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May 25, 2001
Editorials
Jeffords’ jump
The shift of power in the Senate should cause both parties to start practicing the bipartisanship that President Bush promised during last fall's campaign.
Museum board should decide
The ideal solution to a budget impasse that has gone on too long is for Hillsborough County to honor its commitment and give $17-million toward a history museum. The facility appears best suited for the downtown Tampa waterfront, but that decision should ultimately be made by the museum board after a public deliberation with its professional consultants.
Letters
School should be where students learn, not earn
Re: Students get paid for FCAT success, 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.
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