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July 4, 2000

Editorials
Zimbabwe's opportunity
Ripped apart by vigilante violence, and with its economy on the brink of disintegration, Zimbabwe has managed to hold its elections. Led by Morgan Tsvangirai, a trade unionist, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change put together a coalition of blacks, whites and other ethnic minorities to take 57 seats -- enough to stop President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party from imposing legislation or changing the constitution, as they've been doing for 20 years. Mugabe will have to work with people he is accustomed to describing as "enemies of the state." Now, elected by the people, they are as much the state as he is.

Monarchy to oligarchy?
Alliance for Florida's Economy Inc.'s brazen move to openly express its desire to influence the outcome of congressional elections takes lobbying to new level.

Letters
Joining in our nation's heritage of freedom
Recently I became an American. Together with my family and 508 other applicants, we joined this great nation.  

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.