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The Minnesota Daily

Mercy killer case difficult to prove

Published March 30, 1998

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Science may not be much help proving the case against a hospital worker who admitted suffocating or fatally drugging up to 50 terminally ill patients, an expert said Sunday. Those methods...

Tournament is hard lesson for women’s hockey

by Tim Nichols
Published March 30, 1998

Remember when you were 8 years old and you were forced to eat your brussels sprouts? It's likely your parents' justification was, "Because they're good for you." That is what the Gophers women's hockey...

Ending bittersweet for U women’s swimmers

by Tim Nichols
Published March 30, 1998

The giant pool party called the NCAA women's swimming and diving national championships was the final send-off for three of Minnesota's top swimmers -- Olga Splichalova, Kim Wilson, and Gretchen Hegener. Combined,...

Legislation will protect

by Coralie Carlson
Published March 30, 1998

Legislators took steps last week to strengthen laws protecting journalists and their unpublished materials from the courts, a move partially provoked by a high-profile lawsuit against The Minnesota Daily...

Net: Welcome back, …

Published March 30, 1998

Net: Welcome back, welcome back, welcome ba-ack! Spring begins, and the Great Debates continue. When last we left off, post-secondary students were being skewered and fine drinks were being shared -- just...

Paulson gets elusive reward

by Allison Younge
Published March 30, 1998

CLEVELAND -- Beaten up and dripping with blood, sweat and emotion at the national tournament, Gophers senior wrestler Brandon Paulson expressed the release of three years of frustration with one simple...

POW museum opens at old prison camp

Published March 30, 1998

ANDERSONVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Foreboding, 11-foot-tall iron gates guard the entrance and a narrow path takes you between jagged rocks. A few paces later, you step into a room and a voice commands "Halt!"...

Chinese paper finds man kept naked in cage by police

Published March 30, 1998

BEIJING (AP) -- Police in southern China have imprisoned a farmer without trial for 10 years, at least five of them in a tiny cage where reporters found him naked and hungry. The official Yangcheng Evening...

Gophers split first conference series

by Sarah Mitchell
Published March 30, 1998

After reaching base this past weekend some Gophers baseball players might have felt like Mary Ann, the Professor, Ginger or even Gilligan. In their four-game series against Purdue at the Metrodome, Gophers...

Cyclist traffic raises concern of U officials

by Heather Fors
Published March 30, 1998

With the warmer weather moving in, more University students will now hop on their bicycles to get around campus. And this increase in two-wheel traffic heightens University officials' awareness of potential...

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