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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

‘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.

Dear Mr. President: Enough with the rhetoric already, and take some speech lessons!

Published April 19, 2004
More important than democracy are peace and opportunities for peaceful self-actualization and fulfillment under any banner.

Is The Minnesota Daily anti-Israel?

Published April 19, 2004
Some readers expressed displeasure over the publication of a letter they felt was chosen for "shock value."

Open letter to Victory Sports

Published April 19, 2004

Dear Victory Sports, You are an idiot. When I say that, I'm not just singling out one person in the organization (although you, Carl Pohlad, found about the only possible method of making more people hate...

‘Granny D’ to walk for worthy cause at the University

Published April 19, 2004

We need to face the truth: Money runs the world. Money in itself is not a bad thing, but simply a tool to forward certain agendas. It is how we, the populace of the planet, decide to use our money that...

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