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The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

Don’t focus on negative, irrelevant Apache issues

Published April 26, 2004

Last week, The Minnesota Daily did a two-part series on Mount Graham. In Wednesday's article "Telescope sits high as cultural divide runs deep," the end of the article highlights problems at home in San...

Communist parties persist after the fall of the Red

Published April 26, 2004

The Czech Republic, along with eight other former communist countries in central and Eastern Europe, will enter the European Union - a political and judicial union as well as a free-trade zone - in less...

I was gay until Christ set me straight

Published April 23, 2004
You choose to interpret how love is presented to you and how you present love.

Why don’t we just have Earth Year?

Published April 22, 2004
Devoting one day to something that is supposed to be celebrated every day is absurd.

‘Enemy combatants’ denied essential jucidical process

Published April 22, 2004

With little fanfare or publicity, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear two cases during the next week that pose historic challenges to the breadth and extent of executive power within the federal government. The...

Bush administration ignores science in essential environmental, public health policies

Published April 22, 2004

If there were a three-strikes law against ignoring science in public policy making, the Bush administration would have several free passes to prison. But unfortunately, there is no such law, and President...

Stand together for fair and just peace on both sides of Palestine-Israel conflict

Published April 22, 2004

Amid the recent attention given to the troubles in the Middle East, it was disheartening to hear President George W. Bush shift decades-long U.S. foreign policy by supporting Israeli Prime Minister Ariel...

Behold the power of negative thinking

Published April 22, 2004

On my all-time favorite list of famous last words, nothing truly tops the last request of a murderer facing a Utah firing squad who supposedly asked for a bulletproof vest. If one could somehow scientifically...

Research as a process of re-searching?

Published April 21, 2004

This last week, I found myself beneath an expansive monument of stone-carved men exploding with concrete muscle, fists thrust into the humid air, and trudging on a pool of cemented blood shed by U.S. soldiers...

From U.S. doctrine to political reality

Published April 20, 2004
A Cabinet-level Department of Peace should be just as urgent as homeland security.

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