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August 15, 2001
Editorials
News content for sale
Channel One loses credibility when it profits from allowing anti-drug propaganda to be inserted into the news reports it prepares for U.S. schoolchildren.
Combat Medicare fraud
Medicare will need major structural reforms if it is to remain solvent for decades to come, but the program already would be on much sounder financial footing if the federal government would only work more aggressively to combat fraudulent Medicare billings. U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., has taken the issue of fraud as seriously as anyone in Washington. And well he should: Florida is home to more than its share of the estimated $30-billion a year American taxpayers lose to medical rip-offs.
Letters
Hamas leader revealed goals of Israel's enemies
Re: No Israeli targets off-limits, Hamas spiritual chief warns, Aug. 11.
Bill Maxwell
Correction and clarification
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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