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A NOTE ABOUT BASKETBALL:
This report includes only major features (the AP story appeared in several newspapers) that appeared through the end of business hours on March 12. Princeton was mentioned in more than 250 stories about the NCAA tournament and will likely be featured in more stories about the games with UNLV and Michigan State. Samples of those stories will be in the next report.
Copyright 1998 The Kansas City Star Co.
THE KANSAS CITY STAR
March 12, 1998
HEADLINE: New challenges await Pem Hill tennis player/Kristi Watson decides Princeton will be next task
BYLINE: HOWARD RICHMAN, Staff Writer
That bright young shining star about to bolt high school tennis and showcase herself on a national stage must be Kristi Watson.
Watson is a standout senior at Pembroke Hill, a personality full of promise, a person loaded with credentials. And the best part is she's still only a teen-ager. Who knows how far she will go in life once she leaves the nest and blossoms on her own? ...
... For Watson to beat one of the game's rising young stars proves Watson might be just what Princeton needs. Watson said last week she will attend the New Jersey-located university and play tennis there. ...
Copyright 1998 The Washington Post
The Washington Post
March 12, 1998, Thursday
HEADLINE: Plunging Headlong Into the Pool; NCAA Hoops Tournament Spurs Office Betting Frenzy
BYLINE: Ruben Castaneda, Washington Post Staff Writer
Here's a safe bet: Much of the Washington area populace will slip into a kind of madness today.
It's an annual, fevered condition that afflicts all sorts of people -- government wonks, police officers, prisoners, rumpled journalists, pricey K Street lawyers, even the chief spokesman for the president of the United States.
With the first jump ball today in the annual National Collegiate Athletic Association men's basketball tournament, serious and casual sports fans throughout the area will take their shots in office pools in which they try to pick the winner of the 64-team competition for glory and a pot of cash. For a small amount of money, usually $3 to $5, workers buy the chance to win the pooled dollars by choosing the victors.
No one, it seems, is too busy to get caught up in the roundball ritual.
Mike McCurry, chief spokesman for President Clinton, is pretty engaged these days. Lots of questions about subpoenas and a certain former White House intern.
Nonetheless, McCurry, a Princeton University graduate, found time to enter the pool organized by White House reporters.
"Of course, we frown upon ill-gotten gains from wagering," McCurry said. "But I've already filled out my sheet. I have Princeton going all the way this year. That's a pick from the heart, and I don't expect to see those five dollars back." ...
ABC NEWS
SHOW: WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH PETER JENNINGS
MARCH 11, 1998
HEADLINE: PRINCETON TEAM KNOCKING AT THE FRONT DOOR
BYLINE: AARON BROWN, PETER JENNINGS
PETER JENNINGS: Finally from us this evening, taking the back door to big time. As many of you know, the NCAA basketball tournament starts tomorrow -- March Madness, as it's called. Sixty-four college teams vying to be number one. We're going to take a look at the team that is ranked eighth in the country going into the tournament. In our experience, only people who went to Princeton University in New Jersey would automatically think of Princeton as a basketball power. However, in their March Madness, there is a method. Here's ABC's Aaron Brown.
BILL CARMODY, Head Coach: Let's go, fellas.
AARON BROWN, ABC News: (voice-over) When you first see the Princeton basketball team, they don't look that good. They aren't that big or fast or strong. They play a different kind of basketball. They play the Princeton system.
BILL CARMODY: I just think of our team as some kind of democracy. Everyone dribbles the ball a little bit. Everyone shoots the ball. Everyone passes the ball. Nobody rebounds on this team.
AARON BROWN: (voice-over) The system was born out of necessity -- an Ivy League school with no athletic scholarships and tough academic standards.
BILL CARMODY: You have an exam tonight? You have one tonight also?
AARON BROWN: (voice-over) Princeton doesn't get the best individual players in the country. But while they may not be future NBA stars, basketball, Princeton reminds you, is a team game. And Princeton enters the tournament with just one loss all year - a loss to number-one rated North Carolina.
(on camera) So if this week they were athlete-students and not student-athletes, would that be OK with you?
BILL CARMODY: I think that would be OK with the whole Princeton community.
Copyright 1998 Associated Press
AP Online
March 11, 1998
HEADLINE: Schoolwork on Hold for Princeton
BYLINE: HAL BOCK
DATELINE: HARTFORD, Conn.
The labs and lectures are on hold. Princeton's student-athletes have some NCAA tournament business to take care of right now.
The payoff for a 26-1 record, the No. 8 ranking and the best winning percentage in the country was a No. 5 seed in the tournament and a date Thursday in the East Regionals against WAC champion UNLV.
This is uncharted territory for Princeton, equipped with the highest seed ever given to an Ivy League team. Nobody knows quite what to expect from the Tigers, least of all UNLV, whose players were exchanging high-fives after hearing they'd be playing the Ivy League champions.
Copyright 1998 Phoenix Newspapers, Inc.
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
March 11, 1998
HEADLINE: ARIZONA TAX SYSTEM; CAN WE MAKE IT FAIRER TO EVERYONE?
SERIES: THE PUBLIC PURSE / Making sense of taxes
In conversations with lawmakers, citizens and tax experts over the past month, Republic reporters have heard these concerns come up repeatedly: What should be done with the budget surplus? Does the state rely too much revenue from sales tax revenues? Is the state's unique tax on business equipment too high?
These questions have been raised in one context or another in many of the articles that have run over the last two weeks in our series, THE PUBLIC PURSE: Making Sense of Taxes.
Now, to conclude the series, we have asked four of the state's leading thinkers on taxation and public policy to give us their views on these themes and then, as a kind of benediction, to tell us the single issue in tax reform in Arizona each regards as most pressing.
Sharon Megdal
Sharon Megdal, a Tucson public policy consultant, has a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. She is the former chairwoman of Fiscal 2000, a state-sponsored tax- reform study, and has also served on the Arizona
Corporation Commission and the state Transportation Board.
Republic: What should the Legislature do with the $500 million budget surplus?
Megdal: I think some of it should go for transportation infrastructure and some of it should go for education infrastructure. They are both areas where the needs are significant. The needs are growing with our growing population
and we can't ignore it. I think, basically at the state level, we've not been doing anything to increase resources in transportation, yet everybody acknowledges that the needs are significant, and they significantly outstrip the resources available.
Q: Are you concerned about the state's dependence on sales-tax revenues? If so, what should be done?
A: I don't perceive real dissatisfaction on the part of the public with the basic tax structure as we have it now. I wouldn't be in favor of changing it around a lot. We are where we are. What I'm suggesting is don't increase (sales tax) anything beyond what it is.
Copyright 1998 Globe Newspaper Company
The Boston Globe
March 11, 1998
HEADLINE: Nudity and the censors; DAVID ALLYN;
David Allyn is a lecturer in the history department at Princeton University.
On Feb. 6, a grand jury in Alabama indicted the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain on charges of child pornography for selling books by two noted photographers.
One of the two, Jock Sturges, photographs families on nude beaches in California and France; he obtains permission from every one of his subjects for every exhibition or publication of an image.
The case against Barnes & Noble was spearheaded by Randall Terry, founder of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue. In the past few weeks, Terry's followers have been encouraged to vandalize copies of Sturges's and David Hamilton's books.
The case shows how quickly standards of right and wrong can change.
History suggests that indecency is in the eyes of the beholder. Today we think that representations of the male body are more risque than representations of the female body. But in the late 1960s, the situation was reversed. The National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures declared that male nudity in movies was permissible but female nudity was immoral. According to Catholic authorities, no viewers would be aroused by seeing the male body.
Copyright 1998 The Houston Chronicle Publishing Company
The Houston Chronicle
March 11, 1998
HEADLINE: If we didn't want so much, Gates wouldn't be so rich
BYLINE: EDWARD TENNER; Tenner, a visiting researcher in the geosciences department at Princeton University, in Princeton, N.J., is the author of "Why Things Bite Back; Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences"
THE world's strongest government is fighting its most formidable corporation in a spectacle enthralling to the citizenry, unaccustomed to such superpower confrontations.
We have mixed feelings about federal might and private hegemony. We sense that the Justice Department's lawsuit against Microsoft is serious indeed, yet we also aren't so sure which side to root for.
Detached fascination seems as common as partisanship. Would a decision against Microsoft help slash the costs of owning a computer? Or would greater diversity of operating systems and basic applications software create headaches for computer owners who would be forced to choose among incompatible programs? (Already some e-mail programs are barely on speaking terms.)
On the other hand, which knowledge-based industry would be safe from the expansion of a victorious Microsoft?
Copyright 1998 Legal Communications, Ltd.
The Legal Intelligencer
March 11, 1998 Wednesday
Appointments
Jeffrey Dunoff, a Temple University School of Law professor, has been appointed visiting fellow in the Center of International Studies at Princeton University for the spring semester.
Dunoff currently teaches international law, international commercial transactions, international environmental law and civil procedure.
Copyright 1998 Newsday, Inc.
Newsday (New York, NY)
March 11, 1998, Wednesday
HEADLINE: DEMOCRACY IN SIERRA LEONE
BYLINE: COMBINED NEWS SERVICES
DATELINE: Freetown
Freetown - Sierra Leone's elected president, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, returned home yesterday to a rapturous popular welcome almost 10 months after disgruntled soldiers ousted him in a coup.
Kabbah, 66, arrived at Freetown's Lungi International Airport from exile in neighboring Guinea, sealing the restoration of democracy in the volatile former British colony.
The restoration marked the success of an unprecedented African military mission. Nigeria led a West African military force to return Kabbah from exile in neighboring Guinea. He lived in exile since May, when army Lt. Col. Johnny Paul Koroma seized power in a bloody coup that ushered in a period of ruinous armed rule.
The offensive marked the first time that African armies had intervened in a neighboring country to return an elected leader to power rather than topple one, said Jeffrey Herbst of Princeton University, an expert on Africa.
Copyright 1998 The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)
March 11, 1998, Wednesday
Cheapening students' grades (AP news briefs)
Grade inflation that has bedeviled public school accountability apparently has made its way into the upper echelons of American education. The Associated Press reports that Ivy League schools are taking steps to adjust grading systems that have become increasingly less reflective of achievement.
In a recent survey, faculty at Princeton University generally agreed that too many students are receiving A's and B's, thereby cheapening their degrees and making difficult evaluation for admission to graduate schools.
Princeton is reviewing its grading system as a consequence of the survey. Two other highly rated schools - Dartmouth and Columbia University - are providing more details with transcripts to counter grade inflation, the AP reported.
Copyright 1998 Sarasota Herald-Tribune Co.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
March 11, 1998
HEADLINE: OBITUARIES
John S. Hegeman
John S. Hegeman, 74, Bradenton, died March 3, 1998.
He was born June 12, 1923, in Somerville, N.J., and came to Bradenton 18 years ago from there. He was a Marine Corps veteran of World War II, a retired physician and a 30-year veteran of the Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey. He was a graduate of Princeton University and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Copyright 1998 Albuquerque Tribune
Albuquerque Tribune
March 10, 1998, Tuesday
HEADLINE: UNM names 3 finalists for presidency
BYLINE: Shonda Novak TRIBUNE REPORTER
The University of New Mexico has named three finalists in its search for a president to replace Richard Peck.
They are:
* Ricardo Fernandez, 57, president of Lehman College of the City University of New York, a public liberal-arts college in the Bronx with 9,500 students.
* Marye Anne Fox, 50, vice president for research at the University of Texas at Austin.
