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September 21, 2001
Editorials
Stop terrorizing fellow Americans
This is no time for Americans to turn against each other. Indeed, it is time to draw closer, a message President Bush delivered during a recent visit to the Islamic Center of Washington. "Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior," the president said. "In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect."
Patience and precision
President Bush set the right tone Thursday night, counseling patience as we mobilize for a different kind of war against a different kind of enemy.
Letters
We can all play a role in boosting our economy
Maybe I've read too many Tom Clancy novels, but it seems to me that one of the aims of terrorism is to disrupt a nation in every way possible: its morale, its solidarity, its economy -- and to instill fear in all of us. The response so far to the first two goals has been just the opposite of what "they" wanted. We have come together in prayer, in resolve and in giving assistance and encouragement to those who have suffered such tragic loss, and to those who are doing the physical work of recovery.
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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