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CNN
SHOW: CNN NEWSDAY
December 7, 1998; MondayHEADLINE: Investigating the President: White House Lawyers Prepare for Two-Day Defense
BYLINE: Jeanne Meserve, Wolf Blitzer, Bob FrankenHIGHLIGHT: White House lawyers are polishing their strategy for presenting their defense to the Judiciary Committee. They are providing a list of defense witnesses at this hour and will have been given tomorrow and Wednesday to make their case.
WOLF BLITZER, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Jeanne, White House officials say they will make a strong case, they will argue what they describe as the facts and the law of this impeachment process, arguing that Ken Starr did not include what they describe as exculpatory material that would help the president's case, material that was not included in Ken Starr's referral to Congress sent up in September. ...
They say there will be at least three panels that they will request of witnesses. Among those that they want to make the case on behalf of the president, against impeachment, will be: former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach; Bruce Ackerman, he's a constitutional scholar at Yale Law School; and Sean Wilentz, he's a historian at Princeton University. ...
Astronomy
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January, 1999HEADLINE: Most Extreme Stars
BYLINE: Irion, RobertThe galaxy's spinning neutron stars display some of astronomy's most astonishing behaviors.
Adjectives fly furiously when astronomers talk about the whirling dervishes called pulsars. Fastest spinning stars. Strongest magnetic fields. Greatest observable surface gravity. Quickest travelers in the galaxy. And the densest things in the universe save for black holes, which inhabit a bizarre realm all their own.
Pulsars are rotating neutron stars, the city-sized remnants of massive stars that die in supernova explosions. Spinning dozens of times per second or more, pulsars sweep the Milky Way with tight flares of radiation. It comes as no surprise that researchers must use all areas of known physics to explore these celestial eccentrics. "Pulsars display extremes that we will never duplicate in the lab," says physicist Roger Romani of Stanford University. "By studying them, we ultimately hope for a deeper understanding of the universe and the nature of matter itself." ...
Millisecond pulsars are colder and more stable than their freshly minted cousins from supernovae. For that reason, they make the most accurate clocks in the cosmos, says physicist Stephen Thorsett of Princeton University. "There's something very appealing about taking a solar mass, putting it into a 20-kilometer package, and spinning it 600 times a second," he says. "They are ideal clocks, much like those you would find in one of Einstein's Gedanken [thought] experiments." ...
The New York Times
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December 7, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: Managers of Care, Not of Costs
BYLINE: By PETER T. KILBORNDATELINE: WEST CHESTER, Pa.
Nick Polidore, a state gymnastics champion with bangs, dimples and baggy blue jeans, would seem as robust as any other 11-year-old. But he has asthma, so ragweed or a simple cold can propel him to an emergency room, gasping for breath.
Once, an asthma attack would keep him in a hospital for a day or two. But since his family doctor here, Brandt S. Loev, took up disease management, a system for controlling chronic conditions like asthma, the big emergencies have stopped -- and so have the big bills to his mother's health insurance company. ...
Once upon a time, this is what managed care was supposed to do: cut costs by keeping people healthy. Instead, health management organizations and insurance companies concentrated on cutting costs, especially by reducing doctors' fees.
But now that those methods have played out and in many cases profits have evaporated, some health care organizations are looking to better medical practice as an answer. The new remedy is managing chronic diseases, which account for 60 percent of medical costs in the United States. "The next phase has to be managing care better, and disease management is another word for that," said Uwe S. Reinhardt, a health care economist at Princeton University. ...
The New York Times
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December 7, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: CLINTON LAWYERS GET TWO FULL DAYS FOR DEFENSE CASE
BYLINE: By LIZETTE ALVAREZDATELINE: WASHINGTON, Dec. 6
Setting the stage for this week's momentous impeachment vote in the House Judiciary Committee, Republicans on the panel today offered President Clinton's lawyers two full days for their defense but underscored a commitment to end the inquiry by year's end. ...
In his letter to Charles F. C. Ruff and Gregory B. Craig, the White House counsels, Mr. Mooney said the White House will have until noon on Monday to submit its witness request list. The White House has identified three possible witnesses: Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Attorney General in the Johnson Administration; Bruce Ackerman, a Yale Law School constitutional scholar, and Sean Wilentz, a Princeton University historian.
The Washington Post
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December 07, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: John D. Bell Dies; UMBC, Foreign Service Professor
John D. Bell, 56, a history professor and authority on Bulgaria who was director of the Bulgarian studies program at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute, died of cancer Dec. 4 at his home in Clarksville.
Dr. Bell, a full professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where he had taught since 1970, had worked for the State Department since the 1980s. He also served as president of the Bulgarian Studies Association from 1988 to 1992 and was a Bulgarian books consultant to the Slavic Review. ...
Dr. Bell, who was born in Minneapolis, was a 1964 graduate of Yale University, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees in Russian and East European studies. He received a doctorate in history from Princeton University. Before joining the UMBC faculty as an assistant professor in 1970, he had been an instructor at Monmouth College in New Jersey. ...