* Bill Gordon, 51, UNM's provost and vice president for academic affairs since 1996.
Ricardo Fernandez
Current job: President, Lehman College of the City University of New York. Fernandez, who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, is also professor of romance languages at Lehman.
Fernandez was with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1970-1990, where he was assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of educational policy and community studies.
Academic degrees: Bachelor's degree in philosophy and master's degree in Spanish literature, both from Marquette University; doctorate in romance languages from Princeton University.
The Associated Press
March 10, 1998, Tuesday
HEADLINE: Tigers burning bright for NCAAs
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.
Princeton has done everything it possibly could this season.
Its credentials gleam with a 26-1 record and No. 8 ranking. It has rattled opponents with flawless execution, crisp 3-point shooting and gritty defense. It has made the backdoor pass a piece of basketball art.
Still, not everyone is overwhelmed, starting with UNLV (20-12), the Tigers' opening opponent in the NCAA tournament on Thursday in Hartford, Conn.
"I'm sure UNLV is not scared to play us," center Steve Goodrich said. "We saw their reaction on TV. They looked pretty happy about getting us."
Princeton has the nation's best record, including wins over Texas, North Carolina State and Wake Forest. Is it any wonder Mitch Henderson was annoyed when a California radio talk-show host who, despite never seeing Princeton play in person, ripped the Tigers as a tournament sideshow that can scare teams but not beat them.
"I would love to dispel that myth," said Henderson, who was invited on the show to give Princeton's side of the story. "He didn't know a whole lot about us and what we were about. I think I turned him around a little bit."
Copyright 1998 Globe Newspaper Company
The Boston Globe
March 10, 1998, Tuesday
HEADLINE: Opposites attract;
Princeton-UNLV contrast draws attention;
BYLINE: By Jim Greenidge, Globe Staff
The Princeton-UNLV game promises to be one of the more intriguing first-round matchups in the NCAA basketball tournament.
Princeton (26-1), which is ranked eighth in the country and seeded fifth in the East bracket, will take on the 12th-seeded Runnin' Rebels (20-12) Thursday at 7:40 p.m. in Hartford, a game that will be seen here on Channel 4, the CBS affiliate.
Folks want to see Princeton because they remember the Tigers' upset of defending national champion UCLA in a feather in the cap for the Ivy League.
UNLV, though a far different team than it was under former coach Jerry Tarkanian, still uses an all-out hustling style, in contrast to Princeton's more deliberate game. And there is a local angle, with former University of Massachusetts assistant Bill Bayno now head man at UNLV.
Gus Johnson and Jon Sundvold will handle the broadcast for CBS. Johnson, who is working his third NCAA tourney for the network, knows something about Princeton: He worked the UCLA game in '96. This time he sees a more athletic team, one that's not afraid to run the ball a tad while using the tricky back-door stuff as well.
"There's Mitch Henderson at point guard and Steve Goodrich at center," Johnson said. "Both were there for the UCLA win. And with Princeton's tradition, it's another strong franchise, right up there with Duke, Kentucky, and UCLA, there's no question. And it's getting its share of publicity in between New York City and the Philadelphia areas."
Copyright 1998 The Detroit News, Inc.
The Detroit News
March 10, 1998, Tuesday
HEADLINE: Daniel Katz: Helped to found U-M institute
ANN ARBOR -- Daniel Katz, who helped found the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research died Saturday, Feb. 28, 1998, at his Ann Arbor home. He was 95.
Mr. Katz was a psychology professor and researcher who arrived at the university in 1947. He founded the institute with a group of Washington, D.C., social scientists who had compiled data about the impact of federal policies during World War II.
During his 15-year teaching tenure at Princeton University, Mr. Katz in 1930 developed a measure of racial prejudice that became the standard in the field. He also studied problems of nationalism and conflict resolution.
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
March 10, 1998, Tuesday
NAME: Edward Tatnall Canby
HEADLINE: Edward T. Canby, 85, Choral Director and Writer
BYLINE: By ALLAN KOZINN
Edward Tatnall Canby, a choral director, teacher and writer whose conducting specialty was Renaissance and Baroque music but whose wide interests led him to work as a folklorist and as an advocate of electronic music, died on Feb. 21 at his home in Cornwall, Conn. He was 85 and also had a home in Manhattan.
Before teaching at Finch College in New York, in the 1950's, Mr. Canby taught music at Princeton University. In the 1940's, he became fascinated by the relationship between music and audio equipment, and wrote about it in a book, "The Saturday Review Home Book of Recorded Music and Sound Reproduction," published in 1952.
Copyright 1998 Newsday, Inc.
Newsday (New York, NY)
March 10, 1998, Tuesday
HEADLINE: NATIONAL LACROSSE PREVIEW / PRINCETON STILL THE 1 TO BEAT
BYLINE: Mike Candel. STAFF WRITER
Ithaca and Baltimore. Chapel Hill and Syracuse. Charlottesville and College Park. The path to the NCAA lacrosse throne has made some intriguing twists and turns. Lately it has come to a full stop on Nassau Street in the old-line New Jersey suburb of Princeton. Right there by P.J.'s Pancake House.
Princeton owns Division I lacrosse. It is not a permanent proprietorship, as the folks at Johns Hopkins, Cornell or North Carolina can attest. But in this decade, anyway, the Tigers have given no indication of relinquishing their role as landlord.
"Princeton is the best in the country, hands down," Virginia coach Dom Starsia said.
NPR
SHOW: MORNING EDITION (NPR 10:00 am ET)
MARCH 10, 1998, TUESDAY
HEADLINE: Origins of Dioxin
BYLINE: David Baron; Bob Edwards, Washington, DC
HIGHLIGHT: NPR's David Baron reports on the recent discovery that dioxin one of the deadliest man-made compounds, can occur naturally. Investigators found heavy concentrations in chicken and traced the source of the chemical back to an ingredient in the feed -- clay, used to keep the feed from clumping, from a mine in Mississippi. Experts found no evidence of human activity that could account for the clay's high level of dioxin. They think enzymes and compounds in an ancient swamp could have combined to form the dioxin-laced clay.
When scientists add up how much dioxin comes from known sources, such as paper mills and waste incinerators, they can't account for a lot of the dioxin found in the environment. Princeton University industrial ecologist Valerie Thomas (ph) says she and many others believed any unexplained dioxin was also coming from human sources.
VALERIE THOMAS, INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGIST, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: This new discovery might change that, it might be another major source of dioxin. And it's possible that much of the dioxin in our food supply is from natural sources. I would be surprised if it's true, but it's possible and it's something that needs to be looked into more carefully.
The Associated Press
March 9, 1998, Monday
HEADLINE: The 'new' Princeton: No more pointy-headed basketball
BYLINE: By JIM LITKE, AP Sports Writer
Princeton's most famous basketball graduate was surfing the Net when the phone rang. Bill Bradley's specialty is international studies, but the only thing he was studying at that moment were the teams sliding into the NCAA tournament draw alongside his own.
And when the bracket was complete, Bradley, Princeton Class of '65, former senator, former congressman, former New York Knick, once and perhaps future presidential hopeful, fairly groaned.
"Same bracket as North Carolina?" he said. "Connecticut, too? And UNLV to start?"
Yes, yes and yes.
There is, after all, a price to be paid for the kind of success Princeton had this past season.
Princeton always sneaked into the tournament as the Ivy League champion and a No. 12 seed, always scared the daylights out of basketball factories like Georgetown, Arkansas, Villanova and Syracuse, but almost always went home after one round. The consolation prize is that most of them went home to begin careers as investment bankers or Wall Street lawyers.
Now that has changed - the basketball part, anyway.
But these are not - to borrow a phrase - your father's Tigers. Under Carmody, Princeton plays more conservative "D" but gambles much more on offense, particularly with the 3-point shot.
Bradley has observed this evolution, appreciatively, from a distance. He is a lifetime student of hoops, but stuck for the time being on the opposite coast from Princeton. He is finishing a one-year appointment as visiting professor at Stanford's Institute of International Studies.
"It's a typical Princeton team in some ways," he said. "They're demonstrating how much mastery of the fundamentals can be used to advantage in a game where not everybody bothers to learn them any more. They've clearly beat some teams that are superior, at least in terms of talent.
COPYRIGHT 1998 City News Service, Inc.
City News Service
March 9, 1998, Monday
HEADLINE: Dean Cain
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES
Dean Cain, who co-starred in TV's ''Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,'' sued a company today for allegedly trying to peddle ''autographed'' pictures of him he claims he did not sign.
Cain seeks unspecified damages from J.P. Productions, whose representatives could not be reached for comment.
The former Princeton University football star denies having endorsed any of the company's commercial activities.
Copyright 1998 The Dallas Morning News
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
March 9, 1998, Monday
HEADLINE: Will public demand return of ethics?
BYLINE: Philip Seib
Read a day's worth of news from Washington, and you will have good reason to believe that ethical behavior is obsolete.
But if you attended the annual meeting of the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics, recently held in Dallas, you might feel at least cautiously optimistic about prospects for the survival of ethics.
This wasn't the typical academic conference. Among the "philosophers" at the sessions were lawyers, architects, military officers and other professionals - even a few journalists. Some of the topics discussed were obscure, but the fundamental message to emerge from the gathering was that there is a resilient constituency of thoughtful men and women who believe that moral standards still matter.
Running through many of the conference presentations was the notion that modern life could benefit from a better grounding in philosophy. The particular philosophical outlook doesn't really matter, just so long as it possesses intellectual substance and requires thoughtful consideration of issues. One reason for today's societal aimlessness is that so much of the way the world works is merely reactive, based on nothing more than expediency. The superstructure has no foundation.
That is particularly true in public life. Policy-making tends to follow the path of least resistance, while principle is pushed aside. Thinking before acting is considered an anachronistic conceit.
Perhaps that could be changed by broadening participation in public affairs, including more people who see value in careful thinking. One of the speakers at the Dallas conference, Princeton University president Harold Shapiro, noted the need for a "network of understanding" among philosophers and policy-makers. Such communication, founded on mutual respect, might provide a much-needed dose of intellectual vitality to governance in America.
Copyright 1998 American Political Network, Inc.
Health Line
March 9, 1998
HEADLINE: PATIENTS' RIGHTS: PANEL CAN'T SETTLE ENFORCEMENT ISSUE
President Clinton's health care quality commission, which initially endorsed a "patients' bill of rights," is "unlikely to recommend a way to enforce" it, Congress Daily reports. At a meeting at Princeton University Thursday night, the panel's executive director Janet Corrigan "said ... the commission will recommend a variety of ways the bill of rights ... could be implemented, including by legislation, regulation or voluntary action.
Copyright 1998 Investor's Business Daily, Inc.
Investor's Business Daily
March 9, 1998
HEADLINE: HOW BIG IS THE CYBER-ECONOMY?
BYLINE: By Anna Bray Duff, Investor's Daily
If there's one thing people in Silicon Valley don't question, it's that today's high technology is changing the world.
Is it? Investors think so. The sector has been a market leader.
But the tech industry makes up about 6% of the economy - less than half the health-care industry's share.
At the same time, it's clear that technology has become a major engine of growth. Depending on how it's measured, it has accounted for anywhere from a quarter to a third of the growth over the past three years. Ö
Also, workers who use computers get paid more than those who don't - by 10% to 15%, according to a study by labor economist Alan Krueger.
There's little doubt that high-tech has served as an engine for growth. But how does it affect other industries?
