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The Minnesota Daily

Opinion

Loud voices

Published October 31, 2002

While marching down Washington Avenue in last Thursday's anti-war rally, I was appalled to see fellow protestors harassing people in their cars and blaming them for the Iraqi deaths to come. The rally...

Wellstone Hall?

Published October 31, 2002

Now is the time to honor Paul Wellstone in a meaningful and lasting way; we should name the new Molecular and Cellular Biology Building "Wellstone Hall." What better way for the University Board of Regents,...

Keep watching the Simpsons

Published October 31, 2002

I applaud Benjamin Sunderlin, who wrote recently to encourage us to participate in our collective political discourse in "War demands discussion" (Oct. 29). To that end, Sunderlin criticizes those who...

Partisan actions at Wellstone’s memorial should have been kept out

by Chris Schafer
Published October 31, 2002

I was on the golf course when the state first heard the news of a plane crash in northern Minnesota. By the time I made it back into the clubhouse, cursing the terrible handicap that is my banana slice,...

Alan Page on the ballot

Published October 31, 2002

I was just numb when I heard the news about the Wellstone plane. Yes, Sen. Paul Wellstone was an advocate for economic democracy, for the environment, for international justice and so on. Public officials...

Wellstone fostered reciprocal relationships

Published October 30, 2002

I By Larry McDonough have known Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone for 20 years. We met through our involvement in Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, a Ralph Nader-organized and student-directed public...

Daily cartoon

Published October 30, 2002

I opened the editorial section Monday to find a political cartoon depicting a private plane crashing into the Capitol building (Oct. 28). Though Sen. Paul Wellstone's re-election bid was perhaps the most...

Editorials should stick to the facts

by Bastiaan Vanacker
Published October 30, 2002

Last week I was contacted by Koby Nahmias and Omri Fine, founding member and chairman, respectively, of the University student group Friends of Israel. They had numerous concerns about the Daily's coverage...

The big picture

Published October 30, 2002

This letter is in response to Tony Dahlman's letter to the editor titled "Listening to the protestors" that appeared in the Monday, Oct. 28 issue of the Daily. My apologies to Dahlman, the distracted teachers,...

‘Tis the season to be cannibalistic

by Max Sparber
Published October 29, 2002

We're coming up on a reflective time: winter, specifically. Winter seems to be off to an early start this year and will be actively seeking to murder us in a few months. And I can't be the only one who...

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