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U.S. Newswire, August 2, 2000White House Fact Sheet: President Clinton Urges Senate to Confirm Judicial Nominees
Following was released today by the White House:
In a speech before the American Trial Lawyer's Association in Chicago, Illinois, President Clinton will urge the Senate to confirm pending judicial nominees to the federal courts. The President will note the urgent vacancy crisis confronting federal courts throughout the country, and express concern about the unconscionable Senate slowdown of judicial nominees. ...
THE PRESIDENT URGES CONFIRMATION OF OTHER PENDING JUDICIAL NOMINEES. There are currently 37 pending judicial nominees, 15 of whom are nominated for seats that have been declared judicial emergencies by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. The Senate should move on all pending judicial nominees, including: ...
-- Legrome Davis, a noted African-American state judge, was first nominated by the President on July 30, 1998, and renominated on January 26, 1999, to fill a vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. A graduate of Princeton University and Rutgers Camden School of Law, Davis has been rated well qualified by the American Bar Association. Despite over 20 years of legal and judicial experience, Davis has waited 731 days for the Senate to act on his nomination. ...
The New York Times, August 2, 2000Fellowships for Study in Asia
Four college graduates from the New York City region are among the 20 winners of the Henry Luce Foundation's international fellowship program for 2000-2001: Ricshawn Adkins of Willingboro, N.J., who graduated from Princeton University; ...
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, August 2, 2000PHILADELPHIA -- Sen. John McCain on Tuesday urged a country at the peak of power and prosperity not to neglect its place on the world stage, singling out his former opponent, George W. Bush, as the man most able to lead the nation's foreign policy. ...
On foreign policy, Bush has surrounded himself with many of his father's former aides, including Rice.
"Nominating a candidate who doesn't himself have experience in foreign policy, it's important to say it's not going to slip off the radar screen," said Larry Bartels, a public-affairs professor at Princeton University. ...
The Associated Press State & Local Wire, August 1, 2000Cheney: From 'Backseat' to riding shotgun in presidential campaigning
With a front seat to the 1976 presidential campaign, Dick Cheney learned some lessons his years studying political science might never have taught. ...
To Fred Greenstein, a Princeton University political science professor, Cheney is a "campaign wiseman," a complement to Bush's able advisory circle and someone well aware of how debates can shape elections, especially when races tighten. ...
Any Bush-Gore debates, Greenstein says, could be a closely watched "crystallizing episode." ...
Black Enterprise, August, 2000c. kim goodwin senior portfolio manager, american century growth fund on investing and taking risk to build wealth
I believe we are going to continue to see positive developments in the equity market. Because of demographic trends, I believe the market will accelerate to at least a 15% return on an annual basis over the next decade. We will continue to see more and more individuals take control of their financial future. Just a few years ago, the employer invested on the behalf of the employee, and that investment was the employer's company stock; 401(k) programs and similar vehicles will give individuals more investment options today and in the future. ...
C. Kim Goodwin is a senior vice president and senior portfolio manager at American Century Investments. ...
Goodwin received her under-graduate degree, cum laude, in politics from Princeton University. ...
Canada NewsWire, August 1, 2000Bonham & Co. Brings Performance Record to Institutional Market
After six years of advising retail mutual funds, Bonham & Co. Inc. Asset Management is pleased to extend the same solid performance and track record to clients in the institutional marketplace. ...
- Bonham & Co. American High Risk Fund: Sub-Advised by Mark Justh and John Stevenson of DeNovo Capital, Inc. in New York City, New York. ... Mr. Justh has over nine years investment industry experience, both in equity as well as debt markets. He received a BA from Princeton University, an MS in Real Estate, Finance from New York University, and an MBA from INSEAD. ...
The Christian Science Monitor, August 1, 2000Parties reign, in independent age
HIGHLIGHT: Voters increasingly register 'independent,' but two parties buoyed by money and fired-up voters.
At first blush, it might seem like America's two big political parties are under siege - and maybe even lumbering toward extinction. ...
The oft-ignored fact is that a big chunk of independent voters don't haul themselves out to the polls to vote, says Larry Bartels, a political scientist at Princeton University in New Jersey.
