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The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

A closer look at St. Paul higher education

Published August 18, 2003

ABy Randy Kelly s I traveled around the city of St. Paul throughout my campaign for mayor, I was reminded that St. Paul has the third-largest concentration of higher education institutions in the nation....

U.S.-China relations: Try common ground, not competition

Published August 18, 2003

IBy Diana Fu t is no secret that the events of Sept. 11, 2001, recharged U.S.-China relations. Overnight, China metamorphosed from a burgeoning powerhouse ready to explode U.S. hegemony to a less-than-menacing...

Siberia anyone?

Published August 18, 2003

LBy Michael Barrett iberia, Siberia It's all the same American soldiers Down the drain Taxpayer money Pays the honey As contractors make hay The good ole' American way Liberia, hysteria, malaria Homicide,...

Local smoke-free policies work

Published August 18, 2003

SBy Isis Stark econdhand smoke kills approximately 65,000 nonsmokers every year and is the third-leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Secondhand smoke causes 300,000 cases of childhood...

The imperative of funding basic science

by Erik Nelson
Published August 11, 2003
Someone who had begun to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learned the first proposition, asked Euclid, "But what shall I get by learning these things?" whereupon Euclid called his slave and said, "Give him three-pence, since he must make gain o

Why is Bush protecting Saudi Arabia?

by Karl Noyes
Published August 11, 2003

Not since Lee Harvey Oswald has there been a patsy so easy to pin as Saddam Hussein. No tears will be shed over Saddam's departure. However, if not for the events of Sept. 11, 2001, he would still be in...

One nation, indivisible under Wal-Mart

Published August 4, 2003

IBy Douglas Voigt t's hardly surprising Wal-Mart has become the epitome of U.S. business and commerce - taught to ambitious young business students as the ideal model of corporate efficiency. With cheap...

Planning the future of Minnesota’s national forests

Published August 4, 2003

IBy Molly Rosenblatt t's not very Minnesotan to boast, but we have some of the most beautiful natural areas in the United States, including the Superior and Chippewa national forests. They are a big part...

City pages provides no alternative whatsoever

Published August 4, 2003

TBy Pete Wagner he July 16 City Pages' cover story attacks the St. Paul Pioneer Press for being owned by a large, nonlocal corporation. This is the height of hypocrisy considering that City Pages was itself...

Watching out for your butt

Published August 4, 2003

YBy Matthew Schoettmer oung, skinny, wimpy dudes have been taking it from behind for ages. Literally. In 1824, at the conclusion of a prison tour along the East Coast and in the South, Rev. Louis Dwight...

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