Chicago Tribune
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December 7, 1998 MondayHEADLINE: U. OF C. WINS RHODES SCHOLAR HAT TRICK; 3 WINNERS TO STUDY AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY
BYLINE: By John Chase, Tribune Staff Writer.Erin Bohula has grand plans of one day finding a cure for cancer.
But on Sunday, Bohula, 21, of Park Forest joined 22-year-old Maureen Dunne of Downers Grove, a practicing researcher and teacher of developmentally disabled children, and Mira Lutgendorf, 21, an aspiring author from Iowa City, to make a little local history at the University of Chicago.
Although the prestigious school has produced its share of Rhodes scholars, never before had three of its students won the honor in the same year. ...
GRAPHIC: Rhodes scholar ranking.; These are the U.S. universities with the most Rhodes scholars: Rank/university No. of scholars
1. Harvard University 293
2. Yale University 194
3. Princeton University 181
4. U.S. Military Academy 70
5. Stanford University 68
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
December 6, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: UW tabs math professor for vice president's post
DATELINE: LARAMIE, Wyo.The University of Wyoming has chosen its new associate vice president for academic affairs.
The post went professor of mathematics Myron Allen on Thursday."I know that faculty and students expect a lot from this position, and I'm grateful that I was even considered for it," said Allen. "I just hope that I can live up to their expectations."
Allen will be responsible for academic personnel and academic budget issues. He will also assist in academic planning.
Allen earned a bachelor's degrees in mathematics and physics from Dartmouth College and earned his master's degree and doctorate in psychology in applied mathematics at Princeton University.
Cox News Service
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December 6, 1998HEADLINE: A book policymakers can't ignore
BYLINE: Martha EzzardATLANTA - Emory University welcomed William Bowen to Atlanta last week. Bowen, former president of Princeton University, is co-author of the book, " The Shape of the River," which documents through meticulous research the positive impact of affirmative action on college admissions. The book shows that numbers of black students admitted to highly selective schools would be sliced in half even today if race were not allowed to be used as one of many factors in admission policies.
Emory President William Chace said the book confirms what he's always believed: that race-conscious college admissions have worked to the good of America by producing black professionals and community leaders and encouraged the growth of a healthy black middle class. Emory, many of whose graduates were interviewed for the study, was a private school pioneer _ suing successfully 36 years ago to overturn state legislation barring private schools from receiving tax exemptions if it admitted blacks. Now the school, blessed with Coca-Cola benefactors, has a higher percentage of African- American students and faculty than any among the top 25 with which Emory ranks. ...
Cox News Service
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December 6, 1998HEADLINE: Judiciary allows more time to mold Clinton defense
BYLINE: Rebecca CarrDATELINE: WASHINGTON
The House Judiciary Committee granted the White House more time to defend President Clinton Sunday, as it appeared likely that the House would approve at least one article of impeachment against the president.
Thomas Mooney, general counsel to Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), informed White House lawyers that they would be granted 30 hours over the course of two days this week to mount a defense against allegations that the president lied under oath, obstructed justice and abused his presidential powers to conceal his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinksy.
Clinton aide Kennedy identified three witnesses the White House would like to call: Bruce Ackerman, a constitutional scholar at Yale University; Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, U.S. Attorney General during the Johnson administration; and Sean Wilentz, a historian at Princeton University.
Los Angeles Times
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December 6, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: HYDE INSISTS THAT CLINTON ATTORNEYS STICK TO ALLEGATIONS
BYLINE: RICHARD A. SERRANO, TIMES STAFF WRITERDATELINE: WASHINGTON
Saying he may give the White House more time to press its case, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde demanded Saturday that President Clinton's legal team reveal its witness list and directly address charges that he lied and obstructed justice in the Monica S. Lewinsky case.
Hyde's insistence prompted a quick response from the White House, which provided the names of three of their witnesses: two legal experts and a historian. But this only served to further anger Republicans who complain that the Clinton administration is trying to dodge the central question of whether the president is guilty of impeachable offenses. ...
Jim Kennedy, a spokesman for the White House counsel's office, on Saturday identified three of the witnesses the White House wants to call this week as former Atty. Gen. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Bruce A. Ackerman, a leading constitutional scholar at Yale University, and Robert Sean Wilentz, a Princeton University historian. ...
The New York Times
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December 6, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Amid Chaos, Harmony
BYLINE: By LESLIE KANDELLINSTEAD of sitting down to dinner, Sandy Barr, a soprano, and her husband, Frank, a bass-baritone, are driving from Manhattan to Ridgewood in a rental car for the weekly rehearsal of Ars Musica Chorale. Ms. Barr's Tercel was sideswiped (and she doubts insurance will cover the rental), but she's not about to miss chorus, not with a semi-staged "Aida" coming up in Hackensack.
And Gunnar Berg, a bass from Glen Rock, drives to Manhattan, where his chorus is preparing the Brahms Requiem. Mr. Berg and his wife, Barbara, used to sing with the Pro Arte Chorale in Ridgewood, as Mr. Barr once did. Then she died, and he couldn't bear to go back, but he couldn't stay away from singing, either. So he joined a chorus near the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, where is an archivist.
In December, it's as if chorus members are never home. Like everyone else, they're busy with seasonal crunch -- making lists and plans; shopping for gifts, fancy food, echinacea -- but they also cram in extra rehearsals for the Christmas concert. Who needs it? one would think.
