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October 4, 2000

Editorials
Valuable Everglades effort
The Senate recently moved the nation closer to correcting a half-century of damage to the Everglades. Under the plan, the state and federal governments would split the $8-billion cost to restore Florida's "River of Grass," a true national treasure. Republicans, Democrats, environmentalists and farmers all back the effort. Now the House must act. Time is critical to sparing the watershed from further ruin, to planning responsibly for South Florida's growth and to retaining a working relationship for decades to come between the federal government and the state.

The squabblers
The first presidential debate was long on numbers and short on clarity. Neither candidate showed his most appealing side to undecided voters.

Bill Maxwell
Journey of boundless discoveries
"Some journeys take us away from it all, to places where no one knows us; some take us to where it seems we've always been," writes the editors of the book The Quotable Traveler. "But whether we venture to a new part of town or into an entirely new culture, travel forever changes the boundaries of the world we once knew."

Letters
Forget campaign promises, think about character
Re: Presidential requirement: IQ test, letter, Sept. 28.  

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.