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July 23, 2001
Editorials
Trade freely, truck safely
The U.S. Senate is getting ready to debate a transportation appropriations bill that could open the nation's highways to commercial trucks from Mexico -- and in the process reopen old wounds from the political battle over the North American Free Trade Agreement eight years ago.
Political mileage
After years of no progress, momentum is building in Washington to require improved fuel efficiency from the American automobile industry.
Letters
Election debacle will resonate for years to come
Along with the striking story in the New York Times of July 15(Bush focus: Get in overseas votes) on Republican behavior during the Florida election crisis is a second story about Joe Lieberman. He, of course, was the Democratic vice presidential candidate who lost out along with Al Gore, possibly due to his own decency -- perhaps naivete -- in the face of the raw-knuckled political infighting of this ballot count.
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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