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Associated Press
Copyright 1998 Associated Press
April 10, 1998; FridayHEADLINE: James T. Pyle
NEW YORK
James T. Pyle, a leader in developing modern air control systems and the first deputy administrator for the Federal Aviation Agency, died Wednesday of complications from a stroke. He was 84.
Pyle, who learned to fly at Princeton University, became special assistant to the assistant secretary of Navy for air in Washington in 1953. Three years later, he became head of the Civil Liberties Aeronautics Administration and made air safety a priority in the rapidly growing air-travel industry.
The New Republic
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APRIL 13, 1998HEADLINE: Stealing the State
BYLINE: Stephen Kotkin
Stephen Kotkin is director of Russian Studies at Princeton University.HIGHLIGHT: The Soviet collapse and the Russian collapse.
Stealing the State:
Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions
by Steven L. Solnick (Harvard University Press, 337 pp., $49.95)The Political History of Economic Reform in Russia, 1985-1994
by Vladimir Mau (Centre for Research into Communist Economies, 132 pp., L9.95)Privatizing Russia
by Maxim Boycko, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny (MIT Press, 165 pp., $12.50)Kremlin Capitalism: Privatizing the Russian Economy
by Joseph R. Blasi, Maya Kroumova, and Douglas Kruse (Cornell University Press, 249 pp., $16.95)Boris El'tsin: ot rassveta do zakata
Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk
by Aleksandr Korzhakov (Interbuk, 479 pp.)"Let's face it," said George Soros, Anatoly Chubais is "tainted." Chubais is first deputy prime minister of Russia and the former chief of Russia's privatization. Soros has been the great champion of Russia's transition, one of the few individuals to match rhetorical support with financial support, first with philanthropy, now also with investment and with bridge loans to the Russian government. Soros was speaking about Chubais at a symposium at Harvard University on investment in Russia; but to point out, in 1998, that Chubais's reform machinations are tainted is akin to ascending a soapbox and declaiming, with an air of intellectual courage, that most French intellectuals in the 1950s were ... Communists!
For years, as part of Russia's dash to the market, untold billions of dollars' worth of properties have changed hands under Chubais's direction, with Western cheerleading, consultants, and cash. But all of a sudden we are shocked, shocked by "robber-baron capitalism," and someone must be held accountable. The uproar over Chubais's petty greed reflects a certain disappointment over the course of events in Russia. But that disappointment derives from an insufficient grasp of what has transpired.
Amid lamentations over "reforms" stymied by Communist troglodytes, the repudiation of socialism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union seemed to come out of the blue. An institutional loss of confidence turned into a self- fulfilling spiral. "Soviet institutions," explains Steven L. Solnick, "were victimized by the organizational equivalent of a colossal bank run.'"
HIID used part of its usaid funding to "support" the writing of an informative and self-congratulatory book by Shleifer and two other members of the team, Maxim Boycko and Robert Vishny. In that book, they laud privatization as a "rare success story of Russian economic reform," adding that by 1994 it "was largely done." But they themselves acknowledge that the success of privatization "ultimately" will be determined by "the speed and scope of restructuring," and that "the restructuring of industry" has barely " begun." Even with such an admission, their first-principles defense of Russia's privatization would be easier to take had usaid not suspended the Harvard grant in 1997 after allegations that, in violation of university regulations, Shleifer's wife and another consultant's girlfriend made profits in Russian investments using privileged information controlled by hiid.
A more scrupulous assessment of Russian privatization comes from a book based on another hiid-sponsored project. Between 1992 and 1996, Joseph R. Blasi, Maya Kroumova, and Douglas Kruse visited hundreds of companies in almost all regions of the Russian Federation. On average, they write, managers and general directors admitted paying about 40 times less than their companies were worth.
Business Wire
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April 9, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: Universal Display Corp. Appoints Interlink Management Corp. Its Official Representative in Taiwan
DATELINE: BALA CYNWYD, Pa.April 9, 1998--Universal Display Corp. (UDC) (NASDAQ:PANL), a developer of flat panel display technology, announced Thursday that it had appointed Interlink Management Corp. as its Official Representative in Taiwan, to assist it in developing strategic manufacturing relationships for its proprietary Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) technology.
The partners of Interlink Management Corp. have over 20 years of international business experience. For the past four years, Interlink has developed a number of strategic relationships between U.S. companies and companies in East Asia.
"We are focusing on leveraging the American strength in developing innovative transformation technologies with the world class manufacturing expertise of Taiwanese companies. Based on the response of the people we recently visited in Taiwan with Universal Display, we believe there are excellent opportunities for strategic alliances using UDC's proprietary OLED technology that can benefit both countries," said Neil Bush, chairman of Interlink.
UDC has had a strategic research partnership with Princeton University and the University of Southern California (USC) for the Organic Light Emitter Project since 1994. Recently, the partnership was extended through 2002, the Universities became shareholders in UDC, and UDC committed to continue funding the Project for the next five years for applications such as flat panel displays, lasers and light.
International Herald Tribune
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April 9, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: Economists Becoming Academia's Superstars: Columbia's Largesse Lures Harvard's Barro
BYLINE: By Sylvia Nasar; New York Times Service
DATELINE: NEW YORKThe University of Chicago's Sherwin Rosen has been chronicling the ''Economics of Superstars'' since the beginning of the 1980s.
But even he was astounded to learn that Columbia University has just agreed to pay nearly $300,000 a year to lure Robert Barro, one of the most prominent economists in the United States, away from Harvard University.
The kind of six-figure salary that Mr. Barro, 53, will command at Columbia, while perhaps commonplace for economics Ph.Ds on Wall Street and not unheard- of for finance whizzes at major business schools (including Columbia's), is a record-breaker in the market for academic economists who work in more traditional fields like macroeconomics and trade theory.
''At the top schools, there's been a reluctance to play the game, to think that we can score a tremendous coup if we pay a lot for X,'' said Peter Kenen, an economist at Princeton University who was chairman of Columbia's economics department in the 1960s. ''But the pressure to push against salary caps and exceed them is getting stronger and stronger.''
By snaring a superstar like Mr. Barro, Columbia hopes to break back into the top league, where it used to rank alongside Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago. It sees Mr. Barro as a kind of franchise player who can not just pull up the team by his mere presence but also act as a magnet for talented young faculty.
NOTE: This story first appeared in The New York Times on April 8, 1998. The original version mentioned Harvardís attempts to recruit Princeton economists Alan Krueger and Kenneth Rogoff. After this story appeared, Professor Barro was persuaded to remain at Harvard.
The New York Times
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April 9, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: Taking Care of Workers And Business, Too; When Quality Is Key in Health Benefits
BYLINE: By MILT FREUDENHEIM
Four months after multiple-bypass heart surgery, Gordon Kernan, 52, was back at work testing products at the Black & Decker Corporation. But his diabetes grew worse after the operation, so he now monitors his health with the help of a counseling program that his employer helped create.
