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Money
Copyright 1998 The Time Inc. Magazine Company
April, 1998HEADLINE: The Trend Is Your Friend:
Technical analysis is often dismissed as witchcraft--but only by those ignorant of its powers to predict the movement of stocks.
BYLINE: James A. AndersonIntel looked great in September. The company had beaten Wall Street's earnings expectations for two straight quarters. Its leadership in chips was undisputed. The stock was trading near its all-time high of $102 a share. But analyst John Murphy saw something else. Studying the charts that clutter his office, Murphy spotted a trend that gave him palpitations. He sent out a bulletin to clients of his Web-based forecasting service warning that Intel seemed headed for trouble. In mid-October, a weak earnings report sent the stock tumbling. It hit $70 in December.
By early January, Murphy's charts were sending a different message: The crisis had passed, and Intel was coming back, Murphy told his clients. Once again, the stock responded. It continued to climb--reaching $94 by late February.
Once derided as hocus-pocus--there are a few technician/astrologers out there (see page A4)--technical analysis is now considered mainstream securities research, used by major brokerage houses and money managers alike.
Not everyone is convinced that those trails lead to profits. Technical analysis, says Burton G. Malkiel, a professor of economics at Princeton University and the author of A Random Walk down Wall Street, "is 95% worthless." (That's an improvement, he concedes, from his old estimate of 100%.) Statisticians have shown that "a stock that's strong last week tends to be strong this week," he says, but he doesn't think latching on to momentum makes for sound investing.
The Village Voice
Copyright 1998 VV Publishing Corporation
March 24, 1998HEADLINE: UNGUIDED TOUR
PROFESSOR HENTOFF
VOICE COLUMNIST Nat Hentoff has been appointed a Ferris professor of journalism at Princeton University for the fall 1998 semester. He will teach one day a week.
THE KANSAS CITY STAR
Copyright 1998 The Kansas City Star Co
March 20, 1998 FridayHEADLINE: Toni Morrison shares Paradise
Shaping language provides great joy, author tells audience.
BYLINE: RASHEEDA CRAYTON, Staff Writer
Author and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison talked Thursday night at the Midland Theatre about her latest novel, Paradise, and about her writing career.
"I do a lot of revising; it's the part I like best," Morrison said after reading a chapter of the book to about 2,700 people at the theater . "It's the crafting and shaping of the language I enjoy most.""Once I started doing it (writing), I never wanted to stop," Morrison said. Morrison's work also includes Beloved, for which she won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize. Morrison has been the Robert F. Goheen professor at Princeton University since 1989.
The New York Times
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March 20, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: Better Pay vs. Job Stability in Wage Debate
BYLINE: By LOUIS UCHITELLE
WASHINGTON -- The Democrats today formally introduced President Clinton's plan to increase the minimum wage, drawing praise from unions but raising concerns even among supporters that the proposed new level, $6.15 an hour, might cost jobs.
With a ceremonial flourish, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the principal Congressional proponent of a higher minimum wage, introduced a bill to raise the minimum by 20 percent. That could be high enough, economists say, so that employers might decide to automate or to hire fewer but more skilled and more expensive workers.
Such an acknowledgment of a potential job loss is central to the debate over whether Congress should raise the minimum wage again, so soon after the last increase, in 1996. In 1996, most labor economists insisted that the higher minimum wage would not cost any jobs. It was an argument that carried the day, and it turned out to be true.
But other economists wonder whether the higher minimum would squeeze some unskilled Americans out of jobs, or make their search for jobs harder and longer. That question came up in the 1970's but has never been resolved. Two labor economists in particular have drawn attention to this concern: Alan Krueger of Princeton University and David Card of the University of California at Berkeley.
They were big advocates of raising the minimum in 1996, and they favor the bill introduced today on the ground that the pluses would faroutweigh the minuses. In a study several years ago centered on Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Mr. Krueger and Mr. Card had found that lifting the minimum, far from causing job loss, actually increased the employment of minimum wage-workers. That study played a featured role in passage of the 1996 bill.
Anchorage Daily News
Copyright 1998 Anchorage Daily News
March 19, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: IT'S PRINCETON FOR PATTERSON; CHUGIAK LINEMAN GOES IVY LEAGUE
BYLINE: Lew Freedman; Daily News Sports Editor
Chugiak High's Roger Patterson, an all-state, all-Cook Inlet Football Conference offensive lineman, has committed to play for Princeton of the Ivy League.
After undergoing two off-season shoulder surgeries and weighing the merits of competing for NCAA Division II Augustana of South Dakota, Patterson, an A student, chose one of the most prestigious schools in America that competes at the I-AA level.
''It just seems like a real classy league,'' said Patterson of the football conference that includes Harvard and Yale.
During a recruiting visit to the New Jersey school, Patterson said he got to touch the Heisman Trophy won by the Tigers' Dick Kazmaier in 1951. The trophy was in Princeton coach Steve Tosches' office.
''That was pretty impressive,'' said Patterson.
The Boston Globe
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March 19, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: Edmund Gullion, 85; was dean of Fletcher School, diplomat
BYLINE: By Tom Long, Globe Staff
Edmund A. Gullion, a former Foreign Service officer who trained a generation of diplomats as dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, died Tuesday night in his home in Winchester. He was 85.
Mr. Gullion was ambassador to the Congo from 1961 to 1964, during turbulent years when a socialist government assumed power and the country became a focal point of Cold War intrigue. In a New York Times story published April 15, 1964, he was described as "the epitome of the foreign office professional. Soft-spoken and articulate, he is a master of gentlemanly discourse," the article said.
He was a native of Lexington, Ky. In 1931, as a high school senior, he won a national oratory contest in Washington, D.C., with his address on "John Marshall and Federal Supremacy." He graduated from Princeton University in 1935.
Business Wire
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March 19, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: Time Warner Nominates John C. Danforth to the Board
DATELINE: NEW YORK
March 19, 1998--John C. Danforth, the former United States Senator and partner with the law firm of Bryan Cave LLP, will be nominated for election to the Time Warner Board of Directors at the company's annual meeting of shareholders in May.
He received his secondary education at St. Louis Country Day School and graduated with honors from Princeton University in 1958.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
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March 19, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES
John N. Boley, 63, Longboat Key, died March 13, 1998.
He was born Feb. 4, 1935, in Williamsport, Pa., and came to Longboat Key a year and a half ago from Wilmette, Ill. He graduated from Princeton University and Yale University and retired from Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago as a corporate lawyer.
The Toronto Star
Copyright 1998 Toronto Star Newspapers, Ltd.
March 19, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: Nationalism Ethnic versus civic nationalism
BYLINE: BY JAMES M. MCPHERSON
Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson has analyzed the U.S. Civil War and drawn comparisons to the ongoing struggle for Quebec independence. McPherson delivered his examination, Is Blood Thicker Than Water? Crises of Nationalism in the Modern World, at the 4th annual Barbara Frum Lecture this week at the University of Toronto. Following are excerpts:
In response to the firing on Fort Sumter in April, 1861 by the army of the newly formed Confederate States of America, President Abraham Lincoln called out the militia to suppress an insurrection. This action forced the Slave States that had not yet seceded to make a choice. Which nation would they support: the United States or the Confederate States? Most citizens of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas did not hesitate; they chose the Confederacy. We must go with "our Southern brothers," declared the Governor of Tennessee. "Blood is thicker than water," echoed a North Carolina newspaper editor.
At the same time, Northern leaders insisted that legitimization of the Confederacy would destroy not merely the Union, but the very foundations on which the American nation had been built. That nation "has been consecrated by the blood of our fathers, by the glories of the past, and by the hopes of the future," said outgoing President James Buchanan. If it could be broken by the will of one state or several, the great experiment of republican government launched in 1776 would be proved a failure.
Ethnic nationalism is a concept that is probably easier to grasp. We see it all around us in the world today. It broke up Yugoslavia into Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia, and sparked a violent conflict among these ethnic nations. It shattered the Soviet Union into a bewildering chequerboard of ethnic nations and led to an ugly, vicious conflict in Chechnya. It split Czechoslovakia into two nations. It threatens to do the same to Canada.
A history professor at Princeton University, McPherson won the Pulitzer Prize for The Battle Cry of Freedom. The lecture commemorates the life of CBC journalist Barbara Frum.
