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July 6, 2001
Editorials
Surgeon general's reality report
The Bush administration has tried its best to distance itself from Surgeon General David Satcher's report on human sexuality and sex education, which counsels parents, community leaders and educators to take an open, common-sense approach to discussing the subject. The wonder is why such a reasonable report, which outlines responsible discussion of human sexuality, has been shunned by the president and even provoked calls for Satcher's dismissal.
The purfuit of happineff
The skeleton crew operating our newsroom phones on Independence Day was inundated by calls from outraged readers who accused us of altering the copy of the Declaration of Independence published on page 17A of the July 4 Times.
Time for agency to change
Enterprise Florida Inc. should answer to the public about its questionable decisions and bookkeeping.
Letters
Ybor cameras let government pry into our lives
Re: Ybor police cameras go spy-tech, June 30.
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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