High-tech equipment still makes up a small share of the capital stock, so economists like Princeton University's Alan Blinder argue that information technology doesn't measure up to its hype.
High-tech equipment and software become obsolete quickly, Blinder says. That kind of churning keeps spending high, but may not really help businesses become all that more efficient, he argues. Learning to use technology that will soon be out of date involves a lot of running to stand still.
''The innovations in information technology are wondrous,'' Blinder said. ''But I'm pretty skeptical that they are revolutionizing the whole economy. People tend to forget that improvements in information technology have been going on for centuries.''
Copyright 1998 The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post
March 9, 1998, Monday
HEADLINE: Gazit's gaffe
BYLINE: Yosef Goell
Former head of military intelligence Shlomo Gazit was right when he labeled the analogy he made at a Tel Aviv University conference last week between the national- religious "knitted-kippa"-wearing soldiers in the IDF and the swastika-wearing Nazi soldiers in the Wehrmacht of World War II "a foolish thing to have said."
What Gazit, who was one of our most intelligent heads of military intelligence and the very model of a devoted public servant in his subsequent civilian life, said was not only foolish; it was monstrous.
It has become quite common for haredi yahoo thugs and rioters to fling the epithets "Nazi" and "kapo" at the police, archeologists or other opponents. But how could an intelligent person like Gazit fall into the same trap of using the Nazi analogy to describe current divisions of opinion in Israel?
Prof. Bernard Lewis of Princeton University, who is considered by many the leading scholar on the Middle East of the past two generations, sought to emphasize the complexity of the concept "national identity" in this part of the world. In recalling the mutual imposed transfer of populations between Greece and Turkey worked out in the aftermath of World War I at the Lausanne Conference, Lewis noted that the agreement did not refer to ethnic Greeks and Turks but to members of the Greek Orthodox Church in Turkey and to Moslems in Greece.
Copyright 1998 Crain Communications Inc.
Modern Healthcare
March 09, 1998
HEADLINE: WASHINGTON REPORT: BALANCING THE SCALES: MEDPAC URGES CONGRESS TO LOOK AT MEDICARE FEE VARIANCE
BYLINE: Jonathan Gardner
Legislators and providers could confront the issue of equal pay for equal work in healthcare because of a congressional advisory panel's suggestion on how to modernize Medicare's fee-for-service payment policy.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's first report to Congress, formally released last week, suggests examining why payment varies for different types of providers performing similar services.
Medicare uses a different formula for each type of provider, which results in varying fees. Efforts to rein in costs through differing statutory limits have complicated the payment method.
The issue could set off alarms in particular for hospitals, which offer many services that also can be delivered in nursing homes, physician practices, freestanding ambulatory surgical centers and in beneficiaries' homes through home health agencies.
Wilensky, along with other experts, acknowledged that equalizing fees will be complicated by the various coding systems in different settings and might require more data than HCFA has.
Uwe Reinhardt, a former commissioner of the Physician Payment Review Commission, a predecessor organization to MedPAC, said the data are available but HCFA might not have enough funding to gather and interpret the data.
''Is the stuff you need to know to pay properly for Medicare knowable? Yes,'' said Reinhardt, now a Princeton University health economist. ''Is it knowable with the trivial budget Congress allocates (HCFA) for managerial activities? No.''
Copyright 1998 National Journal Inc.
National Journal's CongressDaily
March 9, 1998
HEADLINE: Experts See More Federal Managed Care Regulation
PRINCETON, N.J. - Further federal regulation of health plans is probably inevitable, both liberal and conservative policy analysts told a weekend conference here on the role of regulation in a market-oriented health system sponsored by Princeton University and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. But they also cautioned that two of the most popular forms of regulation under consideration in Congress - requiring "external review" of benefit denials and requiring plans to provide consumers with information on which to base their choices - might not produce the desired results. The public is demanding further regulation, said Walter Zelman, a former healthcare adviser to President Clinton now at the Harvard School of Public Health, for a long list of reasons, including the fact that it is difficult for consumers to make good choices among health plans, that once a choice is made consumers are locked in, and that the costs of a bad decision are very high. Even Mark Pauly, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and a noted free market health economist, said further regulation is needed if only to offset the market disarray caused by the tax treatment of employer-sponsored health insurance. "One government distortion may need to be offset by another government distortion," Pauly said.
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
March 9, 1998, Monday
HEADLINE: Energizing The Future Of Black Theater
BYLINE: By MEL GUSSOW
DATELINE: HANOVER, N.H., March 8
In an intensive marathon of talks and panel discussions on Saturday at Dartmouth College here, a wide cross section of theater artists and business and foundation executives confronted a crisis in black theater and searched for new ways to carry that theater past the millennium.
"Black theater is black America's imagination, intelligence and humanity," the playwright August Wilson said on Saturday night in his rousing address. In answer to a question he was repeatedly asked, he said that black theater definitely had a future. He and other speakers expressed the hope that its organizations would be self-determining and self-sufficient.
.The conference grew out of a speech that Mr. Wilson gave in June 1996 during a Theater Communications Group conference at Princeton University. In that speech, he called for black theater artists to come together in 1998 "to reignite and reunite our people's positive energy for apolitical and social change that is reflective of our spiritual truths."
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
March 9, 1998, Monday
HEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
SILLECK, SIDNEY B. JR.
SILLECK-Sidney B. Jr. Of Scarsdale, NY, on March 6, 1998, at the age of 83. Loving husband of Katherine Wallace. Also survived by his four children: Katherine, Bayley, and Thomas of NYC and Gordon of Irvington, NY; three grandchildren, Sean, Siri, and Elizabeth; and three great-grandchildren. He was a graduate of Deerfield Academy (1932) and Princeton University (1936) and served as a warrant officer in the Merchant Marine during World War II.
Copyright 1998 MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
March 9, 1998
CONVERSATION
JIM LEHRER: Finally tonight, a new novel about paradise and to Elizabeth Farnsworth, who recorded this last week while she was in Washington.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Novelist Toni Morrison, who has received the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, is on the bestseller list again this month with her new novel "Paradise." It's set in an all-black Oklahoma town called Ruby, population 360. It's a place with a complicated history, going back to slavery and haunted by incidents of prejudice among ex-slaves, themselves. It's also the story of a former convent just outside Ruby, where a group of women gather to heal their broken lives and in the process seem to threaten Ruby's very existence. Toni Morrison's first novel, "The Bluest Eye," was published in 1970. She's also the author of "Sulah," "Song of Solomon," and "Beloved," among other works. She teaches literature at Princeton University.Thank you for being with us. Is Ruby a place that's based in history? There were all-black towns in Oklahoma formed by ex-slaves, weren't there?
TONI MORRISON, Novelist: Absolutely. It's my invention of the all-black town that might have lasted until now, until at least the 80's. It's based on towns that did exist and some that are still there.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And did you come to the idea through reading the history of those towns and reading about the migration of slaves from Louisiana or Mississippi to Oklahoma?
TONI MORRISON: Part of my idea came precisely from that research and thinking about that whole period when ex-slaves, freed men, left plantations, sometimes under duress, because Southerners frequently wanted them to stay but managed to take advantage of the land that was offered in places like Oklahoma and to build whole towns, churches, stores, banks, many houses. And some of them are still there to see.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Explain the idea of separation. It's almost a utopia that's built in Ruby. It's very separate, and in some ways I felt that the book was a meditation on this idea of separateness. This is a place, after all, where nobody dies until the end of the book. Tell me about that, about the separateness.
TONI MORRISON: The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia. And it was my meditation, if you will, and interrogation of the whole idea of paradise, the safe place, the place full of bounty, where no one can harm you. But, in addition to that, it's based on the notion of exclusivity. All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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U.S. News & World Report
March 9, 1998
HEADLINE: HMOs were the right Rx
BYLINE: By Susan Brink
HIGHLIGHT: Americans got lower medical costs--but also more worries
Helen Hunt, as a single mother with a sickly child in the movie As Good As It Gets, spews out an obscenity-laced denunciation of her HMO for caring more about money than about her son's health. In some movie theaters, her diatribe elicits cheers from the audience.
It's no surprise. Three in four Americans are worried about their health care coverage, according to a new survey by U.S. News and the Kaiser Family Foundation (not associated with Kaiser Permanente HMOs). One in six respondents has experienced delays in getting appointments. One fourth can't figure out their medical bills, and 1 in 5 has had problems paying them. Half of the respondents say they're worried that doctors are basing treatment decisions strictly on what the health plan will cover.
In short, America's health care system has become hard to live with. Many believe HMOs are to blame. But living without them may be impossible.
"No private insurance company ever said no to any bill ever shoved under its nose," says Uwe Reinhardt, professor of economics at Princeton University. With outlays rising so fast, something had to give--and it did, as copayments went up and standard benefits were reduced.
Managed care said no--and meant it. In 1995, Americans spent $988 billion (or 13.6 percent of GDP) on health care--which was a lot, but significantly less than the $1.07 trillion, or 14.8 percent of GDP, that the Congressional Budget Office had forecast only three years earlier. The savings were largely due to managed care.
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The Washington Post
March 09, 1998, Monday
Carleton Putnam , Airline Pioneer
Carleton Putnam, 96, an airline pioneer and author, who was a builder of the old Chicago and Southern Air Line, died of pneumonia March 5 at his home in Charlottesville.
He once told Newsweek that he decided early in life that he wished to satisfy two needs of his nature. "One was the need for the life of action, the other was the need for the life of the mind."
He later published two books on race and race relations, "Race and Reason," (1961) and "Race and Reality," (1967). According to a review of the second in The Washington Post, the author believed that evidence showed the black race was behind the white and should attend segregated schools.
Mr. Putnam was born in New York in 1901, graduated from Princeton University in 1924 and obtained a law degree from Columbia University in 1932.
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Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ.)
March 8, 1998, Sunday
HEADLINE: Criminal division chief brings sense of fair play to the job
BYLINE: TERRI SOMERS; LAW ENFORCEMENT WRITER
DATELINE: TRENTON
Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center in Camden was struggling with budget cuts while its chief financial officer was skimming profits and driving a Porsche bought with the booty.
Violations of public trust such as this make Paul Zoubek's blood boil and foster his sense of public service.
"Prosecuting people who violate the public trust is some of the most important work you can do, because the public sometimes feels powerless to do anything about it," said Zoubek, the new director of the state Division of Criminal Justice.
Zoubek's interest in the law and public service was sparked back in high school, where he pored over books about Abraham Lincoln and worked as a volunteer for a short time for the late Rep. James J. Howard, D-N.J.
A member of the first graduating class of Holmdel High School, Zoubek pitched for the school baseball team and was an offensive tackle and place kicker for the football team.
"I was the second leading scorer on the football team ... with one point," said a smiling Zoubek. "It was a struggling era in the history of Holmdel High School athletics. Our record was 0-8-1."
He continued playing baseball and football at Princeton University and was graduated cum laude from the university's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He went on to earn a law degree from New York University.
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The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
March 8, 1998
HEADLINE: FINDINGS CAST DOUBT ON DEAD SEA SCROLLS ORIGIN
BYLINE: Deborah Horan Houston Chronicle
DATELINE: EIN GEDI, Israel
To biblical archeologist Yizhar Hirschfeld, the ancient stone dwellings he recently unearthed on a desert mountain overlooking the Dead Sea bear signs of an esoteric religious community that may have once included John the Baptist.
The clues, he said, include 20 sparse single cells, each only large enough for one man, a pool he thinks may have been a ''mikvah'' - a Jewish ritual bath - and an absence of personal belongings that would indicate that the inhabitants led nothing but an ascetic lifestyle.