He's found an ever-widening gap between nonvoters and voters in whether they're likely to prefer one party over another. Nonvoters are increasingly independent - and will only head to the polls for a galvanizing figure like Messrs. Perot and Ventura or Sen. John McCain. ...
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, August 1, 2000Torch-passing tribute to GOP ex-presidents tops Tuesday agenda
PHILADELPHIA _ Preparing to pass the torch, Republicans will pay tribute Tuesday night to three past presidents and the achievements of the "greatest generation"_ those who built modern America after World War II.
But the new generation, in fact, looks in many ways like the old. ...
Bush has been likened to his father's predecessor in his ability to connect with people. "In many ways, he's more like Ronald Reagan than his dad," suggested Princeton University historian Fred Greenstein. Though not the "great communicator," he delegates authority as Reagan did, he said. ...
The Kansas City Star, August 1, 2000Bush's congeniality and limited focus are strengths, says panel
PHILADELPHIA _ George W. Bush's most valuable assets as president could be his winning personality and ability to focus on a specific agenda, political experts said at a seminar Monday. ...
"I don't know if you can export the Texas model to Washington and have it work," said Dan Balz, a political reporter for The Washington Post. ...
With Balz on a panel were Republican Texas state Sen. Teel Bivins; C. Boyden Gray, a longtime legal adviser to former President Bush; Princeton University political scientist Fred Greenstein; Republican Gov. Mike Johanns of Nebraska; and Dave McNeely, political columnist at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas. ...
"This man clearly is not a silver-tongued orator," Greenstein said of Bush. ...
The New York Times, August 1, 2000New Clues To Nature's Lopsidedness
Particle discoveries, like home runs in baseball, get all the attention from casual fans of physics. The arrival of a new particle is exciting, important and easy to understand. But while physicists appreciate the Ruthian impact of discovering a new elementary particle like the top quark or the recent finding of the tau neutrino, they know that there is a less heralded realm of discovery that can do every bit as much to change the course of science. That realm involves laws of symmetry -- how nature obeys them, and especially how it breaks them. ...
Announcements yesterday by two large, multinational experimental teams at the 30th International Conference on High Energy Physics in Osaka, Japan, herald a new round of research to determine the exact degree of nature's lopsidedness, and what consequences it may have for the observable universe -- whether or not other scientists are hitting home runs with new particles.
"It's not just the discovery of a new particle which is important for particle physics and cosmology," said Dr. Hirotaka Sugawara, director general of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Tsukuba, Japan, called the KEK laboratory for its Japanese acronym. ...
Dr. Sugawara said the KEK experiment, nicknamed Belle, had found a larger value that was in agreement with the Standard Model. ...
Dr. Eric Prebys, a physicist at Princeton University who is a collaborator on Belle, said, "Everything at the moment is consistent with each other." ...
The New York Times, August 1, 2000METRO BRIEFING
TRENTON: COLLEGE TUITION TO RISE
College students can expect to pay more this fall at every four-year college and university in New Jersey, according to figures supplied by the state Commission on Higher Education. The tuition increases, which do not include room and board, will range from about 3 to 10 percent. Princeton University posted the smallest increase at 3.2 percent, while Rowan University had the highest at 10.4 percent. Tuition will range from $3,375 at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey to $25,430 at Princeton. (AP)
PR Newswire, August 1, 2000AlphaDog Procurement Management Names Karla Usalis Senior Vice President Of Industry Partnerships; Recognized Sourcing Expert to Oversee AlphaDog's Strategic Supplier Relationships
AlphaDog Procurement Management today named Karla E. Usalis senior vice president of industry partnerships, making her responsible for managing AlphaDog's supplier relationships. Usalis has a stellar and diverse background in sourcing -- developing strategic alliances with suppliers to ultimately reduce expenditures on goods and services. ...
Usalis holds an MBA degree from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College and a BA degree in Political Economy from Princeton University. ...
PR Newswire, August 1, 2000MaritimeDirect Continues to Add Senior Managers
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Randy Hobler, vice president, marketing, spent 13 years at IBM. He has also provided marketing consulting for Fortune 500 as well as smaller companies. He was vice president marketing at Globalink, a translation software and translation e-commerce company, and most recently director of marketing at DrugEmporium.com, the world's first online pharmacy. Mr. Hobler has also conducted major marketing engagements for 13 dot coms, is a nationally-published business author, has worked extensively outside the U.S., speaks French, Spanish, and Arabic, and is a graduate of Princeton University. ...
