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August 24, 2001
Editorials
Classified silencing
The secrets act would give the government a new way to hide incompetence and illegal activity in the name of protecting national security.
Review election reform for clarity
It would be a mistake to read too much into the U.S. Justice Department's intervention in Florida election reform. In reviewing a new election law passed this year, the Justice Department has asked for further explanation of four points: a statewide voter database, the posting of voter responsibilities at polling places, the casting of provisional ballots and minority involvement in the reform process.
Letters
Students deserve our efforts to reduce class sizes
Re: Class-size measure has unlikely enemies, Aug. 21.
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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