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August 18, 2000

Editorials
Air FSU: left at the gate
Colleges overbook, as airlines do, because they can only guess how many of the students they accept will actually show up. Though Florida State University still isn't sure how many freshmen will register for fall classes next week, it expects to be getting about 1,000 more than the 5,000 that the Legislature intended and funded.

The chief's bad call
Veteran police officer David Sugar shouldn't be fired on such shaky evidence or be made a pawn in the fight between St. Petersburg's police chief and union.

Letters
Still labeling our candidates and ourselves
Regarding the controversy surrounding Joe Lieberman's nomination, we find ourselves at the beginning of a new millennium and not much has changed in the way we regard our fellow human beings. We still choose to attach labels to ourselves.  

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.