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July 12, 2000

Bill Maxwell
George W.'s motive for NAACP visit
BALTIMORE -- Emblematic of the dubious sincerity of Texas Gov. George W. Bush's foray into racial politics, on the national level, were his three attempts to pronounce the name of civil rights legend W.E.B. Du Bois in front of delegates attending the NAACP 91st convention.

Editorials
Leading the American Bar
In 1973, there weren't a lot of women practicing law in Florida.

Coe's cash machines
"They're lifelong friends," he said. But they're also his employees, which makes it wrong for Hillsborough State Attorney Harry Lee Coe to hit up his staff for personal loans.

Letters
Bush is on track with plan to cut state government
Just when I was losing faith in our governor, he comes back strong.  

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.