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The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

Rethink terrorism at home

Published September 8, 2003

An interesting thing happened over the summer: Police in New Jersey foiled a plot by three teenage boys to stage a military-style assault on their high school. The teens were arrested en route to the building...

Mason must win now or face the consequences

Published September 5, 2003

In 1997, the Gophers athletics department hired Glen Mason to restore the football program to respectability. Six years and millions of dollars later, Minnesota still has not won a Big Ten championship....

Our leaders and the people who hate them

Published September 5, 2003

Hate is probably the strongest word one can use to describe his or her animosity toward someone. It's the type of hostility that is, at times, drummed up against our nation's political leaders, and as...

‘The Time Machine’ and post-Sept. 11 Americans

Published September 5, 2003

Since Sept. 11, 2001, the collective IQ of the American people has gone down at least 30 points. We buy whatever our government tells us and we just plain don't think. We have become, veritably, a nation...

Lack of U.S. intervention in Liberia has devastating results

Published September 5, 2003

The attention paid to the plight of the suffering masses of Liberia has been quite encouraging, considering the usual lack of attention concerning African issues. President George W. Bush's visit to Africa...

Lessons learned outside class

Published September 4, 2003

Some of the most important experiences of college take place far from the classroom. They are not graded, tested or edited by any professor, and they carry more weight than any exam or paper. They mean...

Above the law

Published September 4, 2003

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore can't stay out of the news. During the night approximately two years ago, Moore hauled a giant monument of the Ten Commandments into the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial...

Welcome to the new academic year

Published September 4, 2003

The University population coming back this week will find a number of not-so-pleasant changes. Students will receive much larger bills for their University fees, and they will encounter more populated...

A local triumph, a national model

Published September 4, 2003

Almost everyone agrees the opening of the Mill City Museum is a great thing for Minneapolis, but I believe it is even more than that. I am convinced the new museum is a great thing for the cause of historic...

Time to celebrate man’s mind

Published September 2, 2003
On Labor Day, we should honor man's mind, not muscles, as the real source of wealth and progress.

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