The Toronto Sun
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March 19, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: WE'RE BLEEDING RED AND WHITE
BYLINE: LINDA WILLIAMSON
While Americans have distracted the rest of the world with their ongoing presidential soap opera, Canadians have weathered a crisis of passion of their own this week.
Who would have thought a debate over procedure in the House of Commons, of all places, could spark such emotions? Who would have thought we, of all people, could get so worked up over a flag?
At the Sun, we were not surprised by the sentiment, only by its intensity. Readers have inundated us with letters, passionate letters, talking of their deep love for the flag, their disgust for acts of "appeasement" of the "treasonous" Quebec separatists, and warning darkly that this fiasco is one they'll never forget.
On that note, let me introduce another character to this drama: James McPherson, a Princeton University professor who compares Quebec to the South in pre-Civil War America.
According to McPherson, who lectured at U of T on Tuesday and has an essay on the same topic in the March Saturday Night, the nationalism of Quebec separatists is the same "ethnic" nationalism of the South (and parts of the former Yugoslavia) - defined by "language, religion, culture and, most importantly, a belief in the common genetic or biological descent of the group."
On the other hand, the nationalism of the Civil War Yankees, Canadian federalists and countries like Britain and France is "civic" nationalism, he says. "It is the collective identity of a group of people born or living in a shared territory with a shared history; a shared voluntary allegiance to a sovereign government ... and a common loyalty to powerful symbols and myths of nationality."
The Associated Press
March 18, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Cloning debate moves to state legislatures
BYLINE: By JOHN HENDREN, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK -- Drug makers, having blocked anti-cloning legislation in Congress, are now scrambling to do the same with bills that would make human cloning illegal in 24 states.
Two trade groups have launched a state-by-state campaign to combat 50 anti-cloning bills being taken up this year in legislatures from California to Connecticut.
The state bills, which emerged after Chicago physicist Richard Seed pledged in January to clone a human, ended drug makers' celebration over the decision by U.S. Senate leaders to put an anti-cloning bill on hold indefinitely.
Some question the need for restrictions.
"I don't think anyone has really explained why cloning is bad," said Prof. Uwe Reinhardt, a Princeton University health economist. "What is the advantage of playing a lottery where the baby you have may be severely deformed? ... What if you had only perfect babies? Why would such a world be bad?"
The Baltimore Sun
Copyright 1998 The Baltimore Sun Company
March 18, 1998, WednesdayEDUCATION BEAT
HEADLINE: Americans called apathetic to science and technologyNorman Augustine, the former Lockheed Martin chairman and mainstay of the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education, teaches engineering at Princeton University.
In a recent journal article, Augustine writes that apathy about science and technology is "almost considered a badge of honor" by Americans. Too often, he writes, the achievements of scientists and engineers are taken for granted, while their occasional failures are subjected to intense public criticism.
He suggests that more people be exposed to "rocket science for beginners" and that scientists learn how to communicate with nonscientists.
By the way, Augustine was instrumental in the state's development of the MSPAP tests, the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program.
M2 PRESSWIRE
Copyright 1998 M2 Communications Ltd.
March 18, 1998HEADLINE: YALE UNIVERSITY
Art historian Mary Miller appointed to Endowed Chair honoring Vincent Scully at Yale
DATELINE: New Haven, Conn.
Mary Ellen Miller, an expert on the art of Mesoamerica, has been named the first Vincent J. Scully Professor of the History of Art by vote of the Yale Corporation.
The new chair was established in January in honor of Vincent J. Scully Jr., the longtime Yale faculty member who is Sterling Professor Emeritus and lecturer in the history of art. The professorship was established by Archimedes Associates, a group of Yale alumni who formed an innovative investment fund in 1968 with the goal of endowing a chair at their alma mater.
Miller holds an A.B. from Princeton University and three Yale degrees - M.A. (1978), M. Phil. (1980) and Ph.D. (1981).
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 18, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Be It Wharton or Darla Moore, Not for Nothing Is a B-School So Named
BYLINE: By LESLIE WAYNE
Darla Moore really does have it all: After growing up on a small South Carolina farm, she goes to Wall Street and becomes a queen of capitalism. She marries a fellow deal maker worth around $1.5 billion and has a career so meteoric that it propels her onto the cover of Fortune magazine, which terms her the "toughest babe" in business.
Now, Ms. Moore, 43, who mixes a soft Southern drawl with cutthroat business instincts, is entering a realm typically reserved for aging captains of industry. She is having a business school named after her.
This month, the University of South Carolina business school will become the Darla Moore School of Business after the woman who made a fortune specializing in bankruptcy financing, including that of Macy's.
Business school deans cringe when they think about the Robert O. Anderson business school at the University of New Mexico. Mr. Anderson, the former chairman of Arco, gave the school about $500,000, and the school, hoping he would give more, named the business school for him. To their dismay, he did not. Still, the business school held a "Robert O. Anderson Appreciation Day" last year, and Howard Smith, the dean, said, "we treasure" the school's relationship with Mr. Anderson.
Then there was Ivan Boesky, who went to prison for insider trading violations and had to withdraw a $1.5 million pledge to Princeton University's religious center.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 18, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Daniel Katz, 94, Professor of Psychology
Daniel Katz, a retired University of Michigan psychology professor who was an expert on organizational psychology, died on Feb. 28. He was 94 and lived in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Professor Katz won the American Psychological Association's Gold Medal Award in 1973, when he retired from his professorship after 26 years at the university. He was active in the Institute for Social Research at the university as well as the psychology department. After 1973 he continued to do work for the institute. He also kept on writing in his field into the 1990's.
From 1928 to 1943, he was on the Princeton University faculty. From 1943 to 1947 he headed the Brooklyn College psychology department. He also worked for the War Department in World War II.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 18, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: TRACK AND FIELD; Shot-Putting's Little Big Man
BYLINE: By MARC BLOOM
DATELINE: BAYONNE, N.J.
On a recent blustery afternoon at Bayonne Park, Kevin DiGiorgio pushed his father's car across the parking lot, sprinted down a field while pulling a sled carrying 300 pounds and raced up a hill with 140 pounds of extra weight on his torso.
These unorthodox, muscle-searing training methods have enabled DiGiorgio, a 17-year-old senior at Bayonne High School, to develop into the nation's leading high school shot-putter.
Kevin eats, eats, eats, but cannot gain weight. The envy of any marathoner or fashion model, he has 5 percent body fat, in stark contrast to his beefy opposition at Princeton University on Feb. 22, when he threw his 67-footer to win the state indoor title. Competing in a dungeon-like arena far below track level, DiGiorgio triumphed by more than 6 feet and drew a big crowd to an event usually contested with anonymity.
The Record
Copyright 1998 Bergen Record Corp
March 18, 1998HEADLINE: WHEN ART AND LIFE PLAY LEAPFROG
BYLINE: BOB IVRY, Staff Writer
Used to be the patient was at least dead before an autopsy was performed.
However, with Friday's opening of "Primary Colors," we find ourselves in the unprecedented position of poking inside a body, the Clinton presidency, that's still alive.
Directed by Mike Nichols, written by Elaine May, and based on Joe Klein's novel, "Primary Colors" stars John Travolta as Jack Stanton, the chubby, libidinous governor of a small Southern state, and Emma Thompson as his Machiavellian wife, Susan. Together the Nineties power couple mounts a scorched-earth campaign for the presidency that includes dodging charges of adultery and surviving the suicide of a close friend and aide.
Sound familiar?
Fred Greenstein, presidential scholar at Princeton University, scoffs at the idea that the film will have an impact on Clinton's presidency.
"The novel was prescient, in that an affair with a young female brings down the president," Greenstein says. "It was a cruel but very persuasive view of Bill Clinton. But it's only a movie."
The Toronto Star
Copyright 1998 Toronto Star Newspapers, Ltd.
March 18, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Quebec compared to Civil War-era U.S. Historian says 'rival visions' threaten Canada
BYLINE: BY REBECCA BRAGG TORONTO STAR
Motivating factors in Quebec's bid to separate from Canada have strong parallels with "rival visions" of nationalism that sparked the American Civil War, a historian says.
James McPherson, a Civil War expert and history professor at Princeton University, warned that clashes between "ethnic" and "civic" nationalism shattered the Soviet Union, broke up Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia -- and threaten to do the same to Canada.
Delivering the fourth annual Barbara Frum lecture last night to an overflow crowd at the University of Toronto's George Ignatieff Theatre, McPherson began by outlining the political, economic and cultural "story of a large country."
