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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Forum looks at relationship

by Stacy Jo
Published May 21, 1998

The root of all learning can be found in language. This idea was presented to a group of nearly 60 people in a forum entitled "Why Writing and Reading Are Hard" by Dr. James Paul Gee at the Weisman Art...

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...

The new $20 looks different but spends like the old

Published May 21, 1998

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new $20 bill is coming with high-tech features designed to trip up computer-savvy counterfeiters. But the change people will notice first is the larger and slightly off-center portrait...

Postage increase

by Jeremy Taff
Published May 21, 1998

If postal rates increase as planned, the University stands to spend an extra $200,000 per year on postage. The Postal Rate Commission recommended last week to increase first-class stamps by one cent,...

Good Samaritan law isn’t that bad an idea

Published May 21, 1998

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (U-WIRE) -- Christopher Sercye, 15, was playing basketball in his middle-class neighborhood Saturday when a gang fight erupted in gunfire. Sercye, an innocent bystander, was shot by...

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...

State takes folksy approach in new tourism ad campaign

Published May 20, 1998

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Lake Superior obviously wasn't named by Minnesotans. They would have called it "Lake Pretty Good" or "Lake Pretty Special," one of the state's new television ads suggests. The folksy...

University efficiently handled bomb scare

Published May 20, 1998

Although a caller's report of a bomb in Coffman Union never surfaced, an explosion of another sort has occurred on campus recently. A bomb threat that forced Coffman officials to close the student union...

Police cuff volunteers for fund-raiser

by Heather Fors
Published May 20, 1998

Smiles replaced Miranda warnings Tuesday as police officers handcuffed and hauled away about 100 students, staff and faculty members for charity. As part of Sigma Alpha Epsilon's fourth annual Jail and...

Student shot and killed at high school

Published May 20, 1998

FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A high school senior shot and killed another senior three days before they were to graduate, police said Tuesday. The school principal said the pair had apparently been arguing...

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