US Banker, August 2000Offbeat Bankers
They'd rather play the piano than play golf, and prefer reading Shakespeare to reports. Executives who run bank Web sites are a truly different breed of banker. ...
Michael Cleary, the 41-year-old president of WingspanBank.com, boasts impeccable Ivy League credentials-an engineering degree from Princeton and a master's degree from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration-but he had no previous experience in the banking industry before becoming a cyber-banker. He had headed operations at companies that marketed baseball cards and rented out luggage carts at airports. "No one in my company looks like a banker," he says. "What we're doing is undefined. We're creating the new bank." ...
USA TODAY, August 1, 2000Loyalty, longevity at center of Bush's inner circle
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Here's a snapshot of Bush's inner circle of advisers, introduced by his own nicknames for their roles in his campaign: ...
Josh Bolten
"Wizard"
Ask Bush and his other advisers to describe Bolten and they invariably use the same word: thoughtful. Bolten, 45, is a brainy, mellow man with no desire to become famous. ...
Bolten is one of the few East Coast natives on Bush's top staff. He went to public schools in Washington, D.C., before attending -- like Vice President Gore -- the elite St. Albans School for boys. He went on to Princeton University and Stanford Law School. After working as a law clerk for a federal judge in San Francisco, he moved back to Washington as a lawyer for the State Department. ...
The Writer, August 1, 2000Writers: See How They Run
Oates, Joyce Carol
RUNNING! IF THERE'S ANY ACTIVITY happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. The mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms. Ideally, the runner who's a writer is running through the land- and cityscapes of her fiction, like a ghost in a real setting.
The structural problems I set for myself in writing, in a long, snarled, frustrating and sometimes despairing morning of work, for instance, I can usually unsnarl by running in the afternoon.
On days when I can't run, I don't feel "myself"; and whoever the "self" is I feel, I don't like nearly so much as the other. And the writing remains snarled in endless revisions. ...
Joyce Carol Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.
The American Prospect, July 31, 2000The Upside of Unemployment Insurance
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But a new study concludes that the nation's unemployment insurance system may actually improve economic efficiency. Economists Daron Acemoglu, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Robert Shimer, of Princeton University, argue that financially pressed workers are too quick to take low-skill, low-wage jobs. ...
The research suggests that the current unemployment insurance system is too stingy. ...
The Associated Press State & Local Wire, July 31, 2000All New Jersey 4-year colleges plan tuition hikes this fall
College students can expect to pay more this fall at every four-year college and university in New Jersey, according to figures supplied by the state Commission on Higher Education. ...
Princeton University posted the smallest percentage increase at 3.2 percent, while Rowan University had the highest at 10.4 percent. ...
Business Wire, July 31, 2000Digital Angel Breakthrough Technology Goes Live
Applied Digital Solutions will unveil an operational prototype of its revolutionary Digital Angel(TM) technology ...
As previously announced, the prototype of the device was to be ready by the end of this year. But Applied Digital's Chairman and CEO, Richard J. Sullivan, said today that the development of the technology had progressed well ahead of schedule. ...
Richard Sullivan stated: "We're extremely heartened by the remarkable progress made by Dr. Peter Zhou and his entire research team, including professors and their associates at Princeton University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. ...
Legal Times, July 31, 2000Judge Our Programs- Not Our Politics
It is unfortunate for the federal judiciary that the Community Rights Council (CRC) issued its recent report on the legitimacy of continuing judicial education, entitled "Nothing for FREE." That report fails any reasonable test of accuracy or completeness. It offers a distorted and, indeed, dishonest caricature of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment's decade-old environmental economics and policy analysis seminar series for federal judges. ...
Many nongovernmental institutions offer independent educational programs for the federal judiciary. Such organizations include the American Bar Association, Princeton University, Institute for Judicial Administration at New York University School of Law, and Yale University, among others. ...
PR Newswire, July 31, 2000Deutsche Bank Appoints Bob Cotter Global Head of M&A Practice
Deutsche Bank announced today the appointment of Bob Cotter as Global Head of Mergers and Acquisitions. ...
