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July 21, 2000

Editorials
Summertime heat
It is hot. Very hot. This is to state the obvious, but when it's this hot the obvious is about all a person can handle.

Backing higher ethics
Gov. Jeb Bush made ethics in government one of his priorities last year by forming a special commission to propose tougher ethical rules. Not only should public officials be held to higher standards, the commission concluded, but corruption laws should apply to private companies that contract with public agencies.

Take a stand
The benefits of restoring the Snake River's natural flow outweigh its costs. Al Gore, once again, has chosen to be ambiguous instead of taking a real stand.

Letters
Mall hat episode teaches children the wrong lesson
Re: Tip of the hat sends Tyrone mall over the top, by Howard Troxler, July 19, and related stories about the young man ejected from Tyrone Square Mall.  

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.