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December 14, 1998
HEADLINE: Exigent Names Jeffery B. Weinress Senior VP, CFO
DATELINE: MELBOURNE, Fla., Dec. 14Bernie Smedley, President and CEO of Exigent International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: XGNT; CHX: XNT) today announced the appointment of Mr. Jeffery B. Weinress as the Company's Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective immediately. Mr. Weinress will be located at Exigent headquarters in Melbourne, Florida.
Mr. Weinress comes to Exigent from Avanir Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, California, where he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. ...
Mr. Weinress holds an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College (BA - Economics) and graduate degrees from Harvard University (MA - Asian Studies) and Harvard Business School (MBA - Finance). He has also completed graduate work towards a doctorate at Princeton University.
The New York Times
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December 14, 1998, Monday, Late Edition - FinalHEADLINE: IMPEACHMENT: NEW YORK; Writers Plan Rally Against Impeachment
BYLINE: By SOMINI SENGUPTAA group of prominent writers and scholars, saying they were incensed by the Republican drive to impeach the President, are planning what they described as an "emergency speakout" against impeachment tonight at New York University.
Stephen Holmes, a law professor at New York University, said yesterday that he, along with the Nobel Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison, the historian Sean Wilentz and the writer Paul Berman were compelled to organize the event after "watching this highly partisan process with astonishment." ...
They have invited intellectuals, artists and elected officials to speak. By yesterday evening, those who had accepted included the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the novelist Mary Gordon, the legal scholar Ronald Dworkin and the philosopher Thomas Nagel. Ms. Morrison and Mr. Wilentz were scheduled to speak.
The event follows the outcry of several intellectuals against the inquiry into the President's conduct in the Monica Lewinsky affair. Mr. Wilentz, a Princeton University history professor, and Mr. Schlesinger have testified before the Judiciary Committee and have been rebuked by Republicans on the committee. Representative Bob Inglis, a South Carolina Republican, for instance, said Mr. Schlesinger testified with "a great deal of sophistication, but very little common sense." ...
The New York Times
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December 14, 1998, MondayHEADLINE: Marshall Scholarships Given For Further Study in Britain
BYLINE: By WILLIAM H. HONANThree New York students are among this year's winners of the Marshall Scholarships, it is to be announced today by the British Ambassador to the United States, Sir Christopher Meyer. ...
The Marshall Scholarships -- often equated in prestige with Rhodes Scholarships -- were established in 1953 by the British Government as a gesture of thanks to the people of the United States for the assistance provided by the Marshall Plan after World War II.
The scholarships provide an oppurtunity for American students who have demonstrated academic excellence and leadership potential to continue their studies for two or three years at a British institution. Twenty-eight American colleges and universities are represented in this year's list of recipients. Following are the other Marshall Scholars:
BAHCALL, Orli, M.I.T.
JOHNSTON, Richard, Princeton University.
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL
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December 14, 1998 MondayHEADLINE: PRIDE, PREJUDICE AND IMPEACHMENT
BYLINE: By Christopher Matthews, Tribune Media ServicesWASHINGTON - For me, the "bicentennial moment" of last week's impeachment hearings was that unforgettable exchange of attitude between a Princeton professor and a Republican member of Congress from Ohio.
There was no mistaking either the condescension of the professor or the contempt of the Grand Old Party congressman. Both men conveyed in their body language the primordial conflict that lies at the heart of the president's predicament.
The moment began with Princeton history professor Sean Wilentz's slamming the motives of the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives who believe that the president is guilty of crimes that are impeachable.
"If you believe they do rise to that level, you will vote for impeachment and take your risk at going down in history with the zealots and the fanatics."
Having mocked the GOP members' conservative minds, the Ivy League professor chucked a spear into their motives.
"If you understand that the charges do not rise to the level of impeachment, or if you are at all unsure, and yet you vote in favor of impeachment anyway for some other reason, history will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness."
The Republican members got the message: If they really believed that Clinton is worthy of impeachment, they were right-wing crazies; if they voted to impeach, unsure of the case, they were knaves. ...
Rarely has a television debate been so visceral as this: On one side, the Ivy League intellectual instructing the men from Main Street on their mental and moral shortcomings; on the other side, the men of Capitol Hill reminding the academics that professors don't get to vote on impeachment; Members of Congress do.
The exchange came as no surprise. Somebody around the president saw this town-vs.-gown fight brewing long before the Princeton professor and his colleagues took the stand. He told a network reporter that the answers the president gave to those 81 questions sent down by the Judiciary Committee were downright "snotty." ...
AFX News
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December 13, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Microsoft denies testimony proves Explorer separate to Windows 98
SAN FRANCISCO (AFX) - Microsoft Corp said testimony to be given by Princeton University computer science professor Edward W Felten in the company's antitrust trial does not prove that its Internet Explorer web browser can be easily removed from its Windows 98 operating system.Felten's testimony was released Friday afternoon ahead of his testimony on tomorrow.
"Despite extensive effort, Dr Felten did not actually remove Internet Explorer from Windows 98; he only hid some of the functionality it provides, which obviously does not benefit consumers," Microsoft said in its statement.
Felten will testify that Windows 98 can be redesigned to disable the system's built in Web browsing features, attacking Microsoft's argument that the browser is an integral part of its operating system, and that it was using its dominance of the desktop personal computer software business to gain market share for its internet software. ...
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
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December 13, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Consumed by Consumerism; The desire to acquire has increasingly become an American obsession
BYLINE: Gayle WhiteWant to make an impression at the company holiday party? Consider showing up in a $27,500 Fendi white sheared mink coat. Around your neck, you could wear an $82,000 white gold and diamond pave link necklace with matching earrings ($8,500) and bracelet ($37,500).
Paying for the outfit from the Saks Fifth Avenue catalog --- dress and shoes not included --- would take Dick and Gladys Rustay every penny of disposable income for 129 years and seven months. The Rustays, retired schoolteachers from North Carolina, sold all their worldly goods 10 years ago, gave away the proceeds and moved into the Open Door Community, a ministry of volunteers and formerly homeless people who live together in an old apartment building on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta and serve the poor. Their change in lifestyle shocked their parents and their children.
Each gets $50 a month to spend. They eat with other members of the community and wear castoff clothes donated to the ministry's clothes closet. ...
But theirs is an existence that de-emphasizes materialism, a sharp contrast during this wildest, buyingest, spendingest season of the year, all in the name of religious holidays.
But where does one draw the line? Just how much is too much?
For a vast majority of people, the answer lies somewhere between $82,000 necklaces and hand-me-down sweaters. ...
Historically the "American dream," the idea that anyone who worked hard could succeed, has been a moral framework for American society, according to Princeton University sociologist Robert Wuthnow. The dream encompasses more than material success, he writes in his 1996 book, "Poor Richard's Principal" (Princeton University Press). During most of our nation's history, it served us well: "It showed us how work and money contributed to the realization of personal, family, community and spiritual values. It reinforced the incentive structure undergirding our nation's businesses and schools. And it defined major policy debates about economic growth, the nation's place in the world, and the role of government in economic affairs."
Over the course of the 20th century, however, Wuthnow believes, Americans' concepts about money have become increasingly removed from important social values. ...
The Boston Herald
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December 13, 1998 SundayHEADLINE: OP-ED; History's judgment awaits
BYLINE: By Wayne WoodliefIt was "great fear" that U.S. Rep. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.) said he saw in President Clinton's eyes Friday as Clinton, desperately seeking to stave off impeachment, said for the first time he would accept a congressional censure of his misconduct in the Monica Lewinsky affair.
"He knows he will be dealt with in terms of history - as will we," Hutchinson told a TV reporter, only minutes before he joined 20 other House Judiciary Committee Republicans in a straight party-line vote to recommend impeachment of his fellow Arkansan by the full House. ...
But Clinton's censure concession was quickly brushed aside by Republican leaders intent on making impeachment itself a kind of super-censure, the ultimate black mark - short of expulsion by Senate - for a president they detest. ...
"You take your risks at going down in history with the zealots and the fanatics" if you vote for impeachment in a case where the punishment is far greater than the offense, warned Princeton University history professor Sean Wilentz at a Judiciary Committee hearing last week.
And though Wilentz's remarks offended members - among White House defense witnesses, he played bad cop to the smooth, congressionally savvy White House special counsel Greg Craig's good cop - he may well have sent some chills down the spines of wavering House Republicans watching on TV.
After all, the last time a president was tried in the Senate - a fate Richard Nixon escaped by resigning in disgrace - the impeachers, so-called "Radical Republicans," were rebuked more by historians than the hapless President Andrew Johnson was.
Samuel Eliot Morison wrote in his Oxford History of the American People that "the impeachment of Johnson was one of the most disgraceful episodes in our history. ...
After all, Tripp went straight to a meeting with Jones' lawyers in her civil suit against the president after turning over
The Columbus Dispatch
Copyright 1998 The Columbus Dispatch
December 13, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: TO IMPEACH? HOUSE VOTE WILL TEST NATION'S CHARACTER
Only rarely does a U.S. Congress vote on anything as momentous as the impeachment of a president, but later this week, the 435 members of the House will do just that.
This likely will be the most important vote any of the House members ever makes. If they vote for impeachment, the Senate then will have to decide whether the evidence warrants conviction and removal of the president from office.
But the House's judgment is about more than whether this president remains in office, or what the effect of impeachment might be on the financial markets, or on the 2000 election, or on the nation's ability to advance its interests around the globe.
More profound and telling will be the effect the vote has on the respect for the rule of law and the standards of conduct and integrity that the American people set for their leaders. ...
The Dispatch believes that at the very least, President Clinton is guilty of perjury, and that his position does not excuse him from obedience to the law or responsibility for violating it. ...
''History will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness,'' threatened Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz, perhaps hinting at the thrust of his next book.
Others accused those who favor impeachment of being cowardly, vindictive, vengeful and partisan. Now is the time to clear away this cloud of rancor and accusation and address the real issue. ...
The Dallas Morning News
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December 13, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: AN EPIC GAMBLE; DreamWorks recasts the image of Moses, but will viewers like him?
BYLINE: Jeffrey WeissHere's a Moses you've never met before: the mischievous, beloved younger brother of the heir to Egypt's throne.
This prince of Egypt - courtesy of the new DreamWorks movie - isn't in your Bible.
But then, neither is the Moses who walked and talked when only a day old. Or the toddler who played with Pharaoh and snatched the crown from the old man's head.
Those stories - neither in the movie nor the Bible - are some of the tales told over 3,000 years by a parade of sages and storytellers.
The difference is that DreamWorks' tale has more power to affect the common image of Moses than any version has since the original - the Bible. ...
African-American slaves, for example, focused on Moses as liberator. They worshiped in a circle, moving counterclockwise as they sang the spirituals, says Princeton University religion professor Albert Raboteau. When they talked about the Israelites' journey in the desert, their movement made the journey of Moses and the Israelites almost literally their search for freedom, he says. ...
The New York Times
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December 13, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: Lessons in Peace From the Horrors Of Baroque Battles
BYLINE: By THEODORE K. RABB; Theodore K. Rabb is a professor of history at Princeton University. A new edition of his "Renaissance Lives" will be issued in 1999.
FOR more than 250 years, until the carnage of our own century, the Thirty Years War of 1618-1648 set the standard in Europe for bloodshed, fanaticism and brutality. Confusing in its chronology and appalling in its deliberate assaults on civilian life, the war fully deserved its reputation as one of the darkest episodes in Western history. Starting primarily as a bitter religious struggle, it gradually became a naked clash for power among increasingly aggressive states of Europe and ravaged much of modern-day Germany. For one distinguished historian, Veronica Wedgwood, writing in the appeasement-stricken England of the 1930's, this "futile" struggle was "the outstanding example in European history of meaningless conflict."
If that bleak conclusion no longer holds, it is because we have come to recognize in recent years that the reaction by contemporaries to the horrors of the war changed assumptions and attitudes beyond recall, and that this reorientation was to propel Europe toward the modern age. Even if we view the year merely as a marker of political change, 1648 belongs in the same league as other milestone dates, like 1066 and 1789, because the peace treaties hammered out that year not only proved to be entirely new kinds of diplomatic agreements but also created a system of international relations that survived until World War II.
To celebrate these treaties on their 350th anniversary, a vast exhibition has been mounted in three sites in Munster and Osnabruck, the Westphalian cities where the negotiators spent much of the 1640's and where they finally signed their accords. The exhibition, sponsored by the Council of Europe and made up of some 1,500 items, opened on Oct. 24 with ceremonies that featured the combatants' descendants in the persons of 10 kings and queens and 11 other heads of state, including Vaclav Havel as well as a prince and a grand duke. Far more than a recollection of the events of 1648, it reaches back into the 16th-century origins of the fighting; it concludes with a chilling display of Nazi interpretations of the peace; and in between it suggests how Europe's political, military and artistic cultures were transformed by the ravages of a seemingly endless war. ...