They do. "There's nothing like it, outside a tent revival meeting," said David Briskin, conductor of the 125-voice Masterwork Chorus, based in Morristown. ...
Many faces and much of the dress in Princeton Pro Musica suggest the comforts of intellect and academe. Frances Fowler Slade founded the 120-voice chorus and its chamber orchestra -- a mixture of volunteer and paid -- 20 years ago, and it performs "Messiah" annually. It used to be on period instruments with a reduced-size chorus, but this year it involves full orchestra and chorus. ...
Elsewhere in Princeton, Penna Rose, a smart, zesty conductor of choirs in three states, leads a "Messiah" sing-along next week, with trumpet and organ and string quintet. Her 80-voice University Chapel Choir, whose Christmas concert today avoids the beaten track, has undergraduates, graduate students and a couple of local residents. Ms. Rose ends rehearsal promptly -- a courtesy busy choristers appreciate, no matter how vaunted their motivation. ...
The New York Times
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December 6, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
MERLE, SMITH, FOWLERMERLE-SMITH-Fowler. Age 72. Of Princeton, N.J. On December 2, 1998 after courageously combatting Parkinson's Disease for 22 years. He was a graduate of Brooks School, Princeton University Class of 1952 and the Teachers College, Columbia University. He served with the U.S. Marine Corps on Iwo Jima. Taught at Punahoe School, Hawaii, served as administrator and teacher at Buckley School, NYC and later at Princeton Day School, Princeton, N.J. He is survived by his wife, Annette, daughter Margaret and brother Rev. Van S. Merle-Smith. Private service and interment will be in Keene Valley, N.Y. Contributions in his memory may be made to the Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York City.
The News and Observer
Copyright 1998 The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)December 6, 1998 Sunday
HEADLINE: Which proves what?
A commentary on Princeton University professor Sean Wilentz's analysis (Nov. 29 Op-ed article, "His shot didn't trigger impeachment") of the current congressional predicament: Wilentz wishes to establish former Vice President Aaron Burr's 1804 shooting of Alexander Hamilton as a precedent for dismissing the accusations against President Clinton. He does this by calmly attempting to leap across a logical chasm; I think he might have come up short, and fallen in.
He provided a nice account of the circumstances surrounding Burr's duel with Hamilton to support his point. He argues the following: It is ridiculous that Congress is considering the impeachment of the president for lying under oath about his love life, because in 1804 Congress failed to impeach Vice President Burr for murder. And the later is far more serious than the former.
I simply don't understand - just because Congress, in 1804, failed to implement the Constitution's principles and impeach Burr - why today Congress should again ignore what is constitutionally right and not consider the impeachment of Clinton for lying under oath and obstruction of justice. ...
Sean Gillespie, Raleigh
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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December 6, 1998 SundayHEADLINE: CHURCH ORGANIST TO MILLIONS;
PEOPLE: Only 25, Christopher Pardini performs at the Crystal Cathedral on one of the world's largest organs.
BYLINE: CAROL MASCIOLA, The Orange County Register
Christopher Pardini might be the only person in the world to have had his job tryout broadcast to 10 million people.
To get hired as the Crystal Cathedral's new organist, Pardini, 25, was required to play at the Rev. Robert H. Schuller's "Hour of Power" service, which is beamed around the globe Sunday mornings.
When the time came for Pardini to play, he was shocked to see that someone had removed the organ's music rack and mounted a television camera in its place. The camera was pointed straight at his face. Nothing like this ever happened back in Rochester, N.Y.
"My blood ran cold," he said.
Pardini summoned his courage, sat down at the gigantic, thundering Hazel Wright pipe organ and played from memory. He blocked out the millions of TV viewers. He tried not to think about the zoom-in shots of his fingers that were being displayed on a giant stadium screen. ...
Pardini said his parents didn't think a person could make a decent living as a church musician and tried to persuade him to go into music education. At college, he enrolled in a double major -- organ and music education -- to make them happy. He dumped the music education major, however, after experiencing a kind of epiphany while visiting the chapel at Princeton University to see the organ there. ...
Sacramento Bee
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December 6, 1998HEADLINE: PERCEIVED CLINTON CONCEIT INCREASES ODDS AGAINST HIM
BYLINE: Eric Pianin and Guy Gugliotta, Washington PostDATELINE: WASHINGTON
Although the GOP's disappointing showing in last month's election seemed to doom the chances of presidential impeachment, what many members see as President Clinton's arrogance and lack of repentence have made it far more likely that the House will approve at least one article. ...
Committee sources said Hyde had consulted with the panel's Republicans in a conference call Saturday, and was considering granting the White House up to two days before the committee to make its defense.
White House spokesman Jim Kennedy said Clinton's attorneys met Saturday to discuss their presentation. He said the White House team wished to call former Attorney General Nicholas de B. Katzenbach, Yale University constitutional law expert Bruce Ackerman and Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz to appear at a hearing on constitutional standards of impeachment. ...
In this volatile atmosphere, Republicans and Democrats agree the president committed a critical blunder late last month in his legalistic and, in the Republican view, evasive responses to 81 questions about the Lewinsky matter that had been posed by the Judiciary Committee. ...