Every few weeks, Amie Layman, a trained diabetes counselor, calls Mr. Kernan and his wife, Mary, with encouragement and advice on exercise and diet. When one medication caused problems, Ms. Layman suggested seeing a specialist, who quickly switched Mr. Kernan to a different medicine. "If it hadn't been for Amie," Mrs. Kernan said, "I could have lost him."
Faced with a backlash against penny-pinching managed health care, more and more companies like Black & Decker are taking a harder look at that care, often sponsoring programs to help employees and their families cope with chronic maladies.
But experts on health quality, like Mr. Wetzell of the Minneapolis buyers group and Dr. Robert Brooks, director of health policy research at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, Calif., say the employer-sponsored programs cannot by themselves improve the nation's health care. They say quality improvement should be based on wide-ranging national research, probably requiring Government financing.
"We need a massive ongoing search for best practices," agreed Uwe E. Reinhardt, a health care economist at Princeton University. "We have zillions of groups, and each does some little thing really well. But it doesn't add up to anything authoritative."
The New York Times
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April 9, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: A Revered Relic Stolen From France Is Going Home
BYLINE: By RONALD SMOTHERSDATELINE: NEWARK, April 8
For more than 1,200 years the story of young Maxellendis, a seventh-century Frankish noblewoman who preferred the pious life of a Roman Catholic nun to an arranged marriage to a pagan prince, has been part of the local lore in a string of small agricultural towns in northeastern France.
According to the legend, the jilted prince killed Maxellendis for her impertinence and was instantly struck blind. His sight returned three years later after he begged forgiveness at her grave. That miracle spurred her early beatification, and parts of her body -- a bone fragment, a piece of skin -- became venerated relics.
Since its founding in 1635, the Church of St. Martin at Le Cateau, a town of 8,000 in the province of Nord, has cherished a tiny bone fragment from St. Maxellendis. But on Dec. 9, 1996, the ornate 19th-century monstrance, which held the bone pillowed on a red satin liner and set off by a bejeweled brooch, was stolen along with two other gilded monstrances from a glass case suspended six feet above the church floor.
Standing before Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise of Federal District Court, the smuggler, Sebastian Zegrean, 23, pled guilty to one count of making false statements to Customs officials when he attempted in December 1996 to send the three objects to his Reading, Pa., home by Federal Express after, he said, they were stolen by others.
The story of St. Maxellendis, said Anne-Marie Bouche, an assistant professor of medieval history at Princeton University, is a classic of medieval syncretism, when the Roman Catholic Church was trying to bridge the chasm between pagan beliefs and Christian theology. Those stories were to the common people's devotional life what the illuminated scriptures were to the Scholastics, who labored over translations in hundreds of monasteries.
"It's your basic Merovingian era woman's story," said Ms. Bouche, suggesting that it was the folkloric equivalent of today's romance novels. "There weren't many scripts for women's lives for that day. Marriages were arranged and there weren't many alternatives but to run away and become a nun."
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Copyright 1998 The San Diego Union-Tribune
April 9, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: THE GOSPEL TRUTH;
Former soap star finds inspiration in one-man biblical playBYLINE: Cheryl Walker.
Television actor Frank Runyeon's career has taken a dramatic turn -- from soap opera to the gospel.
Runyeon, who is probably best known for at one time playing opposite Meg Ryan on the long-running daytime drama "As the World Turns," is coming to Rancho Bernardo next week for a performance of his biblical play, "Afraid."
"I've been doing television soap operas for 10 years, and it feels as if I've eaten a lot of cotton candy," Runyeon said from a hotel room in Minnesota. "I was looking for something with more nutrition."
A graduate of Princeton University with a degree in religion, the 44-year-old Runyeon also holds a masters with honors from General Theological Seminary in New York City. He decided to go back to the seminary to study ancient Greek in order to translate the Gospel of Mark.
"Afraid," a one-man play written by Runyeon, is about Mark and about Jesus Christ. Most of the words in the play are translations of the word spoken by the evangelist in ancient Rome almost 2,000 years ago. Mark was the first person to record events of Jesus' ministry.
The Baltimore Sun
Copyright 1998 The Baltimore Sun Company
April 8, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES: Joseph A. Robinson, 87, former diplomat
Joseph A. Robinson, a former diplomat, died Saturday of complications from cancer at Genesis Elder Care in Easton. He was 87 and lived in St. Michaels.
The native of Camden, N.J., earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1931. He was an instructor and a Harrison research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania from 1938 to 1939.
After the outbreak of World War II, he was an information officer in the White House. From 1942 to 1945, he was editor and chief war correspondent for the Office of War Information in the Mediterranean.
Dayton Daily News
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April 8, 1998, WednesdaySECTION: EDITORIAL/OPINION
HEADLINE: OLD PLAYS CAN MAKE GAMES NEW AGAINBYLINE: Arnold Rosenfeld
My brother-in-law writes me that he saw a couple of two-handed jump shots in a Princeton University basketball game this season. Also, he says, he saw even a hook shot or three.
I am grateful.
I used to be a big sports fan, but television ruined that. Television has a way of taking over adrenal enterprises - politics, sports, even gossip - and sucking out the fun. Basketball became a case merely of first rushing this way, then that.
Then the same thing happened with pro football. A lot of backwards and forwards by guys you can't remember. People got more interested watching them fight than play.
I have two proposals that might bring back the thrilling and unexpected to both sports. The first is to restore the drop kick to football by encouraging the kicker with four points instead of the three for a normal field goal. There was a day when every kid knew how to drop kick. Most kids now don't even know what a drop kick is.
Los Angeles Times
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April 8, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: VALLEY/VENTURA COUNTY SPORTS
WATER POLOJob search: Rich Corso, Harvard-Westlake's successful water polo coach, left Tuesday night for New Jersey to interview for the men's and women's water polo job at Princeton University.
Corso, a former U.S. Olympic team head coach, has been at Harvard-Westlake for 12 years. He has built the Wolverines' program into the strongest in the region. He earlier coached at UCLA and Yale. He said he decided to interview for the Princeton position after they called him.
"I'm going back there to see what kind of commitment they have for the sport," he said.
National Journal's Congress Daily
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April 8, 1998SECTION: HOUSE RACES
HEADLINE: Freshmen Are Targeted By Dems, GOP In N.J. Races
On the eve of New Jersey's filing deadline, the biggest campaign battles this year appear likely to be fought by the state's three freshman House members. Democratic Reps. Bill Pascrell and Steven Rothman and GOP Rep. Michael Pappas are all expected to draw major general election opponents before the Thursday deadline.
Meanwhile, the DCCC spokeswoman said the seat on her party's "radar screen" belongs to Pappas, who captured his Republican-leaning district in central New Jersey with just 50 percent in 1996. Democrats are optimistic that either of their two candidates - both of whom sought the Democratic nomination two years ago - can win the seat. The June 2 primary pits Princeton University physicist Rush Holt, with local party backing, against Princeton Town Committee member Carl Mayer, who has substantial personal wealth.