His conclusion: He has located the first-known community of Essenes, the 1st Century Jewish monastic sect widely believed to have written the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Hirschfeld admits that the initial findings from the five-week excavation fall far short of proving that the site was inhabited by Essenes. Kim Bowes, a doctoral candidate in archeology at Princeton University who helped Hirschfeld excavate the site, blames much of the scholarly reluctance on the fact that many reputations have been built around Qumran. ''Lots of people staked their careers on it,'' she said.
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The Gazette (Montreal)
March 8, 1998, Sunday
HEADLINE: Technology's revenge: The millennium bug - the glitch that some predict will bring computers all over the world crashing down on Jan. 1, 2000 - is just one example of technology, which was supposed to make our lives better, coming back to haunt us
BYLINE: ROBERT SIBLEY; OTTAWA CITIZEN
DATELINE: OTTAWA
"Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it."
- Martin Heidigger, The Question Concerning Technology.
The prophets of high technology have been promising paradise for at least a couple of generations. The new millennium, we were frequently told, would be a computerized utopia. Machines would do the dirty work in this new reality, leaving us free for lives of leisure and entertainment. Enamoured of this enchanted realm, many of us scrambled to get online, accelerated down the information highway, or, as devoted cybernauts, dived down the rabbit hole of virtual reality, confident salvation was a few keystrokes away.
Recently, however, the technological millennium appearing on the horizon has begun to look not so heavenly. In fact, a lot of corporate leaders and government officials will probably not be celebrating the arrival of the 21st century with much enthusiasm. Many of them are going to be spending Jan. 1, 2000, sitting in their offices with a steady supply of coffee, if not something stronger, hoping against hope that the cursors blipping on their monitors are not, as some predict, harbingers of a computer-age curse.
Edward Tenner, a Princeton University researcher, describes the year-2000 problem as an example of the "revenge effects" of technology. In his 1996 book Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, Tenner observes that many of our technological solutions to various problems wind up exacerbating those very problems.
The year-2000 phenomenon, Tenner says, certainly fits the revenge-effect category in that it's a consequence of decisions made two and three decades ago to deal with the then very real problem of freeing up data-storage space on punch cards.
However, Tenner says the year-2000 crisis "is not just a very expensive practical problem. It's also a window on the fundamental relationship between humans and technology. It really underscores the human side of technology."
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The New York Times
March 8, 1998, Sunday
HEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
SCHOLL, ROBERT HARGEST
SCHOLL-Robert Hargest. Of Philadelphia, PA., former Director of Public Relations for Standard Oil Company (NJ) died February 9, 1998 at the age of 97. He was born in Jersey City, NJ, graduated from Princeton University in 1922 and Columbia Law School in 1925.
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The New York Times
March 8, 1998, Sunday
HEADLINE: If You're Thinking of Living In/Princeton Borough, N.J.;
A Historic, Prototypical College Town
BYLINE: By JERRY CHESLOW
SURROUNDED by Princeton Township, Princeton Borough is the epitome of a college town. Its downtown grew up north of Nassau Hall, a massive structure with 26-inch-thick brown sandstone walls built in 1756 to house the College of New Jersey, later renamed Princeton University.
The 6,000-student university still occupies the entire area south of Nassau Street and owns about one-third of the borough, with 160 buildings sprawling over a 600-acre campus that spills into the township. The downtown of the 1.73-square-mile borough is comfortable for walking, with wide, tree-lined sidewalks and glittering upscale shops.
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The New York Times
March 8, 1998, Sunday
HEADLINE: ART: Showcasing 7 Photographers From Heyday of Life Magazine
BYLINE: By WILLIAM ZIMMER
DATELINE: KATONAH
IT is tempting to say that the photographs now at the Candace Perich Gallery here make up a motley exhibition. Though the work is all black and white, the content varies widely. But because the pictures were all published in Life magazine in its heyday, from the 1930's through the early 1960's, they make a dynamic fraternity.
Carl Mydans is a Larchmont resident and one of two photographers in this group of seven who are still living. His contributions recall how seriously Life saw its responsibility to chronicle World War II. In his photograph of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's amphibious landing at Luzon in the Philippines in January 1945, the soldiers and their leader stride confidently. The viewer can imagine Mydans before the landing waiting for General MacArthur to turn his head just so, in order that justice could be done to the exaggerated length of his famous pipe.
But Mydans has photographs that show a different mood.
A photograph of a diver at Princeton University in 1962 is in a similar dynamically abstract vein. It shows his body making a pronounced shape, something like an inverted iceberg, when it hits the water.
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The New York Times
March 8, 1998, Sunday
HEADLINE: SPENDING IT/It's How You Play the Game
BYLINE: By PAMELA KRUGER
CONSULTANTS say almost all parents can obtain college financial aid -- if they know how.
"Most aid will not go to those who are the neediest but to those who are the savviest about applying for it," said Kalman Chany, a New York consultant and author of "Paying For College Without Going Broke" (Random House, 1997, $18).
In dispensing aid beyond Federal programs, most colleges still factor in home equity as they evaluate need. But that may be starting to change. Threatened with a loss to less-expensive institutions of students from middle-income families, Princeton University announced in January that it would no longer count as an asset the home equity of students whose families earn less than $90,000 a year.
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The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
March 8, 1998 Sunday
HEADLINE: Program that guards nuclear know-how faces budget cut
BYLINE: JEFF NESMITH, COX NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON -- A tiny government program that has been credited with preventing weapons scientists in the former Soviet Union from selling their knowledge to outlaw countries and terrorist groups faces a 50 percent budget cut.
The Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention is seen by some arms-control experts as the most successful effort so far to prevent a "hemorrhage" of Russian nuclear, chemical and biological weapons know-how. But President Clinton's federal spending plan for next year asks Congress to reduce the program's budget from $30 million this year to $15 million in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.
More than 700,000 scientists and engineers live in the network of once-closed cities where Cold War nuclear, chemical and biological weapons were designed and manufactured. Because of fiscal problems in Russia, these cities face economic chaos, scientists and diplomats have warned.
"If these cities collapse economically, it would lead to a hemorrhage of expertise, technology and materials," said Frank Von Hippel, a Princeton University professor and chairman of the research arm of the Federation of American Scientists.
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PR Newswire
March 8, 1998, Sunday
HEADLINE: Indiana Mathematician Wins 57th Westinghouse Science Competition; $40,000 Scholarship On 17th Birthday
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, March 8
A young mathematician from Indiana who started taking college math courses while in the eighth grade has won the first-place $40,000 scholarship in the prestigious Westinghouse Science Talent Search, the 57-year-old national competition whose previous winners include five Nobel Laureates.
Christopher Colin Mihelich of Carmel, Ind., first in his class at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis, received news of his selection by the competition's panel of eight Ph.D./M.D. judges on his 17th birthday. A junior in high school who will graduate this year, Chris also has perfect scores on the national SAT exams.
The results of this year's Science Talent Search were announced here today at the National Academy of Sciences by Dr. J. Richard Gott, professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University and chairman of the judges.
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The Richmond Times Dispatch
March 8, 1998
HEADLINE: 'HE'S THE CONSUMMATE SOLDIER';
EDUCATION CHIEF TO BE THE ENFORCER
BYLINE: Ruth S. Intress; Times-Dispatch Staff Writer
He's the old man in the Gilmore Cabinet, Wilbert Bryant likes to say of the perspective he brings an administration dominated by 30- amd 40-somethings.
But while he's from "that era" when surnames sufficed - his wife still calls him "Bryant" - age can deceive. For at 57, Bryant only recently abandoned his decades-old routine of running several miles a day, sometimes after pulling off 68 sit-ups, then 68 push-ups, in four minutes flat.
That was standard training, before "the Army got soft," he quips.
As Virginia's secretary of education, Bryant will be old Army in making sure the state's K-12 schools fully enact the tougher academic requirements and testing accountability programs he quietly helped orchestrate as deputy education secretary in the Allen administration.
Punctuating his conversation are proud references to his son, Wil, a California marketing rep with Johnson & Johnson, and his late daughter, Lisa, who was fatally shot trying to escape an attempted rape at Fort Bragg, N.C. That was July 10, 1993, one month after her graduation with honors from Princeton University and her commission as an Army second lieutenant.
Always his talk of "my little Lisa" is in the present tense, a habit he holds tight, just as he still journeys each week to her grave in Arlington National Cemetery where, he notes, she was buried with full honors.
"I haven't been able to let her go," he says softly. "That's my problem. We were so close. My daughter was me."
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St. Petersburg Times
March 8, 1998, Sunday
HEADLINE: Orchestra builder takes his show on the road
BYLINE: JOHN FLEMING
It was around midnight in the Ukrainian seaport of Odessa, and Hobart Earle had just finished meeting with a plumber and carpenter who were working to expand his apartment. The construction project at Earle's apartment has dragged on for nine months, with no end in sight, and late-night confabs have been routine.
"I've lived in this country for six years, and I've done a lot of things, but nothing I've done here could have prepared me for the kind of situations I've encountered in refurbishing this apartment," Earle said in a phone interview last week.
"Construction is a law unto itself in the former Soviet Union. People's sense of deadlines flow with the water in the Black Sea."
The analogy is apt. Earle has been music director of the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra in the port city on the Black Sea since 1992. He is the first U.S. citizen to head an orchestra in the former U.S.S.R.
Earle has a cosmopolitan resume. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela, the son of an American insurance executive father and a church musician mother, from whom he received his early tutelage in music. He attended schools in Great Britain. He majored in music at Princeton University and studied conducting under Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein. In 1987, he founded a chamber music orchestra in Vienna.
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The Dominion (Wellington)
March 7, 1998
HEADLINE: Survey to look at how Kiwis spend their day
BYLINE: COUGHLAN Annie
WHO in New Zealand does not know some salt-of-the-earth person who tends somebody else's elderly relative, whips up a cake for the new neighbour, delivers meals-on-wheels and collects for charity, all before lunch?
Women have long grumbled about having one fulltime paid job and 10 others motivated by love or duty. By 2000 it will be known whether this grievance is justified with $ 2 million and three years being spent finding out just how New Zealanders divide their day.
Statistics NZ will carry out the Time Use Survey and the results will be used to improve social policy advice.
Ms Waring said women had recognised for centuries that their day was filled with both paid and unpaid employment, but when Joann Vanek completed her thesis, Time Spent in Homework and Family, in 1973, it was refused submission by the economics and statistics departments of Princeton University on the grounds that it was sociology.
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The Economist
March 7, 1998, U.S. Edition
HEADLINE: China. The last panto?
BEIJING
MANY people believe China's political institutions are capable of only glacial change. They may be underestimating, among other things, the transforming forces unleashed by East Asia's financial upheavals. In recent months China's leaders have been obliged to question many of their guiding economic principles. The scrutiny will express itself in a more than usually assertive annual gathering of the National People's Congress (NPC), which opens on March 5th.
At the Communist Party's own congress last September, state-led conglomerates, akin to South Korea's giant chaebol, were deemed to be the best corporate model for China's development. The economy was said to be far from needing a boost, and state banks, though weighed down by bad debts, were expected to muddle through.
As the NPC opens, these assumptions are no longer held so firmly.
At the same time, rival centres of institutional power have arisen, of which the NPC is the most notable. Its delegates, once mostly geriatrics, now have an average age of a little over 50 and have taken with gusto to drafting laws. The NPC's permanent professional staff, according to Pei Min-xin of Princeton University, has risen from under 20 in 1978 to over 2,000 today. The NPC, for instance, appears to be playing a big part in drafting bank-reform legislation.