Omaha World-Herald
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December 13, 1998, SundayCOLUMN
BYLINE: HAROLD W. ANDERSEN
Contributing EditorThe sleaziest of the arguments against impeachment of President Clinton must have come from a professor of history at Princeton University.
Professor Sean Wilentz went beyond all bounds of fair comment in what he told the House Judiciary Committee.
Judiciary Committee members who vote for impeachment, Professor Wilentz said, will find that their "reputations will be darkened for as long as there are Americans who can tell the difference between the rule of law and the rule of politics."
A blatant insult to those committee members who believe in the rule of law and who also believe that they are carrying out their constitutional responsibilities in voting to impeach Clinton under the rule of law.
Professor Wilentz didn't say whether the "darkened" reputations that he predicted will be as dark as the reputation with which William Jefferson Clinton will leave office after limping through the final two years of his presidency as a sort of national embarrassment.
Incidentally, an Associated Press report that included the testimony of Professor Wilentz and other Clinton defenders wasn't exactly an example of the objectivity The Associated Press should strive to achieve. The AP story said that the Republican majority on the Judiciary Committee was "ready by all accounts to muscle through at least one article of impeachment." ...
The Washington Times
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December 13, 1998, SundayBYLINE: FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Farthest quasarA sky survey that aims to map one-quarter of the heavens has discovered astronomy's most distant quasar - a luminous, starlike object emitting superbright light.
The Apache Point Observatory near Sunspot has found three of the four most distant quasars since it began its Sloan Digital Sky Survey in May.
The quasars are at the edge of the known universe, which means their light is from a time when the universe was 1 billion years old and about one-sixth its present size. Astronomers believe the universe is 10 billion to 14 billion years old.
"It's a fair statement to say we're talking many billions of light years away," said Bruce Gillespie, site operations manager at Apache Point.
The survey is being conducted by several universities, with the latest discovery announced by scientists from Princeton University.
The Washington Post
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December 13, 1998, SundayHEADLINE: ARTS ELSEWHERE
BYLINE: L. Peat O'NeilPRINCETON, N.J.
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Aubrey Beardsley's death, the Princeton University Library has mounted a major exhibition of the artist's drawings, posters, illustrated books and other memorabilia. "Aubrey Beardsley, 1872-1898: A Centennial Exhibition" is on view through April 8 at the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library, Princeton University, 1 Washington Rd. Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m., Saturday-Sunday noon-4:30 p.m. Free. 609-258-3184.
Chicago Tribune
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December 13, 1998 SundayHEADLINE: THE BEAST IN THE DISH; LAB GROWS A SCIENTIFIC AND ETHICAL QUANDARY
BYLINE: By Peter Kendall. Peter Kendall is a Tribune staff writer.In a lab in Amherst, Mass., a cow egg, fertilized like no other, began dividing, just as any viable embryo would.
What made this cow egg remarkable, both scientifically and ethically, is that it contained just a trace of cattle DNA--most of the genetic material in that dividing embryo was human, having come from a cheek cell scraped from the mouth of the researcher doing the experiment. That, at least, was the strange claim made last month by Advanced Cell Technology Inc., which is trying to patent its human/cow hybrid cells. Evidence of what they accomplished is thin. The 1996 experiment ended after three weeks and none of the cells remain.
There is no doubt, though, that those cells have grown into a scientific and ethical quandary. Many have been struggling to define exactly what it was the researchers might have created by putting human cells inside a cow egg. ...
Cloned human embryos, if they existed at all, are merely one of the steps the Amherst researchers take in their process to create sheets of living stem cells. The process they are seeking to patent uses cow eggs, which are good hosts for genetic material from other animals, to reset the clock on the human cell, making an adult cell begin to divide like an embryo.
On Nov. 20, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission sent a letter back to Clinton, fleshing out the ethical issues involved and striving to hang a definition on the strange human cells in the cow egg.
The commission, led by Harold Shapiro, president of Princeton University, went at the issue with several questions, including:
- Can the product of using a human cell with the egg of an animal, if transferred into a woman's uterus, develop into a child?
The commission couldn't answer that question.
"What little evidence exists, based on other fusions of non-human eggs with non-human cells from a different species, suggests that a pregnancy cannot be maintained," Shapiro wrote. "If it were possible, however, for a child to develop from these fused cells, then profound ethical issues would be raised." ...
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
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December 12, 1998, Saturday
HEADLINE: Microsoft browser is removable, witness says
BYLINE: Andrew GlassA forthcoming government witness at the Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial has committed what the company views as technological heresy by claiming in court papers unsealed Friday that he has found a safe way to remove the built-in browser from Windows 98. Microsoft does not provide any mechanism for removing its browser from the system, Edward Felten, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University, notes in his direct testimony.
In fact, users are repeatedly warned with desktop messages never to attempt such a risky maneuver. ''With the help of two young assistants,'' Felten wrote, ''I have developed a prototype removal program that demonstrates one way Microsoft could have done this. Obviously, Microsoft, with its more intimate knowledge of its own products, could likely find a better way to accomplish the same result.'' ...
The New York Times
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December 12, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: U.S. Witness Says Browser Split Is Feasible
BYLINE: By JOEL BRINKLEYDATELINE: WASHINGTON, Dec. 11
A computer science expert from Princeton University says he has done what the Microsoft Corporation insists is impossible: extricated Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browsing software from its Windows operating system.
The expert, Dr. Edward W. Felten, who will take the stand in Federal court on Monday as a witness for the Government in its antitrust suit against Microsoft, was asked by the Justice Department to puncture a central argument in Microsoft's defense -- namely that browser and operating system are inextricably integrated.
In direct written testimony made public this evening, Dr. Felten said that "Microsoft could have produced a version of Windows 98 without Web browsing in a way that did not adversely affect" users or developers of other software programs.
Microsoft, in a statement issued this evening, said that Dr. Felton did not actually remove Internet Explorer from Windows. "He only hid some of the functionality it provides, which does not benefit consumers," the statement said. "You can surgically remove someone's right arm, but the arm was certainly a useful part of the person's body before it was removed." ...
New Scientist
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December 12, 1998HEADLINE: The great divide
BYLINE: Philip CohenHIGHLIGHT: Mammals may keep their unique identity because one species can't recognise another's imprinted genes
THE sudden failure of a clever trick of inheritance may explain why certain cloning experiments fail, a new report suggests. It may also be behind the creation of some mammalian species.
A basic rule of heredity is that animals inherit two copies of every gene, one from each parent. In mammals, however, there is a strange twist to this rule known as imprinting. A small percentage of mammalian genes are biochemically marked or "imprinted" so that only the copy from one parent is switched on.
But Shirley Tilghman and her colleagues at Princeton University in New Jersey have found that this mechanism can go wrong. When they mated two closely related species of mouse, "Peromyscus polionotus" and "P. maniculatus", they found that both copies of some imprinted genes were turned on in offspring, making them develop abnormally.
Even more bizarrely, which imprinted genes were affected depended on which species contributed sperm and which the egg. When "P. maniculatus" served as the father, the hybrid fetuses were oversized and rarely survived. When the same species was the mother, the offspring were 40 per cent smaller than normal, and would probably not survive long in the wild ("Nature Genetics", vol 20, p 362).
One possible explanation for the results is that "imprinting recognition proteins" in the egg of one species can't read all the the imprinting marks on the DNA of another. The researchers say this incompatibility may have contributed to mammalian evolution, since reproductive isolation is one characteristic of species that have diverged. "This inability of one species to recognise the imprinting of another appears to create a strong reproductive barrier between them," Tilghman says. ...
Newsbytes
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December 12, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE Justice Witness Says He Separated Browser From OS
BYLINE: Robert MacMillan; NewsbytesDATELINE: WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.
To refute Microsoft Corp.'s [NASDAQ:MSFT] claim that its Internet Explorer browser is an integral part of the Windows operating system, the Justice Department and 19 state attorneys general went looking for someone who could prove otherwise. They found Princeton University Assistant Professor of Computer Science Edward W. Felten.
Felten, a graduate of the California Institute of Technology and the University of Washington, told US District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in his written testimony that not only can the Windows 98 OS function perfectly well once the Internet Explorer browsing software - built into the roots of the OS - is removed, but that the OS then can handle the installation of other browsers with no performance degradation.
The assistant professor, with the help of two students, he said, actually devised a version of Windows 98 without the Internet Explorer.
Felten also said that it is more efficient for original equipment manufacturers that purchase copies of Windows 98 to have an option in browsers, rather than be given an automatic copy of Internet Explorer. ...
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL
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December 12, 1998 SaturdayHEADLINE: EXPERT: BROWSER REMOVABLE
A government expert given access to Microsoft Corp.'s secret code for Windows concluded Friday that - contrary to the software company's claims - Web browsing can be easily removed from Windows 98. Edward Felten, assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University, also said in his written testimony that Microsoft's claims that the browser was integrated with Windows to provide efficiencies were false. The Justice Department and 19 states allege that Microsoft combined its Web browser with the operating system, where it holds a near monopoly, to compete unfairly against a stand-alone browser made by Netscape Communications Corp.
Press Journal
Copyright 1998 Scripps Howard Newspapers (Vero Beach, FL)December 12, 1998, Saturday
HEADLINE: WHERE WILL DOW JONES GO NEXT? SO FAR, IT'S ANYBODY'S GUESS
BYLINE: Scripps Howard News ServiceThe Dow Jones Industrial Average recently advanced to new highs, then abruptly retreated. Where will the stock market go next?
The truth is, nobody knows.
But that doesn't keep people from using a host of theories to try to figure out where stock prices are headed. The methods range from some with the patina of scientific methodology to many that are clearly screwball.
"Technical analysts" use sophisticated formulas to search for patterns in stock price fluctuations. Others note correlations between stock prices and astrological signs, the length of women's skirts or whether the occupant of the White House is a Democrat or Republican. ...
In a classic book on the stock market, "A Random Walk Down Wall Street," Princeton University economist Burton Malkiel wrote at length about the fallacies of long-term forecasts, whether made by the well-intentioned technical analysts or by scoundrels out for a quick buck.
"The 'cycles' in the stock charts are no more true cycles than the runs of luck or misfortune of the ordinary gambler," Malkiel warned. "And the fact that stocks seem to be in an uptrend, which looks just like the upward move in some earlier periods, provides no useful information on the dependability or duration of the current uptrend." ...
The Seattle Times
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December 12, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: MICROSOFT TRIAL -- EXPERT SAYS EXPLORER, WINDOWS PART EASILY -- MICROSOFT SAYS SOLUTION MERELY HIDES BROWSER
BYLINE: JAY GREENE; SEATTLE TIMES BUSINESS REPORTER
A Princeton University computer scientist testified that Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser can be removed from the Windows operating system, suggesting the software giant included it only to crush a competing browser from Netscape Communications.
In written testimony in the federal government's antitrust case against Microsoft, Edward Felten discusses his efforts to separate Internet Explorer from Windows 98.
In an effort to speed the trial, witnesses have been asked to submit written testimony, then face cross-examination once they take the stand.
Felten, an assistant professor, is to take the stand Monday. He testified that he and two assistants developed a program to remove the browser "without affecting any non-Web-browsing functionality provided by Windows."
The testimony is key, because it contradicts Redmond-based Microsoft's contention that Internet Explorer is integrated so tightly into its Windows operating system that it can't be removed. ...
The Washington Times
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December 12, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: Panelists' votes of conscience coincide with party affiliations
BYLINE: Christine Montgomery; THE WASHINGTON TIMESCall it a coincidence of conscience.
Members of the House Judiciary Committee promised to vote their consciences when deciding whether President Clinton deserves to be impeached, yet for the most part, the votes still neatly divide along political lines.
Not one committee Democrat has a conscience like a Republican, nor the other way around, with the exception of Rep. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. How can that be?
"It's inconceivable," Wisconsin Democrat Thomas M. Barrett said during a break in the debate yesterday. "For me, a vote of conscience is a vote for censure."
For the other side, the collective conscience says impeach. ...
One spectator was Sally McCorkell, 22, a senior political science major at Princeton University. She was accompanied by Michael DeSouza, a 21-year-old exchange student from London.
"It's wonderful to be a part of history," Mr. DeSouza said. "Really, you think of things you're going to tell your grandchildren, and this is one of them."