Prior to joining Salomon Smith Barney, Cotter had a sixteen-year career in mergers and acquisitions at Credit Suisse First Boston where from 1988 to 1993 he was Global Head of M&A. During this time, CSFB achieved a 1 ranking in M&A. Cotter holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA with honors from Harvard Business School. ...
The Deseret News, July 30, 2000Presidential highs and lows offer keen insights into leaders
The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton; by Fred Greenstein; Free Press; 282 pages; $25.
For many years, the names of historians like Clinton Rossiter, Richard Neustadt and James David Barber have become standard in the serious analysis of the American presidency.
Now, with the publication of Fred Greenstein's probing book, those interpretations have been superseded.
Greenstein, a professor of politics at Princeton University, best known for a path-breaking work on Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Hidden-Hand Presidency," has produced an especially insightful interpretation that is likely to become the standard for a long time to come. ...
The Deseret News, July 30, 2000Measuring up the presidents
Fred Greenstein is a renowned professor of politics at Princeton University. Over a long career, he has written numerous articles and books on the American presidency, the newest and most important being "The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton."
In this book, Greenstein suggests a number of practical ways to judge past presidents, as well as ways to help us choose between Al Gore and George W. Bush.
From his office at Princeton, Greenstein candidly discussed with the Deseret News his findings and recommendations for the future. ...
THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE, July 30, 2000Education vs. motivation
It turns out that there is very little difference between graduates of a prestigious university and the average state school.
The envelope from the University of Prestige arrives and it's a thin one. That's devastating, because light envelopes from the college you want to get into usually mean a rejection letter.
It means you'll probably have to enroll in Good at Football and Partying But Only Fair in Academics State University, and you think this rejection means you're stuck on a second-rate career path: Without that degree from a "name" college, you'll never get the kind of jobs you want.
But at least two authorities on careers have upset the assumed reality of this apple cart. ...
A recent report issued by the National Bureau of Economic Research tracked 6,300 pairs of men with identical Scholastic Aptitude Test scores that enrolled in college in 1976. The first person in each pair graduated from one of what is generally considered a top-flight college, an Ivy League school or another ranking private school with SAT minimum scores of 1,200.
The second person had similar SAT scores, good enough to get him into Harvard or Yale. However, this second person opted to go to a state university, one that admits those with SAT scores some 200 points lower than the prestige schools.
The survey then tried to gauge their success after more than 15 years in the working world by looking a purely objective barometer: their salaries in 1995. And it showed that those who went to the less selective schools actually made more money than their prestige school counterparts.
The difference is actually negligible. A graduate of a college with a 1,200 SAT standard earned an average of $ 93,000 in 1995. Products of the less prestigious schools made about $ 93,300. ...
The report was based on a study by Alan Krueger, a Princeton University economist, and Stacy Berg Dale, researcher for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. ...
The Record, July 30, 2000CONSERVATIVE APPEAL TO FAITH WANING ;
ADEFINABLE BLOC MAY NOT EXIST THE RELIGIOUS VOTE
They rose from their pews in the early 1980s and headed for the voting booth. Under the catchall title"religious right,"they were instrumental in the election of Ronald Reagan and sent chills through more liberal Christians and non-Christians as they lobbied against abortion and for parochial school aid,"family values,"and prayer and Bible reading in public schools.
Mostly, they voted Republican. But though speakers at this week's GOP convention in Philadelphia almost certainly will court religious conservatives, analysts say whom those voters are likely to choose in November's elections is fluid and unpredictable. ...
The characterization of all"religious"voters as part of the religious right is inaccurate, according to the Survey Research Center at
Princeton University. < Most American members of religious organizations tend to be interested in liberal or moderate causes, a study by the center revealed. ...
The Record, July 30, 2000NO BREAK FROM THE BOOKS ;
SUMMER SCHOOL HELPSSTUDENTS GAIN AN EDGE
This summer, Kimberly Smith of Glen Rock has had tutors in three subjects, signed onto an intensive SAT review course, and spent one day a week volunteering at a local hospital.
Instead of spending her days at the beach, the bright, ambitious 16-year-old is getting a jump on her plans to attend Columbia University and become a doctor. ...
Stephen Le Menager, acting dean of admissions at Princeton University, sees a gradual change over two decades.
