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June 5, 2001
Editorials
Last chance for Arafat
The burden is on Yasser Arafat to rebuild confidenceby cracking down on Palestinian aggression againstIsraelis before there is more violence.
Don't purge pawned-gun data
The idea of keeping a statewide record of pawnshop transactions was a good one until the Florida Department of Law Enforcement caved in to the National Rifle Association. For months, the state worked with sheriffs and police chiefs to consolidate local databases, tracking everything from pawned jewelry to televisions. But a last minute addendum pushed by the NRA would purge information about gun purchases after 48 hours, while the rest of the database remains intact.
Need energy answers, not blame
Senate Democrats think they can exploit President Bush's political vulnerability over high gasoline prices. Maybe they can, but they shouldn't confuse it for a credible energy policy.
Letters
Fasano pleased to upset lobbyists and bureaucrats
Re: Rep. Fasano whips up waves of discontent, May 26.
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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