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Aug. 02, 1996
Ex-Nazi Cleared of Most Serious Charges in Wartime Massacre ROME (AP) -- A military court freed former SS Capt. Erich Priebke on Thursday, ruling that he was just following orders when he helped massacre
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  • Ryan Schuster
Aug. 02, 1996
Two former Minnesota track and field competitors are in Atlanta for the Olympic Games this summer, but their trip hasn't been much of a vacation. Keita and Coralea Cline were sent to the Olympics
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  • Brian Bakst
Aug. 02, 1996
In 1968, 37-year old Nils Hasselmo set off for his native country, Sweden, to conduct bilingualism research funded by a Fulbright Scholarship. Without the scholarship, which the University president
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  • Nick Doty
Jul. 31, 1996
Erik Rasmussen will be back on the Gophers hockey roster for at least one more season, his father said Monday. Rasmussen, who is in Lake Placid, N.Y., practicing for the U.S. World Junior team, will
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  • Jessica Steeno
Jul. 31, 1996
A bomb threat led to an evacuation of staff and visitors Tuesday at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. An anonymous person phoned the office assistant at the administration desk of the museum at
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  • Chris Vetter
Jul. 31, 1996
Michelle Kibiger Bernard A. Ley, former financial administrator for the Medical School's Department of Surgery, was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation, 100 hours of community service and
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  • Chris Vetter
Jul. 31, 1996
A former University football player was sentenced Tuesday in Ramsey County court on felony charges of theft and credit card fraud. Joe Justice will enter a diversion program, under which he will be
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  • Brian Bakst
Jul. 31, 1996
The seven-month search for a College of Liberal Arts dean officially ended Monday when the Board of Regents approved the appointment of University of Michigan professor Steven Rosenstone. Rosenstone
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Jul. 31, 1996
A Hennepin County district judge set a pre-plea court date Tuesday for Jennifer Joan May, the woman charged with firing a bullet into the ceiling of University President Nils Hasselmo's office. Judge
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Jul. 31, 1996
LONDON (AP) -- Two fragments of circuit board -- each smaller than a fingernail and both recovered from an area more than twice as large as New York City -- helped investigators track down suspects in
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  • Kamariea Forcier
Jul. 31, 1996
A week has passed since a trial brought against the University by two former professors began in federal court July 23, and some people believe it won't end any time soon. Dr. Patricia Olson and
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  • Brian Bakst
Jul. 31, 1996
University administrators will postpone their plans to convert all employees to a biweekly pay system, University President Nils Hasselmo said Tuesday. "We are going to go ahead with the conversion,"
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  • Matthew Cross
Jul. 31, 1996
Since former Gophers slotback Tony Levine graduated from the University on June 3, he has been like a newborn puppy, sniffing out every opportunity that comes his way. And, for Levine, who by December
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  • Joel Sawyer
Jul. 31, 1996
In a move aimed at preserving the education and research mission of the University's Academic Health Center, the Board of Regents agreed Monday to sell University Hospital to Fairview Health System
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Jul. 31, 1996
Two Students in Graduation Dispute Get Scholarships MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) -- Wearing ethnic symbols to graduation exercises may have cost two students their high school diplomas, but it hasn't kept them
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