"I think earlier in my career there were just more kids who had 1 a summer off,"Le Menager said."I don't think it's a five- or 10-year phenomenon; it's been more of a gradual increase over a longer period of time." ...
U.S. Newswire, July 29, 2000White House Fact Sheet: Raising The Minimum Wage: A Smart Policy For America's Workers And The American Economy
The following was released today by the White House: Today, in his weekly radio address, President Clinton will call on Congress to pass clean, straightforward legislation to raise the minimum wage by $1 -- from $5.15 to $6.15 -- in two equal steps. ...
-- Economic Studies Find No Negative Effect of the Minimum Wage on Employment. Numerous careful economic studies, including ones by David Card and Alan Krueger of Princeton University, have shown that increasing the minimum wage has no negative effect on employment. ...
The Boston Globe, July 29, 2000THE SPIRITUAL LIFE / MICHAEL PAULSON;
PROGRESSIVE STREAK SEEN IN RELIGIOUS VOTERS
Think of the recent examples in which politicians have overtly courted religious voters: George W. Bush speaks at the fundamentalist Bob Jones University and meets with Boston's Cardinal Bernard F. Law, Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at an Orthodox synagogue in New York.
Conservative Protestants, Catholics and Jews have become visible and influential players in national politics, and conservative religious values have become an important part of many policy debates.
But a prominent Princeton University scholar argues that the focus on groups like the Christian right has overshadowed a reality of the relationship between religion and politics: there is a strong progressive streak among religious voters.
"The perception that religious groups are really only interested in conservative issues is not true," said Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow. "They are not only focused on issues such as abortion or prayer in the schools. Progressive issues do seem to be of enormous importance to people." ...
The Plain Dealer, July 29, 2000JOHN TUKEY, INFLUENTIAL STATISTICIAN, THINKER
John Wilder Tukey, one of the most influential statisticians of the last 50 years and a wide-ranging thinker credited with inventing the word "software," died on July 26 in New Brunswick, N.J. He was 85. ...
Tukey developed important theories about how to analyze data and compute series of numbers quickly. He spent decades as both a professor at Princeton University and a researcher at AT&T's Bell Laboratories, and his ideas continue to be a part of both doctoral statistics courses and high school math classes. ...
PR Newswire, July 28, 2000Distinguished Cryptographer Joins Compaq Research; Cynthia Dwork Named Compaq Research Staff Fellow
Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) today announced that Dr. Cynthia Dwork has been named Research Staff Fellow. ...
Dwork holds eight patents, has written more than 40 papers, is an editor of 4 journals, and is a consulting professor at Stanford University. She holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University, where she won the Charles Ira Young award for excellence in independent research -- the first woman ever to do so, -- and a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University. ...
M2 PRESSWIRE, July 27, 2000LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES: Compression algorithm opens the door to widespread 3-D applications; Technique compresses geometric data 12 times more efficiently than MPEG4 standard
Computer scientists from Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU), and the California Institute of Technology have developed the first technique that makes it practical to transmit detailed three-dimensional data on the Internet and to work with this kind of data on personal computers. ...
Like other areas of wavelet research - which is known for bringing together mathematicians and computer scientists, theorists and engineers - digital geometry processing has inspired collaboration across boundaries that sometimes separate disciplines and institutions. Collaboration between Sweldens and Professor Ingrid Daubechies of Princeton University has focused primarily on the theoretical side of wavelets, yet has had an impact on the applied side as well. In addition to Sweldens and Schroder, collaborators who have contributed to the current work are: Andrei Khodakovsky and Igor Guskov at Caltech; Kiril Vidimce at Mississippi State University; David Dobkin and Aaron Lee at Princeton; and Lawrence Cowsar at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. ...
The New York Times, July 27, 2000In America; Retirement Risks
In their brief joint appearance on Tuesday, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney both mentioned Social Security first when they referred to some of the big issues facing the country. Both said that strengthening the Social Security system was a priority.
And yet a rigorous analysis by the nonpartisan Century Foundation of Mr. Bush's proposal to allow workers to invest part of their Social Security payroll taxes in personal retirement accounts has determined that the plan would either worsen the system's long-term deficit or lead to substantial cuts in Social Security benefits, or both.