The Washington Post
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December 12, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: The Real Story of '21st and Vietnam'
An otherwise compelling Nov. 30 article by Leon Dash and Susan Sheehan was spoiled by the inclusion of a shortsighted, scientifically unsound and stereotype-ridden quote from John DiIulio Jr. of Princeton University, who argues that the criminal behavior of young black males such as Tyrone and Russell Wallace is unrelated to conditions of poverty but rather is modeled from the behavior of "unfortunate adults."
Clearly, children learn many complex attitudes and behaviors from parents. But to dismiss the powerful effects of poverty on children's life opportunities, attitudes and risk for involvement in violence flies in the face of mainstream social science. Many scientific consensus panels, including recent reports of the American Psychological Association and the National Research Council, have concluded that poverty remains the most potent predictor of violent behavior. Living in poverty increases the likelihood that children will have limited educational and economic opportunities, become victims of or witness acts of violence and be exposed to violence among peer group members. ...
-- Brian D. Smedley
The Washington Post
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December 12, 1998, SaturdayHEADLINE: Microsoft Can Remove Browser, Expert Says
BYLINE: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post Staff WriterMicrosoft Corp. could produce a version of its Windows 98 operating system for personal computers that does not include Internet browsing technology, a Princeton University computer science professor has told the federal judge conducting the Microsoft antitrust trial.
The professor, Edward W. Felten, said in written testimony released yesterday that he developed a prototype computer program to remove the company's Internet Explorer browser from Windows 98 in a way that would not "affect the stability" of the operating system. Microsoft, with little difficulty, could create a similar removal program, said Felten, who was asked to testify by government lawyers.
The government alleges that Internet Explorer and Windows 98 are separate products that Microsoft has combined in an attempt to illegally dominate the browser market and maintain the company's Windows monopoly. ...
Africa News
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December 11, 1998HEADLINE: South Africa;
Mercenary Groups DiscussedBYLINE: Dustin Chick, Business Day (Johannesburg)
Johannesburg - A low asset base and the lack of permanent employees in private paramilitary firms like Executive Outcomes meant it was "futile" to try to regulate them, Princeton University associate politics professor Jeffrey Herbst said yesterday.
Speaking at the SA Institute of International Affairs conference on the Privatisation of Security in Africa, Herbst emphasised that there was "no compelling reason" for such operations to be headquartered in any particular location.
SA-based Executive Outcomes announced this week it was to shut its doors on January 1 next year. It said the decision had been taken in the light of the "consolidation of law and order across the African continent", which had meant less demand for its services. However, military analysts said the decision probably had more to do with the introduction of tough anti-mercenary laws in SA. ...
Business Day
Copyright 1998 Times Media Limited (South Africa)
December 11, 1998HEADLINE: MERCENARY GROUPS DISCUSSED
Princeton professor says regulation is futileBYLINE: Dustin Chick
Princeton professor says regulation is futileA LOW asset base and the lack of permanent employees in private paramilitary firms like Executive Outcomes meant it was "futile" to try to regulate them, Princeton University associate politics professor Jeffrey Herbst said yesterday. Speaking at the SA Institute of International Affairs conference on the Privatisation of Security in Africa, Herbst emphasised that there was "no compelling reason" for such operations to be headquartered in any particular location. SA-based Executive Outcomes announced this week it was to shut its doors on January 1 next year. It said the decision had been taken in the light of the "consolidation of law and order across the African continent", which had meant less demand for its services. ...
Cox News Service
Copyright 1998 Cox News Service
December 11, 1998HEADLINE: GOVERNMENT TEST KILLS MICROSOFT BROWSER
BYLINE: ANDREW J. GLASSWASHINGTON -- A forthcoming government witness at the Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial has committed what the defendant in the landmark case views as technological heresy by claiming in court papers unsealed late Friday that he has found a safe way to remove the built-in browser from Windows 98, Microsoft's flagship operating system.
Microsoft does not provide any mechanism for removing its browser from the system, Edward Felten, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University, notes in his direct testimony. In fact, users are repeatedly warned with desktop messages never to attempt such a risky maneuver.
"With the help of two young assistants," Felten wrote, "I have developed a prototype removal program that demonstrates one way Microsoft could have done this. Obviously, Microsoft, with its more intimate knowledge of its own products, could likely find a better way to accomplish the same result."
Felten is scheduled to be cross-examined on the witness stand by Microsoft lawyers, beginning Monday, when the landmark trial enters its ninth week. ...
The Deseret News
(Salt Lake City, UT)
December 11, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: Quasar at edge of known universe discovered
BYLINE: Associated PressSUNSPOT, N.M. -- A survey intended to map one-quarter of the universe has discovered astronomy's most distant quasar -- a luminous, starlike object emitting superbright light.
The Apache Point Observatory near Sunspot has found three of the four most distant quasars since it began its Sloan Digital Sky Survey in May.
"It's a fair statement to say we're talking many billions of light years away," said Bruce Gillespie, site operations manager at Apache Point.
The quasars are at the edge of the known universe, which means their light is from a time when the universe was a billion years old and about one-sixth its present size. Astronomers believe the universe is 10 billion to 14 billion years old.
The survey is being conducted by several universities, with the latest discovery announced Tuesday by scientists from Princeton University. ...
Federal News Service
Copyright 1998 Federal Information Systems Corporation
DECEMBER 11, 1998, FRIDAYHEADLINE: PREPARED TESTIMONY OF RICHARD C. WADE
BEFORE THE SENATE LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE
SILENT SCANDAL :ADULT ILLITERACY IN AMERICAAs early as 1990, President George Bush called a White House Conference on Libraries. He enthusiastically embraced its recommendations, one of which was "to eliminate adult illiteracy by the year 2000." At subsequent Governors' conferences both Republicans and Democrats have renewed the pledge. Bill Clinton, both as Governor and President, has endorsed the goal. Ten years ago at least one in five American adults or 27 million, could not read or write. The figure now is 30 million and growing each year.
This dereliction is important. It is important because this country was built on the assumption of general literacy. Indeed, in 1900 we were the most literate nation in the world. We are now, by every study, the lowest in industrial countries. There are arguments about the precise numbers but none over the general extent. Nearly every branch library in the country has a pamphlet that begins, "one out of every five of your neighbors cannot read this sentence." Two recent university studies, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, places the number at 40 million. However it is measured, this country, whose literate work force fueled the industrial revolution of the last two centuries, will soon discover that it is hopelessly unprepared for the present technological revolution. Our abundance of extraordinary people on the creative edge of cyberspace cannot long carry the weight of a growing illiterate population with its consequences....
The Houston Chronicle
Copyright 1998 The Houston Chronicle Publishing Company
December 11, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: Murad given Nobel Prize in Medicine
SOURCE: Houston Chronicle News ServicesDATELINE: STOCKHOLM, Sweden
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Ferid Murad of the University of Texas Medical School in Houston and two other Americans received the Nobel Prize in Medicine Thursday at a glittering ceremony in Stockholm's Concert Hall. ...
Amartya Sen, an Indian scholar, won the economics prize for his work examining the causes behind famines and other catastrophes. The physics prize went to Robert Laughlin of Stanford University, Horst Stormer of Columbia University and Daniel Tsui of Princeton University for discovering how electrons can change behavior and act more like fluid than particles. The chemistry prize went to Walter Kohn of the University of California at Santa Barbara and John Pople of Northwestern University for developing ways of analyzing molecules in chemical reactions. ...
The Independent
Copyright 1998 Newspaper Publishing PLC (London)
December 11, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: Science Update
BYLINE: Charles ArthurIMPRINTING, WHEREBY only one of a pair of genes inherited from parents is "switched on" in an embryo, may explain why so many species cannot interbreed - and why some cloning attempts may fail.
According to researchers at Princeton University, New Jersey, mating two closely related species of mouse led to both copies, rather than one, of the imprinted genes being switched on. Equally, eggs from one species may be unable to "read" the imprinting proteins from another's sperm, says New Scientist. That would stop attempts to use cows' eggs as a "vessel" for cloning other species too. ...
The Record
Copyright 1998 Bergen Record Corp. (Bergen County, NJ)
December 11, 1998; FRIDAYHEADLINE: PRINCETON SCIENTISTS FIND FAR-OFF QUASAR
BYLINE: The Associated PressDATELINE: SUNSPOT, N.M.
A sky survey that hopes to map one-quarter of the heavens has discovered astronomy's most distant quasar, a luminous, starlike object emitting superbright light.
The Apache Point Observatory near Sunspot has found three of the four most distant quasars since it began its Sloan Digital Sky Survey in May.
The quasars are at the edge of the known universe, which means their light is from a time when the universe was a billion years old and about one-sixth its present size. Astronomers believe the universe is 10 billion to 14 billion years old. ...
The survey is being conducted by several universities, with the latest discovery announced Tuesday by scientists from Princeton University. ...
USA TODAY
Copyright 1998 Gannett Company, Inc.
December 11, 1998, FridayHEADLINE: Aetna to pay $1B for Prudential Consolidation will crown new king of U.S. health care industry
BYLINE: Sandra BlockIn a deal that reflects the rapid consolidation of the U.S. health care industry, Aetna said Thursday that it will buy Prudential HealthCare, a unit of Prudential Insurance, for $1 billion.
The transaction will add 6.6 million members to Aetna's U.S. health care service. With 22.4 million members, Aetna will become the USA's largest health benefits company and its largest managed care provider.
It also will double Aetna's dental insurance business, from 7 million to approximately 15 million, making Aetna the largest provider of dental benefits in the USA.
The deal, expected to be completed by the second quarter of 1999, will make Aetna one of the top three managed care companies in nine states. It will add members in at least five others. About 85% of U.S. workers get their health insurance through managed care. One in 10 Americans will receive health care through Aetna, the company says. ...
The trend toward consolidation of managed care companies is driven by the same competitive forces that have sparked mergers in the oil, banking and airline industries, says Uwe Reinhardt, economist at Princeton University. "In theory, these mergers make sense," Reinhardt says. "If you're in Aetna now, or you're in Prudential, you might have a wider network of doctors. You might also see your premium go up." ...
USA TODAY
Copyright 1998 Gannett Company, Inc.
December 11, 1998HEADLINE: COLLEGE FOOTBALL AWARDS
Scholar-Athlete Awards Division I-AA Alex Sierk Princeton
AP Online
Copyright 1998 Associated Press
December 10, 1998HEADLINE: Observatory Finds Farthest Quasar
DATELINE: SUNSPOT, N.M.A survey intended to map one-quarter of the universe has discovered astronomy's most distant quasar a luminous, starlike object emitting superbright light.
The Apache Point Observatory near Sunspot has found three of the four most distant quasars since it began its Sloan Digital Sky Survey in May.
''It's a fair statement to say we're talking many billions of light years away,'' said Bruce Gillespie, site operations manager at Apache Point.
The quasars are at the edge of the known universe, which means their light is from a time when the universe was a billion years old and about one-sixth its present size. Astronomers believe the universe is 10 billion to 14 billion years old.
The survey is being conducted by several universities, with the latest discovery announced Tuesday by scientists from Princeton University. ...
AP Worldstream
Copyright 1998 Associated Press
December 10, 1998; Thursday
HEADLINE: Nobel Prize laureates have their gala day
BYLINE: JIM HEINTZDATELINE: STOCKHOLM, Sweden
For most of those receiving Nobel Prizes in the Swedish capital on Thursday, science is a way of improving the human condition, but for one it's a means of describing it. ...
The prizes are given every year on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite who established the prizes in his will. ...
The physics prize goes to Robert Laughlin of Stanford University, Horst Stormer of Columbia University and Daniel Tsui of Princeton University for discovering how electrons can change behavior and act more like fluid than particles. ...
ARMED FORCES NEWSWIRE SERVICE
Copyright 1998 Phillips Business Information, Inc.
December 10, 1998HEADLINE: ABL RECEIVES NEW PEO, REVIEW PANEL NAMED
A new Program Executive Officer (PEO) has been named to head the Airborne Laser Program (ABL) at the same time that the independent review panel ordered by Congress to assess the program has been convened, according to a DoD source.
Joseph Diamond has been named as the new PEO for Weapons, replacing Harry Schulte, who is now the acquisition chief for the U.S. Special Operations Command. Diamond comes to the program from the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, where he served as chief of the Acquisition & Resources Division. ...
Today's edition of Defense Daily identifies the members of the independent review panel as:
Will Happer, a physicist from Princeton University, N.J., and former director of Energy Research at the Department of Energy; ...
The Associated Press
December 10, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: Farthest quasar found at edge of universe
DATELINE: SUNSPOT, N.M.A survey intended to map one-quarter of the universe has discovered astronomy's most distant quasar - a luminous, starlike object emitting superbright light.
