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December 11, 2000

Editorials
Deeply divided
Our courts are as divided as the American people, so be prepared to respectfully accept a less than harmonious resolution.

Uninsured epidemic
It has been called the "biggest moral shortcoming" in health care today: the reality that 43-million American adults and children lack health insurance. Despite the robust economy and changes in welfare laws intended to shore up working families, more Americans are without health insurance today than in 1994, when the ambitious health care initiative spearheaded by Hillary Rodham Clinton crashed.

Letters
Parenting classes could cut need for foster care
There is little doubt that we are a society that shies away from prevention. Yet the answer to a failing foster care system is simply that: Develop less need for the system itself.  

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.