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July 16, 2001
Editorials
Punishing victims
Public housing rules that evict entire families for the misdeeds of a single resident are perversely cruel.
A paycheck without a job
It's not surprising that Charlie Crist could find the time to raise such an enormous amount of money for his campaign for attorney general. After all, Crist doesn't have a real job anymore, so his schedule is wide open for fundraisers.
Editorial Notebook: Cate Doty
Media circus overshadows intern
"All of us at times do things that are embarrassing," says former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is trying to rehabilitate his tarnished image by re-entering our lives as a TV pundit.
Letters
Health care ought to be available to all Americans
Re: Consider this cure for health care, by John Balzar, July 11.
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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