Saturday, May 17, 2008

Twins
Blackburn and Twins are good to the last out

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Peeking at a few summer blockbusters

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Editorial

New park shouldn't be political football

Among the mysteries of Minnesota lawmaking is why some bills rise or fall on their merits, and others don't. Political considerations sometimes come to matter more than their substance.

Letters

BUSH'S ISRAEL SPEECH

In a speech in Israel President Bush called speaking with our enemies "the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

Are you LinkedIn yet? Does it really matter?

One of the fastest-growing popular web communities for businesspeople is the networking site LinkedIn. Many of us are linked to LinkedIn, and many of us wonder why.

Letters to the editor for Friday, May 16

Katherine Kersten missed the point in her May 14 column, "Who will get the last word on Pledge of Allegiance in junior high?" Those at Valley Forge, on Omaha Beach and in the Battle of the Bulge fought for our freedom -- freedom to make choices and freedom to learn and grow. How sad to think that their valiant efforts for this wonderful country would be reduced to a set of behavioral rules.

Netlets for Thursday, May 15

I didn't know May 11 was Minnesota's 150th birthday until I read Nick Coleman's column about it in that day's Star Tribune.

Letter of the day: From Bill Holm, with truth and conscience

Bill Holm

One of the truest measures of an artist's success is that even the work we don't always remember offers insight we should never forget. Such is the case with Bill Holm's "The Music of Failure," a book not mentioned in the Star Tribune's May 12 story "Writer Bill Holm's ship comes in," but one that makes clear the price we pay for our collective, selective, self-imposed amnesia.