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The New York Times
March 7, 1998, Saturday
HEADLINE: Could the Old South Be Resurrected?;
Cherished Ideas of the Confederacy (Not Slavery) Find New Backers
BYLINE: By PETER APPLEBOME
DATELINE: ATLANTA, March 6
Few things in American intellectual life would seem quite so terminally discredited as the politics and culture of the white, slaveholding, antebellum South.
But more than 130 years after the Civil War, a wildly disparate group of scholars is trying to revive many of the cherished ideas of the Old South, from fringe notions of secession to the potent political issues of states' rights and honor and civility. With the popular Southern bumper sticker, "Don't Blame Us. We Voted for Jefferson Davis," it seems at times as if the Confederacy still lives.
He notes, for example, that the big seller in Confederate memorabilia used to be Robert E. Lee, the most gentlemanly of Southern warriors. Now it is Nathan Bedford Forrest, the slave trader and first imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
And James M. McPherson, the Princeton University Civil War scholar and author of "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era" (Ballantine Books, 1989), said that just because the experience of the Confederacy -- particularly secession -- might have contemporary resonance did not mean that resonance was positive.
"You can find plenty of cases of separatism or ethnic nationalism, but in most cases it has been destructive of people's happiness, law and order and social stability," he said.
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New Scientist
March 7, 1998
HEADLINE: The intraterrestrials
BYLINE: Stephanie Pain
HIGHLIGHT: Deep in the Earth's crust, undreamt-of life forms are scratching a living from little more than barren rock, discovers Stephanie Pain. And if life can survive there, why not inside another planet ?
IF Hell is a deep hole somewhere uncomfortably warm in the Earth's interior, then one thing's certain. There's precious little room for tormented human souls. Most of the space is filled with strange life forms that relish the heat, the crushing pressures and the starvation diet. If you could peel away the planet's surface fuzz, siphon off the oceans and delve far beneath the surface, you would discover an incredible new world: a planet within a planet. This deep, dark biosphere inside the Earth may well contain as much life as the airy, sunlit world on the outside.
"You can probably conclude that bacteria live everywhere that the temperature is less than 100 degrees C, which is a pretty vast part of the crust," says Martin Fisk, a geologist at Oregon State University, who has been looking for life in the glassy basalts beneath the ocean floor. If temperature were the only limiting factor, then the biosphere could extend down between 5 and 10 kilometres. In igneous rocks life is confined to the fractures, with nothing in the solid rock between. But in sediments, life gets everywhere, invading the pores between particles. Some researchers have found as many as 100 million organisms per gram of sediment. After sampling 15 sites in the Atlantic, Pacific and Mediterranean, Parkes and his colleagues calculate that the biomass within ocean sediments down to 500 metres depth is about a tenth that on the surface. "There's an extra 10 per cent of life down there - but that's only to 500 metres. In some places sediment is 15 kilometres deep," says Parkes. Tullis Onstott of Princeton University, New Jersey, goes further. "I calculate that the biomass is of comparable stature to that on the surface, maybe a little bit more," he says.
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The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
March 7, 1998 Saturday
HEADLINE: Canadian firm fuels expansion at Novalon
BYLINE: DAVID RANII, STAFF WRITER
DURHAM -- Novalon Pharmaceutical Corp. is accelerating its research and development efforts thanks to $2 million in venture capital raised from a Canadian fund with a direct link to the Triangle.
GeneChem Technologies Venture Fund's investment in Novalon, a Durham drug-discovery firm, was steered by A.M. Pappas & Associates, a Durham firm named special adviser to the fund last summer. The investment in Novalon is GeneChem's first in a Triangle company.
Fowlkes, a former faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, previously co-founded Cadus Pharmaceutical Corp., a publicly held company based in Tarrytown, N.Y. Novalon's co-founders are: Tom Shenk, chairman of the molecular biology department at Princeton University and a co-founder of Cadus as well; Brian Kay, a former UNC-CH biology professor now at the University of Wisconsin; and D. Joe Smith, a corporate attorney who practices law with Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C.
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The Stuart News/Port St. Lucie News (Stuart,FL)
March 7, 1998, Saturday
HEADLINE: OBITUARIES
John D. Collins Jr.
STUART - John D. Collins Jr., 75, of Stuart died Friday, March 6, 1998, in Martin Memorial Hospital South, Port Salerno.
He graduated from Princeton University in 1944.
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The American Banker
March 6, 1998, Friday
HEADLINE: Banks Race to Prepare Systems For Arrival of the Euro Next Year
BYLINE: By CAROL POWER
The euro is coming, and it is not something that matters only to Europeans.
The single-currency system for the European Union is less than 10 months away. Likely to be the single-biggest political and financial event on that continent in 25 years, it will have ripple effects worldwide and require a wave of technological readjustment in the corporate world, not the least among banks. ...
From next year, the European Central Bank will be operating in the euro and new issues of public debt will be so denominated.
"One of my concerns is that the European Central Bank will not automatically inherit the credibility of the Bundesbank," said Alan Blinder of Princeton University, the former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. "That will be a primary concern of the ECB and likely to lead to tighter monetary policy."
With the European Central Bank "accountable to no national government, it is going to be the most independent central bank in the world," Mr. Blinder said.
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The Baltimore Sun
March 6, 1998, Friday
HEADLINE: 'Rising star' in Md. GOP; Conservative: Many Republicans in the state see in Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. a strong candidate to unseat Democratic Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes. Ehrlich is off and running for 2000.
BYLINE: David Folkenflik, SUN NATIONAL STAFF
WALDORF -- Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. arrived at a hotel banquet room here with an assured grip and an iron stomach to attend yet another Lincoln Day Dinner, replete with Pledge of Allegiance and overdone chicken, to celebrate Republican politics with people he had never met.
And yet the conservative Republican congressman from Baltimore County was beaming. "You see those new developments?" he asked, referring to the suburban growth that has brought more GOP voters to Southern Maryland. "These are my kind of people."
Ehrlich, 40, can use all the people he can get. He is off and running, with 2 1/2 years to spare, for the U.S. Senate seat held by Paul S. Sarbanes, a four-term Democrat. And Ehrlich, who is seeking re-election this year to the House of Representatives, is working hard to win name recognition throughout the state, and to develop rapport with Republicans unfamiliar with him. Ö
Sarbanes and Ehrlich come from working-class families. Both attended Princeton University on scholarships and became lawyers. The similarities end there.
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The Irish Times
March 6, 1998
HEADLINE: Writing as the art of life
Life Sentences: Literary Essays, by Joseph Epstein Norton, 347pp, (pounds) 17.95 in UK
BYLINE: By BILL MAXWELL
In his essay on the enduring quality of V.S. Pritchett, Joseph Epstein says he wrote at a time when to write about literature was still like holding up one's end in an intelligent conversation. Much the same might be said for this latest collection of essays reprinted here from magazines such as the New Yorker and Commentary.
In our time, when writers are often best known for the prizes they win, not even the Nobel can assure immortality. Faulkner and Hemingway each won it; today Faulkner, Epstein believes, is little read for pleasure. Hemingway's novels now seem "slightly ridiculous, the ideas at their centre hollow if not sentimental". Only his short stories retain a strong poetic power. Their contemporary, F. Scott Fitzgerald, was probably the most complete and dedicated artist of the three.
His output hasn't lasted that well, but then he won the lottery with The Great Gatsby; he also enjoyed a certain posthumous fame in that his style and personality influenced a generation of Americans. Many young girls were named Nicole, who had never heard or read of Nicole Driver in Tender is the Night. Even Princeton University has cashed in on his social cachet though he was considered a mediocre student and left without getting a degree.
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The Tampa Tribune
March 6, 1998, Friday
HEADLINE: Joel and Ethan Coen
BYLINE: Bob Ross
Joel gets credit for directing, Ethan for producing. They share screenwriting credits, and they often edit as a team under the pseudonym Roderick Jaynes.
In fact, the Coen brothers are a creative team who share duties, ideas and a weird, warped sense of humor. In 14 years and only eight films - including their new comedy, "The Big Lebowski" (review, Page 5) - they have become quirky, cultish favorites among irreverent movie-lovers.
Ethan earned a degree at Princeton University before joining his big brother in the fun of filmmaking.
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The Washington Post
March 06, 1998, Friday
HEADLINE: Unemployment Chimera
BYLINE: David Card; Alan B. Krueger
Just two years ago, James K. Glassman asserted on this page that a minimum-wage increase would hurt low-wage workers because employers no longer would hire anyone worth less than $5.15 per hour ["Raise the Minimum Wage? No," op-ed, April 9, 1996]. It must have come as a great surprise, then, that since the last minimum-wage increase, the unemployment rate has sunk to its lowest level in a quarter-century, and job growth for restaurant workers, teenagers and especially high school dropouts has been strong.
Of course, it still is too early to evaluate fully the effects of the last minimum-wage increases, and it is possible, as Glassman now suggests ["Don't Raise the Minimum Wage," op-ed, Feb. 24], that job growth would have been even stronger without them. But such a conclusion is also premature; in the five months since the last minimum-wage increase, for example, teenage job growth has exceeded adult job growth.
The only one of these studies Glassman mentions is our own 1994 American Economic Review article, which compared employment growth at fast-food restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania before and after the increase in New Jersey's state minimum wage in 1992.
Our study has been frequently criticized by opponents of the minimum wage. Richard Berman of the Employment Policies Institute (EPI), for example, argued that our data were "worse than flawed" because they were collected from a telephone survey of fast-food managers.
To evaluate the accuracy of our earlier work, our most recent study revisits the New Jersey-Pennsylvania comparison using employer-reported payroll records collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) through the Unemployment Insurance System. Even critics acknowledge that this database is the most comprehensive and accurate one available for studying employment trends.
The BLS fast-food data show the same pattern as our earlier survey data. After New Jersey's minimum wage increased, fast-food employment in the state grew as fast as, and possibly a little faster than, that in neighboring Pennsylvania counties, where the minimum wage was unchanged.
David Card is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Alan B. Krueger is a professor of economics at Princeton University.
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The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
March 5, 1998, Thursday
HEADLINE: Scholar to speak on 'secret words' of Jesus;
Gospel of Thomas, discovered in 1945, offers different view
BYLINE: Gayle White
Religious historian Elaine Pagels, 53, of Princeton University became a major player in religious circles in 1979 with the publication of "The Gnostic Gospels," her exploration of a cache of ancient manuscripts known as the Nag Hammadi Library. They are believed to have been produced and collected by early Christians who lost a theological battle with what became the dominant faction of the church.
Pagels went on to win a coveted MacArthur "genius" grant and write several more books.
Her personal life was shattered in the late 1980s when, within a period of 15 months, her 6-year-old son died and her husband, renowned physicist and human rights activist Heinz Pagels, was killed in a mountain-climbing accident.
Pagels is lecturing at Columbia Theological Seminary today and will give a public speech at 10 a.m. Friday at Agnes Scott College on the Gospel of Thomas, one of the Nag Hammadi texts.
Q: What is this Gospel of Thomas?
A: The Gospel of Thomas was found in Egypt in 1945 by a Bedouin peasant. It's a document that comes from an ancient monastery, the oldest in Egypt. It was put away when a bishop said to get rid of material he thought was threatening.
Q: Who is believed to be its author?
A: The author is alleged to be Judas Thomas. He appears in the Gospel of John and other gospels.
