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August 13, 2001
Editorials
Let peers, not politics, set grants
For 13 years, the respected Chronicle of Higher Education has tracked what it calls academic earmarks, or research money federal lawmakers funnel to home-state universities without benefit of peer review. While some of the projects are worthwhile, the lack of academic oversight often skews priorities, undermining the competitive structure for grant making and endangering academic freedom in the process.
Tainted money?
The attorney general's move to crack down on money laundering by making it a crime to transport large sums of cash overseas infringes on civil liberties.
Judge should pay attorney's fees
Robert Bonanno is good at embarrassing himself. It's all that practice. He is the circuit judge in Hillsborough County who was caught after-hours in the darkened office of a fellow judge -- a political enemy -- who was away at the time on military duty. We still have gotten no good explanation for what Bonanno was doing there. Now the judge might accept for free the six-figure's worth of legal work his attorney spent defending him.
Letters
Racism, money drive America's war on drugs
Re: U.S. versus them.
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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