The analysis of Mr. Bush's plan was conducted by Henry J. Aaron, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; Alan Blinder, an economics professor at Princeton University and a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board; Alicia Munnell of Boston College; and Peter Orszag, president of Sebago Associates, an economics and public policy consulting firm. ...
The Associated Press State & Local Wire, July 26, 2000Business news in brief from around New Jersey
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PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - Princeton University has been awarded a $414,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for its ongoing research on unstable liquids, U.S. Rep. Rush Holt announced Tuesday.
"This grant should help researchers at Princeton University increase the understanding of fluid properties with potential application to the formulation and preservation of pharmaceutical products, global climate change, and the performance of turbines and engines," said Holt, D-Pennington.
The research is being conducted by Pablo G. Debenedetti, chair of the chemical engineering department at Princeton.
Business Wire, July 26, 2000Edward J. Benz, Jr., M.D. Named President of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Edward J. Benz, Jr., M.D., an internationally recognized hematologist, has been named the next president of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Institute's Board of Trustees announced today. Benz, who will begin at Dana-Farber this fall, is currently chair of the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he holds the prestigious Sir William Osler Professorship of Medicine. ...
A 1968 graduate of Princeton University (where he did his undergraduate thesis with Dr. Arthur Pardee, who is now at Dana-Farber), Benz was graduated from the Harvard Medical School, magna cum laude, in 1973. ...
Business Wire, July 26, 2000Register.com Strengthens Management Team; Appoints Chief Financial Officer, Hires Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Promotes Sales and Marketing Executive
Register.com (NASDAQ: RCOM), one of the leading domain name registrars on the Internet, today announced two new hires and an internal promotion within the company's management ranks to further strengthen register.com's competitive positioning and reinforce the company's growth capabilities.
As part of the initiative, two senior executives have been recruited to play major roles within the management team. Cindy E. Horowitz will join register.com as Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, and will assume responsibility for all financial operations of the company beginning in September 2000. ...
Ms. Horowitz was formerly executive vice president and chief financial officer at Hollinger International Inc., a $2.2 billion newspaper enterprise, ... She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an A.B. in Statistics cum laude from Princeton University. ...
Business Wire, July 26, 2000David Blazejewski Named Regional Vice President of Sales for eschoolmall.com
Eschoolmall.com(TM), the leading provider of a comprehensive online procurement solution for K-12 schools, today announced the appointment of David Blazejewski as regional vice president of sales. ...
Previously, Blazejewski worked as a sales representative at Guidant Corporation for three years. ...
Prior to his position at Guidant, Blazejewski held sales representative and marketing positions with STERIS Corporation, Ethicon Endo-Surgery (a Johnson & Johnson Company) and Xerox Corporation. Blazejewski graduated from Princeton University in 1988 with a degree in psychology; his thesis was on Sales Force Recruitment and Motivation. ...
The New York Times, July 26, 2000BULLETIN BOARD
Princeton Capital Campaign More Successful Than Hoped
Princeton University has raised $1.1 billion in its five-year capital campaign, nearly 50 percent more than the $750 million it set out to collect in the summer of 1995. Gifts of $1 million or more made up about half of the total, and around 41,500 alumni made donations, according to BILL HARDT, director of annual giving. ...
National Post, July 25, 2000Ralph Nader's anti-corporate campaign: Consumer 'saint' now seems to be going over the edge
Paul Krugman;Paul Krugman is professor of economics at Princeton University and a columnist with The New York Times.
'Saints,' wrote George Orwell, 'should always be judged guilty until proved innocent.' I don't think he was talking about garden-variety hypocrisy -- although many supposed ascetics do turn out to have something to hide. The more important point is that there are other temptations besides those of the flesh. And those who renounce small pleasures may be all the more susceptible to monomania, to the urge to sacrifice the good in pursuit of the perfect. In other words, beware the cause of the rebel without a life.
Some commentators have made much of the secrecy shrouding the accounts of Ralph Nader's organizations, of the revelation that speaking fees and stock market investments have made him a multi-millionaire, and of hints that his lifestyle might not be quite as austere as it seems. But what should worry those sympathetic to Mr. Nader are not his vices, if he has any, but his virtues -- and his determination to impose those virtues on the rest of us. Mr. Nader did not begin as an extremist. ...