Q: It's called a "secret gospel." Why?
A: It says these are the secret words which Jesus spoke; it's not supposed to be the things Jesus said in public. If you look at Mark 4:34, Mark says Jesus speaks privately to his disciples.
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TheCapital (Annapolis, MD.)
March 05, 1998, Thursday
HEADLINE: Women's lacrosse evolves
BYLINE: By BILL WAGNER , Staff Writer
Women's lacrosse continues to grow and evolve and along with that comes changes.
This season brings several significant changes.
Most notable is the experimen tation with a restraining line. Equally important is an expansion of the playoffs and a change of venue for the Final Four.
After years of lobbying, the NCAA has expanded the Division I women's lacrosse tournament field to 12 teams. Two years ago, only six teams qualified for the playoffs.
"The men have had a 12-team field for years and we've always felt we deserved that many as well," said Princeton coach Chris Sailer, who is president of the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches' Association. "Considering that there are more schools playing women's lacrosse than men's, it was long overdue."
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THE HARTFORD COURANT
March 5, 1998 Thursday
HEADLINE: A CHANCE TO EXAMINE MEDICAL CAREERS
BYLINE: KRISTIN L. NELSON; Courant Correspondent
DATELINE: WALLINGFORD --
Even though her mother tells her it's crazy, Melissa Lorenzo, a junior at Platt High School in Meriden, enjoys watching surgeries on the Learning Channel.
"I'd love to be able to be a surgeon someday, but what do I do, where do I go?" she asked.
Melissa posed her questions to medical students Wednesday during a symposium sponsored by Bristol Myers Squibb Co., a pharmaceutical company in Wallingford. The three-day event, which ends Friday, brings together 35 minority medical students and their mentors. The program is designed to encourage the medical students to pursue careers in biomedical research and in academia.
Filiberto Rodriguez, a graduate of Princeton and the University of Virginia School of Medicine, told the students not to limit themselves. "You guys are good, there's no reason you can't apply to Stanford, Harvard and Princeton."
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M2 PRESSWIRE
March 5, 1998
HEADLINE: THE WHITE HOUSE
Augustine named Principal Officer, Member, Board of Governors, National Red Cross
The President today announced his intent to appoint Norman R. Augustine as Principal Officer and Member of the Board of Governors of the American National Red Cross.
Mr. Norman R. Augustine, of Potomac, Maryland, is Chairman of the Lockheed Martin Corporation in Bethesda, Maryland.
In addition, he is a professor at Princeton University and a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University. He is a former President of the Boy Scouts of America and a former national chairman of the U.S. Savings Bond Campaign.
Mr. Augustine graduated from Princeton University with B.S.E. and M.S.E. degrees in Aeronautical Engineering.
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The New York Times
March 5, 1998, Thursday
NAME: Gregoris Staktopoulos
HEADLINE: Gregoris Staktopoulos, 88; Imprisoned in Death of George Polk, a Reporter in Greece
BYLINE: By ERIC PACE
Gregoris Staktopoulos, a Greek journalist who spent a decade in prison in connection with the murder of George Polk, the distinguished CBS news correspondent, in northern Greece in 1948, died on Saturday while being taken to the Evangelismos Hospital in Athens. He was 88 and had lived in Athens since being released from prison in 1961.
His death was reported on Tuesday by the Athens News Agency and Reuters.
Mr. Polk, a 34-year-old Texan, was slain after going to Salonika in northern Greece to try to talk directly to the leader of the Communist insurgents fighting a civil war with forces of the right-wing Greek Government. His body was found, tied up and with a bullet wound in the back of the head, on the shore of Salonika Bay. The George Polk awards in journalism were named in his memory.
In the book, Ms. Marton contended, drawing on previously classified documents, that Mr. Polk had angered the Greek Government, and that the Government had instigated his slaying. Similarly, Prof. Edmund Keeley of Princeton University maintained in a 1989 book, "The Salonika Bay Murder: Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair," (Books on Demand) that Mr. Polk was the victim of right-wing Greek militants. ..
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 5, 1998, Thursday
HEADLINE: Their film philosophy? Well ... maybe less is more'
BYLINE: Joyce J. Persico; JOYCE J. PERSICO writes for the Newhouse News Service.
Once upon a time, two sons were born three years apart to a pair of Minneapolis college professors. But somewhere in the boys' post-college years, Joel and Ethan Coen became joined at the hip.
This becomes perfectly clear the minute any kind of snooping journalist attempts to separate the filmmaking brothers workwise, philosophically, cinematically or physically.
So, if "Titanic" director James Cameron believes films like his $200 million cash cow prove "bigger is better," where does that leave the Coens, whose "The Big Lebowski" came in on a measly $15 million budget? What's their philosophy? "Autonomy is better?"
"Hmm, I don't have one," Ethan Coen, 40, Princeton University Class of 1979, replies uneasily when asked his philosophy of film. "It's pretty hard to relate philosophy to filmmaking. But there was some debate on the set about the pronunciation of "nihilism.'"
Joel, looking glum in glasses and a ponytail at age 43, suggests, " Everything is less for America."
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The San Francisco Chronicle
MARCH 5, 1998, THURSDAY
HEADLINE: Information Innovator
He invented relational databases to keep his job
BYLINE: Jamie Beckett, Chronicle Staff Writer
All Michael Stonebraker wanted to do was find a research project that would get him tenure at the University of California at Berkeley.
What he did was pioneer an industry.
Stonebraker's project not only earned him tenure, it became the foundation for the relational database, a technology that revolutionized the way information is stored and retrieved.
''It was get tenure or get fired,'' says Stonebraker. ''I was operating out of fear.''
Now 54, the Lafayette resident is chief technology officer at Informix Corp. in Menlo Park. Along with Oracle and Sybase, Informix is one of the three leading Bay Area companies that grew from research Stonebraker and others did in the mid 1970s. Stonebraker is also working on a startup, but says he can't discuss it. Ö
In 1961, he went to Princeton University to study electrical engineering. There was no major in computer science at the time. Princeton didn't even get its first computer until 1963.
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The State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)
March 5, 1998, Tuesday
HEADLINE: Without Kelley, there'd be no Ally
BYLINE: BILL CARTER N.Y. TIMES NEWS SERVICE
DATELINE: HOLLYWOOD
It's Monday in America. It's David Kelley night again on television.
David Kelley night means the phenomenon that is "Ally McBeal." It's the one unquestioned breakout hit of the television season, which turns up to thrill and irritate viewers in about equal numbers on Fox, and "The Practice," the highly regarded legal series on ABC.
Both shows routinely carry the same name under the heading "written by," and the name is that of Kelley, a 40-year-old, ensemble-drama maestro whose reputation for the quantity and quality of his work is edging toward legendary status. Ö
Kelley writes his scripts in longhand on a yellow legal pad, the method he has followed since his unlikely emergence as a script writer in 1983. Back then, he was a young, aggressive lawyer in a 50-person Boston firm called Fine & Ambrogne. The son of a hockey coach, he grew up in Boston and played the game himself. He was captain of the team at Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1979 with a degree in politics. He followed with a law degree at Boston University. Ö
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Business Wire
March 4, 1998, Wednesday
HEADLINE: Third Patent for Flat Panel Displays Awarded
DATELINE: BALA CYNWYD, Pa.
March 4, 1998--
Universal Display Corp. (UDC) is Exclusive Licensee from Princeton University of this High Resolution Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) Technology Universal Display Corp. (NASDAQ:PANL), a developer of flat panel display technology, announced today that its research partner, Princeton University, was awarded U.S. Patent No. 5,721,160 entitled "Multicolor Organic Light Emitting Devices."
UDC has the exclusive worldwide license to this patent.
"This is the third patent to be issued out of the Organic Light Emitter Project between Universal Display Corporation, Princeton University and the University of Southern California in the past 2 months," said Steven V. Abramson, president and chief operating officer of Universal Display Corp.
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The Chattanooga Times
March 4, 1998, Wednesday
HEADLINE: Professor finds paradise in book
BYLINE: By Leigh Anne Monitor, The Chattanooga Times
Dr. James Wilkins liked the new Toni Morrison book, Paradise, so much, he read it twice in one weekend.
Bursting with opinions about the text, this Lee University French professor yearned for a group discussion.
This past weekend, Wilkins got his discussion -- the kind found only in fantasies.
The action started when he hopped on a plane at the Chattanooga Airport. His destination: an awaiting limousine in Newark, N.J.
A day later, he was seated in the President's Library at nearby Princeton University. Oprah Winfrey sat there with him. So did Ms. Morrison, the author who has won the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize for Literature.
Cameras were rolling for a taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Wilkins was in the middle of the action, reeling off his feelings for the book he loved.
For this professor, the dinner experience and the book's title were one in the same: paradise.
"I was a little stunned," Wilkins said. "A little might not be the right word -- I was a lot stunned."
Wilkins made it all happen when he wrote a letter to Oprah, asking if he could discuss the Morrison book on the TV show.
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Financial Times (London)
March 4, 1998, Wednesday
HEADLINE: Pioneering use of economics to answer the big questions
OBITUARY: MANCUR OLSON IMAGINATIVE ECONOMIST WHO APPLIED HIS
SKILLS TO THE WIDER ISSUES IN POLITICS AND SOCIETY:
Mancur Olson, who died on February 19 in College Park, Maryland, was one of the most original and influential economists of his generation.
Delightfully modest, he was among the most imaginative of the economists who applied their skills to wider questions in politics and society.
Olson's special talent, amounting to genius, was to identify questions that were important and fresh and then use rigorous economics to answer them.
His most influential work was his doctorate for Harvard University, subsequently published as The Logic of Collective Action, in 1965. In this youthful work, the ideas and methods of the mature scholar appear fully formed.
Olson was a Rhodes scholar at University College, Oxford, where he was made an honorary fellow in 1989. After Harvard, he taught at Princeton from 1960 to 1967.
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The New York Times
March 4, 1998, Wednesday
HEADLINE: Darcy O'Brien, 59, Author Of Fiction and 'True Crime'
BYLINE: By RICK LYMAN
Darcy O'Brien, who turned a Hollywood childhood into award-winning fiction, taught literature at two universities and became the best-selling author of several "true-crime" books, died on Monday at his home in Tulsa, Okla. He was 59.
The cause was a heart attack, a spokesman for his publisher said.
Mr. O'Brien had won an Edgar Allen Poe Award for nonfiction last year for "Power to Hurt," about a small-town judge in Tennessee accused of using his power to rape, assault and sexually blackmail several women in his community.
He attended Princeton University, was a Fulbright scholar at Cambridge University and earned his master's degree and doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1965, he became a professor of English at Pomona College in Claremont, California, moving in 1978 to the University of Tulsa, where he taught until 1995.
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News Tribune
March 04, 1998, Wednesday
HEADLINE: AUNTIE OMBUDSMAN ;
VICKIE WALLEN SEEMS LIKE A CONCERNED RELATIVE IN HER ROLE AS THE STATE'S FIRST OFFICIAL ADVOCATE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
BYLINE: Kathleen Merryman; The News Tribune
For a lawyer, Vickie Wallen has a very cool office.
There are Seattle Reign and University of Washington women's basketball posters on the wall, and a candy-apple red model Jaguar on the windowsill. At any moment, the Jaguar could crash into one of the piles of papers and reports sprouting out of chairs, carpeting and desk and table tops. It could collide with her Slinky.
It's the office a child might expect from a favorite aunt - the one who goes outside with the kids at family gatherings and shoots hoops better than anyone, the one who listens to troubles and knows exactly what to do about them.