The Record
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April 8, 1998HEADLINE: COLUMN: DOWN OUR STREET
RIDGEWOODDr. Earl Wheaton, Coordinator of Medical Affairs and Education at The Valley Hospital, recently received its Distinguished Physician Service Award. He has been a part of the hospital for 24 years and served for two years as president of the medical staff.
A 1950 graduate of Princeton University, Wheaton received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, where he was an associate clinical professor of medicine. He has co-authored several articles and currently writes a column on medical issues for the Ridgewood News.
The Richmond Times Dispatch
Copyright 1998 The Richmond Times Dispatch
April 8, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: SERVICE SET FOR O.J. SANDS, RETIRED BANKER
BYLINE: Jenifer V. Buckman; Times-Dispatch Staff WriterA memorial service for Oliver Jackson Sands Jr., a retired banker and former Henrico County School Board member, will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 815 E. Grace St.
He died Sunday at age 92.
Mr. Sands, who served as vice chairman of the School Board from 1967 to 1971, also had been a financial adviser in the area for decades. A third-generation banker, he was a graduate of St. Christopher's School and earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1927. Two years later, he received a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University.
USA TODAY
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April 8, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Making the grades ETS answers test of time
BYLINE: Mary Beth MarkleinDATELINE: EWING TOWNSHIP, N.J.
The people in Z Building were up until midnight Tuesday, packing up 400,000 test booklets and answer sheets to ship to 4,000 high schools for the May 2 SATs.
Though they labor in relative obscurity, the Z Building folks know how much is riding on their performance: Even one slip-up -- a blank page, a wrong address -- gets noticed when it comes to this test, the high-anxiety rite of passage taken by more than 2 million teen-agers each year.
The SAT is just one reason people love to hate the Educational Testing Service, which makes the test. The nonprofit organization -- which celebrated its 50th anniversary Tuesday night while its Z Building employees were scrambling -- has become a force that cuts across huge segments of society.
Over the years, ETS has seen its share of cheating strategies, from hired impostors taking tests to elaborate time zone schemes. And the obsession with high scores has created a hot market for test-prep courses. Princeton University admissions dean Fred Hargadon worries that kids are tying self-worth to SAT performance. "They know their test scores better than they know their Social Security numbers."
The Washington Post
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April 08, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Harley MacNair Roberts
EconomistHarley MacNair Roberts, 69, a transportation and energy economist who retired in 1996 after about 19 years with the Department of Transportation, died April 5 at the Washington Hospital Center of complications after heart surgery.
Mr. Roberts, who lived in Kensington, was born in Shanghai to American missionary parents. In 1940, he settled in Princeton, N.J., and then served in the Army in 1946 and 1947.
He graduated from Princeton University and received a master's degree in economics from American University.
In the 1950s, he worked for what is now the Agency for International Development with assignments in India, Jordan and South America. Before joining the Transportation Department in the late 1970s, he had been an economics consultant to private firms in the Washington area.
Austin American-Statesman
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April 7, 1998HEADLINE: Success of black athlete perhaps comes at price
BYLINE: JONATHAN TILOVENEW YORK -- For many Americans, sports are one of the brighter spots on the modern racial landscape -- a place of integrated competition, outstanding black achievement and the literal level playing field on which color-blind merit can triumph.
But that does not mean that the meaning of race, and the implications of black athletic success, are not being contested with every play, albeit in ways that neither the play-by-play announcer nor color commentator is usually able or willing to describe.
Just beneath the surface, the level playing field is, in fact, a racial minefield. Consider ex-Dodger Al Campanis or the late sports oddsman Jimmy The Greek'' Snyder, whose careers exploded with their respective musings about supposed black managerial incapacity or inbred athletic superiority.
Come next Tuesday, President Clinton -- along with Olympic gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Georgetown University basketball coach John Thompson and others -- will tread this dangerous terrain in Houston as part of an ESPN town meeting on race and sports.
It is not my experience that blacks are any more obsessed with sports than whites are,'' said Arnold Rampersad, a professor of literature at Princeton University who wrote a biography of Jackie Robinson and co-authored, with Arthur Ashe, that tennis star's memoirs.
Business Wire
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April 7, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Peter Gillette Retires as President of Piper Trust Company
DATELINE: MINNEAPOLISApril 7, 1998--E. Peter Gillette is retiring as president of Piper Trust Company, a subsidiary of Piper Jaffray Companies Inc. (NYSE: PJC). Gillette, 63, has served as president of Piper Trust since June 1995, upon his return from serving in Governor Arne Carlson's Cabinet. Established in 1989, Piper Trust currently manages $1.2 billion of trust assets. As part of the planned merger with U.S. Bancorp expected to close in the current quarter, Piper Trust assets will be merged into Institutional Financial Services and Private Financial Services, subsidiaries of U.S. Bancorp.
He was an original appointee to the Metropolitan Council, a past president of United Way, and a former trustee of Princeton University and Macalester College.
Business Wire
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April 7, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Inventor of The Year Competition Recognizes Inventors For Universal Display Corp.'s Proprietary Stacked Organic Light Emitting Diode Patent
DATELINE: BALA CYNWYD, Pa.
April 7, 1998--Universal Display Corp. (NASDAQ:PANL), a developer of flat panel display technology, announced Tuesday that their research partners, Princeton University's Dr. Stephen R. Forrest, Dr. Paul E. Burrows and the University of Southern California's Dr. Mark E. Thompson have been named 1998 Distinguished Inventors by the Intellectual Property Owners at their 1998 National Inventor of the Year Award ceremony for their work in creating a revolutionary architecture for full-color flat panel displays using light emitting organic materials.
Multicolor Organic Light Emitting Devices, U.S. Patent No. 5,707,745 was issued in January 1998 to Universal Display Corp.'s research partner, Princeton University. UDC has the exclusive worldwide license to this patent.
The patent covers a vertically stacked organic light emitting device (SOLED), which provides for the stacking of color pixels on top of each other rather than the conventional side-by-side architecture used in current televisions and displays, thus providing three times the resolution in the same area.
PR Newswire
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April 7, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: PRAECIS PHARMACEUTICALS Announces Formation of Provid Research Division in New Jersey
DATELINE: CAMBRIDGE, Ma., April 7PRAECIS PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED announced today the formation of a new division for chemistry research and development to be known as Provid Research, and appointed Dr. Gary L. Olson as President. Also named are Dr. Christopher R. Self, Vice-president of Medicinal Chemistry and Dr. Charles M. Cook, Vice-president of Computational Sciences. Dr. Olson will also serve as Senior Vice-president, Chemistry Research and Development for PRAECIS.
Provid Research will extend the capabilities of PRAECIS' technologies to enable evolution of leads discovered by gene- and peptide-based lead discovery into small molecule drug candidates through the methodologies of peptide mimetics, medicinal chemistry, molecular modeling, and computational chemistry. The division will be located in New Jersey, the hub of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, in a location near Rutgers University.
