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September 2, 2000

Editorials
Breaching the secrecy
In the case of Mazen Al-Najjar, defense attorneys deserve a summary of the government's evidence against him.

Dealing creatively with growth
Chris Corr, a prominent developer whom Gov. Jeb Bush appointed to his Growth Management Study Commission, took on the job thinking, as he told this newspaper, that there wouldn't be time to do "much beyond tinkering with the present system." Corr added, "But I do know that if we did nothing else but change the attitude of the bureaucrats, then it could all work."

Research rules are balanced
The Clinton administration took the right step in opening the door to federally funded research on human embryos. Given its potential in fighting paralysis, diabetes and a host of common degenerative diseases, such research is inarguably in the public interest. At the same time, the federal government has a role to play in developing and enforcing ethical guidelines for stem-cell research.

Candidate replies
Candidate replies
The Times offers candidates not recommended by its editorial board an opportunity to reply. Here are some of those replies.  

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.