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November 25, 2000

Editorials
High-tech intrusion
The U.S. Supreme Court ought to make clear that advanced technology cannot be used to circumvent the constraints of the Fourth Amendment.

A lesson in university leadership
The University of Miami took an important step toward greater national prominence when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala agreed to become its next president. Over the past eight years, Shalala has demonstrated innovation and integrity in her management of a 61,000-employee agency that is responsible for national health and welfare policy.

Diane Roberts
Tallahassee enters unreal times
TALLAHASSEE -- Back in the golden, innocent days of the nineties when elections were things to be ignored, when presidents got into trouble over old-timey peccadilloes like oral sex, and when Chad (adorably dimpled) was just a guy who pledged Sigma Nu, Thanksgiving was America's favorite holiday.

Letters
Let's turn down the heat as we resolve election
As former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson recently said in a TV interview, we all need to "get a little rest" with regard to the presidential election situation.  

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.