Los Angeles Times
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December 5, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: BRADLEY ENTERS THE GAME, WILL CHALLENGE GORE
BYLINE: JOHN J. GOLDMAN and RONALD BROWNSTEIN, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
DATELINE: NEWARK, N.J.With a ringing call "to help unleash the enormous potential of the American people," former Sen. Bill Bradley signaled Friday that he intends to challenge Vice President Al Gore for the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination.
"I am taking an enormous step, a step I have not taken before," the former Rhodes scholar and star of the New York Knicks professional basketball team said as he officially established a committee to promote his candidacy. ...
And his overall profile is more cerebral than ideological. His most significant achievement during his 18 years in Congress was his co-authorship of the sweeping tax reform plan of 1986--a blueprint for simplifying the system that was ambitious, thoughtful and difficult to put into a category on the usual dimensions of left to right. ...
Profile: Bill Bradley
Name: William Warren "Bill" BradleyBorn: July 28, 1943 in Crystal City, Mo.; his father was a small-town bank president and prominent local Republican, his mother a school teacher.
Education: Attended Princeton University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in history in 1965 and starred on the school's basketball team. As a Rhodes scholar, attended Oxford University in England, earning a master's degree.
Sports: Won a gold medal as a member of the U.S. team at the 1964 Olympics; played professional basketball with the New York Knicks, 1967-77.
Career: Elected to the U.S. Senate from New Jersey in 1978; reelected in 1984 and 1990. Author of four books; the latest, "Values of the Game," was published in October.
Personal: Married; one child.
AP Online
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December 04, 1998HEADLINE: Bill Bradley Moves Toward 2000 Run
BYLINE: LAURENCE ARNOLD
DATELINE: NEWARK, N.J.Two years after leaving Washington and what he called a ''broken'' political system, former Sen. Bill Bradley left little doubt Friday that he is going to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000.
The 55-year-old former New York Knicks basketball star and three-term senator from New Jersey created a presidential exploratory committee Friday, saying his two years out of politics reinforced his faith in what Americans.
In taking steps toward seeking the presidency, Bradley is fulfilling expectations he has carried since his college days as a star basketball player and student at Princeton University.Supporters hoped the former Rhodes Scholar would run in 1988 and again in 1992, and Bradley seriously considered the idea. But he wrote in his 1996 autobiography, ''Time Present, Time Past,'' that he backed away partly out of fear of failure and because of a concern for his privacy and that of his family. ...
Business Wire
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December 4, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: Patent Issued to Princeton University for Flexible Plastic Organic Light Emitting Devices
DATELINE: BALA CYNWYD, Pa.Universal Display Corporation is Exclusive Licensee of This Exciting New Invention
Universal Display Corporation (UDC) (NASDAQ:PANL), a developer of flat panel display technology, announced today the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 5,844,363 titled "Vacuum Deposited Non-Polymeric Flexible Organic Light Emitting Devices" for the use of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) display technology on lightweight, flexible materials such as plastic. The patent was issued to UDC's research partners at Princeton University. UDC has the exclusive worldwide rights to this invention. "This opens up a whole new world for electronic displays. OLEDs already have the potential for cost and performance advantages for flat panel displays built on traditional glass substrates. Our OLED technology now has the potential to create products not possible with existing LCD materials, lightweight rugged electronic displays in shapes and forms different than today's box-like breakable devices, such as roll up plastic computers," said Steven V. Abramson, President of UDC. "Until this breakthrough by Dr. Forrest and his team at Princeton University, experts did not believe that small molecule organic materials could be used on flexible substrates. This advance, combining the precision of vacuum deposition processing with the advantages of plastic, is a major step towards the flat panel industry of the future, which we believe will be built on full-color, low-power, lightweight plastic OLED displays." In addition, on November 10, 1998, U.S. Patent No. 5,834,893 titled "High Efficiency Organic Light Emitting Devices with Light Directing Structures" was issued and should be beneficial for high-reliability, high-efficiency, integratable OLED structures. ...
THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN
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December 4, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: Seniors Surprised By Perfect SATs
BYLINE: Michelle Sutherlin, Staff WriterNorman High School seniors Casey Dietrich and Sarah Billingsley were excited and amazed when they found out they both had made perfect 1600 scores on the SAT.
The seniors took the test in the same room on the same day.
They are the first two students from Norman High to ever make perfect scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, said Norman spokeswoman Connie Blaney.
"I think it's all just luck," Dietrich said. "It just depends on how you do that day." ...
Dietrich plans on majoring in engineering at either OU, the University of Kansas, Washington University in St. Louis, Rice University, Columbia University, Brown University or Princeton University. ...
Financial Times
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December 4, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: War between state and society plagues Russia
From Mr Stephen Holmes,
Sir, John Thornhill ("How to Save Russia," November 30) is right to conclude that the International Monetary Fund is incapable of controlling the implementation of the Russian budget. But he is less persuasive when he suggests that chronic tax evasion is a technical problem that can be solved by passing a better tax code, introducing higher salaries for tax collectors, computerising the tax service, and the like. As Mr Thornhill's own analysis implies, Russian tax evasion has very deep roots. It reflects nothing less than a war between state and society. ...