The industrialized North prospered and came to dominate the slave-owning southern states economically, giving rise to "smouldering tensions" and the self-identification of northerners and southerners as separate "races," McPherson said.
"Any resemblance to the history of Canada is more than coincidental," he said to laughter from the audience.
Chicago Tribune
Copyright 1998 Chicago Tribune Company
March 18, 1998 WednesdayHEADLINE: JOHN N. BOLEY
John N. Boley, 63, a retired law partner at Mayer, Brown & Platt who specialized in financial transactions, died Friday of lung cancer in Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida. A native of Goshen, New York, Mr. Boley graduated from Princeton University and Yale Law School.
Asbury Park Press
Copyright 1998 Asbury Park Press, Inc. (Neptune, N.J.)
March 17, 1998, TuesdayEDITORIAL
HEADLINE: Of hoops and dreams; Court hopes soar (Valparaiso) and crash (Princeton)
THE NCAA college basketball tournament is not just about hoops. It's about hopes and dreams and, at times, bitter disappointment. It's about small colleges like Valparaiso rising up to defeat teams from schools 10 times its size in the men's competition. It's about unsung Harvard defeating a top-seeded team on the women's side.
And it's about the Princeton Tigers -- New Jersey's team in the men's tournament this year -- forgetting how they compiled a magnificent 27-1 record. They shot poorly from long range and the foul line and allowed Michigan State to outdefense them.
"I thought we could have done something pretty special," Princeton center Steve Goodrich said. "The dreams kind of went up in smoke."
The Harvard women were no pushovers with a 22-4 record, but it's a university, like Princeton, that succeeds without athletic scholarships.
The Christian Science Monitor
Copyright 1998 The Christian Science Publishing Society
March 17, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Make Way For Education
BYLINE: Amelia Newcomb, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
BOSTON -- As we launch our new learning section, one fact is clear: The way Americans teach their children is being scrutinized as never before.
President Clinton takes on "why Johnny can't read" (or write or add) in his State of the Union address. In Texas, the chairman of the state board of education wants to replace textbooks - every single one - with laptops. Georgia's governor has suggested giving all newborns in the state Beethoven CDs for their learning (and, OK, listening) pleasure. In communities around the United States, parents are piecing together their own charter schools.
What's going on? Education used to be relegated to the back pages. Now, a whirlwind of school reform commands full attention.
We'll hear each week from educators at all levels about how they teach children to read well and help them prepare for tests. We'll also ask teachers to address some of the criticisms most often leveled at their profession.
Young people will get a chance to sound off as well. Each week in the "On Campus" column, college students will talk about what moves them. This week, a Princeton University senior finds that the library still offers the Internet some competition. Other columnists will tackle student fees and concerns about crime on campus.
The Christian Science Monitor
Copyright 1998 The Christian Science Publishing Society
March 17, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: A Web Surfer's Unthinkable Act: Using the Library
BYLINE: Brett Dakin
BOSTON -- It's amazing how much college students use the Internet these days. My friends and I check our e-mail almost constantly. To get the latest news, I visit a Web site. Even in the classroom, the Web has become king: Professors around the country complain that their students hardly open a book when doing research - they simply check out the Net.
I've always been wary of this obsession with the Web. But a few weeks ago, with only a few hours left in which to write an essay about Confucius' "The Analects" -- a work of ancient thought that has been studied, analyzed, and over which more scholars have fretted than perhaps any other -- I turned to the information superhighway for help.
The Internet means you don't have to step outside to get the information you need - it's right there in your room. You don't even have to talk to anyone! Just a point and a click, and it's all there at your fingertips. Right?
So I entered the key word "Confucius" into Yahoo, the search engine of choice for most students around here. And, boy, did it deliver. On the screen before me appeared the addresses of no fewer than 99,400 sites that included the philosopher's name. Sure, the guy is the most important figure in East Asia's cultural, political, and intellectual traditions. But I mean, really - what do I need with 100,000 sites?
After I'd had my fill of stupid Confucius jokes, I threw up my hands in frustration and did the unthinkable: I walked over to the library, asked the librarian for help, searched the card catalog, found the information I needed - and wrote my paper.
The point of all this is neither new nor particularly profound: The Internet, like other recent advances in information technology, is no panacea for our insatiable desire for quick, accurate information. Often, it's rather a waste of time.
* Brett Dakin, a senior at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., is writing his senior thesis.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Copyright 1998 Deutsche Presse-Agentur
March 17, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Psychological roots of share prices disputed
DATELINE: Weinheim/Hamburg
On the stockmarket floor, apart from economic factors the psychological motives of buyers and dealers play an important role.
While German economic scientists seek the reasons for unexplained share price fluctuations primarily in the market economy, in the United States a new branch of research has developed which brings psychological theories into play. Economist Annette Schaefer explains some of them in the German magazine "Psychologie heute" (Psychology Today).
The stock exchange index, she says, depends not only on market data but above all on how the investor perceives and processes the flood of data. In theory, a rational investor can take in all the relevant data and weigh them up against each other.
According to Schaefer, Daniel Kahnemann of Princeton University and Amos Tversky of Stanford University in the United States have experimented and found a number of factors which stimulate human behaviour. For a start, people are more likely to react to information which coincides with their own ideas.
In contrast, if data contradict a person's own opinion they are given less weighting or even wholly suppressed. That is why a company with a good reputation can permit itself substantially more bad news before share prices are obviously affected than other companies can. As an example, Schaefer cites the prolonged interval before the stock market reacted to IBM's failings.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 17, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Studies Find Brain Grows New Cells
BYLINE: By GINA KOLATA
FOR years, neurobiologists clung to a fundamental truth: once animals, or people, reach adulthood, they may lose brain cells but they can never grow new ones. There were a couple of exceptions -- in birds and rats -- but the thought was that these were peculiarities of nature and not evidence of a general principle.
But now, in experiments that experts call amazing, that dogma has been overturned. Scientists have found that monkeys are constantly making new brain cells in the hippocampus, an area of the brain used for forming long-term memories. Moreover, they report, the production of new cells is squelched when the animals are under extreme stress.
It also means that neurobiologists must re-think their notions of how the brain changes with learning or life experiences. The new study was by Dr. Elizabeth Gould of Princeton University, Dr. Bruce S. McEwen of Rockefeller University in New York and their colleagues.
"It means that there is a new mechanism for changing the organization of the adult brain," said Dr. William Greenough, a psychologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who studies learning and memory in rats.
The hippocampus was particularly intriguing for another reason, Dr. Gould said. Earlier research had shown that when people are under stress, the hippocampus shrinks in size. For example, people with tumors that pour out the stress hormone cortisol have a diminished hippocampus. So do people with recurrent depression and people with postraumatic stress disorder, Dr. Gould said. It might be possible, she reasoned, that monkeys under stress might decrease their production of new brain cells in the hippocampus, making that area of the brain shrink.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 17, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: What Else Lurks Out There? New Census of the Heavens Aims to Find Out
BYLINE: By JAMES GLANZ; James Glanz is a writer at Science magazine.
APACHE POINT, N.M.
PERCHED on a platform that extends like a diving board from this wind-whipped ridge 9,200 feet above sea level, between the foothills of the Sacramento Mountains and the close night sky, the new Sloan Telescope hardly looks imposing.
By astronomical standards, its 100-inch-diameter primary mirror is modest in size, and outside of its small roll-away storage garage, the squat cubelike structure of the telescope seems almost lost standing naked in the night air.
But next month when it is joined to a new camera that now sits, carefully tended, in a "clean room" nearby, the little Sloan will instantly become powerful enough to plunge into the largest and most comprehensive census of the visible universe that has ever been undertaken.
The project here in rugged mountain terrain 80 miles northeast of El Paso is called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. At its heart will sit a dark array of 54 silicon chips, known as "charge-coupled devices," or C.C.D.'s, that will convert the light from huge swaths of the New Mexico night sky into digitized images that can be poured onto magnetic tapes and into computers for study. Built by Dr. James Gunn of Princeton University and his collaborators, the C.C.D. camera will be hoisted into its place behind the Sloan telescope this spring when it makes its first test observation, a moment astronomers call "first light."