A leading computational chemist in the field of industrial molecular modeling, Dr. Charles Cook joined Provid Research after 15 years with Roche in the Department of Physical Chemistry where he most recently held the position of Research Leader. He has broad expertise in computational methods for drug design, working with many projects at the interface of medicinal and theoretical chemistry as the leader of the molecular modeling group. Dr. Cook received his A.B. degree in Chemistry and Computer Science from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton University.
Wisconsin State Journal
Copyright 1998 by the Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, WI
April 7, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: UW HONORARY DEGREES TO DALAI LAMA, 5 OTHERS
BYLINE: Jennifer A. Galloway Wisconsin State JournalAn area businessman with deep ties to UW-Madison and two Nobel laureates including the Dalai Lama are among the six people who will receive honorary degrees from the university next month.
*Alejandro Portes, professor of sociology at Princeton University. A UW-Madison alumnus, Portes is recognized for his contribution to global immigration patterns. His work focuses on the impact of immigrants on the national economy.
The Boston Globe
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April 6, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: Gospel truths;
Under a scholarly light, 'Frontline' examines Jesus as man, historical symbol;Television Review;
FROM JESUS TO CHRIST;
The First Christians;
On: WGBH-Ch. 2, as part of "Frontline";BYLINE: By Don Aucoin, Globe Staff
Who was Jesus?
For the many millions of Christians who will gather in church Sunday to celebrate his resurrection, faith supplies the answer: Jesus was the son of God.
But the path to that belief 2,000 years ago was not as direct as is commonly believed. The early followers of Jesus differed sharply in their interpretations of his life and message, and the world-transforming phenomenon called Christianity took diverse forms in the years following his crucifixion.
"From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians," a two-part "Frontline" documentary airing tonight and tomorrow at 9 on WGBH-Ch. 2, neither takes for granted Jesus's divinity nor explicitly challenges it. (Although it does challenge certain assumptions about him and has already raised hackles among some evangelists who believe the program downplays the resurrection.)
"But it appears that in between the death of Jesus and the writing of the first Gospel, Mark, that they clearly are telling stories," White says. "They're passing on the tradition of what happened to Jesus, what he stood for, and what he did, orally, by telling it and retelling it."
In a society where paganism and suffering were equally rife, the egalitarianism of the new religion found eager adherents.
"If you think about the gods of the ancient world, and you think about what they looked like, they looked like the emperor and his court," observes Elaine Pagels, professor of religion at Princeton University. "But this religion is saying that every person - man, woman, child, slave, barbarian, no matter who - is made in the image of God, and is therefore of enormous value in the eyes of God.
"Now, in a society that's three-quarter slave, that's an extraordinary message," she adds.
Business Week
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April 6, 1998HEADLINE: GOING GLOBAL: IS IT TIME TO TAKE THE PLUNGE?
BYLINE: Christopher FarrellFor many years, the conventional financial wisdom held that American investors should place 10% to 20% of their portfolios overseas. But over the past year, with the U.S. stock market skyrocketing and many foreign markets blowing up, the maxim doesn't sound very sage-like. Remember the Asian markets' meltdown of last fall or the Latin collapse a few years earlier? Why take the risk of sending your money abroad when there's so much to be made at home?
Despite last year's debacle in the Asian markets, now's not the time to toss aside the advice. That's because it should continue to apply over the long run. A compelling combination of long-term economic fundamentals and short-term market conditions suggests that now is an opportune moment to broaden your investment horizons.
Indeed, Europe's industrial behemoths are restructuring with a vengeance. Mergers and acquisitions are rampant on the Continent. Latin American companies are also slimming down to become more competitive. Even Asia, while still mired in an economic and financial mess, has much going for it -- many world-class companies, a well-educated population, and a disciplined workforce. ''My own view on Asia, rather than throwing up one's hands as investors often do, [is] this is precisely the time that international diversification makes sense,'' says Burton Malkiel, professor offinance at Princeton University and author of Global Bargain Hunting (Simon & Schuster; $25). Notes Campbell Harvey, professor of finance at Duke University, ''The really bad returns in Asia provide investors with an opportunity.''
Business Wire
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April 6, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: San Francisco's Breast Cancer Fund is First Organization to Participate in Investment Services Division Program
DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCOPersonal investments for individuals have taken on a new twist in an innovative brokerage program that rewards the investor's favorite non profit organization. The Breast Cancer Fund (TBCF), a San Francisco-based national non profit group that provides funding for leading edge research into breast cancer, is the first Bay Area organization to work with the ISD program.
Designed especially for non profit organizations around the nation, the Investment Services Division (ISD) of Thomas F. White & Company, Inc., a well-established San Francisco-based brokerage firm, apportions $10 to the investor's favorite non profit group for a routine brokerage transaction.
That successful climb led TBCF to establish its Step Ahead (TM) programs that allow more survivors and supporters to participate in various other physical challenges such as white-water rafting, day mountain peak hikes, snow boarding, biking and tennis tournaments.
In June, Nancy Knoble of Tiburon, CA, one of the women to reach the summit of Aconcagua, will lead a group of breast-cancer survivors and disease-free young women from Princeton University to challenge Mt. McKinley, Alaska's 20,320 foot peak, in Climb against the Odds.(TM)
THE HARTFORD COURANT
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April 6, 1998 MondayHEADLINE: JACK MYLES; BANKER, EDUCATOR
BYLINE: DAN HAAR; Courant Staff WriterJack C. Myles, a banker, economist and educator who had been a leader in the business community and in Coventry politics, died Wednesday. He was 74 and lived in West Hartford.
Dr. Myles had been president of Mechanics Savings bank for several years from 1975 until Parkinson's disease brought about his retirement.
Dr. Myles, a native of Long Island, earned his undergraduate degree at Union College and a master's degree and doctorate from Princeton University. He joined the University of Hartford faculty in 1960 and was named dean in 1966.
The Legal Intelligencer
Copyright 1998 Legal Communications, Ltd.
April 6, 1998 MondayHEADLINE: Kyoto Protocol Treaty Means Business For Attorneys
BYLINE: By Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Special to the LegalAt the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, more than 150 heads of state gathered to address the planet's environmental problems. A central accomplishment of that meeting was the negotiation of a treaty addressing the problem of climate change.
However, even as the ink was drying on that document, the world's leaders were aware that it would be insufficient to successfully address all the serious long-term ramifications of global warming. Thus, they initiated a new set of negotiations, which recently culminated in the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in December 1997 in Kyoto, Japan.The Kyoto Protocol is a breakthrough document. It creates for the first time a set of specific, binding targets for reducing the emission of six different greenhouse gases.
Jeffrey L. Dunoff is an associate professor of Law at Temple University School of Law. He is currently a visiting fellow at the Center of International Studies, at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Medical Industry Today
Copyright 1998 Medical Data International, Inc.
April 6, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: Ousted Oxford Chairman's Severance Pay Suspended
Along with the rest of its problems, OXFORD HEALTH PLANS (Norwalk, CT) now has to contend with insurance regulators delving into--and denouncing--its severance pay to former chairman Stephen F. Wiggins.