Stephen Holmes, Professor of Politics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ08544, USA.
MULTIMEDIA NEWS
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December 4, 1998HEADLINE: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION Patent Issued to Princeton University for Flexible Plastic Organic Light Emitting Devices
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Universal Display Corporation (UDC), a developer of flat panel display technology, announced the issuance of U.S. Patent titled "Vacuum Deposited Non-Polymeric Flexible Organic Light Emitting Devices" for the use of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) display technology on lightweight, flexible materials such as plastic.
The patent was issued to UDC's research partners at Princeton University. UDC has the exclusive worldwide rights to this invention. ...
The Virginian-Pilot
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December 4, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: DOCTOR OFFERS UNIQUE MODEL FOR CHILD CARE
BYLINE: BY PAT DOOLEY, STAFF WRITERDATELINE: NORFOLK
Renowned pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton, whose easygoing, encouraging brand of advice has influenced millions of young parents, delivered his message to a different audience Thursday morning: medical residents and physicians.
In a special morning presentation at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Brazelton talked about the need for pediatricians to build relationships with parents as the basis for preventive care for children. ...
At the March of Dimes dinner, Brazelton presented his former Princeton University roommate, Dr. Mason C. Andrews, with a Celebrating Healthy Families award for community service. Andrews, a Norfolk City Council member, is co-founder of the Norfolk medical school and its Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine.
AP Online
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December 03, 1998; ThursdayHEADLINE: Harvard Endowment Glance
BYLINE: The Associated PressThe 25 American universities with the largest endowments. The figures are based on market values for June 1997, the most recent available from the National Association of College and University Business Officers in Washington.
1. Harvard University, $10.9 billion
2. University of Texas System, $6.7 billion
3. Yale University, $5.7 billion
4. Princeton University, $4.9 billion
5. Stanford University, $4.5 billion
6. Emory University, $4.3 billion
International Herald Tribune
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December 3, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: As Giant Copes With Oil Glut, Cuts Could Mean 'Loss to Society'
BYLINE: By Louis Uchitelle; New York Times ServiceDATELINE: NEW YORK
For all the wealth of Exxon and Mobil - and all the market power inherent in the takeover of Mobil by Exxon - these two oil giants are essentially purveyors of an ordinary commodity, and commodities are a drag on the market today, cutting into profits everywhere and hurting national economies. The proposed combination is essentially an attempt by Exxon and Mobil, particularly Mobil, to sustain profits. That helps explain why investors, rather than celebrate the deal, drove down the stock prices of both companies on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday. ...
Commodities in this broader sense are in oversupply mainly because so many companies stepped up production in recent years, in the expectation that as supply rose, so would demand, absorbing the new supply. The Asian crisis destroyed that strategy, and now manufacturers find themselves unable to sell all that they can produce and often forced to cut prices, hurting profits and forcing layoffs as production has been cut back. ''The basic phenomenon, however you define the word commodities, is that there is a huge amount of slack capacity in most industries,'' said Alan Blinder, a Princeton University economist. ...
PR Newswire
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December 3, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: Lockheed Martin Grants $3.525 Million To Higher Education
DATELINE: BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 3
Grants totaling $3.525M supporting engineering and computer science programs at colleges and universities nationwide were announced today by Lockheed Martin Corporation. The company provides funding annually to institutions of higher learning that demonstrate excellence in their engineering and computer science programs.
"We are naturally dependent upon the quality of education in our schools of engineering and computer science to provide a competitive workforce for our ongoing business concerns," said Vance D. Coffman, Lockheed Martin Chairman and CEO. "We believe we can help ensure a steady stream of potential candidates for employment in the high tech industry through our support for these institutions." ...
Lockheed Martin has identified these colleges and universities as those institutions that place a high priority for recruiting graduates. Other institutions now receiving grants from Lockheed Martin for engineering and science programs include: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Tennessee, Johns Hopkins University, Cornell, Florida A&M, Cal State Polytechnic, University of California at Berkeley, University of Florida, University of Michigan, Virginia Tech, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Florida Institute of Technology, Harvey Mudd College, Morgan State, Princeton, and University of Alabama at Huntsville. ...
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Copyright 1998 The Atlanta Constitution
December 2, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Obituaries;
Will Kjellstrom, obstetrician, friend to his many patientsBYLINE: Joel Groover
Dr. Will Kjellstrom, 52, a physician with Georgia Obstetrics & Gynecology for 20 years, delivered two generations of babies in Atlanta.
"He had reached the point in his career where he was delivering the babies of babies he had once delivered," said his wife, Mandy Kjellstrom.
The Atlanta resident died of a heart attack Monday while performing a hysterectomy at Northside Hospital. Another doctor finished the operation and the patient is fine, said Dr. Kjellstrom's wife. "He had delivered both of her babies," she said. "She was one of his favorites." ...
Dr. Kjellstrom had been a nationally ranked swimmer at Princeton University. He earned his medical degree from the Baylor School of Medicine and completed his residency there. ...
