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A WEEK OF GLOBE OP-ED COLUMNS
At Brandeis, Israel's guilt and innocence on display
TO BRANDEIS University last night, South African jurist Richard Goldstone brought his international reputation as a legal scholar, a human rights advocate, and the former chief prosecutor of the United Nations tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Dore Gold, Israel’s former ambassador to the UN, brought facts and figures, maps and photographs, and audio and video in English, Arabic, ... (By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Staff)
College presidents are flunking the salary test
Compensation packages bear no resemblance to the world beneath college presidents. The American Dream is being fogged as parents drown in debt, students spend more time working to pay off campus fees rather than studying, and professors try to feed the brains of students with slashed resources. (By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist)
The cost of not enacting health care reform
The premature death of thousands of Americans can be translated into monetary terms using the economic "value of a statistical life." If we conservatively use only half of the government figure, or $3.5 million, it suggests that the annual cost to the US economy of 40,000 deaths is about $140 billion. (By Linda J. Bilmes and Rosemarie Day, Boston Globe)
Will the next Paul Tsongas please stand up
In the race to replace Ted Kennedy, we need someone determined to confront the river of red ink flooding the nation's future. (By Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe)
Mistrial by Google
Increasingly, courts have had to warn jurors that blogging or searching the Web during trial jeopardizes the very foundations of the judicial system. Actions by these rogue jurors have dire implications for our trial system. (By Renee Loth, Boston Globe)
Afghanistan’s forgotten class
After the fall of the Taliban, many Afghan women shed their burqas, opened schools, entered Parliament. Equal rights were written into the constitution. But slowly, as America turned to the disastrous misadventure in Iraq, Afghan women's freedoms were casually traded in like chits for power. (By Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe)
Who ended the Cold War?
The fall of the Berlin Wall is as much Gorbachev's unheralded achievement as it is Reagan's. (By Paul C. Demakis, Boston Globe)
For immigrants, illness can bring a death sentence
Immigrants detained at the Suffolk County House of Correction are being denied adequate health care -- with deadly results. (By Laura Rótolo, Boston Globe)
With tax break, a big carbon footprint
The extension of the homebuyers tax credit could have the unintended result of people living in larger, energy-guzzling houses. (By Edward L. Glaeser, Boston Globe)
In Legislature, the flocks tend their leaders
State legislative leaders come and go, but a tendency by rank-and-file lawmakers to follow them like sheep remains. (By Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe)
Net revolution - and rerun
The emergence of cable and pay-TV programming marked an exciting and explosive stage in America's communications history. As we enter a similar period with the Internet and digital technology, it's worth reviewing what was learned from the video revolution three decades ago. (By Peter Funt, Boston Globe)
An option for public: less government, more choice
If President Obama really wants choice and competition, we need to tear down interstate barriers on insurance, drop many mandated benefits, and de-link insurance from employment. (By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist)
Menino needs to make the ‘future’ now
Mayor Menino's real message this campaign peered directly into the past: If you're reasonably content with the way things are going, keep me in office. Boston voters were - and did. (By Scot Lehigh, Globe Columnist)
In Afghanistan, Kerry keeps US goals modest
In Senator John Kerry's analysis, the important considerations are defining our essential interests in Afghanistan, understanding our needs in Pakistan, and developing a nuanced, limited strategy to meet those. (By Graham Allison, Boston Globe)
A bipartisan boost for the parks
Neglected during the Bush years, National Parks finally found enough allies in Congress, Democratic and Republican, to pass a much necessary funding increase. (By Derrick Z. Jackson , Boston Globe)
Reshaping our housing dreams
Before the crash, smaller American families bought ever larger, more expensive trophy homes. As the economy recovers, will we turn again to more modest -- and environmentally friendly - places to live? (By Nicolas Retsinas, Boston Globe)
The arithmetic of the frontier
In adding up the toll of the Afghan war, one must examine the total time, treasure, and lives Americans must commit in a part of the world that has been notoriously unfriendly to major powers in the past. (By H.D.S. Greenway, Boston Globe)
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Karzei's 'win' and CIT bankruptcy (Boston Globe)
Our sense of troubled normalcy returns
One year after the financial panic was at full bore the US economy is more shackled than ever to a military budget, which is money spent, for all its benefits, on death. Why is the gulf between haves and have-nots still the normal structure of economic order -- or is that what our military budget aims to protect against? (By James Carroll, Boston Globe)
Adrift in an ocean of complexity
The important work of being informed about public issues has been crowded out of our lives at the very time that big money has found a way to insinuate itself into nearly every cavity of government. (By Lou Ureneck, Boston Globe)
In Gotham, even jokers are free to run
The only real interest in the mayoral election lies in the independent, e.g., quixotic, megalomaniac or delusional candidates. We have the ideologues, candidates from left field, and the truly fringe candidates. (By Bill Mehlman, Boston Globe)
Superpowers with super problems
Most Russians are peculiarly willing to accept their place. This is a horrifying idea to most Americans, who have deeply absorbed our sense of a Jeffersonian democracy. Our readiness to rebel is fundamental, even if often in the sort of unthinking way that makes words like "freedom" and "liberty" become unmoored. (By Christopher Marcisz, Boston Globe)
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