At the urging of the New York State Insurance Department and Gov. George Pataki, Oxford agreed to suspend payments to Wiggins from his $9 million compensation package. Wiggins founded the company but was ousted in February.
State officials moved to halt the payments in light of Oxford's spiraling losses and continued financial crises.
A healthcare economist criticized the amount of the severance deal.
"It is a thumb in the eye of the shareholder and it's a bad wart on the face of capitalism," Princeton University economics professor Uwe Reinhardt told the Journal. "It suggests there is an elite group of people who can take from this economy no matter what they do."
However, he doubted the insurance department has the authority to dictate Oxford's severance policy, according to the report.
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
April 6, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: Patents;
Scientists and engineers working for companies and a university are named inventors of the year.BYLINE: By Sabra Chartrand
AFTER having won the race last year to patent a gene thought to predispose women to breast cancer, the scientists responsible were named last week as Inventors of the Year by the Intellectual Property Owners Association.
The association, a nonprofit organization for inventors, researchers and businesses, also bestowed the title of Distinguished Inventors on the Ford Motor Company and Princeton University in its annual tribute to patent holders.
Clearer Images On Display Screens
At Princeton University, five researchers won credit for a patent that improves the resolution of flat-panel display screens while using less space. The researchers -- Stephen Forrest, Paul Burrows, Mark Thompson, Linda Sapochak and Dennis McCarty -- achieved this by vertically stacking red, green and blue pixels, the basic elements for forming images on a screen.
The New York Times
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April 6, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: NEWS SUMMARY
OBITUARIES A21
Dr. John Turkevich
The chemist at Princeton University whose work with chemical catalysts helped pave the way for the commercial production of unleaded gasoline was 91. Dr. Turkevich's work on catalysts led to a wide range of discoveries, like the anticancer drug sis-platinum. A21
The Plain Dealer
Copyright 1998 Plain Dealer Publishing Co.
April 6, 1998 MondayHEADLINE: WEAVE HISTORIC WEB;
OBERLIN PROFESSORS, OTHERS COLLABORATE TO PUT AREA'S RICH HISTORY ONLINEBYLINE: By KAREN HENDERSON; PLAIN DEALER REPORTER
DATELINE: OBERLINGary Kornblith was watching the ease with which his three children worked at the computer when he realized that it was time to look at a new way to teach history.
Kornblith, an Oberlin College history professor, said his wife had brought the computer home when their 13-year-old son was 7 and their twin sons were 3. It was supposed to be set up and ready to go when she took it out of the box.But she encountered a start-up problem.
It was then, he said, that one of the twins stepped in to lend a hand."The 3-year-old said, "You do it like this, mom.' Simon got it up and running and eventually taught himself to read at the computer," Kornblith said.
The speed with which his young children took to the computer convinced Kornblith that using it as an educational tool was a way to bridge the gap between teaching at a college level and in the local schools.
Kornblith, 47, the Webmaster and director of the Oberlin Center for Technologically Enhanced Teaching (OCTET), has a bachelor's degree from Amherst College and a doctorate from Princeton University. His specialty is American history in the 18th and early-19th centuries.
Roll Call
Copyright 1998 Roll Call, Inc.
April 6, 1998HEADLINE: Ex-Rep. Coelho to Lead Dems on Census Board
BYLINE: By John MercurioPresident Clinton plans to name ex-Rep. Tony Coelho (Calif), a former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chief who resigned in 1989 amid an ethics investigation, to lead his fight to use sampling in the 2000 Census, sources said.
Coelho, the former House Majority Whip who served as DCCC chief from 1981 to 1986, would serve as co-chairman of the powerful Census Monitoring Board, which Congress created last year to oversee preparations for the decennial.
Democrats are required to name two other board members.
It was unclear whether Democrats have finalized those selections, but at least two other names have surfaced. They are Marta Tienda, a Princeton University professor who turned down an offer to serve as bureau director in 1994, and Linda Williams, an associate political science professor at the University of Maryland, several sources said.
Sources said Linda Williams is more likely than Tienda to serve on the board.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Copyright 1998 The San Diego Union-Tribune
April 6, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: Governors can do without experience; Political newcomers have often filled high office
BYLINE: Dana Wilkie; COPLEY NEWS SERVICEAn oil company tycoon. A triathlete. An insurance company executive. A developer. A university president. A movie actor.
What do all these people have in common?
Without a shred of experience in elective office, they all went straight from private careers into one of the top public posts in this land -- that of state governor.
During this year's race for California governor, critics will make much of the fact that multimillionaire Al Checchi, a Democratic candidate and former Northwest Airlines executive, can offer Californians no experience in politics or government.
How important is such experience? History and experts suggest that people without it can bring to high office important attributes: A disinterest in policy minutia that lets them focus on long-term goals, appointments unencumbered by political favoritism and a willingness to challenge custom.
Woodrow Wilson's career underscores Hovey's observation that gubernatorial success depends on political "niceties," not the least of which is a willingness to consider others' views.
As a Princeton University president, Wilson was so wedded to his own ideas that he could not persuade others at the school to support his policies. He resigned in 1910 when presented the opportunity to run for New Jersey governor, an office he won. He was elected president two years later.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica reports that Wilson's public life was hampered for the same reasons his university career was:
Idealistic "fervor crippled his ability for effective compromise. He was impatient of partisan opposition. . . . His illusion that the nobility of ideals would suffice to obliterate the stubborn facts of political life took his international policy down the road to bankruptcy."
Austin American-Statesman
Copyright 1998 The Austin American-Statesman
April 5, 1998HEADLINE: What price for life?; Rising fees for human eggs stir fears
BYLINE: Adrienne Knox, Clara HerreraLife may be priceless, but for a female Princeton student with the right genetic background, it may be worth $35,000.
An anonymous couple, through a broker, advertised in the Princeton University student newspaper this year for a young woman willing to sell her ova, offering $35,000 plus expenses for the egg of an attractive, intelligent woman with proven fertility.''
Though an extreme example, the fee reflects the bidding war between private brokers and fertility clinics for women willing to allow healthy eggs to be taken from their ovaries so infertile couples can have a child.
One of New Jersey's leading fertility clinics recently raised its usual $2,500 compensation to egg donors to $5,000 to compete with the increasing number of brokers nationwide.
Austin American-Statesman
Copyright 1998 The Austin American-Statesman
April 5, 1998HEADLINE: Delving into the roots of Christianity; UT professor, other experts
BYLINE: Kim Sue Lia PerkesWas Jesus a lowly peasant or sophisticated city boy?
Did you know the apostles Paul and Peter scrapped about whether only Jews could be a Christians?
Ever wonder when the early Jesus movement split from Judaism?
Well, just kick back, grab a beverage and plop in front of the television.
A group of distinguished scholars led by the University of Texas' L. Michael White explores those questions and more in a four-hour television series. In the process, White and his colleagues show that shows academic discussions on religion don't have to dry out your brain cells or operate on an intellectual plane above the average Joe and Jill.