Once the problems have been worked out, over the next six years or so, these C.C.D.'s should pour out a cornucopia of data: images in five different colors of 50 million galaxies, 100,000 quasars, millions of individual stars in this galaxy, and a whole menagerie of celestial oddballs. The survey will be used for everything from finding the sources of distant X-ray bursts to catching the glint of asteroids whose orbits cross that of Earth.
The Sloan Survey, by stretching to 1.5 billion light-years, will let cosmologists test whether they truly understand where the structure came from. If it turns out that they do, then according to their computer models, the detailed "strength," or commonness, of galaxy structures of various sizes should reveal how much matter there is in the universe.
"A complete survey of the northern sky should have tremendous cosmological power," said Dr. Jeremiah P. Ostriker, a cosmologist who is provost of Princeton University. "The Sloan Survey will vastly repay the effort put into it."
Omaha World-Herald
Copyright 1998 The Omaha World-Herald Company
March 17, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: 'Morning-After Pill' Updated Emergency Contraceptive Not on Shelves Yet but Is Advertised Information on Emergency Contraceptives
BYLINE: STEPHEN BUTTRY
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
An old drug in new packaging is significantly changing the choices for women fearing pregnancy because of carelessness, accidents or rape.
Advocates say emergency contraceptives, which will be marketed nationally for the first time later this year and already are being advertised in Omaha, could prevent 1 million abortions and 1.3 million unplanned births a year.
Advocates foresee a time when a woman at risk might typically have a packet of the pills in her medicine cabinet to use after an unexpected night of passion, after a condom breaks, when she realizes she forgot to take a couple of birth-control pills or if she is raped.
Critics say the "morning-after pill," however easy it becomes to use, is just an early form of abortion.
Dr. LeRoy Carhart said he has been prescribing emergency contraceptives for about five years at the Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Nebraska in Bellevue.
Carhart and James Trussell, director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, said they expect the emergency contraceptive eventually to be available without a prescription.
"There's absolutely no reason why these things shouldn't be over the counter," Trussell said.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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March 17, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: 'PLAYFUL' IRISH POET PAUL MULDOON SHARES HIS DABBLING TONIGHT
BYLINE: John M. McGuire; Of The Post-Dispatch
"Only a few weeks ago, the sonogram of Jean's womb resembled nothing so much as a satellite map of Ireland: now the image is so well-defined we can make out not only a hand but a thumb; on the road to Spiddal; a woman hitching a ride; a gladiator in his net, passing judgment on the crowd."
-- From "The Sonogram"
This is Paul Muldoon's way of introducing a new member of his family - in this case, his daughter Dorothy Aoife Korelitz Muldoon. She's now 5. His wife, Jean Hanff Korelitz, also a writer, is expecting their second child. And this was Paul Muldoon's way of announcing his daughter's birth, from the final stanza of a poem he called, "The Birth." It's in one of his books of poetry, "The Annals of Chile" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $10), a very tiny part of his body of work.
Muldoon is director of the creative writing program at Princeton University, an undergraduate offering, perhaps the best of its kind in the country. Besides Muldoon, it includes the likes of Joyce Carol Oates, Toni Morrison and Russell Banks.
TULSA WORLD
Copyright 1998 The Tulsa World
March 17, 1998HEADLINE: Russell Chair At OU Set Up Through Gift
BYLINE: Neil Cather
SOURCE: World Correspondent
NORMAN -- The art styles of Charles M. Russell and Georgia O'Keeffe couldn't be more different, but the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents found a common denominator on Monday.
The regents did so by approving the appointment of Peter Hassrick as the Charles M. Russell Chair in Western Art.
Hassrick is founding director of a Santa Fe, N.M., museum which focuses on the work of abstract artist O'Keeffe.
Joining OU's faculty next fall will be Ark Kelman of Brown University, Julia Ehrhardt of Yale University and Benjamin Alpers of Princeton University.
The Washington Post
Copyright 1998 The Washington Post
March 17, 1998, Tuesday, Final EditionHEADLINE: Highly Charged Field Awaits New Md. Regulator
BYLINE: Martha M. Hamilton, Washington Post Staff Writer
"It's an interesting time to be in the middle of the regulatory process," Glenn F. Ivey said last week, in something of an understatement.
Ivey, a top aide to Senate Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle of South Dakota, was chosen last Friday by Maryland Gov. Parris N. Glendening (D) to take over as chairman of Maryland's five-member Public Service Commission.
If confirmed by the state Senate, as expected, Ivey will come on board as Maryland begins to wrestle with how to introduce competition into the retail market for electric power.
Ivey, 37, has a reputation as a sharp intellect and has impressive academic credentials. He is a 1983 graduate of Princeton University and a graduate of Harvard Law School. He has worked as an attorney in private practice with the Baltimore firm Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander.
The Associated Press
March 16, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: Carmody sees bright future despite loss of three starters
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.
Princeton coach Bill Carmody feels his program has a bright future ahead and a great season to reflect upon.
All of which means nothing right now.
"Call me around August and we can talk about it," Carmody said with a laugh on Monday, still smarting from Saturday's 63-56 second-round NCAA tournament loss to Michigan State. "It almost feels worse now than after the game, and not because it's just sinking in. It sunk in with me right away, but it's still down there. It hasn't risen out."
Despite the fact Princeton was a fifth seed from a weak Ivy League and Michigan State was a fourth seed from the powerful Big 10, the Tigers did not feel like an underdog.
"We hadn't shot that bad in 10 games and we were still tied with two minutes to go," Carmody said. "I just think we were a very good team and we should have won that game."
With senior starters Goodrich, Mitch Henderson and James Mastaglio graduating, Brian Earl and Gabe Lewullis return as two of the Tigers top scorers. Guard C.J. Chapman and forwards Mason Rocca, Nate Walton and Phil Belin also saw time this year and will be counted on.
"I think we're going to be good next year," Carmody said. "We have two of our top scorers back and some other guys who I'm confident will do fine. We'll know about recruiting in the next five weeks or so. Who knows how the rest of the league will be? But I don't think you can count us out."
The Boston Globe
Copyright 1998 Globe Newspaper Company
March 16, 1998, Monday, City EditionHEADLINE: Danielle M. Trant, 17; Class president, soccer captain
A funeral Mass will be said today for Danielle M. "Nellie" Trant of Somerville, who died on Wednesday at Somerville Hospital. She was 17.
Miss Trant was a senior at Matignon High School in Cambridge and was also class president. She was a member of the National Honor Society and was captain of the Matignon High School girls' soccer team. She was the 1996 recipient of the Sportsmanship Award for the girls soccer team.
She had been accepted to Princeton University.
Daily News
Copyright 1998 Daily News, L.P. (New York)
March 16, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: ONLY ONE ENDING TO TIGERS' TALE
BYLINE: By BILL FINLEY
Was this season a disappointment?
Patiently, the five Princeton players who mattered and their coach struggled to answer the same question that each wave of reporters had to ask following the loss to Michigan State. They couldn't do it, their judgment too clouded by one of the most bitter defeats these scholar-athletes may ever swallow.
They had done so much since that season-opening victory over Texas, but it ended Saturday on a sour note, a 63-56 loss to Michigan State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament in which Princeton simply played awful. It was exactly what their critics yearned to see, the one occasion when they played liked overblown phonies from the Ivy League. Their much-hyped offensive system broke down amid one ugly shot after another by the same kids who usually play basketball the way Itzhak Perlman plays a violin.
Was this season a disappointment? Let's answer that.
There's no way something so magical and elegant and admirable can ever be a disappointment, no matter how it ends, no matter that it ended way too soon. In time, I hope the players and coaches, who will be licking their wounds for some time, come to appreciate just how special they and this season were.
I have an admission to make: I am a fan, a big fan. A 1979 graduate of Princeton (that's High School, not University) I discovered Tiger basketball decades before most of America woke up last week and realized something special was going on here. I was there when they routed Notre Dame, a team that had five future NBA players, back during the '76-77 season. I suffered through the one-point NCAA Tournament loss to one of those powerful Georgetown teams in 1989. I cheered with delight while they ripped through an undefeated Ivy League season in 1990-91.
But nothing could match this team, for what it accomplished, for what it represented.
International Herald Tribune
Copyright 1998 International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
March 16, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: Michigan State Cages the Tigers To Win, 63-56 ; Princeton's Magical Ride Ends
BYLINE: By Jack Curry; New York Times Service
DATELINE: HARTFORD, Connecticut
There were some moist eyes, some flushed cheeks and some bitter memories scattered throughout a quiet Princeton locker room. The tears will eventually subside, but the memories of this 63-56 defeat to Michigan State will not fade too soon for the Tigers because of the aching way in which it unraveled.