The Apache Point Observatory near Sunspot has found three of the four most distant quasars since it began its Sloan Digital Sky Survey in May. ...
The quasars are at the edge of the known universe, which means their light is from a time when the universe was a billion years old and about one-sixth its present size. Astronomers believe the universe is 10 billion to 14 billion years old.
The survey is being conducted by several universities, with the latest discovery announced Tuesday by scientists from Princeton University. ...
The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo)
Copyright 1998 The Yomiuri Shimbun
December 10, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: The search for Einstein's brain
BYLINE: Tim Large Special to The Daily Yomiuri ; YomiuriNot even the wildest Theory of Comic Relativity could account for the absurdist energy released by Einstein's Brain, an offbeat documentary about a Japanese professor of mathematics and his quest to track down the most famous cerebral cortex of our age, mysteriously missing since 1955.
What starts out with all the makings of a 60 Minutes investigative report--complete with censored documents, classified files and shaky sequences of hand-held camera work--turns out to be almost Chaplinesque, as Prof. Kenji Sugimoto of Kinki University bumbles across the United States, bamboozling specialists and passersby alike with his befuddled interrogations. ...
Sugimoto's odyssey begins at Princeton University, where he discovers that the Einstein autopsy report has been removed from the microfilm archive. Other documents will prove equally impossible to scrutinize, with relevant sections blacked out and stamped "Secret."
Kevin Hull's hour-long documentary offers little in the way of conspiracy theories. Instead, the director leaves Sugimoto to his own devices as he inflicts himself upon an unsuspecting scientific community, often with hilarious consequences. The real-life cast of academic oddballs helps to raise the giggle quotient. ...
International Herald Tribune
Copyright 1998 International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
December 10, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: At House Hearings, Democratic Pessimism Grows
BYLINE: By Francis X. Clines; New York Times ServiceDATELINE: WASHINGTON
''Something is actually happening here,'' Representative Zoe Lofgren announced in a tone of quiet amazement, interrupting the national mood of holiday bustle to voice the growing fears of House Democrats that President Bill Clinton could be impeached by Christmas.
''Many in the country are not aware of that,'' the California Democrat continued wide-eyed before the House impeachment hearing as if offering disturbing news just now dawning. ''They thought it was over.'' ...
Republicans bristled when one of Mr. Clinton's most ardent defenders, the Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz, unapologetically pronounced judgment on members who would vote for impeachment despite being unsure of how serious the accusations were: ''History will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness.'' ...
The Clinton defense argument was two-pronged, with warnings of judgment by future historians and by current constituents. ''Your reputations will be darkened,'' insisted Mr. Wilentz, the historian, to the angry Republicans, while former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach testified that impeachment could never succeed without public support. ...
Inter Press Service
Copyright 1998 Inter Press Service
December 10, 1998, ThursdayHEADLINE: AFRICA-ARMS: PRIVATE MILITARY CONTRACTORS FACE CRISIS IN AFRICA
BYLINE: By Gumisai MutumeDATELINE: JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 10
Having experienced a boom in the 1990s, private military companies are facing a crisis in Africa and may have to change tactics if they are to survive, military analysts said.
"The shelf life of private military companies such as Executive Outcomes and Sandline International is limited," said Alex Vines, a researcher with the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch.
"In the long term, the market for private military companies may disappear and in this period of expanding global standards, arguments that attempt to eliminate mercenaries will drive buyers and sellers underground," Vines said at the Privatization of Security in Africa Conference in Johannesburg yesterday.
Executive Outcomes, which is perhaps one of the most widely-known private military companies in the world, had just announced that it is closing shop but did not offer an explanation. The move came in the context of new anti-mercenary legislation to be passed in South Africa next year. ...
"One of the most dramatic recent developments in Africa has been the emergence of Executive Outcomes and other private armies that either have a combat capability or can advice and equip militaries to fight," said Jeff Herbst of Princeton University.
Herbst said the "fundamental reality of private security forces is that doing business in the failed states of Africa is exceptionally problematic." He said that one reason Executive Outcomes was able to operate in Sierra Leone and Angola was that its contracts were backed by diamonds. ...
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Copyright 1998 Orange County Register
December 10, 1998 ThursdayHEADLINE: HEALTH & SCIENCE BRIEFLY; Computer glitch delays the launch of Martian probe
BYLINE: From Register news servicesObservatory discovers most distant quasar
A sky survey that hopes to map one-quarter of the heavens has discovered astronomy's most distant quasar _ a luminous, starlike object emitting superbright light.
The Apache Point Observatory near Sunspot, N.M., has found three of the four most distant quasars since it began its Sloan Digital Sky Survey in May.
The quasars are at the edge of the known universe, which means their light is from a time when the universe was a billion years old and about one-sixth its present size. Astronomers believe the universe is 10 billion to 14 billion years old. ...
The survey is being conducted by several universities, with the latest discovery announced Tuesday by scientists from Princeton University. ...
Star Tribune
Copyright 1998 Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
December 10, 1998HEADLINE: Forecasts as quirky as murky; Some stock market prognosticators' methods smack more of alchemy than the scientific method. Screwball theories surround the markets' vagaries.
BYLINE: Mike Meyers; Staff Writer
The Dow Jones industrial average recently advanced to new highs, then abruptly retreated. Where will the stock market go next?
The truth is, nobody knows.
But that doesn't keep people from using a host of theories to try to figure out where stock prices are headed. The methods range from some with the patina of scientific methodology to many that are clearly screwball.
"Technical analysts" use sophisticated formulas to search for patterns in stock price fluctuations. Others note correlations between stock prices and astrological signs, the length of women's skirts or whether the occupant of the White House is a Democrat or Republican. ...
In a classic book on the stock market, "A Random Walk Down Wall Street," Princeton University economist Burton Malkiel wrote at length about the fallacies of long-term forecasts, whether made by the well-intentioned technical analysts or by scoundrels out for a quick buck.
"The 'cycles' in the stock charts are no more true cycles than the runs of luck or misfortune of the ordinary gambler," Malkiel warned. "And the fact that stocks seem to be in an uptrend, which looks just like the upward move in some earlier periods, provides no useful information on the dependability or duration of the current uptrend." ...
ABC NEWS
SHOW: WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH PETER JENNINGS
DECEMBER 9, 1998HEADLINE: HAVING A COW - THE LATEST ON CLONING
BYLINE: NED POTTER, PETER JENNINGSPETER JENNINGS: Finally this evening, now that we have seen where some of the leading computer mavens think we're going with that technology, how about where man is going? There are certainly scientists who believe that how the cow goes now, man is sure to emulate.
ABC's Ned Potter tonight on the latest cloning.
NED POTTER, ABC News: (voice-over) The problem to some biologists was that, regardless of whether cloning was wrong or not, it was inefficient. To create dolly the sheep, they tried and failed 277 times. But the Japanese team, working with cattle, had a much higher average. They made 10 embryos from the cells of an adult cow and produced eight identical calves.
Prof. LEE SILVER, Princeton University: The technology is moving much quicker than any of us could have ever imagined. ...
The Advocate
Copyright 1998 Capital City Press (Baton Rouge, La.)
December 9, 1998 WednesdayHEADLINE: Defense targeting key votes; White House makes case against impeachment
BYLINE: RAJA MISHRA; STEVEN THOMMA, KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERSDATELINE: WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON - President Clinton mounted a three-pronged defense against impeachment Tuesday that, though staged before the House Judiciary Committee, was aimed unequivocally at a few dozen lawmakers who weren't even in the room.
The White House sent nine scholars, prosecutors and former members of Congress to Capitol Hill to convince a swing group of 30 or so undecided moderate lawmakers that the evidence against the president does not support the charges, the charges even if true do not rise to impeachment and that impeachment itself would paralyze the nation for months.
Apparently unconcerned about alienating committee Republicans, witnesses called impeachment an act of "vindictiveness and vengeance" and argued that its supporters would be judged as "zealots and fanatics. " ...
One of the witnesses, a well-known liberal historian, warned committee members that history would judge them poorly if they support impeachment.
"If you understand that the charges do not rise to the level of impeachment, or if you are at all unsure, and yet you vote in favor of impeachment anyway, for some other reason, history will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness," said Sean Wilentz of Princeton University.
The charge rankled some Republicans, who admonished Wilentz for his lack of civility.
"I'm very disappointed that the president's defense would send witnesses to this committee that would say we're driven by vengeance. ...
Albuquerque Tribune
Copyright 1998 Albuquerque Tribune
December 09, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Sloan Survey, N.M.'s newest telescope, detects quasar at edge of the universe
BYLINE: Lawrence Spohn TRIBUNE REPORTERNew Mexico's newest telescope has discovered the farthest quasar ever detected.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Apache Point Observatory near Alamogordo, which opened in May, has already been credited with finding three of the four most distant quasars known.
The latest discoveries, announced Tuesday by Princeton University, have found quasars at the edge of the known universe. That means their light is from a time when the expanding universe was just a billion years old and about one-sixth its current size. Astronomers say the universe is 10 billion to 14 billion years old.
Quasars, until recently believed to be the most distant objects detectable with telescopes, are compact and brilliant objects that astronomers suspect are powered by supermassive black holes at their hearts. ...
Still only in its shakedown test phase, the Sloan telescope was also praised by Princeton University's Xiaohui Fan, the graduate astronomer who confirmed the quasar discovery on Thanksgiving morning with fellow Princeton astronomer Michael Strauss.
"We could identify these quasars so readily," Fan said in a news release, "because of the Sky Survey's unique characteristics; its superb telescope and camera; the power of the analysis software; and the large amount of sky it can cover." ...
AP Online
Copyright 1998 Associated Press
December 09, 1998; WednesdayHEADLINE: How Much Contrition Is Enough?
BYLINE: TOM RAUM
DATELINE: WASHINGTONCould President Clinton escape an impeachment recommendation by the House if he showed more contrition?
That's one of the threads running through the House Judiciary Committee's inquiry. The president's legal team was wrapping up its two-day presentation today.
As both sides sought to sway the 20 to 30 moderate Republicans viewed as swing votes if the impeachment issue reaches the House floor, the president's attitude has become a central element. ...
On Tuesday, the White House presented as witnesses a series of academics and legal experts and former House members who testified on the differences with Watergate 25 years ago.
Schumer asked them their views on the relevance of contrition -- or lack thereof.
''There is no constitutional standard for lack of contrition,'' said Sean Wilentz, a Princeton University history professor. ...
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Copyright 1998 The Atlanta Constitution
December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS;
'Open your mind . . . and focus on the record'Excerpts from impeachment proceedings against President Clinton on Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee, as transcribed by the Federal Document Clearing House:
''The phrase 'high crimes and misdemeanors' is not a familiar one in modern American jurisprudence. Common law constituted a category of political crimes against the state, and neither high crime nor high misdemeanor have ever been terms used in the criminal law.'' --- Nicholas Katzenbach, former attorney general. (Class of '43)
''Is the conduct of the president such that he should be removed from office because as a consequence of that conduct the public no longer has confidence that he can perform the duties of that high office? Remember, impeachment is a political process, a political remedy to preserve confidence in that political process, not to punish a perpetrator.'' --- Katzenbach.
''I strongly believe that the weight of the evidence runs counter to impeachment. What each of you on the committee and your fellow members of the House must decide, each for him or herself, is whether the actual facts alleged against the president, the actual facts and not the sonorous formal charges, truly rise to the level of impeachable offenses. If you believe they do rise to that level, you will vote for impeachment and take your risks at going down in history with the zealots and the fanatics.'' --- Sean Wilentz, professor of history, Princeton University.
''There is no constitutional bar to censure. Anyone who proposes that has simply not read the Constitution clearly enough, because there's simply no bar to it anywhere there. You may censure, by resolution, anyone you care to, just as you can pass a resolution on virtually anything under the sun.'' --- Wilentz.
''In 1868, there weren't the photographers and the film crews and the TV cameras and the media circus that surrounds, that's been surrounding this proceeding from the beginning. It's gone beyond a question of simply what's going to happen in the room, it's what goes on throughout the country. And that to me is almost as dangerous as what's going on here in this chamber. And that's a vast difference in 1868. If 1868 was like a pebble in the pond, this is going to be like a boulder thrown into the pond.'' --- Wilentz.
The Boston Globe
Copyright 1998 Globe Newspaper Company
December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: The case for the defense; Clinton camp makes pitch for undecided vote
BYLINE: By Bob Hohler and Michael Kranish, Globe Staff
WASHINGTON - Casting President Clinton's sex scandal as "sinful" and "maddening" but "not impeachable," a White House lawyer yesterday launched a climactic effort to end the impeachment drama by appealing to a bloc of undecided House members who might control the president's fate. ...
