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September 1, 2001
Editorials
Australia's indecency
Australia's government disgraced itself when it failed to offer immediate humanitarian aid to a Norwegian cargo ship carrying hundreds of refugees, anchored off Australia's Christmas Island. Prime Minister John Howard, who sent heavily armed guards onto the already overcrowded ship Wednesday, has refused entry to the 438 migrants on board, despite pleas from Norway's prime minister, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and other international leaders. Howard, in the midst of a tight re-election, apparently calculated that looking tough on immigration was more important than displaying basic human decency.
Jim Davis' flip-flop
U.S. Rep. Jim Davis, who was once a supporter of fast-track trade, makes a baffling turnaround.
Letters
Israel's military policy is not based on religion
I was shocked and disappointed at the decision to include the opinion cartoon by Don Wright in your Aug. 25 edition. It was an invidious and misguided comparison between the Koran and the Torah and their respective relationship to recent actions by Palestinian terrorists and the Israeli government.
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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