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The Minnesota Daily

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The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

Myths about meat

Published December 9, 2002

The Dec. 4 column "Pythagoras on rye, hold the meat please," was one more version of the continuously repeated urban myth about meat, food animal production and environmentalism. Journalists have a responsibility...

Language proficiency tests should be dropped

Published December 9, 2002

O By Sean Cahill ur world has entered an age of globalization, an age in which its success depends on communication and the understanding of many cultures and people. The University finds itself as a leader...

Can we be at peace while creating war?

by Sraddha Helfrich
Published December 9, 2002

I had to laugh the other day while watching CNN. In the tradition of grandiose American shamelessness and overt hypocrisy, George W. and Laura Bush on Thursday began the 2002 "Pageant of Peace" program...

Women’s rights are being jeopardized

Published December 6, 2002

W By Kristina Boraas omen across the United States should be wary of the recent resurgence in conservative politics. With a Republican-controlled Congress and White House, women's rights are facing a considerable...

World awaits a Palestinian like Egypt’s Sadat to lead

Published December 6, 2002

M By Koby Nahmias aking peace with one's enemy is sort of like making love, there can only be one first time." For most Israelis the first time came 25 years ago when Anwar Sadat President of Egypt, took...

Don’t dismiss improvement in voter turnout

Published December 6, 2002

Though Aeriel Anderson's Dec. 3 column "Reaction to voter turnout is overrated" correctly asserts that the surprisingly high turnout (61.4 percent) in this year's midterm elections is nothing compared...

What would the United States do?

Published December 6, 2002

In Chris Schafer's Dec. 4 column "Saudi commercials could be feel-good hoax" on the recent public relations commercials aired by Saudi Arabia, readers were treated to a feast of no-source information and...

Love it or leave it

Published December 6, 2002

This is in response to Norman Rupp's Dec. 5 letter "Land of the Free". In that letter, he mentions how the European Union is such a great place and implies that the United States is not as free as it seems. Basically,...

Stadium debate

Published December 6, 2002

There have been many responses written about the University stadium proposals. Everybody knows that we need a football stadium, but it seems as if we would rather argue about the little things. If the...

Arab presence in Palestine region

Published December 5, 2002

>Justin McCarthy's exhaustive demographic study of the area in question, "The Population of Palestine," dismisses any claim of significant Arab immigration during the Ottoman and Mandatory periods or...

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