That's exactly what Wallen is - the state's official auntie, appointed by the governor to stand up for children and families.
Wallen, 36, is director of the Office of the Family & Children's Ombudsman - one of six such offices in the nation.
At 18, Wallen was out of Flint and into Princeton University, studying politics and playing basketball. "I was captain of the team my senior year," she said.
If she could not be ombudsman, she said, she'd like to play for the Seattle Reign. She would be the hottest lawyer on the team.
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PR Newswire
March 3, 1998, Tuesday
HEADLINE: Intercardia Signs Merger Agreement for Acquisition of Transcell
DATELINE: RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and LEXINGTON, Mass., March 3
Intercardia, Inc. (Nasdaq: ITRC) today announced that it has entered into a definitive Merger Agreement with Transcell Technologies, Inc. and Interneuron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IPIC) for the previously announced proposed acquisition by Intercardia of Transcell and purchase of related technology rights held by Interneuron. Intercardia will exchange Intercardia common stock with an aggregate market value of approximately $11-12 million for the capital stock of Transcell and will pay Interneuron $3 million in Intercardia common stock in exchange for the related technology rights held by Interneuron. In addition, Intercardia will issue Intercardia stock options to Transcell employees and consultants with a valuation of approximately $3-4 million. The transaction is subject to approval by Transcell's and Intercardia's stockholders. Both Intercardia and Transcell are majority-owned subsidiaries of Interneuron.
At closing, Intercardia and Interneuron will incur charges to operations currently estimated to be up to $8 million as a result of the transaction, and each will incur additional future charges relating to certain stock options issued pursuant to the transaction.
Transcell's research strategy is to discover and develop drugs based on breakthroughs in synthetic carbohydrate chemistry primarily made at Princeton University by founding scientist Prof. Daniel Kahne. This platform technology enables carbohydrate-based combinatorial libraries of compounds to be generated on a solid support for use in drug discovery. In July 1997, Transcell and Interneuron announced an agreement with Merck to discover and commercialize novel antibacterial agents.
ABC NEWS
SHOW: ABC GOOD MORNING AMERICA (7:00 am ET)
MARCH 2, 1998
HEADLINE: COLLEGE BASKETBALL
GUESTS: MIKE LUPICA
BYLINE: CHARLES GIBSON
HIGHLIGHT: MARCH MADNESS BEGINS
CHARLES GIBSON, Host: For college basketball fans, this is really a wonderful time of the year, March madness. College basketball eclipses the pros, captures the nation's imagination. We're coming up to NCAA tournament time, and sports columnist Mike Lupica joins us now with a look at the past week in college basketball, catching up on things in sport. But this is a great time. I want to talk about two teams. I want to talk about the women's team with the best record in the country, and I want to talk about the men's team with the best record in the country.
MIKE LUPICA, Sports Columnist: OK.
CHARLES GIBSON: You know who those are.
MIKE LUPICA: I know one of them is Princeton, and I know the other one's going to come to me very, very quickly. You know, I just -- you know, talking about Princeton, which we're going to do in a minute, just looks like such a suck- up job with the host. But we're going to do it anyway.
CHARLES GIBSON: Well, it is terrific -- it is wonderful to watch true college athletes.
MIKE LUPICA: Yes, I mean, we -- especially with Princeton. And again, I don't want to get ahead of myself, but they show you that "student athlete" does not always have to be an oxymoron. You know, like "independent counsel" or something like that. But of everything that's going on right now, I have to tell you, as excited as I am about the tournament, I think the biggest star and the best team of all is a women's team.
Copyright 1998 The Press Enterprise Co.
THE BUSINESS PRESS/CALIFORNIA
March 2, 1998 Monday
HEADLINE: People on the Move
BYLINE: The Business Press/California
Education
A new Claremont College still in early formation stage, the Keck Graduate Institute, recently named the members of its advisory committee:
John Hopfield, a molecular biology professor at Princeton University
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Business Wire
March 2, 1998, Monday
HEADLINE: Climb Against the Odds, June 1998 Gains New Sponsors with Skywalker Sound and The North Face; Documentary and Benefit CD/Soundtrack Gaining Support in The Industry
DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO
March 2, 1998--The Breast Cancer Fund, a national non-profit organization based in San Francisco, announced earlier this year its second historic mountain climbing expedition of Alaska's Mt. McKinley in June 1998 to raise awareness and funding for breast cancer. The expedition is called Climb Against The Odds(tm) and involves two teams of women, breast cancer survivors and disease free young women from Princeton University who will be climbing to show support for a future free of breast cancer.
While the team begins its climb a group of survivors and supporters, members of the Bike Against The Odds team, will begin a 150 mile bike ride to show their support for the fight to end the breast cancer epidemic.
Copyright 1998 The Time Inc. Magazine Company
People
March 2, 1998
PICKS & PANS
CLONE: THE ROAD TO DOLLY AND THE PATH AHEAD by Gina Kolata
Leaving aside Mary's little one, Dolly has become the most famous lamb in history--and the subject of a fierce religious, ethical and scientific debate. In this passionate and authoritative account, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata picks up the story long before Dolly was cloned from a sheep's udder and born in Scotland on July 5, 1996, and peers well into a murky future.
It was inevitable that Dolly's birth would spawn a round of cloning jokes. (One played off William Blake's famous line "Little lamb, who made thee?" Answer: a significant udder.) But we should not underestimate the power that may be unleashed by this technological and biological breakthrough, Kolata emphasizes, comparing it to Einstein's theory of relativity or the splitting of the atom.
The goal of the Scottish researchers was to develop animals that could produce drugs for human use. But the world soon considered the inevitable question: What about cloning humans? Kolata, who herself seems open-minded about cloning's potential, skillfully turns our attention to the larger question: Is there knowledge that it would be better for us not to have? "Many people wonder," she quotes one Princeton University theologian asking, "if this is a miracle for which we can thank God, or an ominous new way to play God ourselves." (Morrow, $23) -- REBECCA MORRIS
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
March 2, 1998
HEADLINE: IS THE UNIVERSE A CLONE OF ITSELF?
BYLINE: TOM SIEGFRIED, Special from The Dallas Morning News
Forget about cloning sheep or even people. If a new theory is right, nature has put Richard Seed to shame.
He merely wants to clone humans. Nature, it seems, may have already cloned itself.
Princeton University astrophysicist J. Richard Gott III and graduate student Li-Xin Li propose that the universe gave birth to itself during an epoch when time could travel in circles rather than marching steadily into the future.
"Interestingly,"they write,"the laws of physics may allow the universe to be its own mother."
Copyright 1998 Times Publishing Company
St. Petersburg Times
March 2, 1998, Monday
HEADLINE: Jordan's king protected from bad press
BYLINE: SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN
DATELINE: AMMAN, Jordan
It would be hard to find a more popular monarch than Jordan's King Hussein, one of the world's longest-serving heads of state.
Although Jordan still has serious economic problems, the diminutive, British-educated king is credited with improving schools, roads and the overall standard of living in this nation of 4-million. His acts of kindness are legion; he is known to order his limousine stopped so he can buy candy and fruit from young roadside vendors.
So safe and crime-free are most areas of Jordan that gold dealers often leave their shops unlocked while they slip away for lunch.
Popular, too, is Hussein's glamorous, U.S.-born wife, Queen Noor. (A tall blond, she dropped "Lisa" for Noor, the Arabic word for "light.") In a traditionally male-dominated society, this Princeton University architecture major has carved out a valuable niche for herself promoting charities and the betterment of women.
However, Jordanians often are critical of the government itself and have low opinions of many other Arab leaders. Those dual tendencies recently led to heavy-handed restrictions on the press that show Jordan's fledgling democracy has a long way to go.
Copyright 1998 Southeastern Newspapers Corporation
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
March 1, 1998, SUNDAY
HEADLINE: CLONING'S EGGS ARE ALL IN ONE BASKET
BYLINE: Gina Kolata; Gina Kolata is a reporter for The New York Times.
THE shocking notion that someday it might be possible to clone human beings seems to propel ethicists, press pundits and the like into flights of science fantasy. All offer their most provocative scenarios. And so, inevitably, do a few brave scientists.
For the ethicist Dr. Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania, the possibilities include the Dorian Gray scenario, named after Oscar Wilde's story, The Picture of Dorian Gray, whose eponymous hero stays young while the picture of him ages. A child who is a clone would have to look at a parent who is his or her aging identical twin.
Dr. Lee Silver, a developmental biologist at Princeton University, called Solter's idea ''intriguing.'' The idea that women would control a relatively scarce resource and that they would be able to bestow life or death on needy men, ''turns everything upside down,'' he said.
But some women have decidedly less enthusiastic reactions.
Dr. Janice Raymond, a professor of women's studies and medical ethics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, said the scenario is ''much more problematic than positive.'' Ö
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THE HARTFORD COURANT
March 1, 1998 Sunday
HEADLINE: BOAS, HERBERT ALLAN, JR.
BOAS, Herbert Allan, Jr.
Herbert Allan Boas, Jr., 80, of New Canaan, retired marketing executive, passed away suddenly Feb. 21, 1998 at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk. He was born March 2, 1917, the son of Herbert Allan Boas and Marguerite Boas Holcombe. Mr. Boas attended Hotchkiss, Andover and Princeton University.
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The Houston Chronicle
March 01, 1998
HEADLINE: After the long silence, the hype/ Hughes poems on Sylvia Plath make better biography than art
BYLINE: ROBERT PHILLIPS
"BIRTHDAY LETTERS." By Ted Hughes. Farrar Straus Giroux, $20.
WHEN was the last time publication of a poetry collection made the front pages of both the New York Times and the Times of London? When was the last time a book of poems sold out its entire first edition before publication in America and made the New York Times best-seller list? And when was the last time a publisher took out a full-page ad in the New York Times Book Review for poetry? It hasn't happened within my recollection.
But such is the hype behind Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters. The book is being treated as an event because Hughes, the British poet laureate, finally has broken his 35-year silence about the life and suicide of his first wife, the extraordinary American poet Sylvia Plath, who was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
Their marriage has been one of the most notorious in literary history. After Hughes left Plath and their two infant children for another woman, Plath gassed herself in 1963.
Feminists took up the Plath cause and made her a victim of male chauvinism and betrayed womanhood. The name Hughes has been chiseled off the Sylvia Plath Hughes gravemarker several times by vandals. Hughes has been confronted by women carrying banners accusing him of murder. (His image wasn't helped when his second partner also gassed herself and their 2-year-old daughter.)
We have not yet had much response from feminists, since none seems to have been assigned the book to review by newspapers and journals. In an interview, Elaine Showalter, a Princeton University professor, has spoken of Hughes' "deterministic" view of Plath as a woman who was doomed to die because of her obsession with her father, suggesting that there was nothing he could have done to stop her. Showalter strongly disagrees with this view.
Copyright 1998 Goldhirsh Group, Inc.
March, 1998
HEADLINE: STUDENTS AS INVESTMENTS;
Professors Get Their Shares
BYLINE: By Susan Beck; Susan Beck (smbeck£sprynet.com) is a writer based in San Francisco.
WHEN TOMMY WOYCIK enrolled in Alan Carsrud's advanced business-writing class at UCLA's Anderson School, in 1994, the senior lecturer took a special interest in the student. Woycik, who had a degree in computer engineering, had a plan for a networked security system to protect computer equipment from theft. Not only that, he and two friends had already developed a product and formed a corporation, CMS Technologies, to make it.