Chicago Sun-Times
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December 2, 1998, WEDNESDAYHEADLINE: Cool off global warming: Plant a tree
BYLINE: William HooverAll the talk in Buenos Aires about implementing the global warming treaty overlooks a crucial point: We can make greater use of forests to seize carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and protect the planet from climate change.
Because trees serve as nature's "sinks" for vast amounts of carbon, one is amazed at how little attention the United States is giving to the importance of forests in the battle against global warming. President Clinton's three-state plan to reduce accumulations of greenhouse gases includes a number of innovative solutions such as "emissions trading." But the plan makes scant mention of the role of trees in mitigating the problem. This, despite the fact that scientists estimate an all-out effort to maintain the health of forests and plant more trees could offset 20 percent to 40 percent of the estimated 6.2 billion tons of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions.
There is growing scientific evidence that forests, and the carbon they sequester, are undervalued. Recent studies have determined that huge amounts of carbon are stored in peat and other organic matter in soils. Indeed, more carbon dioxide may be taken up by forests and other ecosystems in the United States than is released by industrial activities, according to a new study by a team of scientists from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Princeton University and the national Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. ...
The New York Times
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December 2, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Universities Again Involved In Joint Ventures in China
BYLINE: By WILLIAM H. HONANFew nations, if any, have had a more turbulent relationship with the United States in this century than China. After the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, when roving bands of Chinese slaughtered hundreds of American missionaries, the two nations gradually pulled together and became allies in World War II. But soon after, American and Chinese troops were shooting at each other in Korea, which led to some of the most intense days of the cold war.
The two nations resumed diplomatic relations in 1979, and American educators returned to China, only to pack their bags and depart a decade later, after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Today, despite tensions recently provoked by the Chinese Government's continuing crackdown on democracy advocates, the relationship between venturesome American colleges and universities and China is warming up -- some say sizzling. ...
Finally, most experts agree, the old missionary zeal is still alive in the United States, even if disguised in secular dress. Among the best known of the college-affiliated survivors from the China-missionary era are Princeton-in-Asia, the Yale China Association and the Oberlin Shanxi Memorial Association.
"Although we send teachers rather than missionaries to China today, our mission statement written in 1911 hasn't changed," said Carrie Gordon, executive director of Princeton-in-Asia, which is an independent affiliate of Princeton University. "We seek to promote goodwill and understanding and to facilitate in every way the free exchange of the best ideals in the civilizations of both the East and the West."
The New York Times
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December 2, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
COOTES, MERRITT N.COOTES-Merritt N. Age 89. Princeton University class of 1931 and retired U.S. Foreign Service officer. On November 26, 1998 in Princeton, N.J. Survived by his wife of 51 years, Jean Phillips Cootes and his nephew Harry L. Belin of Washington, D.C. Funeral service at 10:30 A.M. Thursday, December 3, at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, N.J. Interment Princeton Cemetery. Contributions in his memory may be made to Doctors Without Borders, 6 E. 39th Street, NY, NY 10016.
The New York Times
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December 2, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
MURPHY, EMMETT ROBERTMURPHY-Emmett Robert, December 1, 1998, of Manhattan, formerly Riverside, CT. Son of the late Peter J. and Lillian (Ryan) Murphy, Scarsdale, NY. Survived by brother, Daniel, sister, Claire, three children, Brian, Christopher and Tom of MA, 2 grandchildren, and longtime companion and friend, Theresa Comer. Attended Lawrenceville School and Princeton Univ., served in US Navy during WW II. Lover of sailing, opera and the classics. Viewing Thursday, December 3rd, 2-4 and 7-9PM, Yorkville Funeral Home, 1297 1st Ave., NYC. Funeral Friday, December 4th, 10AM, St. John the Evangelist, 55th and 1st Ave.
Federal Document Clearing House
Congressional TestimonyCopyright 1998 Federal Document Clearing House, Inc.
December 2, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: TESTIMONY December 02, 1998
MR. RICHARD M. DOERFLINGER ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR POLICY DEVELOPMENT NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS SENATE APPROPRIATIONS LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION STEM CELL RESEARCHI am Richard M. Doerflinger, Associate Director for Policy Development at the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, National Conference of Catholic Bishops. I am grateful for the opportunity to present the Catholic bishops' ethical concerns regarding new developments in embryo research. In discussions of human experimentation, the researcher's temptation is to think that if something technically can be done it ethically should be done -- particularly if it may lead to medical benefits or advances in scientific knowledge. ...
Professor Lee Silver of Princeton University, a proponent of cloning and embryo research, recently declared that the term "pre-embryo" was embraced by IVF researchers "for reasons that are political, not scientific" in an effort to "allay moral concerns" about their research. ...
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE
Copyright 1998 Telegram & Gazette (WORCESTER, MA.)
December 2, 1998 WednesdayHEADLINE: William R. Reitzell, 87
DATELINE: WORCESTER
William R. Reitzell, 87, of 80 Barnard Road, died yesterday in Memorial Hospital after an illness.
He leaves his wife of 57 years, Dorothy (Garrett) Reitzell; a son, William R. Reitzell Jr. of Worcester; a daughter, Dorothy Willner of Concord; five grandchildren; and a nephew.