In a particulary pointed warning to lawmakers who are considering voting for impeachment charges, a Princeton University historian, Sean Wilentz, warned that any member who supports the charges without being "absolutely convinced" that they warrant Clinton's ouster "will be fairly accused of gross dereliction of duty and earn the condemnation of history." ...
Calgary Herald
Copyright 1998 Southam Inc.
December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: White House alters strategy in defence of 'sinful' Clinton
BYLINE: PETER BAKER AND JULIET EILPERIN, THE WASHINGTON POST
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
Recasting its defence strategy to appeal to critical moderate Republicans, the White House, acknowledged Tuesday that U.S. President Bill Clinton's misconduct with Monica Lewinsky was "sinful" and his testimony about it "maddening," but argued he should not be forced from office as a result.
With the House judiciary committee poised to approve articles of impeachment this week, the president's legal team largely dispensed with the attacks on Clinton's accusers and instead offered its most comprehensive rebuttal to the case against him, including its first direct challenge to the credibility of Lewinsky's testimony implicating him. ...
Tuesday's session did not offer the fireworks of Starr's daylong grilling before the committee last month. Instead, it featured the most sober and substantive examination of the case against the president from both sides since the committee opened its inquiry. ...
But some of the witnesses he introduced were less restrained. Princeton University's Sean Wilentz, in particular, infuriated Republican judiciary members by saying that those who vote to impeach will risk going "down in history with the zealots and the fanatics." ...
The Daily News of Los Angeles
Copyright 1998 Tower Media, Inc.
December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: MODUS OPERANDI; DAHL'S 'FANTASTIC MR. FOX' INSPIRES SOUNDS OF PICKER, VISUALS OF SCARFE IN NEW PRODUCTION DEBUTING TONIGHT
BYLINE: Reed Johnson Daily News Staff Writer
Growing up outside New York City in the late 1950s, Tobias Picker couldn't stomach most so-called ''children's literature.'' About the only authors of that ilk he could abide were A.A. Milne and ''a little bit of Dr. Seuss.''
But there was one children's author the precocious Picker rated highly: Roald Dahl, who gave the world ''James and the Giant Peach,'' ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' and other prepubescent classics.
Only thing was, Picker didn't actually read those books until later in life. Instead he was drawn to Dahl's adult fiction, a taste he'd acquired from his parents. ...
''Fantastic Mr. Fox'' arrives at a moment when a handful of American composers, several of them just entering their peak years, have been writing operas. The past two seasons alone have seen the debuts of ''Emmeline,'' Tod Machover's ''Brain Opera'' and Michael Torke's ''King of Hearts,'' plus Andre Previn's adaptation of ''A Streetcar Named Desire,'' which premiered earlier this season in San Francisco.
Like many of his contemporaries, Picker spent much of his early composing career studying under an older generation of devout serialists. His teachers included such godfathers of atonality as Elliott Carter at the Juilliard School, Charles Wuorinen at the Manhattan School of Music and Milton Babbitt at Princeton University. ...
Dayton Daily News
Copyright 1998 Dayton Newspapers, Inc.
December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: WHAT THEY SAID
'Only those examples of perjury which actually attack the vitals of the state, the vitals of our political system, to me is an impeachable offense.' PROF. SEAN WILENTZ Princeton University
The Des Moines Register
Copyright 1998 The Des Moines Register, Inc.
December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Defense meets skepticism/ Clinton's lawyers make case
BYLINE: Jane Norman
Register Washington BureauWashington, D.C. -Defenders of President Clinton told the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that nothing he has done justifies impeachment, although the president's lawyer conceded that Clinton's testimony in the Paula Jones civil lawsuit was "evasive, incomplete, misleading -even maddening."
Attorney Gregory Craig also argued that there is no more solemn or awesome moment in history than when members of the House undertake impeachment. The president's denials of an improper relationship with intern Monica Lewinksy do not constitute an abuse of office that deserves "overturning a national election and removing our president from office," he said. ...
Skeptical committee Republicans maintained that the president lied under oath, and they bristled at a statement by another that they will be viewed by history as "zealots and fanatics" if they back impeachment.
"That kind of name-calling by the president's defense is disappointing and demeaning to this proceeding," said Rep. Steve Buyer, R-Ind.
"If you understand that the charges do not rise to the level of impeachment . . . and yet you vote in favor anyway . . . history will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness."
- Sean Wilentz, Princeton University professor
The Detroit News
Copyright 1998 The Detroit News, Inc.
December 09, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Clinton team crafts play for absent GOP: Real fight isn't to change panel members' minds, but to influence a handful of moderate Republicans
BYLINE: By Dina ElBoghdady / Detroit News Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- While the White House mounted its case against impeachment on Capitol Hill Tuesday, the real fight focused on getting moderate Republicans to side with the president and distance themselves from the GOP's conservative wing.
With only an 11-seat margin in the outgoing U.S. House, the GOP is urging its rank-and-file not to stray from the party while the White House is catering its defense to appeal to those roughly 20 Republican swing voters. ...
But many legal scholars, joined by Republican House members, say censure would be unconstitutional and would undermine the president's ability to govern. Clinton's punishment, they say, must be impeachment or nothing.
Sean Wilentz, a Princeton University history professor, warned those members who vote for impeachment to ease political pressure that they "will earn the condemnation of history."
"You will vote in favor of impeachment and take your risks at going down in history with the zealots and the fanatics," said Wilentz, who testified Tuesday. "History will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness." ...
THE FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
Copyright 1998 Star-Telegram Newspaper, Inc.
December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Panel hears president's defenders
BYLINE: Ron Hutcheson, Star-Telegram Writer - Washington BureauWASHINGTON - Hoping to head off a historic impeachment vote, White House lawyers asserted yesterday that President Clinton did not commit perjury when he denied a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky because he believed he was telling the truth.
The explanation came in a detailed 184-page defense delivered to the House Judiciary Committee as part of a last-ditch effort to avoid articles of impeachment.
Saying that "the time has finally come for the president to make his case," Clinton's lawyers argued that his misdeeds fall far short of the constitutional standard for removal from office. ...
Many of their arguments were aimed not at the Judiciary Committee, where opinions have hardened on both sides, but at about two dozen Republican moderates who could save Clitnon from impeachment by the full House next week.
Directing his comments at undecided lawmakers, historian Sean Wilentz of Princeton University warned Republicans that if they support impeachment for partisan reasons, "history will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness. " ...
The Gazette (Montreal)
Copyright 1998 Southam Inc.
December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Smart move, indeed!: Two of Quebec's brightest win Rhodes scholarships to Oxford
BYLINE: DOUG SWEET; THE GAZETTEThese people are so bright it hurts.
The students who annually capture coveted Rhodes scholarships are generally acknowledged to be the best and the brightest in a wide range of endeavours - and not just because they've got fabulous marks.
Consider this year's Quebec winners: Marco Gualtieri, of Dollard des Ormeaux, who attends McGill University, and Sophie Dumont, a native of St. Agapit, who attends Princeton University in New Jersey. ...
Dumont, 22, a gymnast and one of the few students to graduate from Princeton with what is in effect a double major - in physics and biophysics - will study at Oxford with an eye to a doctorate in physics. She's a graduate of Le Petit Seminaire du Quebec and her specific area of study will be flagellar motors of E. coli bacteria - microscopic engines that help propel the bacterium. Specialists in nanotechnology (scientists who hope someday to create microscopic machines) have studied flagellar motors in an effort to replicate them in actual machines. ...
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Copyright 1998 The Hartford Courant Company
December 9, 1998 WednesdayHEADLINE: CLINTON'S LAWYERS PLAY TO HOUSE MODERATES
BYLINE: DAVID LIGHTMAN; Washington Bureau ChiefDATELINE: WASHINGTON --
Create a reasonable doubt, and your client wins his case. It doesn't hurt if you can show he's sorry, too.
That's what the White House tried to do Tuesday and will attempt again today as it presents its final defense against impeachment to the House Judiciary Committee.
That the committee, with its bitterly divided 21 Republicans and 16 Democrats, will vote at least one article of impeachment Friday or Saturday is a foregone conclusion. ...
Perhaps the strongest message to the waverers has come from Sean Wilentz, a Princeton University history professor. "If you believe [the charges against Clinton] do rise to that level," he said, "you will vote for impeachment and take your risk at going down in history with the zealots and the fanatics." ...
The Houston Chronicle
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December 09, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Quotes from Tuesday's session
A sampling of comments form the House impeachment hearings on Tuesday:
Princeton University professor of history Sean Wilentz: "You may decide as a body to go through with impeachment, disregarding the letter as well as the spirit of the Constitution, defying the deliberate judgment of the people whom you are supposed to represent But if you decide to do this, you will have done far more to subvert respect for the framers, for representative government and for the rule of law than any crime that has been alleged against President Clinton."
Investor's Business Daily
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December 9, 1998HEADLINE: E D I T O R I A L S Damage To The Country?
The White House line against impeachment is solidifying. Keep attacking the process, impugn the motives of the investigators and talk about how the country is at risk if President Clinton is impeached. What hubris.
The latest tack the president's defenders are taking combines the attacks with a new line - the future of the republic is at stake. ...
Princeton University professor Sean Wilentz toed the same shrill line. He told the members who may vote to impeach, ''History will track you down and punish you for your cravenness.''
And, he added, ''If you ... vote for impeachment, (you) take your risks at going down in history with the zealots and the fanatics.''
Wilentz went on, saying, ''Impeaching (Clinton) is a far greater threat to the rule of law than not impeaching him.'' ...
THE KANSAS CITY STAR
Copyright 1998 The Kansas City Star Co.
December 9, 1998 WednesdayHEADLINE: Making history, not just recording it: Scholars debate role of their peers in House hearings
BYLINE: BRIAN BURNES, The Kansas City StarTuesday marked a most visible descent of historians from their ivory towers.
Sean Wilentz, history professor at Princeton University, appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to argue that President Clinton's offenses, however serious, did not amount to impeachable ones.
This followed the October release of an open letter, signed by Wilentz and about 400 fellow historians, that argued much the same.
Both events have sparked debate among historians as to the propriety of taking sides in a partisan battle. Some critics wonder whether historians are trying to make history instead of write it. ...
Herb Parmet, a New York author of recent biographies of George Bush and Richard Nixon, believes Wilentz's appearance, as well as his message, to be entirely proper.
"Historians have responsibilities as citizens, too," said Parmet. "They should express their points on view of history, just as lawyers express their views on points of law." ...
Los Angeles Times
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December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: THE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS; VOICES
Excerpts from impeachment proceedings Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee, as transcribed by the Fed-eral Document Clearing House:
"The phrase 'high crimes and misdemeanors' is not a familiar one in modern American jurisprudence. Common law constituted a category of political crimes against the state, and neither high crime nor high misdemeanor have ever been terms used in the criminal law."
--Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, ['43] former attorney general.
"I strongly believe that the weight of the evidence runs counter to impeachment. What each of you on the committee and your fellow members of the House must decide, each for him or herself, is whether the actual facts alleged against the president, the actual facts and not the sonorous formal charges, truly rise to the level of impeachable offenses."
--Sean Wilentz, professor of history, Princeton University.
Los Angeles Times
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December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: THE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
BYLINE: RICHARD A. SERRANO and MARC LACEY, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
The White House on Tuesday mounted what it called "a powerful case against the impeachment of this president," arguing from morning to night before an at-times abrasive and exhausted House Judiciary Committee that President Clinton should not be removed from office.
To bolster its case, the White House also issued a 184-page report that sought to rebut allegations in the investigation by independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr and again offered contrition for the president's admitted personal failings in the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal. ...
Even testimony from some of the experts brought harsh exchanges from Republicans.
Sean Wilentz, a history professor at Princeton University, cautioned the lawmakers against impeachment, saying that Clinton's actions did not reach the severity of high crimes.
"If you believe they do rise to that level, you will vote in favor of impeachment and take your risks at going down in history with the zealots and the fanatics," he said.
"If you understand that the charges do not rise to the level of impeachment, or if you are at all unsure and yet you vote in favor of impeachment . . . history will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness."
Many Republicans were insulted.
Los Angeles Times
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December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: THE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS; NEWS ANALYSIS;
BYLINE: RONALD BROWNSTEIN, TIMES POLITICAL WRITER
It may have been the political equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded theater.
Faced with a core of House Republicans determined to impeach the president, and a public resistant to the idea but largely disengaged from the debate, the White House seemed to have one goal above all at Tuesday's Judiciary Committee hearing: to convince the House--and the public--that a vote to impeach, even without a Senate conviction, would be a momentous decision with far-reaching political, policy and historical ramifications.