Those memories will linger. Things that people could have easily changed tend to stick.
Princeton's dazzling season ended Saturday in the second round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. The Spartans played an aggressive zone defense that suffocated the Tigers, the precise Tigers mishandled more opportunities in the most crucial game of the season than they usually do in a month, and Mateen Cleaves scorched them for the most devastating 3-pointer of the season and 27 points.
The magical ride is over for the Ivy League wonders, and the Tigers have a lot to remember. And a lot to regret.
Modern Healthcare
Copyright 1998 Crain Communications Inc.
March 16, 1998HEADLINE: HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY GETS CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH:
PREDICTIONS OF ECONOMIC ILLS HAVEN'T BEEN REALIZEDBYLINE: Deanna Bellandi
The doom and gloomers turned out to be wrong.
After a decade or more of dire predictions about the fate of the healthcare industry made by consultants, studies and surveys, the outlook is positively bullish.
Draconian Medicare cuts, ruthless managed-care companies, spiraling medical inflation and a host of other economic ills were supposed to produce an Armageddon for the whole industry, especially hospitals.
''There's plenty of money for everyone,'' says Uwe Reinhardt, a professor of healthcare economics at Princeton University. ''I think the health of the healthcare industry is terrific.''
New year-end economic indicators are emerging that give credence to Reinhardt's optimism. For example: Hospitals saw their aggregate profits jump nearly 25% in 1996 -- according to the American Hospital Association's own figures -- while national healthcare spending rose just 4.4%, the lowest increase since 1960.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 16, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: ON COLLEGE BASKETBALL;
Wait Till Next Year? Not, Sadly, for Princeton
BYLINE: By Jack Curry
The numbing realization enveloped Princeton's players after Michigan State dribbled away the final, awful seconds of the Spartans' 63-56 victory on Saturday. Steve Goodrich put his hands on his knees, bent over and closed his eyes. Mitch Henderson, stone-faced until the end, stared long and hard at the bitter result on the scoreboard. James Mastaglio untucked his uniform jersey for the last time and marched to the locker room, smiling Spartans beside him.
All three senior starters knew it. The coaches knew it. The savvier fans knew it, too. There will not be another Princeton team so complete, so athletic, so precise and so dangerous as the 1997-98 Tigers for a long, long time. I said it, and I believe it. Princeton did not want to publicly admit it, especially in the hours after a stinging loss in the second round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament that should have been another step in a priceless journey, but it is true.
The New York Post
Copyright 1998 N.Y.P. Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
March 16, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: TIGERS FORGOT THEIR 'A' GAME; PRINCETON LAMENTS LOST OPPORTUNITY
BYLINE: MARK CANNIZZARO
Princeton should still be playing basketball.
Princeton should be preparing for a rematch with North Carolina in Thursday's East Regional in Greensboro.
Princeton should be alive and well.
Saturday's 63-56 East Regional second-round loss to Michigan State in Hartford did not leave the Tigers with any sort of a feeling that they accomplished anything very spectacular in the NCAA Tournament.
And unfortunately, despite a 27-2 overall record that included a nation-high 20-game winning streak, the final taste in the Tigers' mouth is that of disappointment, of underachievement, because they expected much more from themselves.
National Public Radio
SHOW: TALK OF THE NATION
MARCH 16, 1998, MONDAYHEADLINE: Kosovo
GUESTS: Audrey Budding; Elizabeth Prodromou
BYLINE: Sylvia Poggioli, Pristina; Tom Gjelten, Washington, D.C.
HIGHLIGHT: The United States is keeping an eye on the province of Kosovo where Serbs have cracked down on ethnic Albanians seeking independence there. The majority Albanian population of Kosovo has taken to the streets to demonstrate against the Serb government, accusing them of terrorism. Concerned that political unrest could spread outside of Serbia, the U.S. is considering providing military aid to neighboring countries. Join Ray Suarez, NPR's Tom Gjelten and guests for a look at the roots of the Kosovo crisis.
SUAREZ: Elizabeth Prodromou is a lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and the author of "Culture and Reconciliation in Southeastern Europe." She joins us from the studios at Princeton. Good to have you with us.
SUAREZ: Elizabeth Prodromou, why, at the time of the dissolution of the European portion of the Ottoman Empire, weren't more Albanians drawn into a state that be -- came to be known as Albania? How did it happen that this line appeared between the country we now see on the map called Albania and this large population of Albanians in Kosovo in Yugoslavia?
PRODROMOU: I think it's important to point out that borders have changed, Ray, not only since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, but subsequently as well. So that as we've seen two major world wars, as well as subsequent localized conflicts, we've seen demographic shifts that haven't left what we would -- what we would call "ethnically pure" states. And I think that's what we're seeing in the case of Kosovo and more generally in the case of Yugoslavia.
And in that sense, Yugoslavia itself is representative of the region as a whole.
SUAREZ: Were there not large Albanian populations living outside of what became Albania in that first post-war period after Versailles?
PRODROMOU: There were, and as you probably know, there are as many Albanians living outside of the current Albanian nation state as there are living within, primarily located in Kosovo and also a large Albanian minority population in the current former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, which complicates the situation even further.
And I think that's part of the concern of the international community and the contact group specifically, mainly that the Kosovo problem is part of the larger so-called "Greater Albanian" problem.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Copyright 1998 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inc.
March 16, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: RALPH JACKSON; LED MILITARY ACADEMY IN ALTON
Ralph Borden Jackson, former president and superintendent of the old Western Military Academy in Alton, died Sunday (March 15, 1998) at his home in Godfrey after a brief illness. He was 80.
From 1952 until his retirement in 1971 when the school closed, Mr. Jackson served as president of Western Military Academy.
A native of the Alton area, Mr. Jackson graduated from the academy in 1935 and attended Princeton University and the University of Chicago. He earned a master's degree from Washington University.
TIME
Copyright 1998 The Time Inc. Magazine Company
March 16, 1998HEADLINE: Stardom? They'd Rather Pass;
A former Princeton scrub says the Tigers play the right way, but still want to win
BYLINE: Richard Stengel
I'm not a fan. I never root for one team over another because I generally don't care who wins. But I admit I do feel vindicated by the Princeton University basketball team's 26-and-1 record and its rank of No. 8 in the country. I confess I wouldn't be all that disappointed if the team wins a couple of games in the NCAA championships that start this week. But only because it might teach a lesson to the guys I play pickup basketball with on Tuesday nights.
I was a scrub, a sophomore backup guard, on the last great Princeton squad, the team that won the National Invitational Tournament in 1975. I can't take much credit for the victory, except that I did occasionally force the first team to work up a sweat in practice, and I did absorb my fair share of the coaches' abuse. But the real curse of a Princeton basketball education is that it renders you unfit for pickup games for the rest of your life. No one looks for the open man. No one sees you when you go backdoor. Guys hog the ball and force shots from 30 feet. My inner coach wants to bench all these Michael Jordan wannabes. But it's a lost cause. You see such play everywhere these days. Especially in the NBA.
The current Princeton team plays exactly the way my team did, with a few new wrinkles and some better athletes.
The Union Leader
Copyright 1998 Union Leader Corp. (Manchester, N.H.)
March 16, 1998 MondayHEADLINE: S&J Adds Software to Shipping Line
BYLINE: TOM FAHEY Union Leader Staff
Running one truck back and forth between pickups and deliveries might be easy, but try running 50 or 100 of them around New England and it gets confusing pretty fast.
James P. Daley Jr., president of S&J Transportation Services Inc. in Lee, found a way to use computers to track the comings and goings of his fleet, and now is launching a software program, "Profit Tools for Trucking."
Developed with Brian K. Widell, a Princeton University graduate and software specialist, Profit Tools is meant to help freight brokers, full-trailer load and less-than-trailer load shippers as well as pickup and delivery businesses. The product was three years in the making and runs on client-server networks using Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT and costs $20,000 for five users.
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Copyright 1998 Phoenix Newspapers, Inc.
March 15, 1998 SundayHEADLINE: MEDICAL INFLATION ON RISE AGAIN
BYLINE: By Miles Benson, Newhouse News Service
After several years of good behavior, health care costs are rising again, making experts anxious about the consequences for the economy, wages and anticipated federal budget surpluses.
