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May 30, 2000

Editorial notebook: Diane Roberts
Little Leo makes good politics
LONDON -- Tony Blair has got to be among the greatest PR geniuses the world has ever produced. Or else the luckiest man in politics.

Editorials
Junk food harms health
With the tobacco industry on the political and legal defensive, public health activists are taking aim at a new public health enemy -- junk food. Any day now expect to see trial lawyers circling over your nearest fast-food restaurant.

Eavesdropping project
Snooping is being made easier by law enforcement without much thought to our right to privacy.

Martin Dyckman
Wreck these trains by our legislators
To Florida legislators, the word "train" means something their leaders had pledged to stop. As you can guess, they didn't.

Letters
Voucher battle is really about teachers' jobs
Re: Vouchers blur lines of power, May 28.  

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.