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August 10, 2001
Editorials
Changing of the guard
A younger, more moderate leadership in the Cuban exile community should have a positive effect on both international policy and domestic politics.
A journalist in jail
Vanessa Leggett has been sitting in a federal jail since July 20 and may remain there for 18 months, as long as she refuses to turn over research material she gathered on a 1997 murder for a book she is writing. Her situation raises troubling questions about how far law enforcement can go to compel journalists to disclose confidential sources.
A better plan for young offenders
Florida recently opened its first prison for inmates under 18 who normally would have been housed with adult prisoners. The facility for young offenders who have been tried and sentenced as adults is run not by the Department of Juvenile Justice but by the Department of Corrections. The reconfigured 38-bed dorm is housed in a separate wing of the Marion Correctional Institute.
Letters
Objective facts needed for Social Security solution
Your July 29 editorial entitled Social Security untruths levels an inaccurate charge against the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security that warrants correction.
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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