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July 25, 2001
Bill Maxwell
Writer personified the best of the South
As a whole, Southern literature is self-conscious and introspective, a mixture of pride and guilt.
Editorials
Constitution clutter
Legislators should find ways to protect the state Constitution instead of allowing it to be cluttered with causes that just don't belong there.
Help for young offenders
Pinellas' Juvenile Welfare Board deserves praise for working to prevent the arrest of children between 5 and 11 years old. Spurred on by Times reporter Curtis Krueger's December series, "Under 12/Under Arrest," the JWB will spend around $200,000 collaborating with three local mental health agencies and schools to identify disruptive children and offer home visits and therapy for them and their families.
Letters
Embryonic stem cell research can't be justified
Re: The greater good -- stem cell research, July 19.
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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