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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Ice cold treats help offer warm thanks to key state lawmakers

by Coralie Carlson
Published May 21, 1998

Drawn by ice cream, a marching band and $206.8 million, lawmakers flooded campus Wednesday to celebrate the University's legislative spoils. University officials thanked Gov. Arne Carlson and state lawmakers...

Cyclone kills 14, injures 200 in Bangladesh

Published May 21, 1998

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A cyclone tore through the low-lying Bangladesh coast Wednesday, killing more than 14 people, uprooting utility poles and plunging the region into darkness, a domestic new agency...

Bidders ready to jump after Clancy ends bid for Vikings

Published May 21, 1998

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Close the book on Tom Clancy. The novelist withdrew his $200 million bid for the Minnesota Vikings on Wednesday, and the same bidders who tried three months ago to buy the team were...

Conference rewards

by David Hyland
Published May 21, 1998

Sitting idly at a display showing off his hard work digitizing old archaeology photos, frustration gripped Kent Bakken. Despite his effort exerted converting the slides for an Internet site, people paid...

Employees surrender pagers in satellite failure

by Jennifer Niemela
Published May 21, 1998

A communication satellite careening off course showed that society's dependence on modern technology has reached cosmic proportions. Thousands of pagers across the University campus were silent Wednesday...

Gophers hope to build at Big Ten meet

by Jim Schortemeyer
Published May 21, 1998

Call it a dress rehearsal, call it an individual meet, just don't say Minnesota hopes to win the Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championship. There are only two teams from the Big Ten ranked in the top...

U.S. hypocrisy explosive for all sides

Published May 21, 1998

Now that India has joined the club of nuclear states, its people are in for a big surprise. As the West will attest, the development of the bomb is a deal with the devil that India would have been wise...

Program fuses

by Melanie Evans
Published May 21, 1998

Jeevan Paul sat among the handful of medical students and faculty members gathered among pizza boxes and soda cans on Wednesday evening to talk shop. As an internal medicine resident, Paul works 80 hours...

Suharto under siege by his people; hundreds of thousands protest

Published May 21, 1998

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia's besieged president stood silent Wednesday behind a shield of tanks and troops while student protesters ran wild in the halls of parliament, Washington hinted he should...

U softball duo named All-America

Published May 21, 1998

Gophers softball players Shannon Beeler and Steph Midthun were named Louisville Slugger All-Americans on Wednesday. Beeler, a junior, was named to the first team. The shortstop finished the season with...

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