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November 27, 2001
Editorials
More manatees, but not safe
If manatees really are his "favorite mammal," as Gov. Jeb Bush declared in July 2000, here are a couple of suggestions for how he can prove it.
Budget time, again
The Florida Legislature is convening again to find ways to make up for the budget's $1.3-billion deficit. Lawmakers should look at each cut they propose very carefully.
Letters
Don't undermine the good work of the Red Cross
When did the Times stop being a source of investigative reporting and become the one-sided forum for bashing the efforts of the American Red Cross?
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.
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