PR Newswire, July 25, 2000Universal Display Corporation Signs Development and License Agreement with AIXTRON AG of Germany; Parties to Jointly Commercialize a Revolutionary New Technology for High Throughput OLED Production Equipment
Universal Display Corporation (UDC) (Nasdaq: PANL; PHLX), a leading developer of flat panel display technology, has entered into a development and license agreement with AIXTRON AG of Aachen, Germany, the leading manufacturer of precision semiconductor production equipment for LEDs, to develop and fabricate OLED (organic light emitting device) production equipment based on an innovative low cost, precise, high throughput process, it was announced here today.
OLEDs are seen by many industry observers as the technology of the future for the flat panel displays required by the information age, including portable electronic communications devices based on new wireless and cellular telephony. Using a transformational technology called Organic Vapor Phase Deposition (OVPD) invented by scientists at Princeton University, the production process utilizes a carrier gas stream in a hot walled reactor at very low pressure to precisely deposit the thin layers of organic materials used in OLED displays. ...
American Health Line, July 24, 2000ELECTION AD BLITZ: HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY ON THE ATTACK
With the zero hour approaching in November, the health care industry continues to wage the largest national advertising campaign ever launched by a political special interest group, the Bergen Record/Los Angles Times reports. ... According to the Campaign Media Analysis Group, Citizens for Better Medicare, a group backed by the pharmaceutical industry, has spent about $34 million since last summer on its crusade against a drug benefit for Medicare patients. And researchers at the University of Pennsylvania add that at least six other health care groups have spent or committed to spending about $25 million on political commercials. However, according to Princeton University health economic Uwe Reinhardt, "the amount of money that's at stake" dwarfs the millions that the health care industry has spent on advertising. ...
International Herald Tribune, July 24, 2000How Many Stocks Should Be in Your Portfolio?; James K. Glassman's World of Investing
Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate known for his wrinkled suits and frugal style of living, reported to U.S. election officials last month that he had accumulated nearly $4 million in financial assets, despite giving away an average of 80 percent of his after-tax income to social and political causes. ... News of Mr. Nader's unlikely financial trove comes just as the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research has published a working paper that shows that, while the stock market as a whole has not become any more risky over the past three decades, individual stocks certainly have. ... The authors of the study - ''Have Individual Stocks Become More Volatile? An Empirical Exploration of Idiosyncratic Risk'' - include two of the top financial economists in the world, John Campbell of Harvard University and Burton Malkiel, a professor at Princeton University who is also the author of the influential book, ''A Random Walk Down Wall Street.''
New Jersey Law Journal, July 24, 2000Race and Crime
Some blame bias for the number of minorities caught by the justice system, but lack of personal responsibility explains more
ROGER CLEGG
The author is general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. He can be reached at comment@ceousa.org.
Over the last few months there has been a spate of studies purporting to show racial and ethnic bias in the criminal justice system. They marshal evidence of "over-representation" of some minority groups among the persons stopped, arrested, prosecuted and convicted. But the studies are uniformly unpersuasive in both their conclusions of bias and in their proposed solutions. ...
Cynthia Harper of the University of Pennsylvania and Sara McLanahan of Princeton University tracked a sample of 6,000 males aged 14 to 22 from 1979 to 1993, and found that boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated, even when other factors -- such as race, income, parents' educations and urban residence -- were held constant. ...
The Florida Times-Union, July 23, 2000Bush close to making VP pick
Danforth center of latest reports
WASHINGTON -- Facing a self-imposed deadline, George W. Bush must decide between former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, described as the leading candidate, and a secret list of other potential running mates. Former Missouri Sen. John Danforth emerged as a candidate yesterday. ...
-- John Danforth, 63: Former senator from Missouri and Missouri attorney general. Appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno in September to oversee investigation of the federal government's actions during the siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993, and issued his report Friday that cleared Reno and all government agents of wrongdoing. In the Senate, a chief advocate of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings. Retired from the Senate in 1993 and returned home to practice law in St. Louis. Graduate of Princeton University and Yale's law and divinity schools. Heir to the Ralston-Purina fortune. Ordained Episcopal priest. Reportedly told Bush he is not interested in being vice president. Hails from a key state and would help Bush nail down conservative base. ...