In class Carsrud helped Woycik refine his business plan -- transforming it from something amateurish into something very professional, Woycik says. The 51-year-old chairman of UCLA's Venture Development Program also urged Woycik and his team to hit the competition circuit. Carsrud coached them and traveled with them to contests, helping the group win first place at UCLA's event, second place at the University of Oregon's, and an honorable mention at the Super Bowl of the competitions -- the University of Texas at Austin's International Moot Corp. contest.
CMS Technologies was off and running by the time Woycik graduated, in June 1995. The next month, the company launched its product, and its customer list soon included the University of Michigan (where Woycik had earned his engineering degree), Princeton University, and General Motors Corp. And Carsrud's enthusiasm for Woycik and his prospects continued. Carsrud joined the board of CMS Technologies and pocketed about $3,000 worth of stock for his director's duties. Woycik says Carsrud repeatedly offered to invest cash in the company, but Woycik declined, explaining that he didn't want to take advantage of the professor's friendship.
Copyright 1998 Times Mirror Company
Los Angeles Times
March 1, 1998, Sunday
HEADLINE: THE HARDER THEY FALL;
DARK TRADE: LOST IN BOXING. BY DONALD MCRAE . MAINSTREAM: 380 PP., $19.95 ;
MORE THAN A CHAMPION: THE STYLE OF MUHAMMAD ALI. BY JAN PHILIPP REEMTSMA . TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY JOHN E. WOODS . ALFRED A. KNOPF: 168 PP., $21
BYLINE: JOYCE CAROL OATES, Joyce Carol Oates, professor of humanities at Princeton University, is the author most recently of the novel "Man Crazy" (Dutton), and an expanded version of "On Boxing" (Ecco Press)
In a fully civilized society, professional boxing would not exist. That it so profitably flourishes in the United States, where purses for highly publicized if unexceptional fights routinely involve millions of dollars, is a testament to both the flawed nature of our society and our dark fascination with this cruelest of sports. These two very different books, both in the way of memoirs by men long involved with boxing, may help to illuminate some of this fascination with what Mike Tyson has eloquently called "the hurt business."
Of the two, Donald McRae's lengthy, ambitious "Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing" is the more engaging and sympathetically rendered. While Jan Philipp Reemtsma is cerebral and analytical in his "More Than a Champion," McRae is emotionally direct; while the German Reemtsma's boxing experience seems, oddly, to be secondhand by way of television, tapes and books, the South African-born McRae, in thrall to a 30-year boxing addiction, has seen countless fights both minor and major in England and the United States, and is on friendly, even intimate, terms with a number of boxers and their associates and families. "Dark Trade" bears comparison with Thomas Hauser's classic "The Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing" (1986)
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
March 1, 1998, Sunday
HEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
WEINRIB, ARNOLD W.
WEINRIB-Arnold W. On February 27, 1998. Of New York City and Saltaire, NY. Graduate of Princeton University Class of 1955. Husband of Mary Ellen Weinrib. Father of Theodore Briggs Weinrib. Ö
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
March 1, 1998, Sunday
HEADLINE: Little Men on Campus /MAGAZINE
BYLINE: By Jeff Coplon; Jeff Coplon writes frequently on sports. He last wrote for the magazine about the Chicago Bulls.On a winter afternoon, as the sun throws long shadows off the Gothic splendor of Princeton University, C. J. Chapman knows he is in for a tough scrimmage at Jadwin Gym. Wiry and light-footed, a prized freshman out of Denver, Chapman is averaging only eight minutes per game on a veteran Princeton basketball team that has only lost once this year. But with Mitch Henderson, the senior guard, resting a cranky ankle, Chapman has swapped his white practice jersey for the black one worn by the starters.
Timing is everything in Princeton's pass-and-cut perpetual-motion offense, and Chapman is lagging half a beat behind. He hesitates on his pass, for just a blink, and the window for a layup or three-point shot slams shut. Worse yet, the reserves -- young men with black-jersey dreams of their own -- swarm him and steal the ball.
The second team "had a steal like that yesterday," the coach, Bill Carmody, calls out in exasperation. "What's the problem?" Two nights before, stale from a 16-day exam break, Princeton had strained to beat the College of New Jersey, a small Division III school. It was Princeton's 13th victory in 14 games, but it was a "horrible, sickening" performance, Carmody told the press.
The coach's predecessor, Pete Carril, once made his charges fly right by sheer force of histrionics. A disheveled genius, Carril had sat front and center at Princeton for longer than most could remember. He created great television; when a game wound tight, Carril would yank on his wispy hair till it spiked. Carmody, by contrast, has not an ounce of theater in him.
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
March 1, 1998, Sunday
HEADLINE: The Little Creepy Crawlers Who Will Eat You In The Night
BYLINE: By Michael Lewis; Michael Lewis is a contributing writer to the Magazine. He is writing a book about Silicon Valley.
There are two parts to this story, and the first, like most things in Silicon Valley, can be dispensed with quickly. It runs something like this: In the 1960's and 70's, the Santa Clara Valley got itself a new name by making silicon chips, personal computers and related goods. The sunshine, the absence of tradition, the willingness of Stanford University to do business with corporations and the presence of a counterculture intent on arming the masses with new technology all made the Valley the place to be for people with a knack for building new machines. Other things being equal, the new will arise where the old simply does not exist.
Soon, enough other things were not at all equal. It turned out that the market for engineers in Silicon Valley did not obey the old economic rules. Each new engineer who migrated into the Valley was not less but more valuable than the one before him. As engineers trickled in, they created even bigger opportunities for even more engineers. The rewards for quitting your job at Bell Labs or I.B.M., packing the wife and kids into the station wagon and driving across country to Paradise grew and grew. A trickle of engineers became a stream; the stream became a river; the river became a torrent.
The man who comes closest to embodying the local idea of success is Jim Clark. Whatever else he is, Jim Clark is always new. He's 53, but when you talk to him, you feel as if you are grappling with a giant young yellow Labrador retriever straining at his leash.
Clark is one of those people who would sit on top of the Silicon Valley social structure, were there a social structure to sit upon. When ambitious people in other parts of the world start thinking that they, too, might like to be successful, they often call up Clark. Most recently, Clark was asked to attend a series of meetings at Princeton University, which was hoping to learn how to create a new-technology boom around itself. After a few hours of listening to them talk about the primacy of pure research, Clark gave up trying to explain. "It can never happen here," he told them. "In my opinion, Princeton is doomed to mediocrity in computer science. You still think the finest thing is to be a physicist or a mathematician. You will never believe that the finest thing to be is an engineer or a computer scientist or anyone who does anything of practical value." And with that, he went back to creating new-technology companies in Silicon Valley.
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
March 1, 1998
HEADLINE: PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW;
Patterns in the Landscape and in the Eye
BYLINE: By BARRY SCHWABSKY
DATELINE: PRINCETON:
PHOTOGRAPHY and the American West have always maintained a sympathetic relationship," writes Toby Jurovics, assistant curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, in the beautifully produced catalogue for "Emmet Gowin: Aerial Photographs," one of the museum's three current photography exhibitions. The exhibitions by Mr. Gowin, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Robert Adams are separate and self-contained, but together they give a remarkable glimpse of transformations in a tradition rooted in the pioneering work of photographers like Timothy O'Sullivan and Carleton Watkins in the 19th century.
It may be significant that Mr. Gowin and Mr. Adams are both Easterners who gravitated toward the Western landscape, while Mr. Cooper is a native of the West Coast who makes his home in Scotland and often uses European sites, although his American stylistic roots are never in doubt. Images like those of Watkins and O'Sullivan have haunted their successors, thanks to the stunned objectivity with which they recorded unfamiliar topography without regard for pictorial convention. If Mr. Gowin and Mr. Adams seem motivated by mourning for a newness that has been irrevocably lost, Mr. Cooper appears determined to search out its equivalent wherever he can find it -- but by means of historical memory, not absolute discovery.
Mr. Gowin, who has taught photography at Princeton since 1973, is studious yet not cool, but rather embracing in his concern; Mr. Adams, a native of Orange now living in Oregon, is ironic, afflicted with Baudelairean spleen; the California-born Mr. Cooper, professor of photography at the Glasgow School of Art, is impassioned but also self-absorbed.
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
March 1, 1998, Sunday
HEADLINE: The World: Good Deficit, Bad Deficit;
The Fear Is Gone, Not the Danger
BYLINE: By PETER PASSELL
YOU'VE heard it before and you'll hear it again: Trade deficits are bad. So the 24 percent jump in America's deficit, to a whopping $10.8 billion in December, and the near-certainty of further increases this year add up to trouble for an otherwise blessed economy.
Or maybe not. While it's tempting to discount the White House's Pollyanna-ish assessment -- Janet Yellen, the President's economic adviser noted that it represented only "a modest increase" in light of rapid growth -- establishment opinion on the new trade figures also ranges from resigned to indifferent.
Arguably the most difficult question is whether the import orgy will have an unhappy ending -- whether the rest of the world will wake up someday and punish the United States for its profligacy. In the 1980's the economist Stephen Marris warned of a "hard landing" in which record-high American deficits would cause foreign investors to lose confidence in the dollar. And in their rush to move their accumulated billions to safer havens, they would trigger a big spike in interest rates and a nasty recession.
It never happened. But after the series of currency crises beginning with Mexico in 1994 and perhaps not ending in Indonesia in 1997, Peter Kenen of Princeton University wonders whether complacency about the hard landing scenario is appropriate. "The only definition of an unsustainable deficit is one that wasn't sustained last week," he said. "The day could come when investors suddenly decided that the yen or the new euro was the only place to be."
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
March 1, 1998
HEADLINE: Jones's Lawyer Likes Underdog Role
BYLINE: By NEIL A. LEWIS
DATELINE: DALLAS
The law offices of Donovan Campbell Jr., the lead attorney for Paula Corbin Jones, consist of a small suite in an isolated high-rise off the Stemmons Freeway here looking out at Texas scrub and Dallas sprawl. It is tidy and, he says, sufficient for the six lawyers in his firm.
It is, nonetheless, a stark contrast to the situation of the lawyers defending President Clinton against Ms. Jones's sexual misconduct suit. Robert S. Bennett, the President's main lawyer in the case, is part of a New York-based firm of nearly 1,200 lawyers, and Mr. Bennett's Washington offices (with its 169 lawyers) have a commanding view of the White House and the capital's grand monuments.
Donovan Campbell Jr. was born in Tyler, Tex., on Nov. 8, 1950. As the son of an Army doctor, he moved around a bit, but essentially has lived his life in Texas.
The most notable exception was his time at Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1972 at the height of the nation's anguish over the war in southeast Asia. Mr. Campbell recalled that during his four-year sojourn in the North, the Princeton campus contained factions of extremists on both sides. He counted himself in the broad middle. "I was not an overt supporter of the war," he said, but was prepared to be drafted after graduation. Instead, he was spared by the lottery and entered law school at the University of Texas.
Copyright 1998 Scottish Daily Record & Sunday Mail Ltd.
Sunday Mail
March 1, 1998, Sunday
HEADLINE: NO MISS IN A KISS
Neurons help you to find your partner's lips in the dark
Scientists have discovered that lips have guidance systems for successful snogging in the dark.
Dr Michael Graziano, a research psychologist at America's Princeton University, said: "Certain neurons act as sensors for each part of your body.
"When an object is placed near an area of the body, the neuron turns on.
" When you are kissing in the dark, your mouth will find your partner's because neurons associated with your lips seek out the lips of your partner."