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June 14, 2001
Editorials
President on patient's rights
Patients' rights legislation was one of the issues on which candidate George W. Bush promised to bring bipartisan consensus as president. Instead, the White House has become the biggest obstacle to a patients' rights bill that has won wide bipartisan support in Congress.
Natural treasures
A bill threatens the Antiquities Act, which has protected some of America's natural treasures under presidential authority.
Diane Roberts
President Bush's thoughts on his travels
TUESDAY: The other day the Dadmeister says, 'Son, being president of the United States of America is a big honor to many people, so when you go visit our allies who live in foreign countries and so are not as American as you and me, it would be good for future historians of the past if you kept a journal of your experientations."
Letters
Justice has been done in the McVeigh case
It was a traumatic experience reading the Times headline on June 11, Execution day, followed by a list of the 168 people who died in the terrorist bombing at Oklahoma City. The bomber was a young man who turned against his country and decided that killing innocent men, women and children was his way of "getting even."
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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