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June 20, 2001
Editorials
Gay adoption should be allowed
Florida has 3,000 children in foster care awaiting adoption. That's 3,000 boys and girls who want nothing more than to have a loving, caring adult who will take legal responsibility for them. But the state of Florida blocks thousands of its citizens from giving of themselves in this way. Not because they are incompetent, negligent, unprepared or sickly, but simply because they are gay.
Good for Puerto Rican island
President Bush made the correct decision in calling an end to military exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. The live bombing was a vestige of colonialism at its worst, and halting the target practice removes a threat to the public safety of islanders and a growing irritant to relations with Puerto Rico.
Mining threat
The Department of Environmental Protection is too permissive in allowing phosphate mining that could put the Peace River and Charlotte Harbor at risk.
Letters
Be vigilant about rising violence in South America
Thirty years ago, the New York Times and Washington Post published the Pentagon Papers, showing how classified reports by the Pentagon and the CIA told a story of the Vietnam War that was very different from what was known to the general public.
Bill Maxwell
Art offers new notions of being black
NEW YORK -- Freestyle. The word alone conjures up images of things as being out of control, out of bounds, unorthodox.
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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