The new cycle of increases is not expected to reach the double-digit levels seen before 1993, when health care costs abruptly stabilized.
Still, experts say, costs are now being driven up by several factors, including costly technological advances, particularly in pharmaceuticals; rising demand for medical services by aging baby boomers; a backlash against the heavy-handed cost-control practices of managed care programs; and attempts by insurers to recapture profits lost by underpricing benefits in a quest for bigger market shares.
If the Federal Employees Health Benefits program is a bellwether, and many experts believe it is, "then, yeah, health care inflation is coming back," said Uwe Reinhardt, a Princeton University economist who specializes in health care issues.
"That means a lot of hospitals, doctors and nurses will be better off, and health care bureaucrats, and Wall Street; and a lot of workers will have less take-home pay than they would otherwise have," Reinhardt said.
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Copyright 1998 The Atlanta Constitution
March 15, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: SPECIAL REPORT: Who is managing care?
BYLINE: Diane Lore and Andy Miller
Who is managing care? Patients seeking treatment think they too often face increased hassles and hurdles in a system that tries to control costs.
Roger and Sheila Hayes do their health care by the book.
When the Byron, Ga., couple need medical services, they consult a worn handbook she received when she signed up for her health care plan, offered by her employer, the Paper Factory of Wisconsin, a national chain.
Carefully, they thumb through the book to make sure the pediatrician, pharmacist or hospital they intend to use are listed in their managed care plan's network of medical professionals --- and are approved for providing services.
And managed care is not a panacea for the system. Although some problems have been at least temporarily solved --- skyrocketing medical costs have been reined in over the past few years --- others continue to gnaw at the industry. The uninsured, for example, are largely ignored, and their medical bills remain a burden for everyone, from hospitals to taxpayers.
Yet as long as managed care continues to provide health care benefits at a reasonable cost, it appears here to stay.
"We're all going to have to get used to new marching orders," said Uwe Reinhardt, a Princeton University health economist. "Americans were the world's most spoiled children --- we could see any doctor we liked, get any treatment we wanted, and no one worried about the bills.
"But the system has changed, and it's changed for good."
The Boston Globe
Copyright 1998 Globe Newspaper Company
March 15, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Back-door cut: Princeton hurt at leaving too early; NCAA men's basketball
BYLINE: By Bob Ryan, Globe Staff
HARTFORD -- One of the great things about team sport is that, unlike far too many other areas of life, it is decided on that day's merit. You play the game, and when it's over you look to the scoreboard for the definitive answer.
And so as much as many basketball purists among us would have considered bribing the NCAA tournament committee to vault Princeton into the championship game 15 days hence, that was never going to happen. Winning is the only way to advance. There are no style points, only points, period. There is no "presentation" category, only technical merit.
That is why Princeton's glorious season is over, while Michigan State's lives on. Michigan State beat the Jersey scholars, 63-56, yesterday. They beat 'em, fair and square. They outdefended them and they outshot them. They even matched them in back door layups, one to one.
The Buffalo News
Copyright 1998 The Buffalo News
March 15, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: WATCH OUT -- SCIENCE CAN BITE BACK
BYLINE: MIKE VOGEL; News Staff Reporter
Sometimes when science takes a step forward, it takes a step back.
Edward Tenner of Princeton University calls it "the revenge effect," and he warns it should be considered anytime a breakthrough technology is announced.
Science can bite back, Tenner said. Technological advances can have unintended consequences.
"Ingenious solutions to one problem can collectively cause another," he added.
The examples are legion. Take, for example, Legionnaire's disease.
It's spread by a bug that can only prosper in a very limited temperature range -- which turned out to be just the range calculated as the most efficient for hotel and public building heating and air conditioning water-storage systems.
Aha, thought researchers. We can add bactericides to the water to defeat the bugs.
It was only after mysterious tape-drive crashes threatened to disable IBM headquarters computers that it was learned that minute quantities of vaporized tin from the bactericide were screwing up the drive heads.
Daily News
Copyright 1998 Daily News, L.P., New York
March 15, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: A DOLLAR BILL APPRECIATION
BYLINE: BY MIKE LUPICA
IT IS NOT just Knick memories that blindside him at the oddest moments. Sometimes it is the month of March as well. Bill Bradley is in the car in New York City Friday, on his way home to New Jersey. He switches the radio to WFAN to get some scores from the NCAA Tournament and suddenly there are these excited voicesfrom college radio stations that sound like sirens going off, shouting over some moment of high drama at the buzzer.
"When I heard them," Bradley said, "I thought they were replaying great tournament games from the past. And I found myself remembering what it was like to be in the tournament, to be a part of games like that, excitement like that. It was like a switch being turned on. Suddenly I got so emotional, listening to these voices, it surprised me."
Bradley laughed here, at his own expense.
"Then I realized they were doing play-by-play of games that had just finished," he said. "My reverie ended pretty quickly after that. It wasn't 1965 anymore."
But briefly it was. And Bradley's Princeton team was the one everybody was talking about, the one everybody wanted to see. Win or lose. Bill Bradley was not just the star, he was already one of the famous players in college basketball history.
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Copyright 1998 The Dallas Morning News
March 15, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Lawyer is stalwart for conservatism; Dallas attorney for Paula Jones guided by his religious beliefs
BYLINE: Pete Slover, Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News
When Dallas lawyer Donovan Campbell Jr. picketed the gay-themed play Torch Song Trilogy in 1984, another lawyer in town could scarcely believe it.
Marshall Doke Jr. knew Mr. Campbell as more than just a protester: Mr. Doke knew him as a junior partner in his own downtown law firm.
"I called him in, and I said, Donnie, don't you know that I'm president of the Dallas Theater Center?' " recalled Mr. Doke, then the managing partner of Rain, Harrell, Emery, Young & Doke. "He said: Yes. I'm sorry about that, but I believe very strongly in what I'm doing.' "
That ended the discussion, but not Mr. Campbell's involvement in contentious issues. Since October, he and his firm have represented Paula Corbin Jones in her sexual misconduct and civil rights lawsuit against President Clinton.
College Days
At Princeton, there are no fraternities, just "eating clubs," wood-paneled retreats that remained male-only for years after the school started accepting women in 1969.
Mr. Campbell was invited into Tiger Inn, founded in 1890, described by school officials as one of the oldest, most selective and prestigious clubs.
He participated in the Young Life campus ministry, majored in English and wrote his thesis on "The Dual Personality of Mark Twain."
His 1972 senior yearbook photo gives no hint of the anti-war counterculture of the day. Just above a longhair classmate in a denim shirt with epaulets, smiled a close-cropped, cleanshaven "Don" Campbell, natty in a tie and houndstooth sport coat.
The Gazette
Copyright 1998 Southam Inc., Montreal
March 15, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Civil War echoes: Historian calls parallels striking between United States in 1861 and Canada today
BYLINE: ERIC BEAUCHESNE; SOUTHAM NEWS
DATELINE: OTTAWA
In April 1861, troops of the new Confederate States of America opened fire on Union-occupied Fort Sumter, plunging the United States into the bloodiest and most devastating war that the country has ever suffered.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian says he has found "striking parallels" between the road Canada is on today and the one the United States traveled nearly 150 years ago.
If Americans had known the scale and consequences of the Civil War, more would have tried a lot harder to avoid it, says James McPherson, a professor at Princeton University.
"I don't think anybody really expected four years of war that killed at least 620,000 men and left half the country devastated."
The Civil War historian and writer sees a lesson there for Canadians, which he has been invited to deliver Tuesday in the fourth annual Barbara Frum Lecture at the University of Toronto.
In an interview yesterday, McPherson stressed he is not predicting what will happen here, and noted that while there are strong parallels between the two periods and the two countries, there are also some huge differences.
"I lean more toward optimism than pessimism" that Quebec and the rest of Canada will sort out their differences without violence and without separation, he said.
During a crash course in Canadian history after being invited two years ago to deliver the Frum lecture, McPherson said, he was struck by the similarities between the divisions that separate Quebec from the rest of Canada and those that plagued the Northern and Southern U.S. states.
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Copyright 1998 The Hartford Courant Company
March 15, 1998 Sunday, STATEWIDEHEADLINE: THE COLLEGE GAME: STUDENTS AND ATHLETES;
MAKING SMART MOVES; PLAYERS STUDY, WITH SOME HELP
BYLINE: GREG GARBER; Courant Staff Writer
Princeton forward Chris Kilburn-Peterson hasn't gotten much studying done during the NCAA Tournament this week.