He was born in Pennsylvania, son of William R. and Carry (Loose) Reitzell, and came here in 1947. He graduated in 1930 from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., and in 1934 from Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. ...
United Press International
Copyright 1998 U.P.I.
December 2, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: UPI Focus: Grossman leaving as Democratic leader
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Dec. 2
Citing the failing health of his elderly father, the national chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Steve Grossman, announced his resignation as one of the party's two top leaders. After nearly two years on the job, Grossman said he wanted to return home to Massachusetts primarily to attend to his 79-year-old father Edgar, who has waged a ''debilitating bout with Parkinson's Disease'' for the past 15 years, and to rejoin him in their family business. ...
Grossman, a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School, served more than 20 years as president of the Massachusetts Envelope Company, founded by his grandfather in 1910. He said his father, after 63 years in the business, ''is no longer able...to play his customary leadership role.'' ...
Asbury Park Press
Copyright 1998 Asbury Park Press, Inc. (Neptune, NJ.)
December 1, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: McCarter to build second stage; Alumnus gives half of price tag
BYLINE: FREDERICK KAIMANN; STAFF WRITER
PRINCETON - Roger S. Berlind, a Tony-winning Broadway producer and Princeton University alumnus, is giving nearly half the money needed to build a second stage at the McCarter Theatre.Berlind announced his $3.5 million gift at a news conference yesterday.
"When I was an undergraduate at Princeton, I was able to do a little acting in the two spaces that were available, McCarter and Theatre Intime," he said. ...
The 350-seat theater, to be named for Berlind, as well as rehearsal and classroom space will be built behind the 1,100-seat McCarter Theatre, which was constructed in 1929 to house the University's Triangle Club. It was named for Thomas McCarter Jr., son of the lawyer who founded the Newark-based law firm McCarter and English. ...
Asbury Park Press
Copyright 1998 Asbury Park Press, Inc. (Neptune, NJ.)
December 1, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Author serves up readings at fund-raising library buffet
BY: DON STINE/CORRESPONDENT BRIELLE - Fine literature and food blended last night as Joyce Carol Oates attended a benefit buffet for the local public library.About 200 people paid $30 each to attend the buffet to hear Oates speak and have her sign copies of her books. ...
Oates has been publishing novels, short stories, plays, poetry and essays since 1963. She has been compared with other famous American Naturalist writers such as William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and Willa Cather. ...
Oates is also a professor at Princeton University - a position she said she enjoys: "I love it. My students are terrific. They are idealistic and hard-working. Princeton has a lovely atmosphere." ...
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
December 1, 1998HEADLINE: University of Maryland sanctioned for problems stemming from Princeton game
DATELINE: OVERLAND PARK, Kan.
An assistant coach and three players at the University of Maryland are being sanctioned for rowdy behavior during the NCAA men's lacrosse championship game against Princeton in May, the athletic governing body said.
The committee publicly reprimanded assistant coach Scott Marr for unsportsmanslike conduct during the semifinal and final games.
Marr verbally abused referees and other officials, Jim Marchiony, an NCAA official, said Monday.
Marr was also suspended for a maximum of two games the next time Maryland plays in the championships. ...
The Baltimore Sun
Copyright 1998 The Baltimore Sun Company
December 1, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: NCAA suspends Terps player, assistant coach; Playoff games ban results from '98 title game actions
BYLINE: Jamison Hensley
The NCAA officially announced the suspensions of Maryland defenseman Casey Connor and offensive coordinator Scott Marr from the Terrapins' first appearance in the 1999 NCAA tournament for unsportsmanlike behavior in the national championship game on May 25. ...
Connor, a junior from Calvert Hall, will have to miss the Terrapins' first postseason game as a result of throwing a penalty flag at the Princeton band in the fourth quarter of Maryland's 15-5 loss to the Tigers. ...
Business Wire
Copyright 1998 Business Wire, Inc.
December 1, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Diffusion Selects Intraware SubscribNet to Provide Software Update Services for Diffusion's Customer Relationship Management Application
DATELINE: ORINDA, Calif.
Diffusion to Use Service as Platform for Providing Customers Worldwide with Proactive Software Update Notification and Software Management
Intraware, Inc., the full-service web-based software management services company, today announced that Diffusion, Inc. has selected SubscribNet, Intraware's electronic software update service, as the vehicle for providing its customers with proactive update notification and electronic software delivery on a worldwide basis.
By embedding the SubscribNet service into software subscriptions for its product line, Diffusion expects to significantly streamline its software management process and provide customers with a superior level of service. ...
Diffusion, Inc. was founded in 1995 to develop and market Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions for automating personalized, closed-loop interactions between an enterprise and its clients. Current clients include organizations such as NationsBank, GTE, WorldCom, SmithKline-Beecham, BASF, Diamond Multimedia, Madge Networks, Wit Capital and Princeton University. ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
December 1, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Mice Fail to Verify an Evolutionary Theory
BYLINE: By GINA KOLATAEvolutionary biology can be long on theory but short on evidence. So biologists were delighted when they thought they had a rare chance to conduct an experimental test of a popular and appealing theory involving a kind of molecular arms race between the sexes. Not only was the test compelling but there was every indication that its results would turn out to support the theory.
