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October 3, 2000

Editorials
Better movie ratings
It's not about censorship but about offering parents a fair rating system so that they can better choose entertainment for their children.

Lopsided runoff in lobbies
However close or not close today's House Dist. 54 runoff turns out to be among the voters, it has been a lopsided affair where Florida's lobbies are concerned.

Editorial Notebook: Martin Dyckman Death by hands of hate [AP file photo] Twelve-year-old Mohammed Jamal Aldura died by the side of his father, who was also seriously wounded in the gunfire in Gaza City.

Letters
We shouldn't let lawlessness reign on our streets
Mary Jo Melone has stooped to a new low with her column attacking the Tampa police (And you expected to survive your visit?, Sept. 24). What could motivate her to write such a misleading piece? Is the Times becoming another tabloid that bends and distorts stories only for the sake of sensationalism? I think so.  

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.