In fact, according to White, From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians'' is by design a show for the people in the pews.
The two-part Frontline'' PBS series airs at 9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday on KLRU in Austin.
White, professor of classics and director of the religious studies program at UT, is the series' lead consultant and has worked on the project for more than three years.
The idea, said Elaine H. Pagels, professor of religion at Princeton University and an author, is to meet people on their own turf.
Television and other news media is the way that most people become aware of other fields they are not involved in,'' she said. That's how I learn about advances in medical matters.''
The scholars blend the latest archeological finds with other historical evidence and the work of language of scholars, framing the New Testament in the political and social climate of its day.
The Boston Globe
Copyright 1998 Globe Newspaper Company
April 5, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Jones case made its mark; No trial held, but far-reaching rulings
BYLINE: By Brian McGrory, Globe StaffDATELINE: WASHINGTON
It began in late 1993 with a passing reference to a woman named Paula in an obscure conservative monthly magazine called The American Spectator. It ended - perhaps - last week, in a federal judge's stunning decision to dismiss a case that many lawyers thought was too politically volatile to throw out of court.
In between, Paula Jones, the 31-year-old mother with a soft, Arkansas accent and an air of naivete, became President Clinton's most enduring antagonist, more threatening than any political opponent and more ominous than any foreign enemy.
Even though Jones's sexual-harassment case against Clinton was dismissed before trial, her toll on this president specifically and the presidency in general will probably live on for months and even years, according to analysts, operatives, and some White House aides.
Other historians have already begun debating whether Jones will even be remembered over the years.
"I think it will be minuscule," Fred Greenstein, a presidential scholar at Princeton University, said about Jones's long-term impact. "There will be something about bimbo eruption. But I would say that's about all."
But Greenstein added: "I'm sure it's affected his presidency. It's hard to know how much. His performance has been scattered. People will remember him as an interesting reciprocal of Jimmy Carter, who people thought of as a virtuous human being and a lousy president."
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Copyright 1998 The Cincinnati Enquirer
April 5, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: TELEVISION
'Christ' on PBS: Greatest story never toldBYLINE: JOHN KIESEWETTER
We all know about Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
But what about the Gospels of Philip, Truth and Mary Magdalene?
Or the Gospel of Thomas, the twin brother of Jesus?
And what about Jesus' brother James, leader of the Jerusalem Christian church for 40 years after Christ's death?
I thought I knew a lot about Christianity, until I watched the four-hour Frontline documentary, From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians. It airs Monday and Tuesday, days before Passover and Easter.
The experts:
Elaine H. Pagels: Author of five books and a Princeton University religion professor.
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Copyright 1998 Dallas Morning News
April 5, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Financial strain blamed for scarcity of blacks in sciences
BYLINE: Jayne Noble Suhler, Ed Timms, Staff Writers of The Dallas Morning News
Ashley Scott beat the odds: He's one of only a few hundred African-Americans in the United States pursuing doctoral work in the sciences.
"This is just the beginning of a long mountain I have to climb," said Mr. Scott, 25, who is working on a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Texas at Dallas. "There are going to be people who don't like me coming into this field . . . who will scrutinize my every move."
Most African-Americans never get as far as Mr. Scott. Whites and foreign students dominate most science, math and engineering graduate programs. University faculties are still mostly white.
Overall, minorities are less likely to have the money to finance a graduate school education and exposure to the kind of rigorous scholastic preparation needed to excel in science. Some promising minorities with an undergraduate degree are diverted from graduate school by lucrative jobs in the private sector.
And there is another, more disturbing explanation.
"There definitely is a bias by many scholars who feel that minorities cannot do science," said Dr. Arthur Walker, a physicist and the only black science professor on the faculty of Stanford University's school of humanities and science.
"When you come out of undergraduate school with this load of debt, you don't have the luxury of facing five to eight more years of study as a graduate student and then moving on to a position that pays at best a middle-class wage," said Dr. Nell Painter, director of African American Studies at Princeton University. "If you spend three years in law school, you go and make more than a tenured professor right away."
The New York Times
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April 5, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: ART REVIEW;
Two Generations Taking the Same Journey, but on Different Paths
BYLINE: By WILLIAM ZIMMER
DATELINE: LAWRENCEVILLETHE premise of "Father and Daughter," at the Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, is simple: two artists in the same family exhibit their recent two-dimensional work. But matters become more complex, for the father is George Segal, the world-famous sculptor with a secure place in the history books. Any gallerymate with lesser credentials would be at a disadvantage. But one of the beauties of the show is seeing how Rena Segal stands up to the challenge.
The curator, Pamela Sherin, has divided the gallery into discrete halves. Ms. Segal's work is far across the room from her father's and thus can be considered on its own merits. Sam Hunter, professor emeritus of art history at Princeton University, reports in his essay for the show's catalogue that Ms. Segal now concentrates on painting with oil stock on paper because minor surgery made stretching and moving canvases difficult. Several of these works are texturally intriguing combinations of oil stick and pastel. An offhand disclosure deep ens the real-life, human side of the exhibition.
The New York Times
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April 5, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: U.S. Auditing Five Hospitals In New York
BYLINE: By ESTHER B. FEINFive teaching hospitals in New York City and Long Island are being investigated by the Federal Government to determine whether they submitted fraudulent Medicare bills for tens of millions of dollars.
The audits are part of a nationwide effort to determine whether hospitals overbill the Government for treatment by highly paid senior doctors when the care is actually given by doctors in training. The Government is also looking into whether doctors and hospitals charge Medicare for more complex -- and expensive -- treatment than they actually provide.
Uwe Reinhardt, a health care economist at Princeton University, said audits like these are an efficient way for the Government to hold down fraud. "For every one place they hit, 10 other places are trembling in their boots and cleaning up their act," Dr. Reinhardt said. "It's like cops on a highway. They can't go after every speeder, but knowing that the one they go after could be you keeps people more honest." .
The Plain Dealer
Copyright 1998 Plain Dealer Publishing Co
April 5, 1998 SundayHEADLINE: ADDING UP THE NUMBERS; PROF AIMS TO PUSH MATH'S RELEVANCY
BYLINE: By KITTA MacPHERSON; NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICEDATELINE: NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.
During the darkest days endured by his famous father, the young Felix Browder was urged by those he loved best to spurn politics and cleave instead to math and science. Real contributions to those fields, he was told, are not creatures of their era; they can never be diminished or stolen. They belong only to history.
So when difficulties arose for the mathematician, some of which grew inevitably from the fact that he was the son of Earl Browder, perhaps the best-known American Communist Party official of the 1930s and 1940s, it spurred him in his research.
This could explain why, at 70, the Rutgers University mathematics professor is taking on a major challenge. Elected president of the 33,000-member American Mathematical Society, Browder said he has one main goal for the principal professional society of American mathematicians: to prove that math is relevant to every person.
