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June 14, 2000

Editorials
Greece too lax on terrorism
The government of Greece is finally admitting it has a terrorist problem. It's about time. The recent unchecked and underinvestigated violence of the November 17 group is souring Greece's relations with its allies in NATO and the European Union, damaging its economy and threatening to wreck the 2004 Olympics.

Bungling Scientology case
Medical Examiner Joan Wood's mishandling of the autopsy report in the death of Lisa McPherson creates questions of Wood's credibility.

Bill Maxwell
Country ears awakens you to nature
The year was 1985, and I was living in the woods nearly 25 miles from Gainesville. I was lying in bed a few minutes past midnight. With no street lamps within a mile or more, the night was pitch black, and the only light in my bedroom was the blue glow of my clock radio.

Letters
Our tax dollars shouldn't be used for the Olympics
Re: Olympic panel has buildings in mind, June 2.  

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.