But when the experiment, reported in the current issue of Nature Genetics, was completed, the scientists got a rude surprise. The results were not what they expected. Now, as the dust starts to settle, researchers are asking whether the theory is wrong or whether the experiment is flawed.
The evolutionary theory drew on a notion that there could be a battle between the sexes even in the womb. One popular theory, advanced by Dr. David Haig, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, said that if a species is polygamous -- several males can be the fathers of one litter -- each male will want to be sure his progeny survive, even at the expense of the other offspring and the mother. And so, the theory says, it will be in a male's interests to carry genes that make his fetuses grow very big, very quickly. The mother, on the other hand, will want to keep as many of her embryos alive as possible, so she will want to pass on genes that counteract the male's genes.
But the conflict will not arise, theoretically, if the species is monogamous, since it is then in the interest of both the mother and the father to give all fetuses an equal chance. ...
About 100 to 200 genes, 1 to 2 percent of the total in the mammalian genome, are thought to be imprinted, said Dr. Shirley M. Tilghman, a Howard Hughes professor of molecular biology at Princeton University.
The idea of imprinting seemed paradoxical.
"We usually assume that organisms should do the sensible thing," said Dr. Laurence D. Hurst, a professor of evolutionary genetics at the University of Bath in England. "If you have two copies of a gene, you should be able to express both so that if one misfires, you have a backup." ...
The genetic arms race model proposed by Dr. Haig "best explains all the experimental data on imprinting," Dr. Tilghman said.
Dr. Tilghman, who studies imprinting, decided to test Dr. Haig's model directly. What she needed was a monogamous mammal and a closely related polygamous one. Then she could ask whether genes that were imprinted in the polygamous species were not imprinted in the species that was monogamous. ...
Instead, to her great surprise, Dr. Tilghman found that both the monogamous and the polygamous mice imprinted their genes.
Dr. Tilghman and her colleagues started by testing a gene called as H19. That gene, she said, was always "perfectly imprinted" whenever researchers examined it. A copy of the gene inherited from the mother was always turned on full blast during fetal life and the copy inherited from the father was shut down. If Dr. Haig's theory explained imprinting, it would be expected that H19 would not be imprinted in the monogamous mice. But it was. And, as with the polygamous mice, only the copy from the mother was expressed. ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
December 1, 1998, TuesdayNAME: Roger Berlind
HEADLINE: Yes, It's Love, But It's Always Business, Too; Roger Berlind, Theater Producer, May Be an Endangered Species
BYLINE: By ROBIN POGREBIN
On Dec. 13, Roger Berlind will put on a tuxedo for his 33d opening night in the 22 years since he left investment banking and became a theatrical producer, and then he will take his aisle seat for "The Blue Room," starring Nicole Kidman, which he helped import from London.
It isn't excitement or nervousness Mr. Berlind feels in those moments when the lights dim and the curtain rises. It is relief. He knows there is nothing more he can do. "I don't get carried away with opening night magic," he said. "This is a business." ...
Yesterday in Princeton, N.J., the McCarter Theater Center for the Performing Arts and Princeton University announced construction of the Roger S. Berlind Theater, a 350-seat expansion of the McCarter made possible with a $3.5 million gift from Mr. Berlind.
"I'm doing this because I enjoy it," he said in a recent interview. "There is not an activity I can think of that wouldn't be more remunerative. I know it's not worth it economically, but I love theater. It is addictive." ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
December 1, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: For More Textbooks, a Shift From Printed Page to Screen
BYLINE: By ETHAN BRONNERAt Virginia Commonwealth University, sociology students use a "textbook" that exists only on line. It sends them to related Web sites, has recorded lectures that they can rewind and offers discussion areas that supplement and enliven their classroom discussions. ...
With futurologists having mistakenly predicted the end of the printed page for several decades now, no one is preparing a eulogy for the traditional book. Television did not doom radio, video did not kill film, and electronic publishing will not be likely to end print. ...
Ira H. Fuchs, vice president for computing and information technology at Princeton University, said the key for the future of electronic books was increased screen clarity and lower prices. "People say they love bookstores, but they are buying from Amazon.com," he said. "Give them convenience, and the next thing you know you will be telling your grandchild about this thing you once had called a book."
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
Copyright 1998 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News
December 1, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Government Announces Remaining Witnesses in Microsoft Trial
BYLINE: By David L. WilsonWASHINGTON--The only real news from the Microsoft antitrust trial Monday came outside the courtroom, when the government's lead lawyer announced the order for his five remaining witnesses and gave a brief description of their testimony.
As the plodding cross-examination of economist Frederick Warren-Boulton continued, attorney David Boies unveiled this lineup: James Gosling, vice president of Sun Microsystems, will talk about the Java programming language, probably beginning Wednesday.
Next, Ed Felten, a professor at Princeton University, will explain how he removed Microsoft's Web browsing software, Internet Explorer, from the company's Windows 98 operating system. Then David Farber, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will say that IE is a freestanding application rather than an integrated part of Windows 98. The testimony from Felten and Farber is intended to illustrate that IE is a separate product that was linked to Windows in order to gain illegal advantage in the browser market; Microsoft says the operating system and browser are no longer separate. ...