But it has nothing to do with basketball. It has everything to do with school. For while the No. 8 Tigers have been playing in Hartford's East Regional, Kilburn-Peterson has been on a field trip.
The mechanical engineering major and five of his classmates have been in Thailand. They designed a quiet-motored vacuum cleaner and are seeking a patent for it overseas.
"It was a pretty hard decision, but I talked it over with some of my teammates and my coaches," said Kilburn-Peterson, who appeared in 10 games during the season. "They are all really supportive about it. If it does well, I guess I'll give them all vacuums."
As you might imagine, making sure its athletes study isn't a major issue for Princeton. Center Steve Goodrich, according to the school's sports information department, got a 1,580 on his Scholastic Aptitude Test (that's out of 1,600), has a 3.5 grade point average and is an Academic All- American.
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Copyright 1998 The Hartford Courant Company
March 15, 1998 SundayHEADLINE: SHOOTING FROM DOWNTOWN
BYLINE: KEN DAVIS; Courant Staff Writer
Good calls
Princeton fans: They wear too much orange, put too much paint on their skin, and look silly in those wigs -- but these fans should be complimented for their style. Instead of booing or leaving early, they stayed to salute the Tigers with a standing ovation at the end of a 27-2 season. And if there was a tear or two rolling down a cheek, there's nothing wrong with that.
Los Angeles Times
Copyright 1998 Times Mirror Company
March 15, 1998, Sunday, Home EditionHEADLINE: ART NOTES
CAA AWARDS: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, a Los Angeles-based art critic and editor of October magazine, is this year's winner of the College Art Assn.'s Frank Jewett Mather Award for art journalism.
Hunter College professor Robert Swain won the Distinguished Teaching of Art Award, while Wen Fong of Princeton University and Barbara Novak of Barnard College and Columbia University shared the Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award.
The Morning Call
Copyright 1998 The Morning Call, Inc., Allentown, Pa.
March 15, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: THE SUPER STUDENTS;
DON'T LOOK FOR SLACKERS AMONG THIS GROUP. FOR A FEW MOTIVATED TEENS, DOING IT;
ALL AND DOING IT WELL IS A WAY OF LIFE
BYLINE: KATHLEEN PARRISH; The Morning Call
Every morning, Jill Schimmel rises by 5 to study two hours before getting ready for school, where she starts her day at Liberty High School with advanced placement English followed by advanced placement calculus.
Then she hops into her 1983 Mercury Zephyr and heads to Moravian College where she spends the next two hours in Civil Liberties and U.S. Constitution class.
She usually grabs lunch at Moravian's student union (frozen yogurt or a meatless hotdog) before returning to Liberty for honors government, where she is portraying the late Chief Justice Earl Warren for an assignment.
Then it's honors classical literature where she is reading Hobbes, followed by advanced placement physics where the class is finishing a chapter on electromagnetic induction.
Schimmel has been accepted at Notre Dame and the Pennsylvania State University, but is waiting to hear from Harvard, Northwestern, Princeton and some other schools before deciding where she'll study international politics and diplomacy.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
March 15, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: 1998 N.C.A.A. TOURNAMENT: SECOND ROUND -- EAST;
Michigan State Brings Princeton's Magical Ride to a Jarring Halt
BYLINE: By JACK CURRY
DATELINE: HARTFORD, March 14
There were some moist eyes, some flushed cheeks and some bitter memories scattered throughout a quiet Princeton locker room. The tears will eventually subside, but the memories of this 63-56 defeat to Michigan State will not fade too soon for the Tigers because of the aching way in which it unraveled. Those memories will linger. Things that people could have easily changed tend to stick.
Princeton's dazzling season ended in the second round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament today in the Hartford Civic Center. The Spartans played an aggressive zone defense that suffocated Princeton, the precise Tigers mishandled more opportunities in the most critical game of the season than they usually do in a month, and Mateen Cleaves scorched them for the most devastating 3-pointer of the season and 27 points.
The magical ride is over for the Ivy League wonders, and the Tigers have a lot to remember. And a lot to regret.
The Palm Beach Post
Copyright 1998 Palm Beach Newspaper, Inc
March 15, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: TOUGH TO SWALLOW
BYLINE: Common Cause
The makers of brand-name pharmaceuticals have long relied on the same prescription to protect the profits of their $90 billion drug industry - large doses of political contributions. Since 1991, the companies that belong to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the trade group for brand-name drugmakers, have given $18.6 million in political contributions, including $8.4 million in soft money donations to the political parties.
With the help of that influence, brand-name drug companies have kept their bottom lines healthy by successfully convincing Congress to let them hold on to their drug patents longer. Brand-name drug companies lose profits when the patents on their most popular drugs expire, permitting generic drug companies to manufacture much cheaper versions of the same medicines, without having to repeat the clinical studies used to develop the brand-name drugs.
The loss of patents can mean billions of dollars to the major drug companies, leading them to fight fiercely to hold on to those patents for as long as possible.
"There should be no mistake that the whole thing is about cash," Princeton University health-care economist Uwe Reinhardt told Newhouse News Service. "If I worked for one of these brand-name companies, I'd do whatever I could to block a product that took cash away from me. That's the name of the game."
The Salt Lake Tribune
Copyright 1998 The Salt Lake Tribune
March 15, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: MASTER COACH; Legendary Carril Brings His Ivy League Knowledge to a Higher Level
BYLINE: PATRICK KINAHAN THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
If he should ever face a new situation in a game, Sacramento Kings Coach Eddie Jordan has no reason to worry.
Pete Carril has been there and coached that.
The legendary Carril has coached basketball about as long as the 42-year-old Jordan has been alive. He has seen it all, from both extremes.
Carril's career has spanned 29 years as coach at Princeton, which does not award athletic scholarships, to two years as an assistant coach in the NBA, where players make about $10,000 a point.
"There's not much difference," said Carril. "All the ones in college that can dribble, pass and shoot are the best. And it's the same" in the NBA.
Carril built a powerhouse in the Ivy League, winning 525 games and 13 conference titles. He had just one losing season and made 11 NCAA Tournament appearances.
Carril's connection with the Kings is through Geoff Petrie, the team's vice president of basketball operations. Petrie, a two-time NBA All-Star, is a 1970 Princeton graduate.
Carril, inducted in the Hall of Fame last September, coached Petrie for three years in college.
He's trying the same thing in the NBA. As with most college coaches who make the jump, Carril has dealt with the "This is the NBA, not Princeton" stuff from the players.
Chicago Tribune
Copyright 1998 Chicago Tribune Company
March 15, 1998 SundayHEADLINE: AS COSTS GO UP, COLLEGES READY TO STRIKE A BARGAIN
BYLINE: By Patrice M. Jones, Tribune Higher Education Writer.
When officials at Princeton University looked at last fall's freshman class, they saw something usual and disturbing: Just 39 percent of the first-year students qualified for financial aid, down from an average of 43 percent in the early 1990s.
While that might look like good news in one sense--the university would have to fork over less money to help students pay its steep $30,000-per-year sticker price--officials instead saw a dark side: The statistic meant that fewer middle- and lower-income students were enrolling at one of the nation's most prestigious universities, possibly shut out by the cost.
In response--and in the first major signal that even the Ivy League is listening to complaints about the high cost of college-- Princeton recently announced that it is pumping millions of additional dollars into financial aid to make the university more affordable.
In a higher education trend that is just beginning to take shape, Stanford and Yale Universities have made similar announcements, marking a shift from a long-standing philosophy at some private universities that seemed to say when it comes to a good education, price has no limit. And it coincides with a push at such colleges to attract a more diverse student body, drawn in many cases from middle- and lower-income families.
The actions also come on the heels of a report by a congressional task force warning that higher education institutions face "an erosion of the public trust" if colleges are not made more affordable.
CNN
March 14, 1998; Saturday 12:24 am
(Also Headline News, 7:20 p.m. March 13, 1998)HEADLINE: Princeton Makes Its Mark in Basketball
BYLINE: Gary Tuchman
HIGHLIGHT: College basketball fans and those with office pools are in the throws of March Madness. The NCAA Basketball Tournament, second round action began this afternoon. One team to watch is Princeton -- a school not known as a basketball powerhouse.