-- Bill Frist, 48: First-term senator from Tennessee. Heart and lung transplant surgeon who saved the life of a tourist who had a heart attack in a hallway near Frist's Senate office. Graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. Only senator who is a medical doctor. Father, also a doctor, started one of the nation's largest health-care companies, Columbia HCA. Considered conservative, but prefers to work in the low-key, bipartisan style of the late Sen. Paul Coverdell of Georgia, who died last week and whom Frist called his mentor. Republican point man in Senate on health issues. Opposes abortion rights and the proposed patients' bill of rights; supports partial privatization of Social Security. A dark horse who could help Bush carry the home state of Democrat rival Al Gore. ...
New Hampshire Sunday News, July 23, 2000Cheney choice seen as safe
Former Missouri Sen. John Danforth emerged as a vice presidential candidate for the Republican ticket yesterday. But insiders suggest that Dick Cheney still holds the edge. George W Bush has said he would decide by today on his choice for a running mate among an unknown number of remaining candidates. New Hampshire officials, including former Gov. John H. Sununu, had positive words for Cheney. ...
"Cheney is not a jump-off-the-cliff right winger. He's someone who's been in the center of the action for many years as an honest broker," said Fred Greenstein, a political science professor at Princeton University. ...
The Times Union, July 23, 2000Privacy czar traces his roots to region
HIGHLIGHT: Clinton adviser Bill Swire, who grew up in Menands, seeks balance in policy
WASHINGTON -- The trail that led Peter Swire to the White House as President Clinton's chief adviser on privacy matters began when he worked the computers at his family's furniture stores in Albany. ...
At Princeton University, where he graduated in 1980, his undergraduate thesis was on information technology and how it affected legal and economic thought. ...
Albuquerque Journal, July 22, 2000Rechecking Star's Pulse Changes Age
Observations Over Years Challenge Earlier Theory
Like the quartz crystal of a fine watch, spinning stars called pulsars are among nature's great timekeepers.
The stellar searchlights don't keep perfect time, slowing as they age, like a spinning top.
But where a slowing clock is a curse, the steady, predictable slowing of a pulsar is a blessing for astronomers. ...
Knowing the age of pulsars can help solve the question of how frequently pulsars are born in our galaxy, said Princeton University pulsar researcher David Nice. ...
Chattanooga Times / Chattanooga Free Press, July 21, 2000Physicists Detect Subatomic Particle
In what is being hailed as a heroic achievement in physics, scientists have found the first direct evidence of the tau neutrino, an elusive and ghostly subatomic particle that was thought to be the last missing piece in the architecture of matter. ...
Finding the tau has no immediate practical applications. But physicists were thrilled.
"No one doubted the existence of the tau neutrino, but finding it is a heroic accomplishment," said astrophysicist John Bahcall of Princeton University and the Institute of Advanced Studies. ...
Financial Net News, July 3, 2000BROKERAGES SEEK TO INTEGRATE ADVICE, HUMAN ELEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY TO TAP NEW-AGE INVESTING NEEDS.
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Alexander "Lex" Zaharoff is Managing Director and Head of Advice Lab and Product Development at J.P. Morgan. He has been with J.P. Morgan's U.S. Private Client Group as head of product development and advice services since 1995. He joined Morgan in 1981 and has worked in several capacities for the firm, including co-head of the U.S. Investment Management Department. Zaharoff has a B.S. in Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is a Certified Financial Analyst. ...
DISPLAY DEVELOPMENT NEWS, July, 2000UDC Gets $ 1 Million
Universal Display Corp. [375 Philips Rd., Ewing, NJ 08618; Tel: 800/599-4426] says it has been awarded a $ 1 million, 18 month, phase 1 program by DARPA under its new flexible display program. The contract is to develop a flexible organic light emitting device [OLED]--a flat panel display. DARPA is funding $ 500,000 and the remaining $ 500,000 is cost-shared from the participants. ...
UDC's program team includes its long standing partners at Princeton University and the University of Southern California [USC], as well as new, strategic partners, Battelle Memorial Institute of Columbus, Ohio and L-3 Communications Display System of Alpharetta, Georgia. UDC has a fundamental proprietary position in flexible, high efficiency, small molecule OLED displays, and has worked with Princeton and USC since 1994. Contact Dean Ledger, Executive VP of UDC; Tel: 800/599-4426.
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