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October 5, 2000

Editorials
Sanitizing Columbus Day
A free-speech controversy erupted recently in Denver, Colo., over whether a parade honoring Christopher Columbus may proceed as organizers intended or whether all reference to Columbus must be stripped from the festivities. For years, great rancor has surrounded Columbus Day celebrations in the city of Denver. For understandable reasons, Native Americans in the area saw such festivities as deeply offensive. Columbus was more than the bold explorer we all learn about in grade school. Historians tell us he was a brutal taskmaster who slaughtered indigenous populations of Indians and forced others into slavery.

No blank check
It would be a gross abuse to offer a blank check for the high-speed rail initiative because of its unknown cost and arguable benefit.

Letters
Abortion pill just continues a dark chapter in history
Your Sept. 30 editorial, A promising pill, truly shows how misguided you and the abortion rights advocates are.  

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.