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December 13, 2001
Editorials
HARTline chief has work to do
Hillsborough Area Regional Transit, the county bus system, has more than a budget problem. It has an image problem, a political problem and a leadership problem -- none of which will go away until the community comes to grips with whether HARTline should remain a countywide service. If HARTline's director, Sharon Dent, can't cut through the molasses in the coming year, the county should find new leadership.
A sensitive approach
The Bush administration is taking care in prosecuting the case against Zacarias Moussaoui for war crimes by trying him in a civilian federal court.
Letters
Public supports Ashcroft's fight against terrorism
Re: Ashcroft's contempt, editorial, Dec. 10.
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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