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Rookie (university) presidents: Some quests for openness come at a real cost

By Mitch Pearlstein | 12/21/11
C. Peter Magrath, who served as president of the University of Minnesota from 1974 to 1984, previously served two years as president of Binghamton University in Upstate New York.
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50 years after farewell speech, Eisenhower is seen in newly appreciative light

By Mitch Pearlstein | 04/05/11
With the United States armed forces now involved in three conflicts in the Middle East, I'm a bit surprised that hardly anything has been made of how this is the 50th anniversary of Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address as president, the one in which
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Given certain discomfiting facts, can the U.S. continue to lead as an economic giant?

By Mitch Pearlstein | 12/03/10
I'm going to cite a half-dozen sets of sobering facts and then ask a simple, discomfiting question: What in the world is keeping the United States afloat as the planet's economic leader?
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Maybe fewer people should go to traditional four-year college/university

By Mitch Pearlstein | 08/17/10
There's serious talk once again in policy circles about whether too many Americans are going to college.
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State taxes and nonprofit contributions: connecting the dots

By Mitch Pearlstein | 07/16/10
No sympathy, please, as nonprofit organizations like American Experiment lose donors all the time for a variety of reasons; that's the nature of the fund-raising beast.
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If we had more $2 bills in circulation, people might become better tippers

By Mitch Pearlstein | 06/22/10
Whenever I stay at a hotel and ask a doorman to kindly hail a cab, I tip him a buck. For under a minute's work, I figure it's fair.
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Given what's ahead, Minnesota has no option but to pare all nonessential spending

By Mitch Pearlstein | 07/07/09
Conservatives across Minnesota and the nation have been applauding Gov.
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Nobel laureates and Minnesota taxes

By Mitch Pearlstein | 04/30/09
Amazingly, three alumni of Far Rockaway High School in Queens won Nobel Prizes over the course of 11 years: Richard Feynman in physics in 1965; Burton Richter, also in physics, in 1976; and Baruch Samuel Blumberg, in medicine, once again in 1976.
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Notes from the conventions: Cops, ‘Country First’ ... and a candidate in a league of her own

By Mitch Pearlstein | 09/04/08
Just because I haven’t been a reporter since 1972, and just because I haven’t owned a notebook for almost as long, doesn’t mean I’m somehow precluded from writing about the Republican and Democratic national conventions via a “reporter’s notebook.”
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Headlines tell the tale: '08 budget deficit is child's play next to Quie's '80s challenge

By Mitch Pearlstein | 04/14/08
Fixing a $935 million shortfall in Minnesota's biennial budget is no tiny matter. Hundreds of million dollars here and hundreds of million dollars there, to inflate a famous axiom, is real money.