By JESSE WHITE
   In June of 1995, just a few weeks after graduating from the University of Minnesota-Duluth with a double major in history and political science - and after receiving my seventh job rejection letter after doing so - it became painfully obvious to me that any hopes I had of returning to my roots on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota were fading quickly.
    My double major, it seemed, wasn't going to get me far in an area that lives and breathes mining and I was slowly wrappi...
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