All the while, Browder was reading widely, at least a book a day from the time he was 5. He graduated from Yonkers High School at 16, finished course requirements at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in two years, then earned his doctorate at Princeton University in another two years.
The Plain Dealer
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April 5, 1998 SundayHEADLINE: UNIVERSE'S MYSTERY FORCE: SPECULATING ON AN EINSTEIN IDEA HE GAVE UP ON
BYLINE: By ULYSSES TORASSA; PLAIN DEALER REPORTERWhat if there were a force pushing the universe outward, ever faster? And what if this force came out of empty space - the result of virtual particles popping out of nowhere for infinitesimally small moments, leaving nothing but a tiny trace of pressure?
It sounds crazy. But the crux of that idea - called the cosmological constant - was floated as far back as 1917 by Albert Einstein, who later abandoned it. Today it has come roaring back, and more and more physicists are starting to think Einstein may have been onto something after all.
That's because a cosmological constant could help explain why new observations of the cosmos aren't squaring with how we think the universe ought to work.
Jim Peebles, a physicist at Princeton University, was the first to raise the cosmological constant in 1983 in connection with his assertion that the universe didn't have as much matter as physicists expected to find.
The repulsive force would allow for a so-called low density universe, and still square with physicists' preferred concept of the universe as eventually evening out. Without a cosmological constant, a low-density universe would expand forever, which most physicist believe is unlikely.
"Many people accused me of not being serious. They were always polite to me, but I was considered this elderly person who was always being obstructionist," Peebles said. "It's been startling to me to see how quickly the community has changed opinion."
The Providence Journal-Bulletin
Copyright 1998 The Providence Journal Company
April 5, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: LACROSSE Tigers hold to discipline
BYLINE: JIM DONALDSON; Journal-Bulletin Sports WriterDATELINE: PROVIDENCE
They don't have athletic scholarships, but the Princeton Tigers have won back-to-back NCAA lacrosse championships, three of the last four national titles, and four of the last six.
Unlike the NCAA basketball tournament, where Princeton is everybody's favorite underdog, when it comes to the NCAA lacrosse tournament, the Tigers are simply the favorites, period.
How have they done it?
How is Princeton able to consistently best scholarship schools such as Virginia and Johns Hopkins, Syracuse and North Carolina?
"Tierney. That's the one word that comes to my mind," Princeton defenseman Christian Cook said after the Tigers held Brown without a goal for the final 33:52 yesterday afternoon at Stevenson Field, coming from behind to beat the upset-minded Bears, 9-6.
Cook is referring to Bill Tierney, coach of the Tigers since 1988.
Before Tierney arrived at Princeton, the Tigers never had played in the NCAA tournament.
Star Tribune
Copyright 1998 Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
April 5, 1998HEADLINE: Two documentaries explore historical Jesus;
'Frontline' takes dry, serious route; 'Eyewitness' is more entertainingBYLINE: Noel Holston; Staff Writer
Scrutinizing the facts of Jesus' life isn't as far afield from "Frontline's" usual mission as it might seem. PBS' investigative-journalism series has been known to dabble in history. In 1989, for example, "Frontline" attempted to settle longstanding disagreements over who really wrote the plays credited to William Shakespeare.
"From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians," which airs Monday and Tuesday, is a lot more ambitious than "The Shakespeare Mystery" and, alas, a lot less engaging. Much of the first night is as dry as a Dead Sea scroll.
The problem is mainly "Frontline's" determinedly purist approach. Not religious purism - journalistic purism.
Producer Marilyn Mellowes and director William Cran not only resisted the temptation to reenact events from Jesus' life and times - which is good - but they also made a conscious effort not to use images of Jesus or the disciples that weren't created in those times.
Don't misunderstand. There is some fine scholarship in "From Jesus to Christ." I just wish the producers had combined it with a little more of the sort of showmanship on display in "Eyewitness to Jesus," a two-hour Learning Channel special that's showing tonight.
As most people probably know, if only from watching "The Robe" on TV at Easter, Christian beliefs swept the pagan Roman Empire rather quickly.
Why that happened is partly explained by Elaine Pagels, a Princeton University history professor. "If you think about the gods of the ancient world . . . they looked like the emperor and his court. But this [Christian] religion is saying that every person - man, woman, child, slave, barbarian, no matter who - is made in the image of God and therefore of enormous value in the eyes of God. Now, in a society that's three-quarter slave, that's an extraordinary message."
Austin American-Statesman
Copyright 1998 The Austin American-Statesman
April 4, 1998HEADLINE: Rooms with a new view; Architects' computer models help clients see
BYLINE Allan HoffmanWhen one of their clients had trouble visualizing a home renovation project, architects Ken Gruskin and Michael Markovitz turned to the computer.
To gain their confidence,'' says Gruskin, we created a virtual model.''
With a three-dimensional virtual version of the project, the architects were able to take the couple on an electronic walk-through,'' giving them a feel for the way their ranch-style home would look after the renovations. Walls would be added and removed. A bedroom would be converted into a home office. The entryway would be transformed, with low walls added between the foyer and the living room.
She said the walls felt too high,'' Gruskin says. While she was sitting there, we lowered the walls, and then we walked her through again.''
When people can see things for themselves, they have a lot more confidence in their decisions,'' Gruskin says. Before you spend all that money, before you rip down those walls, you have a much clearer idea what's going to happen.''
Home-design software isn't going to make you a designer, any more than me owning MacInTax makes me an accountant,'' says Kevin Lippert, a lecturer on computing and architecture at Princeton University's School of Architecture.
The Boston Globe
Copyright 1998 Globe Newspaper Company
April 4, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: Claims to Greek goddesses; Italy suspects smugglers got artifacts to US collector
BYLINE: By Walter V. Robinson, Globe StaffDATELINE: AIDONE, Italy
New York diamond merchant Maurice Tempelsman received condolence notes from all over the world when his companion, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, died in 1994. But none contained as singular a request as the handwritten letter from first- and third-graders in this small mountain town in central Sicily.
In Onassis' memory, the children implored Tempelsman to return to Aidone the 2,500-year-old marble heads, hands, and feet of the Greek goddesses Demeter and Persephone. The artifacts were allegedly plundered by grave robbers in 1979 from the nearby ancient Greek city-state of Morgantina, then smuggled out of Sicily to a London dealer, Robin Symes, who later sold them to Tempelsman for more than $1 million.
The children, however, received the same reply sent to his other well-wishers, a preprinted card saying: "Mr. Maurice Tempelsman acknowledges with grateful appreciation your kind expression of sympathy."
But now Italy's government is preparing what is certain to be a high profile lawsuit to force him to return the priceless antiquities to central Sicily, where a Greek civilization flourished for more than 300 years before Roman legions overran Morgantina in 211 BC. Last year, Tempelsman rebuffed an entreaty by the Italian Foreign Ministry that he return the artifacts, according to government officials.
