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Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ.)
Copyright 1999 Asbury Park Press, Inc.
January 27, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Lawmaker pays schools a visit
BYLINE: SONYA BEARD; FREEHOLD BUREAU
STUDENTS AND TEACHERS shouldn't be surprised if Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., shows up at a school assembly or science fair.
New Jersey's newest congressman plans to make it a priority to visit schools in his district.
Yesterday, Holt toured schools in three counties, making a stop at Freehold Township High School. Responding to an invitation of a sophomore there, he met with about 35 members of the student government program, Junior State of America.
"I want to visit as many schools as I possibly can," said Holt, who sits on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Visiting schools, Holt said, is his way of getting to the central interest of the district and his constituents. ...
Before being elected to Congress, Holt was running a multimillion-dollar physics research center at Princeton University. The congressman has a doctorate in physics. ...
The Columbus Dispatch
Copyright 1999 The Columbus Dispatch
January 27, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: STUDENT FINDS GENES STUDY TO BE GOOD FIT
BYLINE: Ruth E. Sternberg , Dispatch Schools Reporter
An Upper Arlington High School senior has made a small discovery that could help researchers find a way to control throat and mouth cancer.
Dan Stover, working as an intern at the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital at Ohio State University, discovered that a gene extracted from cancer patients seems to be smaller than normal.
The gene - known as p16, a cancer-blocker - seems to have been altered and shut off, permitting cancer to recur. ...
At OSU he has worked with Dr. Jas Lang, a molecular oncologist who studies how genes are altered when cancer develops.
Lang taught Stover how to extract individual genes from cancer cells using a process called electrophoresis, which applies an electrical field to genetic material and separates it.
Stover compared samples from different patients to each other and to material from normal cells.
He would like to continue his work and plans to attend Princeton University to pursue a career in molecular biology and medicine. ...
The Columbus Dispatch
Copyright 1999 The Columbus Dispatch
January 27, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: AUTO ENGINEER IDLED OWN MOTOR TO START CALIFORNIA VINEYARDS
BYLINE: Karin A. Welzel, Dispatch Food Writer
My dad is a General Motors man. I grew up riding in Chevrolets and Buicks. I remember as a child seeing on the edge of the door side panel a drawing of a royal coach with the words ''Body by Fisher,'' the trademark of Fisher Body of Detroit. Founded by several brothers named Fisher, the corporation was acquired by GM in 1919.
Imagine my surprise last week when I saw that same coach embossed on the label of two very terrific bottles of wine from Sonoma County, Calif. The brand?
Fisher Vineyards.
The man behind the vintages is Fred Fisher, grandson of Fisher Body patriarch Charles Fisher. Fred Fisher visited central Ohio last week to showcase his wines for retailers and the media at Seven Stars restaurant in the Worthington Inn.
Now in his mid-60s, Fred Fisher - named after one of his father's brothers - started his career in the Fisher tradition, working for GM after earning an engineering degree at Princeton University and a master's in business administration at Harvard College. ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
January 27, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Board of Medical Journal Defends an Ousted Editor
BYLINE: By GINA KOLATAEditors and members of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Association are defending the dismissed editor of the publication in its next issue.
The editor, Dr. George D. Lundberg, was dismissed last week because he published a paper reporting that many Midwestern college students, surveyed eight years ago, did not consider oral sex to be "having sex." The association's vice president, Dr. E. Ratcliffe Anderson Jr., said that Dr. Lundberg had expedited the article for a political purpose, to coincide with the impeachment trial of President Clinton. ...
In discharging Dr. Lundberg, Dr. Anderson said that the immediate cause was the oral sex article but that he had over time "lost confidence and trust" in Dr. Lundberg. Dr. Anderson would not be specific, but many observers said that in his 17 years as editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Lundberg had nettled some people with his strong opinions and the sometimes controversial papers he published.
For example, Uwe E. Reinhardt, an editorial board member and health economist at Princeton University who protested the dismissal, noted that Dr. Lundberg had irritated some doctors with his comments on autopsies on the CBS News program "60 Minutes." A "60 Minutes" producer, Walt Bogdanich, reported that Dr. Lundberg had said, "Some doctors, some medical staff, are afraid to find out what happened in people who died." ...
The Plain Dealer
Copyright 1999 Plain Dealer Publishing Co.
January 27, 1999 WednesdayHEADLINE: TAFT PLANNING TO BE EDUCATION GOVERNOR
BYLINE: By HARAZ N. GHANBARIDATELINE: COLUMBUS
A year ago, Bob Taft talked with a student reporter about his interest in changing the educational process and raising graduation standards in Ohio.
"If elected governor, my No. 1 priority would be to try and improve the quality of education," he said. "I would like to see virtually every student graduate from high school prepared for college, life and on the job."
Taft is now in a position to put his ideas into action.
On Jan. 11, Taft was inaugurated as the 67th governor of the state of Ohio. ...
Taft's alma maters include Yale University, from which he received his undergraduate degree; Princeton University, where he earned a master's in government; and the University of Cincinnati, where he earned a law degree. Taft also worked in East Africa as a teacher for the Peace Corps. ...
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Copyright 1999 Bergen Record Corp.
January 27, 1999; WEDNESDAYHEADLINE: CONFRONTING THE NAKED TRUTH AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
BYLINE: JAMES AHEARN
WHEN I HEARD Princeton's Nude Olympics mentioned on the news the other day, my first thought was the university had finally hit on a strategy to beat Harvard.
Princeton is a very good school. It prides itself in particular on the quality of its undergraduate education. But it has had trouble matching Harvard on what admission deans call"yield,"the percentage of admitted applicants who actually enroll.This is the sort of problem that, in the business world, leads to a marketing recommendation: the client should identify its"unique product advantage"and promote it. And what does Princeton have that Harvard and Yale don't?
