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July 25, 2000

Editorials
Playing politics with lives
Once again, Congress is trying to shove its twisted "morality" down the throats of poor women in developing countries. This year's foreign aid bill contains a provision to prevent private agencies that receive some federal aid from using their own money -- not the taxpayers' -- to fund family planning and abortion information overseas.

A poor entrance
The Front Porch Florida program in St. Petersburg has gotten off to a rocky start. It's Gov. Jeb Bush's responsibility to correct its flaws.

Letters
Money can only distort medical decisionmaking
Re: HMOs' cost-effectiveness unethical, July 1.  

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.