Though there are estimates that up to 80 percent of antiquities on the market have been illegally exported from their country of origin, Raffiotta said there is no evidence Tempelsman knew when he bought the two marble heads, three feet, and three hands that they had been stolen. Indeed, as lawyers who represent collectors and museums point out, countries that seek the return of stolen archeological items often have trouble proving the crime occurred within their borders, much less whether the looting took place after the country passed laws to outlaw such plunder. In Italy, excavating or exporting such artifacts without government permission has been illegal since 1939.
But in Sicily, Raffiotta said, American archeologists who have worked at the Morgantina site since a Princeton University team discovered it in 1955 have historical proof that the partial statues, called acroliths, probably came from that location. What's more, he said, he has a witness's account of the 1979 excavation of the pieces by a band of nighttime looters called "clandestini."
The Economist
Copyright 1998 The Economist Newspaper Ltd.
April 4, 1998, U.S. EditionHEADLINE: The World Bank's hidden history
WASHINGTON, DCJAMES WOLFENSOHN, president of the World Bank, often claims his organisation should become a "knowledge bank". He is also a wizard at public relations, tirelessly promoting the institution to anyone who will listen. How odd then that the publication of an authorised history of the Bank's first 50 years has been so low-key that few people know it exists.
The lack of fanfare surrounding this two-volume, 2,000-page epic ("The World Bank: Its First Half-Century"), certainly looks puzzling. The Bank commissioned the book in 1990, with its 50th anniversary in 1994 in mind. The authors--John Lewis, formerly of Princeton University; Richard Webb, former governor of the central bank of Peru; and Devesh Kapur, an Indian political scientist--were given full access to internal documents and freedom to write what they wanted. The Brookings Institution, a Washington think-tank, was the chosen publisher: it budgeted $2m for the project, of which the Bank kicked in $400,000.
All of which pointed to a high-profile launch. Far from it. Brookings published the book in September 1997 with modest publicity. The Bank put a few copies on display at its annual meeting, but did nothing else to promote it. The Bank's bookshop in Washington has no copies in stock (some are on order, it says). Priced at $159.90, the only real market will be libraries. Few Bank staff have heard of it.
The authors are furious. They complain about the price, arguing that it will prevent widespread distribution. And they suggest the Bank's apathy is far from accidental. "There was clearly a burial job," one contributor says.
The Gazette
Copyright 1998 Southam Inc. (Montreal)
April 4, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: Is Quebec really whistling Dixie?
BYLINE: JAMES STEWART; FREELANCEIs Blood Thicker than Water?
Crises of Nationalism in the Modern World
By James M. McPherson
Vintage Canada, 92 pp, $14.95 paperThis book opens with a brief history of the early United States, leading up to the terrible war of secession of 1861-65 that preserved the union but killed or wounded more than a million soldiers - a calamitous casualty rate of 35 per cent, compared with 5.5 per cent in Vietnam.
"Any resemblance to the history of Canada is more than coincidental," James McPherson declares flatly, and goes on to elaborate cleverly on the "striking parallels" in the histories of Canada and the U.S.A., with Quebec in the role of the rebel South.
The Canadian reader is stunned - not into disbelief, because McPherson is a persuasive theoretician if not, in this case, a rigorous historian - but into a kind of fascinated shock. Here is the distinguished professor of American history from Princeton University, an authority on the American Civil War, telling us that conditions in Canada and Quebec are similar to those in the United States before the bloody "meltdown" of the 1860s. "The prospect of Quebec's independence is real," writes McPherson.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Copyright 1998 The San Diego Union-Tribune
April 4, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: Success academic for science fair winners; Sweepstakes reward students' curiosity
BYLINE: David E. Graham; STAFF WRITER
"It's beautiful," enthused Anna Salamon, her eyes wide and fingers flanged before her as she talked about mathematics.
Her discovery of a pattern within a famous set of numbers was original enough to earn her a top honor in this year's Greater San Diego Science & Engineering Fair.
For several months, the 17-year-old San Diego High School student had scrutinized the Fibonacci numbers -- a set whose next member is the sum of the previous two numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 . . . .
She saw that they resembled another set, and with time she recognized specific relationships between the sets that the judges said had not been known before.
"Just visually, (the number sets) reminded me of each other very strongly," Salamon said as she intently explained her number theory to a group of students and parents gathered around.
Another sweepstakes winner, Todd Johnson, a 15-year-old 10th-grader at Point Loma High School, invented a machine intended to shut off the valve on a natural-gas line during an earthquake. He used metal plates that can flex in a quake in order to generate a current that goes to circuitry that, in turn, sends a signal to turn the valve.
Johnson's project won for him a trip to New Zealand, too. entry didn't surprise some at the fair. His brother, Brian Johnson, won a sweepstakes last year for designing a device that would translate words in a computer into braille so his grandmother, whose eyesight was failing, could read. Brian Johnson now is a student at Princeton University.
The San Francisco Chronicle
Copyright 1998 The Chronicle Publishing Co.
APRIL 4, 1998, SATURDAYHEADLINE: Scholars Go To the Heart Of Jesus' Life
BYLINE: Don Lattin, Chronicle Religion WriterTelevision is not where one normally turns for an intelligent, informative and thought-provoking portrayal of Jesus. At almost any moment on any cable system in America, the name is shamelessly evoked in crusades of social intolerance, right-wing politics and televangelistic greed.
All that makes the upcoming ''Frontline'' series ''From Jesus to Christ -- The First Christians'' even more extraordinary. This brilliant, four-hour documentary on the life of Jesus and the early church airs over two evenings Monday and Tuesday at 9 on KQED Channel 9, a prelude to Easter and Passover.
''From Jesus to Christ'' features 12 apostles of academia -- Bible scholars chosen for their ability to cut to the heart of debate about the historical Jesus and present the latest archaeological and biblical research in clear, enlivened voices.
Professor Elaine Pagels of Princeton University notes that the pagan gods of the ancient world looked a lot like an emperor and the members of his court. ''But this religion is saying that every person -- man, woman, child, slave, barbarian, no matter who -- is made in the image of God and therefore of enormous value in the eyes of God,'' Pagels adds. ''In a society that's three-quarter slave, that's an extraordinary message.''
The Tampa Tribune
Copyright 1998 The Tribune Co. Publishes The Tampa Tribune
April 4, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: School in the spotlight;
Hillsborough High draws nationwide acclaim when Newsweek ranks it 43rd of 100 successful high schools
BYLINE: KARLAYNE R. PARKER; of The Tampa Tribune
DATELINE: SEMINOLE HEIGHTSHillsborough High senior Taleshia Murphy wasn't surprised Newsweek magazine ranked her school 43rd among 100 nationwide for testing seniors on college-level exams.
"Hillsborough to me has always been a very good school," said the 17-year-old senior class president. "We have very capable students. We have great teachers."
Murphy counts herself among an elite group of students at Hillsborough High who take Advanced Placement, or AP, courses.
At the end of the school year, students take a college-level test developed by Princeton University to measure their aptitudes in a given subject. If the students get a high enough score, they earn college credits.