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Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Net: We begin a gr…

Published October 21, 1998

Net: We begin a grab-bag sort of day with PARANOID RANTING From ARM: The general public does not know it yet, but we are heading toward complete chaos and destruction. The ultimate fear of the millennium,...

Average students deserve campus homes

Published October 21, 1998

In the coming years, students will have a wider variety of housing from which to choose than they have today. The West Bank is considering a 16-story apartment complex to be built by Education Environments...

Hit and run

by Brian Close
Published October 21, 1998

Minneapolis police officers responded to a hit and run accident at the corner of University Avenue and 5th Street Southeast on Oct. 13. The victim, a University employee named Said Ahmed, was waiting to...

Job choices grow

by Kane Loukas
Published October 21, 1998

Job hunting, long a rite of passage into the business world, has recently been replaced by job shopping, a less painful equivalent. Even with an economic malaise creeping over the globe, the U.S. job market...

Violence flares as 300,000 march in French student protests

Published October 21, 1998

PARIS (AP) -- About 300,000 high school students took to the streets of France on Tuesday, protesting school conditions in a second round of nationwide marches marred again by violence. Despite intensive...

Florida smokers take cigarette makers to trial

Published October 21, 1998

MIAMI (AP) -- Tobacco companies cannot be held liable for making people sick because anyone who reaches for a cigarette knows full well the risks of smoking, an industry lawyer argued Tuesday at the first...

MSA works for safer housing for U students and community

by Sean Madigan
Published October 21, 1998

The Minnesota Student Association passed a resolution Tuesday to form a special committee to examine issues in safe, affordable housing at and around the University at their forum meeting in the Law Building. MSA...

Candidates milk

by Amy Olson
Published October 21, 1998

With milk dripping from their udders before the milking contest began, four of the University's dairy cows helped determine the fate of the 34 remaining Homecoming candidates Tuesday afternoon on the St....

McGwire yuks it up with Letterman

Published October 20, 1998

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mark McGwire faced some questions and pitches from David Letterman on Monday. Appearing on "Late Night with David Letterman," McGwire said he figures a good pitch to hit for a home run...

Yeltsin cancels meetings, obeys doctors orders to stay home

Published October 20, 1998

MOSCOW (AP) -- President Boris Yeltsin obeyed doctors' orders to stay home and nurse his cold Monday, canceling meetings with senior officials and talking to others by phone. A Communist lawmaker, meanwhile,...

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