"The goal of the Republicans so far--and they have been effective at it--is to make this vote as small and insignificant as possible," said one senior White House official. "The bigger the vote, the more significant the vote, the harder it is for them to cast this vote."
That was the administration's message from the outset. The White House's first panel--an assemblage of legal experts and historians anchored by gray eminences Nicholas deB. Katzenbach and Samuel H. Beer--offered almost a generational reproach to the hotheaded baby boomers on both sides of the Judiciary Committee who have reduced the debate over removing a president into little more than a typical partisan shouting match. ...
Is a House impeachment vote--which would send the issue to the Senate for a trial--analogous to a grand jury returning an indictment? "To see that as your role I think is a violation of your oath of office," Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz said. ...
M2 PRESSWIRE
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December 9, 1998HEADLINE: NSF National Science Medalists named
President Clinton today named nine of the nation's most renowned scientific researchers to receive the National Medal of Science, citing them for "their creativity, resolve, and a restless spirit of innovation to ensure continued U.S. leadership across the frontiers of scientific knowledge."
The individuals awarded the nation's highest scientific honor have had wide-ranging impact on social policy, cancer research, materials science, and greatly extended knowledge of our Earth and the solar systems. Their theoretical achievements also led to many practical applications. ...
John N. Bahcall, [professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and visiting lecturer at Princeton University], was a key figure in helping plan the development of the Hubble Space Telescope while also pioneering the development of neutrino astrophysics.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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December 9, 1998HEADLINE: OBITUARY
Kieckhefer, James Ferdinand Senior Born to this Life on March 2, 1918. Entered Eternal Life on Dec. 7, 1998 joining his beloved wife Judith R. Kieckhefer. ...
Jim was an alumnus of Milwaukee Country Day School, Class of 1935; Princeton University, Class of 1939 and Harvard University Business School, Class of 1941. ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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December 9, 1998 WednesdayHEADLINE: Lawmakers' conduct belies solemn nature of hearing
BYLINE: FRANK A. AUKOFER
DATELINE: WashingtonThere cannot be, said the president's lawyer, any more solemn or awesome moment in the history of the republic, no more soul-searching vote, than impeachment.
It was a statement nowhere in dispute, even though it was expressed as part of Gregory Craig's plea in defense of Presi dent Clinton to the members of the House Judiciary Committee.
But if it was so important, why were there so many empty seats? ...
And why were there what some Republicans took to be personal insults, as when Sean Wilentz, professor of history at Princeton Uni versity, suggested that some "zealots and fanatics" might vote for impeachment even if they were not certain the charges rose to that level?
If anyone did that, Wilentz said, "history will track you down and condemn you for your cravennes s."
The answer likely lay in the fact that nobody expected anything to change, so that the president's defense was an exercise, a matter of going through the motions, with no one bridging the chasm. ...
The New York Times
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December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: TESTING OF A PRESIDENT;
Questioning Impeachment as a Tool: A Remedy, Yes, but Never a PunishmentFollowing are excerpts from the statements before the House Judiciary Committee today by a panel of experts on history and the law, as recorded by the Federal News Service, a private transcription service. The witnesses were called by lawyers for the White House to help it present a case against the impeachment of President Clinton.
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach ['43]
Former United States Attorney General and former senior vice president of I.B.M.
The job of this committee is to weigh the facts of President Clinton's alleged conduct against the limiting provision of the Constitution: "other high crimes and misdemeanors." The job may seemingly be made more difficult because of the application of that term to judges as well as the President and Vice President. But judges are appointed during good behavior, a term which significantly does not apply to the four year -- to limit the four-year term of the President. By removing one of several hundred Federal judges from office, it doesn't have the same constitutional significance as removing the President. Even removal of a Supreme Court justice would raise different considerations from removing the President. And the standard is far higher than for judges, as Congressman, as he was then, Gerald Ford recognized when he proposed impeachment of Justice Douglas.
To come to the same conclusions on the same facts in such different situations would make a mockery of the Constitution and the intentions of the founding fathers. Only if one takes the view, articulated by Senator Fessenden in the Johnson impeachment, that impeachment is a power, quote, "to be exercised with extreme caution in extreme cases," can the same standard apply to both Presidents and judges? One simply needs to take into consideration the different roles and responsibilities of the officers involved. ...
Sean Wilentz
History professor at Princeton University
It is no exaggeration to say that upon this impeachment inquiry, as upon all Presidential impeachment inquiries, hinges the fate of our American political institutions. It is that important.
As a historian, it is clear to me that the impeachment of President Clinton would do greater damage -- great damage to those institutions and to the rule of law, much greater damage -- than the crimes of which President Clinton has been accused.
More important, it is clear to me that any representative who votes in favor of impeachment, but who is not absolutely convinced that the President may have committed impeachable offenses -- not merely crimes or misdemeanors, but high crimes or misdemeanors -- will be fairly accused of gross dereliction of duty and earn the condemnation of history. ...
Now, a great deal of the disagreement among historians stems from a small but fateful decision taken by the Constitutional Convention's Committee on Style. Before the Constitution reached that committee, Mason's original wording on impeachment was changed from "against the state" to "high crimes and misdemeanors against the United States." The committee was charged with polishing the document's language, but with instructions that the meaning not be changed at all.
Yet by removing, in Article I, Section 4, the words "against the United States," the committee created a Pandora's box, which we have opened 211 years later. ...
Finally, on the question of the rule of law, what I say in my written statement is basically that it is a greater threat to the rule of law to actually go ahead with this impeachment than not to go ahead with this impeachment. The argument that, somehow, allowing the President to get away with a suspected perjury and obstruction of justice will countenance an irreparable tear in the seamless web of American justice; that if we impeach the President, the rule of law will be vindicated if only in a symbolic way, proving forcefully that no American is above the law and that the ladder of the law has no top and no bottom. This argument, I believe, is nonsense, logically and historically, with all due respects. Rather, I believe, and we can talk about this later on, the impeachment process itself poses a far greater risk to the rule of law. ...
The New York Times
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December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: TESTING OF A PRESIDENT: THE SCENE; A Day of Furious Crossfire Sharpens the Partisan Edges
BYLINE: By FRANCIS X. CLINESDATELINE: WASHINGTON
"Something is actually happening here," Representative Zoe Lofgren announced in a tone of quiet amazement, interrupting the nation's mood of holiday bustle to voice the growing fears of House Democrats that President Clinton could be impeached by Christmas.
"Many in the country are not aware of that," the California Democrat continued wide-eyed before the House impeachment hearing, as if offering disturbing news just now dawning. "They thought it was over."
That it is far from over was made clear as today's marathon impeachment hearing ground long and angry without a break for 11 hours until 9 P.M. before the House Judiciary Committee. Presidential defenders, finally having two days to make their case, sent in waves of panelists and stung majority Republicans with some rough-edged denunciations of them as cowardly partisans and "vindictive" lame ducks. ...
Republicans bristled when one of Mr. Clinton's most ardent defenders, Sean Wilentz, the Princeton University historian, unapologetically pronounced judgment on members who would vote for impeachment even if they had doubts about how serious the accusations were: "History will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness." ...
The New York Times
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December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: TESTING OF A PRESIDENT: NEWS ANALYSIS;
Clinton Pitch: Down MiddleBYLINE: By ALISON MITCHELL
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Dec. 8As the White House set out Pesident Clinton's defense before the House Judiciary Committee today, the audience that mattered most was not the one in the cavernous hearing room. Nor was it the nation's television viewers.
It was 20 to 30 moderate Republicans, who can swing a House impeachment vote one way or the other and who urgently need a compelling rationale if they are to oppose impeaching Mr. Clinton.
"I'm desperately looking for a reason that it can be explained away," said one of them, Representative Brian P. Bilbray of California. Of the President himself, Mr. Bilbray said, "I just wish he'd spent more time explaining himself than having attack dogs go after these issues." ...
Even today, though, the President's side seemed tone-deaf at times, with some witnesses condescending to or on the offensive against committee Republicans. Sean Wilentz, a professor of history at Princeton University, told the members that they risked "going down in history with the zealots and the fanatics."
But the committee is already a lost cause from the White House perspective, certain to report out at least one and perhaps as many as four articles of impeachment by Saturday. That much was underscored today as the Republican majority time and again showed little patience with efforts to explain away some of Mr. Clinton's statements across the last year. ...
The New York Times
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December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Japanese Scientists Clone a Cow, Making Eight Copies
BYLINE: By GINA KOLATAScientists in Japan report that they have cloned eight calves from cells they gathered from a slaughterhouse, creating eight identical copies of a single cow. Though half of the calves died, some biologists say the results indicate that the cloning of cows may be at least as efficient as in vitro fertilization.
Cows are the third adult mammal to be cloned. The first was a lamb named Dolly, whose birth was announced in February 1997. She had been cloned from an udder cell. Then came mice, announced last July. And suddenly cloning, which just two years ago had been thought biologically impossible, is looking like it might be entirely feasible, if not easy, according to cloning experts. ...
"Is it possible with humans? Perhaps," Dr. Zirkin said. "But I'm not sure this speaks to that. Different species are just very very different."
But Dr. Lee Silver, a molecular biologist at Princeton University, said he already knows of two qualified fertility specialists who want to clone humans. And so, he says, "anyone who thinks that things will move slowly is being very naive."
Newsday
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December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: THE DEFENDERS / CLINTON TEAM INSISTS SCANDAL NO WATERGATE
BYLINE: By Elaine S. Povich. WASHINGTON BUREAU; Deborah Barfield, William Douglas and James Toedtman contributed to this story.
Washington - Facing a hostile Judiciary Committee and an uncertain vote in the House of Representatives, the White House legal team yesterday launched an impassioned defense of President Bill Clinton designed to stop impeachment by the House and mobilize public support for the president.
With an impeachment vote on the House floor expected in about a week and the vote likely to be close, White House lawyer Gregory Craig urged members of the House Judiciary Committee and, indirectly, all House members to: "Open your mind. Open your heart. And focus on the record." ...
A panel of witnesses argued that Clinton's conduct, while reprehensible, does not rise to impeachable offenses. Sean Wilentz, a history professor at Princeton University, said the House's duty is to judge the weight of the charges, not to simply send the allegations to the Senate for trial. ...
National Public Radio
SHOW: NPR MORNING EDITION
DECEMBER 9, 1998, WEDNESDAY 10:45 am ETHEADLINE: Writer's Big Break
BYLINE: Frank Deford, Fairfield; Bob Edwards, Washington, DCHIGHLIGHT: Commentator Frank DeFord remembers how probable presidentia candidate Bill Bradley gave him his big break.
FRANK DEFORD, COMMENTATOR: Bill Bradley came to Princeton when I was a senior there. He'd planned to go to Duke but then he broke his leg, started browsing through some college catalogues again as he recuperated, changed his mind, and sort of showed up unannounced. The word started drifting up to us on the campus newspaper that there was this incredible freshman with a big rump and arched eyebrows scrimmaging in the gym. ...
It was still the NCAA rule then that the freshmen couldn't play varsity, so we would all show up early for the freshmen prelim to watch Bradley score 40 points and hand off for 20 assists when he got tripled teamed, toying with little crewcutted, towheaded boys. ...
So almost for a lark, I, the kid writer, was assigned to do the story on the unknown kid player, and it ran under the provocative headline "The Princeton Boy Who Beat the Pros."
It was the first the world at large had ever learned of Bill Bradley. But, hey, it was also my first big deal byline, and, of course, simply because Bradley was in fact all I'd said he was, my stock as a basketball expert took a quantum leap, another assist for Bradley.
Then, since some good players came to Princeton to play alongside of him, by his senior year the team was good enough to make the Final Four and Bradley was the player of the year in college basketball. It all makes me think how right now, as Bradley's presidential campaign begins, that once again he's that undervalued Princeton freshman up against the pros. ...
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL
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December 9, 1998 WednesdayHEADLINE: WHAT THEY'RE SAYING
Excerpts from impeachment proceedings against President Clinton on Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee, as transcribed by the Federal Document Clearing House:
"If you decide to do this [vote for impeachment], you will have done far more to subvert respect for the framers, for representative government and for the rule of law than any crime that has been alleged against President Clinton, and your reputations will be dark- ened for as long as there are Americans who can tell the difference between the rule of law and the rule of politics." - Sean Wilentz, professor of history, Princeton University
The Record
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December 9, 1998; WEDNESDAYHEADLINE: MARATHON DEFENSE; CLINTON'S ACTION 'SINFUL, NOT IMPEACHABLE'
BYLINE: PETER BAKER and JULIET EILPERIN, Washington Post News Service
The White House, recasting its defense strategy to appeal to crucial moderate Republicans, acknowledged Tuesday that President Clinton's misconduct with Monica S. Lewinsky was"sinful"and his testimony about it"maddening,"but argued he should not be forced from office as a result. ...
