December 21, 2000
Editorials
Fixing USF's blunder
Firing Coach Jerry Ann Winters was a good start toward rebuilding the University of South Florida's women's basketball program. The allegations of racial discrimination against Winters were broad and serious enough to damage her reputation and ability to lead. But firing Winters doesn't change the culture of an athletics department still in denial over its original mishandling of the complaints.
Israel's future
With an Israeli special election in the near future, the Mideast peace talks may have some effect on who gets elected and how the future peace process may evolve.
Letters
Bar was right to avoid adding fuel to controversy
Re: Tarnishing the courts, Editorial Notebook by Martin Dyckman, Dec. 15.
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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