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September 9, 2000

Editorials
Firestone's stonewalling
Congress' hearings only began the process of determining why defective tires remained on the market long after evidence of their danger was clear.

More law school meddling
A selection committee chose Orlando, not Tampa, as the preferred home for Florida A&M University's new law school. While local supporters are understandably disappointed, the decision, which now goes to the Board of Regents, is the first to have some basis in reason and legitimacy since FAMU's law school emerged as political pork. That's why lawmakers, including Sen. James Hargrett of Tampa and Rep. Rudy Bradley of St. Petersburg, should quit trying to pull strings to bring

Letters
Separation of church and state; it's that simple
Re: Explain again why we shut religion out, by William Raspberry, Sept 5.  

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.