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December 26, 2000

Editorials
Protecting our forests
The U.S. Forest Service has finally addressed conservation concerns by proposing to conserve 60-million acres from road-building and logging.

Columbia’s unfair process
Columbia University in New York has expelled due process from its campus. By stripping its disciplinary policy for sexual misconduct of any procedural protections for the accused, Columbia has decided fundamental fairness must bend to political correctness.

Letters
Water shortage requires action, not just talk
Why do the officials in our water district think that the residents of the bay area are going to take the water shortage seriously if, by their own actions or inaction, they don't take it seriously?  

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.