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Editorials
Repairing the system
After this presidential election has been decided, our legislators should correct the faults in Florida's voting process and restore the public's confidence in the way we choose our leaders.

Letters
Don't downplay loss Baby Sam faces
Re: Adoptive parents in the wrong with Baby Sam, by Robyn E. Blumner, Nov. 26.

Bill Maxwell
A good argument for affirmative action
Above the high-toned and often hypocritical arguments opposing affirmative action in college admissions, a long-overdue revolution is under way at many of the nation's major universities.

Phil Gailey
The election is a tie, so let's get on with it
The presidential vote in Florida is a virtual tie, and it's not much of an exaggeration at this point to say the only way to win this election is for a candidate to steal it.

Martin Dyckman
Look who's talking in the Legislature
TALLAHASSEE -- If hypocrisy were a hydrocarbon, there are people in the Florida Legislature who could put OPEC out of business.

Robyn E. Blumner
Race distinctions don't really help
When scientists working on mapping the human genome were asked how they chose their human subject, they said it didn't matter who it was since genetically people are 99.9 percent alike.