But some of the witnesses he introduced were less restrained.
Princeton University's Sean Wilentz, in particular, infuriated Republican Judiciary members by saying that those who vote to impeach will risk going"down in history with the zealots and the fanatics."To those who support impeachment without being absolutely sure the president's actions amounted to high crimes, Wilentz added, "History will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness." ...
The Richmond Times Dispatch
Copyright 1998 The Richmond Times Dispatch
December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: ACTS NOT IMPEACHABLE, DEFENSE SAYS; CONCEDES BEHAVIOR MIGHT BE UNLAWFUL
BYLINE: Marsha Mercer and Gil Klein; Media General News ServiceIn a last-ditch effort to avert impeachment, the White House conceded yesterday that President Clinton's behavior was wrong, immoral, sinful and arguably unlawful - but not impeachable. "Nothing in this case justifies this Congress overturning a national election and removing our president from office," White House special counsel Gregory B. Craig said as he opened a marathon two-day defense case before the House Judiciary Committee.
"As surely as we all know that what he did is sinful, we also know it is not impeachable," Craig said. ...
Historian Sean Wilentz of Princeton University raised hackles when he said someone who votes for impeachment risks "going down in history with the zealots and fanatics ... and your reputations will be darkened for as long as there are Americans who can tell the difference between the rule of law and the rule of politics." ...
Sacramento Bee
Copyright 1998 McClatchy Newspapers, Inc.
December 9, 1998HEADLINE: "VOICES'
"I strongly believe the weight of the evidence runs counter to impeachment. If you do believe they rise to that level, you will vote for impeachment and take your risks at going down in history with the zealots and the fanatics. History will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness." -- Princeton University Professor Sean Wilentz.
The San Francisco Chronicle
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DECEMBER 9, 1998, WEDNESDAYHEADLINE: What They Said at Yesterday's Judiciary Committee Session
Nicholas Katzenbach, former attorney general ['43]
"It seems to me clear that in our system of separation of powers, this (grounds for impeachment) cannot mean simply disagreement, however sincere, however strongly felt. . . It must be some conduct, some acts, which are so serious as to bring into question the capacity of the person involved to carry out his role with the confidence of the public."
Sean Wilentz, Princeton University history professor
"If you decide to do this, you will have done far more to subvert respect for the framers, for representative government and for the rule of law than any crime that has been alleged against President Clinton, and your reputations will be darkened for as long as there are Americans who can tell the difference between the rule of law and the rule of politics."
There is no constitutional bar to censure. Anyone who proposes that has simply not read the Constitution clearly enough because there's simply no bar to it anywhere there. You may censure, by resolution, anyone you care to, just as you can pass a resolution on virtually anything under the sun."
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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December 09, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Defenders say Clinton was 'sinful'; But they argue his offenses are not impeachable
SOURCE: COPLEY NEWS SERVICE Copley News Service reporter Finlay Lewis contributed to this report.BYLINE: Dana Wilkie WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON -- President Clinton's defenders yesterday launched a vigorous two-day argument against impeachment, acknowledging the "maddening" nature of the president's conduct while attacking the factual and constitutional basis of the Republicans' case against him. ...
Other panelists argued that the Founding Fathers intended for Congress to remove a president only if it was clear his offenses rendered him incapable of performing his duties.
"If you believe (Clinton's offenses) do rise to that level, you will vote for impeachment and take your risk at going down in history with the zealots and the fanatics," said Sean Wilentz, a professor of history at Princeton University.
Rep. George Gekas, R-Pa. called the remark "despicable," and Rep. Mary Bono, R-Palm Springs, said she objected to being called a "zealot."
The Times-Picayune
Copyright 1998 The Times-Picayune Publishing Co.
December 9, 1998 WednesdayHEADLINE: GHOST OF WATERGATE FRONT AND CENTER; OTHERS INVOKE HISTORY'S JUDGMENT
BYLINE: By Francis X. Clines 1998 N.Y. Times News ServiceDATELINE: WASHINGTON
"Something is actually happening here," Rep. Zoe Lofgren announced in a tone of quiet amazement, interrupting the nation's mood of holiday bustle to voice the growing fears of House Democrats that President Clinton could be impeached by Christmas. ...
Republicans bristled when one of Clinton's most ardent defenders, Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz, unapologetically pronounced judgment on members who would vote for impeachment despite being unsure of how serious the accusations are: "History will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness." ...
USA TODAY
Copyright 1998 Gannett Company, Inc.
December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Tart-tongued enmity dominates impeachment hearing
BYLINE: Kathy KielyDATELINE: WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON -- The House Judiciary Committee kicked off its marathon final week of impeachment deliberations Tuesday in a room that was half empty of people but filled with acrimony.
Republicans insisted that President Clinton perjured himself in trying to conceal his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. They said that Clinton split verbal and legal hairs to avoid admitting it.
"Get to the point; don't give me word games," the normally mild-mannered Rep. Asa Hutchinson, R-Ark., burst out at one point at an answer delivered by White House lawyer Greg Craig. ...
The White House recruited Ivy League scholars, legal top guns and veterans of the Watergate impeachment proceedings to back up its contention that Clinton's sexual misdeeds should not trigger an impeachment trial.
"The public has shown again and again it has no stomach to watch this nauseating spectacle continue," Princeton University history professor Sean Wilentz declared. "History will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness."
Rep. George Gekas, R-Pa., called Wilentz's analysis of the Republicans' motives "despicable." ...
The Washington Times
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December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Clinton team offers 'apologies' and then denials; GOP hears familiar story, but no admission of guilt
BYLINE: Frank J. Murray; THE WASHINGTON TIMESPresident Clinton's chief attorney told the House Judiciary Committee's opening impeachment hearing yesterday that the president blames himself "for the wrongs he has committed," and then denied every accusation filed so far.
"Mr. Chairman, I am willing to concede that in the Paula Jones deposition, the president's testimony was evasive, incomplete, misleading, even maddening, but it was not perjury," White House Special Counsel Gregory Craig said.
The Republican majority on the committee said they heard nothing new during the hearing, but were antagonized anew by episodes of what Chairman Henry J. Hyde labeled "verbal gymnastics." ...
One of those witnesses, Princeton University professor Sean Wilentz, jangled committee nerves when he said committee members' reputations also will be darkened as zealots, cowards and fanatics even though he said Mr. Clinton "disgraced the presidency."
"History will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness," said Mr. Wilentz, who refused to back off when members pressed him. ...
The Washington Times
Copyright 1998 News World Communications, Inc.
December 9, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Wilentz: 'History will ... condemn you for your cravenness'; Buyer to priest: 'And you'll be accountable also to the Lord'
. . . CONDEMNED BY HISTORY (Sean Wilentz)
What each of you on the committee and your fellow members of the House must decide, each for him or herself, is whether the actual facts alleged against the president - the actual facts and not the sonorous formal charges - truly rise to the level of impeachable offenses. If you believe they do rise to that level, you will vote for impeachment and take your risk at going down in history with the zealots and the fanatics. If you understand that the charges do not rise to the level of impeachment, or if you are at all unsure, and yet you vote in favor of impeachment anyway for some other reason, history will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness. Alternatively, you could muster the courage of your convictions. The choice is yours. . . .
The Washington Post
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December 09, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Clinton Team Calls His Actions 'Sinful'; With Contrition, Defense Disputes Impeachability
BYLINE: Peter Baker; Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post Staff WritersThe White House largely dropped its attack-the-accuser impeachment strategy yesterday to offer its most comprehensive rebuttal yet to the case against President Clinton, declaring that he should not be thrown out of office even though his extramarital affair was "sinful" and his sworn testimony "maddening."
With the House Judiciary Committee poised to approve articles of impeachment this week, the president's legal team shifted its approach to appeal to critical moderate Republicans who will decide his fate on the floor, returning to the more contrite rhetoric of three months ago while dismissing the evidence assembled against him. ...
But some of the witnesses he introduced were less restrained. Princeton University's Sean Wilentz, in particular, infuriated Republican Judiciary members by warning that those who vote to impeach will risk going "down in history with the zealots and the fanatics." To those who support impeachment without being absolutely sure the president's actions amounted to high crimes, Wilentz added, "History will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness." ...
The Washington Post
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December 09, 1998, Wednesday, Final EditionHEADLINE: Craig: 'Open Your Mind, Open Your Heart'
This morning's Judiciary Committee hearing began with an introduction by Chairman Henry J. Hyde (R-Ill.) of witnesses brought by the president's lawyers to discuss constitutional standards of impeachment. They included Gregory B. Craig, assistant to the president and special counsel; former attorney general Nicholas deB. Katzenbach; Princeton University professor Sean Wilentz; Harvard University professor Samuel H. Beer; and Yale University law professor Bruce Ackerman. After an opening statement by ranking minority member Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), Hyde turned the microphone over to Craig. ...
The Historical View
Katzenbach made the next statement. He described impeachment as a political process, saying that "neither high crimes or high misdemeanors have ever been terms used in criminal law." Because the Constitution mandates separation of the powers of the legislative and executive branches, a president can only be impeached if he commits "some conduct, some acts, which are so serious as to bring into question the capacity of the person involved to carry out his role with the confidence of the public." The fundamental question, Katzenbach said, is whether it is the proper role "of a partisan majority" to conclude that offenses are so serious to warrant removal from office, "even if the public believes otherwise."
Wilentz said he had no intention of defending the president but rather "the institution of the presidency." As a historian, Wilentz said, "it is clear to me that the impeachment of President Clinton would do greater damage . . . than the crimes of which President Clinton has been accused." The constitutional framers, he said, disagreed over what "private crimes" were impeachable; Clinton's actions do not constitute crimes against the state. Those who believe they rise to impeachable level, he said, risk "going down in history with the zealots and the fanatics." For those who don't believe it but vote for impeachment anyway, "history will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness." The argument that letting the president get away with suspected perjury will undermine the republic, Wilentz concluded, is "nonsense, logically and historically." ...
The Washington Post
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December 09, 1998, WednesdayHEADLINE: Speaking of Impeachment . . .
BYLINE: Gene Weingarten, Washington Post Staff WriterIn our continuing ardor to heed Vice President Gore's call for a return to "plain English" in official communications, we present another special edition of Plain English Watch. We have taken lines of testimony from yesterday's House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing and translated them into "plain English." ...
Princeton University Prof. Sean Wilentz, lecturing members of Congress against hypocrisy and sophistry:
"If you understand that the charges do not rise to the level of impeachment, or if you are at all unsure, and yet you vote in favor of impeachment anyway for some other reason, history will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness. Alternatively, you could muster the courage of your convictions. The choice is yours."
Plain English version: ". . . It's entirely yours. Either history holds you down and force-feeds you white-hot coals and staples your eyes shut and flogs you with thorns, or you get to bask forever in the soothing balm of eternal acclamation." ...
Chicago Tribune
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December 9, 1998 WednesdayHEADLINE: CLINTON'S TEAM WOOS MODERATES; ATTORNEYS ADMIT PRESIDENT MISLED
BYLINE: By William Neikirk, Washington Bureau.Reaching out to Republican moderates who could save his presidency, President Clinton sent his lawyers and a team of prominent defenders to the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to admit he misled the American people but assert he did not commit perjury or any other offenses that would justify impeachment.
A former U.S. attorney general, Nicholas Katzenbach ['43], joined academic experts on impeachment, former prosecutors in the Watergate case and former members of Congress who served on the Judiciary Committee during Watergate with essentially the same message: Clinton's behavior was reprehensible. But even if he lied under oath about sex, he should not be removed from office. ...
Two witnesses caused a stir. Sean Wilentz, a history professor at Princeton University, said that House members who believe the allegations rise to the level of impeachable offenses will "take your risks as going down in history with the zealots and fanatics" if they vote for impeachment. Republicans objected strongly to this characterization. ...
U.S. Newswire
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December 08, 1998HEADLINE: Clinton Announces Recipients of Nation's Highest Science and Technology Honors
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Dec. 8BODY: President Clinton announced today the 1998 recipients of the nation's highest science and technology honors, the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology....
John N. Bahcall, Professor of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study [and visiting lecturer] Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, for his pioneering efforts in neutrino astrophysics and his contributions to the development and planning of the Hubble Space Telescope.