BOBBIE BATTISTA, CNN ANCHOR: College basketball fans and those of you with office pools are in the throws of March Madness. The NCAA Basketball Tournament -- second round action begins this afternoon. One team to watch is Princeton, a school not known as a basketball powerhouse.
The Tigers play Michigan State later today, and CNN's Gary Tuchman reports on all the excitement at Princeton.
GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Yesterday was the last day of classes at Princeton University before the beginning of spring break. But this weekend, there's something other than Florida beaches on the minds of Princetonians.
TUCHMAN: Princeton, a school thought of more for textbooks than textbook plays has the best record of any NCAA Division 1 basketball team in the country and is hoping to become the first ivy league team ever to win a NCAA title. The Tigers made a good start.
The team is lead by a starting center who scored a 1580 out of a perfect 1600 on his SATs. And like all ivy league schools, there is no such thing as an athletic scholarship. The stringent academic requirements for incoming athletes led a former coach to call the school's administrations office, "The Heartbreak Hotel."
MARY CAFFREY, PRINCETON SPOKESWOMAN: Because too many of his good prospects didn't make it through the door here.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE #2: I think they're pretty amazing, they play a really rational game which bores our opponents to death, and do a really good job of it.
TUCHMAN: Spoken like a true intellectual.
Newsday
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March 14, 1998HEADLINE: NCAA TOURNAMENT / FANS FEEL THE HIGH OF TIGERS
BYLINE: By Michael Dobie. STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Hartford - A Roman conqueror once thumped his chest in victory and proclaimed, "Veni, vidi, vici."
The Princeton Tigers are somewhat more circumspect in their pronouncements but no less efficient. They come, they see, they conquer teams and hearts.
Once college basketball's longest-running sideshow, Princeton has moved under the sport's big top to near-universal acclaim. From the autograph-seeking little kids at Wednesday's East Regional open practice imploring the Tigers to dunk (they didn't), to their considerably older companions gobbling up every piece of Princeton merchandise from the official NCAA vendor in the Hartford Civic Center mall (OK, except for a few pairs of those garish orange sweat pants), to the hordes of media from all sorts of foreign outposts (meaning anywhere outside the New York / Philadelphia metro area) - everyone loves the Tigers.
"It seems like everywhere we play, the crowd is pro-Princeton," said Tiger senior and Garden City High School grad James Mastaglio. "If people want to wear our shirts around, that's great. We can sell out our stuff now where maybe we couldn't do that two years ago. Maybe no one would have wanted our stuff then except some smart guy from somewhere."
Chicago Tribune
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March 14, 1998 SaturdayHEADLINE: ADMAN ROBERT FITZHUGH STEINHOFF
BYLINE: By Valerie Q. Carino, Tribune Staff Writer.
Robert Fitzhugh Steinhoff, 77, a former Chicago advertising executive, died Wednesday in Evanston Hospital.
Mr. Steinhoff spent the early part of his career at Needham, Harper and Steers, an advertising agency in Chicago. During the 1960s, he was vice president and general manager of Needham's New York office.
Mr. Steinhoff, a resident of Winnetka for more than 70 years, graduated from Princeton University in 1942 and later served on the Alumni Council Executive Committee. He was president of the Princeton Class of 1942 from 1992 to 1997.
The Columbus Dispatch
Copyright 1998 The Columbus Dispatch
March 13, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: MEDITATIONS IN MINIATURE
BYLINE: Sylvia Brooks, Dispatch Religion Reporter
They were produced to educate and edify the faithful.
Today, hundreds of years later, rarely seen medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts still do that.
Some 500 works -- items such as a Latin Bible from A.D. 1240 and a linen fragment of the Egyptian Book of the Dead -- will be displayed later this month at the Pontifical College Josephinum.
The display, in part a fund-raiser for the college, reflects the art, craftsmanship and faith of earlier times.
Illuminated manuscripts are books written and decorated by hand, usually before the advent of printing. They were written on prepared animal skins called vellum or parchment.
The works for exhibit at the Josephinum are from the collection of Bruce Ferrini, an Akron dealer in rare works and a major private collector.
Ferrini said no one should fear touching such rare documents.
"It is amazing to me that you can handle something from the 4th century B.C. The works have a charm and are tactile. The greatest pleasure you can have is examining one and satisfying your curiosity."
It was Ferrini who helped expose the theft from the Vatican of several leaves of rare artwork. Anthony J. Melnikas, a retired art history professor at Ohio State University, pleaded guilty in 1996 to eight federal counts related to the theft.
Ferrini, one of only six dealers in the world specializing in medieval manuscripts, was asked by Melnikas to help sell the documents.
Their quality was so good Ferrini suspected forgery. He consulted a medieval art historian at Princeton University, who discovered the manuscripts that had contained the leaves had been locked in the Vatican Library for 500 years.
The Vatican Library confirmed the leaves were missing. Melnikas was sentenced to 14 months in prison.
The New York Times
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March 13, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: Sports of The Times; Princeton Adds a New Believer
BYLINE: By GEORGE VECSEY
DATELINE: HARTFORD
THESE guys?
During the layup lines, you could see the surreptitious glances by the players from Las Vegas -- not arrogant, not demeaning, just curious.
Every time they would jog back toward midcourt, they would take a peek at the Princeton players, of whom they had heard fearful warnings about such things as the half-minute weave and the backdoor play.
These guys?
On this cable-happy globe, there should be no secrets, but maybe the Las Vegas players did not believe it could happen to them. They even played patiently for a while, but then they turned their heads one time too many, and Princeton pecked them to death with a 20-point flurry, en route to a 69-57 victory.
So Princeton advances to the second round once again, after beating the University of Catatonia at Los Angeles in 1996, but there were five first-round disappointments during the past decade. But maybe it is still a matter of: these guys?
The New York Post
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March 13, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: PRINCETON PROFS STILL; CAN'T CLIMB OUT OF IVY TOWER
BYLINE: URSULA REEL
PRINCETON - While professor Jerald Podair says the Princeton campus is "abuzz" with conversation about the Tigers in the NCAA Tournament, he admits some of his colleagues on the faculty are "blissfully unaware" of March Madness.
"They're perfectly content not having any idea of the meaning of this," Podair, a history professor, said yesterday, just hours before the Tigers played UNLV at Hartford in the first round of the East Regional.
Podair, a big sports fan, was amused that Princeton starters Gabe Lewullis, Mitch Henderson, Steve Goodrich and Brian Earl all sent him e-mails explaining they'd miss his class this week due to the tournament.
"They certainly didn't need to tell me where they were going," Podair said. "But there are some professors who will scratch their heads and say, what is this "NCAA' thing?
In the student union yesterday, freshman Ian Heavers was walking proof of the school's priorities. The pale and sleepless Rhode Islander watched some early round games on the big-screen TV as he cradled a massive textbook.
"I won't be able to see the game tonight," Heavers said matter-of-factly. "I have an exam scheduled at 7:30."
When asked if any of his classmates pressured the professor for a postponement of the Multi-Variable Calculus mid-term, Heavers looked puzzled at the question.
"People like sports here," he said, unsure if he heard the question right. "I'm a fan, but academics come first."
Sun-Sentinel
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March 13, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: THE HEIGHT OF GUITAR POWER;
FOUR TOP MUSICIANS WILL EXPLORE A LOFTY RANGE OF POSSIBILITIES AT THE GUITAR;
SUMMIT.
BYLINE: SEAN PICCOLI; Music Writer
If a "summit," by popular definition, is a worldly exchange of ideas - a meeting of the minds - then the Guitar Summit convening on Sunday at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach lives up to its ambitious-sounding title.
The concert unites four of America's most accomplished guitar players: Stanley Jordan, Sharon Isbin, Herb Ellis and Rory Block. Together, they represent perhaps the greatest touring showcase of talent on guitar since John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia and Al Di Meola played jointly in the '70s and '80s.
"To me, improvisation vs. composition is not a clear distinction," Jordan explained in a July 1996 online chat hosted by InterJazz, a Web site. "For example, even if you improvise a solo in real time, it may have taken you years to be able to do that. And also, most of my best compositions come into my head fully formed and complete. Just like an improvisation."
Jordan graduated from Princeton University with a degree in composition before moving to New York. He is a quiet, thoughtful man who puts a premium on space and balance in his life -- and has sought both by taking long breaks from touring and recording.