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November 13, 2000

Editorials
Looking into suspensions
No child can learn in an environment that tolerates fellow students who act out, create trouble or engage in violence. To control their classrooms, teachers have to be given the freedom to impose proportional punishment, including suspensions.

A holiday Grinch
Floridians have a tough enough time getting in the holiday spirit. We wake up Christmas morning with an 80 degree sun beating down on us, an array of flowers blooming and the beach beckoning. To compensate for this lack of holiday ambiance we send our northern relatives cards with Santa in swim trunks relaxing under a palm tree and decorate our homes with lighted "icicles" and plastic snowmen.

All for the children
The future All Children's Health System, serving both sides of the bay, should make parents feel good about the care available for their children.

Letters
Brennan was brave to reveal her depression
Former Rep. Mary Brennan's courage in going public with her personal experiences with depression is one chapter in a courageous career devoted to public service.  

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.