ABC NEWS
SHOW: ABC NIGHTLINE
DECEMBER 8, 1998HEADLINE: THE CLINTON DEFENSE
GUESTS: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, DAVID GERGEN
BYLINE: CHRIS BURY, TED KOPPEL
HIGHLIGHT: IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS AND THE WHITE HOUSE DEFENSETED KOPPEL, ABC News: (voice-over) They agree that he misled the nation.
SEAN WILENTZ, Princeton University: He has disgraced the presidency and badly scarred his reputation.
TED KOPPEL: (voice-over) They concede that he stretched the truth.
GREGORY CRAIG, White House Special Counsel: He has himself acknowledged that he was evasive, that he misled people and that he went out of his way to conceal. ...TED KOPPEL: (voice-over) But none of it, they say, is impeachable. ...
CHRIS BURY: (voice-over) It was the President's vague answers to those 81 questions posed by the Judiciary Committee that hardened the positions of so many Republicans. But Democrats raised the possibility the President could be impeached simply because he cannot seem to satisfy Washington's appetite for repentance.
Rep. CHARLES SCHUMER, (D), New York: The American people may wake up next week and find out that the Congress impeached the President for not being contrite enough to certain members of Congress. Does the level of apology, the fulsomeness of apology, the sincerity of apology, should that be entering into one's mind as to whether the President should be impeached?
SEAN WILENTZ: The answer is no, it should not. There is no constitutional standard for lack of contrition. ...
CHRIS BURY: (voice-over) A panel of Ivy League professors, also part of the President's defense, lectured committee members, the Republicans, that is, that history would judge them even more harshly than Mr. Clinton should they vote to impeach him.
SEAN WILENTZ: If you understand that the charges do not rise to the level of impeachment or you are at all unsure and yet you vote in favor of impeachment anyway for some other reason, history will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness.
Rep. GEORGE GEKAS, (R), Pennsylvania: Professor Wilentz, your testimony has really astounded me.
CHRIS BURY: (voice-over) Republicans on the committee, clearly insulted by the Princeton professor, scolded him for stepping over the line.
Rep. GEORGE GEKAS: And I hope that after this is over that you take a roll call of those who voted and then analyze for us, it will take you a hundred years, to determine whether we did it out of cravenness or not. I think that's a despicable way to characterize in advance a possible vote on some serious note as this. ...
Agence France Presse
Copyright 1998 Agence France Presse
December 08, 1998HEADLINE: Main lines of Clinton defense
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Dec 8President Bill Clinton acted immorally in the Monica Lewinsky affair, but not illegally and certainly not in a manner warranting his ouster, his defenders argued Tuesday.
White House counsel Greg Craig and four legal experts and historians stressed that any Clinton misdeeds in the matter did not meet constitutional standards for impeachment. ...
-- the House of Representatives should only vote to impeach to oust Clinton, not merely punish him with the knowledge that the Senate will not remove him:
"Some have said that we should impeach a president because we do not think the Senate will remove him. And this perverted logic turns the impeachment vote into a thoroughly politicized and reckless move," said Princeton University professor Sean Wilentz.
"If you understand that the charges do not rise to the level of impeachment, or if you are at all unsure, and yet you vote in favor of impeachment anyway for some other reason, history will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness," he said.
The American Banker
Copyright 1998 American Banker, Inc.
December 8, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: WEEKLY ADVISER: Student Accounts Are Worth that Old College Try
BYLINE: By Paul NadlerHarold Zarker, a veteran officer of New Jersey's Princeton Bank and Trust, used to brag that the bank had a major advantage over its only competitor-First National Bank of Princeton-when both were local organizations.
"They are closer to the Princeton University campus, so they get all the trouble of handling the student accounts," Mr. Zucker would say. Student balances were small, overdrafts frequent, and the traffic of collegians cashing $10 and $20 checks an expensive nuisance.
Today, however, some banks are seeing tremendous opportunities on college campuses. Citibank, for example, recently signed an agreement with Columbia University in New York to provide low-cost or free checking to students and allow their identification cards to work in the bank's automated teller machines. So the cards that students use to check out library books, make long-distance calls, pay for campus meals, and gain entrance to residence halls can also be used for banking.
The bank has similar programs for the 85 campuses of 500,000-student State University of New York, and plans to establish satellite branches on campuses where there is no Citibank branch nearby. ...
Business Wire
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December 8, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Grant's Names New President
DATELINE: NEW YORKDec. 8, 1998--
Jeremy Diamond's Mission: to Keep James Grant's Maverick Financial Media Company on Top of its Game During Unpredictable Times in the Global Financial Markets
James Grant believes the U.S. stock market is headed for rocky times, but he is more confident than ever that the company that bears his name will continue to grow. ....
"Readers have come to know Grant's for our skeptical, unorthodox views on the financial markets, for our independent and well-researched investment ideas and for our high quality presentation," says Diamond. "The challenge for us editorially is to continue to keep our eye on what's next in the financial markets, for it is the future alone that matters most to investors and businesspeople. The challenge for us as a business is to continue to grow by expanding our current base of subscribers and leveraging our franchise in new publications and new media." After graduating from Princeton University in 1986, Diamond, 35, joined what is now Lehman Brothers as a corporate analyst, first as a generalist and then in the media communications group. At Lehman, he was involved in a number of financing, mergers and acquisition and divestiture activities. Diamond earned an MBA in 1990 from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.
Business Wire
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December 8, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Universal Display Corp. COO Steven V. Abramson talks to The Wall Street Transcript
DATELINE: NEW YORKDec. 8, 1998--
The Wall Street Transcript has published an in-depth interview with Steven V. Abramson of Universal Display Corp. (Nasdaq:PANL), in which he talks at length about his company's future. He states, "Universal Display Corporation is a fabless flat panel display company. We do the research and development in organic light emitting diodes, (OLED) technology, and we intend to enter strategic alliances, including technology licensing and joint ventures, with experienced manufacturing and marketing companies to manufacture and sell products using our breakthrough technology. The initial market that we're addressing is the $35 billion display market. Our research partners are Princeton University and the University of Southern California." ...
The Legal Intelligencer
Copyright 1998 Legal Communications, Ltd.
December 8, 1998 TuesdayHEADLINE: Davis Honored With Marshall Award
The Philadelphia Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section honored Court of Common Pleas Judge Legrome Davis with the Annual Justice Thurgood Marshall Award at their Annual Holiday Cocktail Reception on Nov. 30.
Davis has served on the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia since 1987 and is currently the supervising judge of the Criminal Division, with principal responsibility for all issues of policy, planning and administration involving criminal case processing. ...
Judge Davis is a frequent lecturer on criminal justice system policy at state and national conferences for judges, attorneys and criminal justice professionals. He regularly provides technical assistance to criminal justice systems across the nation and in other countries in the development of effective case flow management systems and the integration of case processing systems with dispositional alternatives.A graduate of Princeton University and RutgersCamden School of Law, Davis was recently nominated by President Clinton for service on the United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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December 8, 1998 TuesdayHEADLINE: OBITUARY
Kieckhefer, James Ferdinand Senior Born to this Life on March 2, 1918. Entered Eternal Life on Dec. 7, 1998 joining his beloved wife Judith R. Kieckhefer. ...
Jim was an alumnus of Milwaukee Country Da y School, Class of 1935; Princeton University, Class of 1939 and Harvard University Business School, Class of 1941. ...
National Journal's CongressDaily
Copyright 1998 The National Journal Group, Inc.
December 8, 1998SECTION: IMPEACHMENT
HEADLINE: Clinton's Team Begins To Make Case Before House PanelAs Ivy League professors made a case against President Clinton's impeachment, the president's lead attorney insisted today there is "no proof" Clinton committed perjury and that Monica Lewinsky gave "erroneous testimony." ...
The professors from Harvard, Yale and Princeton universities further infuriated Republicans with their chorus of insistence that whatever crimes or misbehavior of which Clinton was guilty did not merit impeachment. The most caustic panelist was Sean Wilentz, a history professor from Princeton, who warned the members they could "go down in history as zealots and fanatics."
Apparently addressing ambivalent moderate Republicans who are being told impeachment is not a politically risky vote, Wilentz said any member who goes through with such a vote without believing it is merited would be guilty of "a feeble evasion of responsibility and degradation of the rule of law." Each of the academicians, as well as former Attorney General Katzenbach -also appearing as a witness - insisted even if the charges that Clinton lied were true, he should not be impeached. ...
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Copyright 1998 MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
December 8, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: The Impeachment Hearings
JIM LEHRER: Good evening. I'm Jim Lehrer. On the NewsHour tonight full coverage of President Clinton's defense presentation before the House impeachment inquiry. We have extended excerpts, plus reaction from two committee members and commentary by Stuart Taylor of the National Journal and Tom Oliphant of the Boston Globe. We'll have the other news of this Tuesday at the end of the program tonight. ...
JIM LEHRER: President Clinton's lawyers began their case against impeachment today. Panels of legal scholars and former House members who voted to impeach Richard Nixon were brought before the Judiciary Committee. All said Mr. Clinton's behavior in the Monica Lewinsky matter did not warrant removal from office. Kwame Holman begins our report. ...
NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, Johnson Attorney General ['43]: It seems to me the fundamental question is simply whether the president has done something which has destroyed public confidence in his ability to continue in that office. If the public doesn't believe that what he has done seriously affects his ability to perform his public duties as president, should the committee conclude that his acts have destroyed public confidence essential to that office? The only question, after all, is removal of office from an elected official. Is it proper? Is it a proper role of a partisan majority in Congress to conclude that the offenses are so serious as to warrant removal even if the public believes otherwise? ...
KWAME HOLMAN: During his opening remarks, Princeton University History Professor Sean Wilentz issued a warning to members of the House who are leaning toward voting for impeachment.
SEAN WILENTZ, Princeton University: What each of you on the committee and your fellow members of the House must decide, each for him or herself, is whether the actual facts alleged against the president, the actual facts and not the sonorous formal charges, truly rise to the level of impeachable offenses. If you believe they do rise to that level, you will vote for impeachment and take your risks at going down in history with the zealots and the fanatics. If you understand that the charges do not rise to the level of impeachment, or if you are at all unsure, and yet you vote in favor of impeachment anyway for some other reason, history will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness. Alternatively, you could muster the courage of your convictions. The choice is yours. ...
National Public Radio
SHOW: NPR ALL THINGS
DECEMBER 8, 1998, TUESDAYHEADLINE: Impeachment Hearings
BYLINE: Linda Wertheimer, Washington, DC; Noah Adams, WashingtonToday a series of witnesses told the House Judiciary Committee that the president's behavior in the Monica Lewinsky case may have been immoral but was not grounds for impeachment. The committee has given the president's legal team two days to present their defense. Then committee members will debate and vote on articles of impeachment relating to perjury, obstruction of justice and abuse of power. ...
Sean Wilentz, a history professor at Princeton University, warned Republicans that future generations would poorly judge a vote that was made in the name of partisanship.
SEAN WILENTZ, HISTORY PROFESSOR, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: If you believe they do rise to that level, you will vote for impeachment and take your risks at going down in history with the zealots and the fanatics. If you understand that the charges do not rise to the level of impeachment or if you are at all unsure, and yet you vote in favor of impeachment anyway for some other reason, history will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness.
WERTHEIMER: That comment by Princeton history professor Sean Wilentz brought a heated reaction from Congressman Steve Buyer, an Indiana Republican.
PR Newswire
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December 8, 1998, TuesdayHEADLINE: Sun Microsystems' Java Technology Making the Grade in the Education Marketplace; Java Technology Enables Campus-Critical Applications
Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced that more and more academic institutions worldwide are incorporating Sun's Java(TM) technology into their everyday and specialized applications. Princeton University, the University of British Columbia (Canada) and the Wharton School of Business are examples of academic institutions that have recently implemented applications using Java technology. ...
Java Technology Reduces Operations Cost at Princeton
Princeton University administers a wide variety of loan programs for its students, faculty and staff, including student loans and accounts, and faculty and staff mortgage programs. Currently, there are more than 28,000 active accounts, which generate more than $400 million in account receivables annually.
In an effort to better service and maintain these accounts, Princeton made the decision to replace its assortment of mainframe-based applications with a centralized, integrated system. The new system utilizes an application based on Java technology, and uses a Oracle database, running on a Sun UNIX(R) server. Java technology's object-oriented design model and flexible user interface made it ideal for Princeton's new loan system. "As a result of the use of Java technology in the application, users can support and maintain changes in accounts, without programmer intervention," said Maria Bizarri, project leader and manager of student accounts, Princeton. "This significantly reduces the operation costs of the system." Princeton estimates that its operational costs are approximately 60 percent lower than comparable operations....