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December 21, 2001
Editorials
USF's charade
The flawed logic of the university's case for firing controversial professor Sami Al-Arian sets dangerous precedents for USF's future governance.
More conscience in redistricting
Democratic voters still outnumber Republicans in Florida, 43 percent to 39. Democrats easily won the last two U.S. Senate races. They carried Florida for their presidential ticket in 1994 and fell only 535 votes short of doing the same in 2000. Yet they hold barely a third of the seats in the state House, the state Senate, and the congressional delegation. The disparity is not coincidental.
Letters
WWII musings don't help in fight against terrorism
Professor Ira Chernus (The two attacks on American soil have become a shared myth, Dec. 9) sets out to debunk what he says are Pearl Harbor myths shared by many Americans, noting that such myths, having become intertwined in our minds with the events of Sept. 11, may cripple our efforts to deal with the terrorist threat.
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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