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The Minnesota Daily



Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

Resisting the logic of wartime national unity

Published April 8, 2004

In the cover story of the March 29 edition of BusinessWeek, Bruce Nussbaum's opening comment proclaimed, "There is no closer tie than the one forged by blood shed at the hands of a common enemy." Two noted...

U’s paper needs to get creative

Published April 8, 2004

Flat-out, straight-up, low-down - I'll come right out and say it. The Minnesota Daily is not fun to read. In most respects, the broadsheet fares better as an intermediary between my cranium and falling...

What sports has become

by Nathan Hall
Published April 8, 2004

Last Monday morning, police in Durham, N.C., reported an industrial spill in which approximately 28,000 gallons of raw sewage overflowed into the streets because of a "grease blockage." Officials, insisting...

Transit strike harms those already struggling with employment; just look at Lake Street

Published April 8, 2004

The unemployment office on Lake Street in Minneapolis is called the Minnesota WorkForce Center. There is no need to remind the people who use its services that many of them are unemployed. The walk up...

Being productive is not the only ‘time’

by Diana Fu
Published April 7, 2004
Three very different concepts of time clash in society today.

Fairness, objectivity raise questions

Published April 6, 2004
Readers expressed concern about the Daily's coverage of some recent events.

Is the whole United States going insane?

Published April 6, 2004
Americans don't think much of their presidential candidates.

Unchecked violence and cheating plagues NHL

Published April 5, 2004

The Stanley Cup playoffs begin Wednesday. If the sports world has any sense in its pretty little head, it would squarely focus on the start of these playoffs. Certainly, all hockey news should be about...

Animal rights and the myth of “humane” treatment

Published April 5, 2004

To outsiders, animal rights advocates look to be a strange lot. We don't eat meat, avoid cosmetics tested on animals and boycott the Ringling Brothers Circus. Drape ourselves in fur? Forget it. Animal...

Physician involvement is tyranny

Published April 5, 2004

The complicity of physicians in torture is not a new or isolated phenomenon. Sordid examples have been painstakingly documented around the world at various times: Argentina, Mexico, South Africa, Israel,...

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