When a newspaper reporter put this question to a Princeton student recently, the response was immediate."The Nude Olympics."Give that scholar an A. So far as I know, no other institution of higher learning has a tradition like this one. ...
This year, though, things got out of hand. Five students were hospitalized with alcohol poisoning and four others had to be treated at the university's infirmary.
Some female participants complained that they had been groped. ...
None of this attracted attention outside Princeton until the president of the university, Harold T. Shapiro, expressed concern. He was not worried about the nakedness. He was worried about the drinking. ...
University Wire
Copyright 1999 Daily Targum via U-Wire
January 27, 1999HEADLINE: Rutgers U. Core courses create cohesion
BYLINE: By Teresa T. Liao, Daily Targum
SOURCE: Rutgers U.
DATELINE: New Brunswick, N.J.While students may choose a major or minor that suits their individual interests, the University requires them to complete core requirements that some say provide a more diverse learning experience. Core-curriculum requirements are "an important component in graduation requirements," Godfry Roberts, associate dean of undergraduate education at Rutgers College, said. There is no effort on the University's part to move away from these requirements, Roberts said, though some American schools, like the University of Chicago, are moving away from a core curriculum-based structure. Last summer, the University developed a list of learning goals, Susan Forman, vice president for undergraduate education, said.
The three main goals of the University are to educate students in intellectual and communication skills; to understand human behavior, society and the natural environment and to understand responsibilities of the individual within the society, Forman said. "Each college reviewed the requirements," Forman said. Although individual colleges within the University set their own graduation requirements, "generally the core curriculum is to develop some coherence in the education for students," Forman said. Princeton University has the same goal. The school's requirements system gets students to explore Princeton's full curriculum, associate dean of Princeton University Hank Dobin said. ...
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
January 27, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Lawyer Christopher Meyer Dies; Was Authority in Copyright Law
Christopher Meyer, 52, an authority in copyright law and a 1996 founder of the Chevy Chase law firm of Meyer & Klipper, died of stomach cancer Jan. 22 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He lived in Chevy Chase. ...
Mr. Meyer, who was born in Connecticut and raised in suburban Maryland, served four years in the Army including a tour in Vietnam. A 1964 graduate of Sandy Spring Friends School, he was a 1972 cum laude graduate of George Washington University, where he majored in economics. He was a 1975 graduate of Rutgers University law school. In 1983 and 1984, he was a statistics and economics fellow at Princeton University. ...
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
January 27, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: A Club That Costs Millions to Join; NFL Owners Like to Select Their Peers
BYLINE: Liz Clarke, Washington Post Staff Writer
Owners of the National Football League's 31 teams constitute what is considered one of the most exclusive clubs in the United States. On Thursday in Miami, the owners' Finance Committee takes the club's first step toward admitting its next member. ...
William Clay Ford Jr., Vice Chairman, Detroit Lions
Son of Lions' chairman and president William Clay Ford. Appointed vice chairman in 1995. Elected to Ford Motor Company's Board of Directors in 1988, assumed chairmanship of the Finance Committee for Ford Motor in 1995. A Princeton University graduate with a master's in management from MIT. ...
The Boston Globe
Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company
January 26, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: US health costs up 6.1% in '98; But in Mass. rates rose modest 1.5%, survey says
BYLINE: By Ale Pham, Globe StaffHealth care inflation is back.
After years of holding the line on health care costs, insurance companies began to significantly raise premiums in 1998, according to a survey being released today by William M. Mercer, a benefits consulting firm in New York.
Total premiums paid by employers and workers surged 6.1 percent in 1998, up sharply from a 0.2 percent increase in 1997, according to Mercer's nationwide survey of 4,181 employers with 17.2 million workers in America. ...
Drug prices were a major driver of costs, rising 13.8 percent last year, according to the survey, which was known as the Foster Higgins survey until 1997, when Mercer purchased Foster Higgins, a consulting firm that put out the annual report.
"Pharmaceutical companies have been able to extract enormous profits in recent years," said Uwe E. Reinhardt, professor of health economics at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
In addition, years of luring new members with low premiums have eroded insurance companies' profit margins. As a result, many insurers are jacking up premiums to shore up their finances.
"From 1994 to 1997, lots of insurance companies were pricing below their costs in order to build market share," said Reinhardt. "In the process, they pulverized their reserves and their net worth. Eventually they have to rebuild those reserves, and they do that by raising premiums." ...
The Columbus Dispatch
Copyright 1999 The Columbus Dispatch
January 26, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: DISSIDENT FORESEES VICTORY; TIANANMEN PARTICIPANT
BYLINE: Bill Bush , Dispatch Staff ReporterChinese dissident Chai Ling took the stage last evening at the Columbus Academy and immediately raised her right hand in the air to wave the ''V'' victory sign.
She's a petite, 32-year-old former model and child-psychology student from Beijing University who rose to become one of China's most wanted criminals for fighting the system. She says democracy is on its way to China. ...
Speaking to about 150 people at Columbus Academy in Gahanna, Chai said she was taught that communism would bring peace, equality, justice and prosperity, as people worked for joy, not money. ...
Since (1989), she has earned a master's degree in public affairs from Princeton University and a master's in business administration from the Harvard Business School. She now lives in Boston and is president of China Dialogue, a watchdog group. ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Copyright 1999 Journal Sentinel Inc.
January 26, 1999 TuesdayHEADLINE: Mosse was known for groundbreaking research/ UW-Madison history professor wrote, taught about Europe, Nazism
BYLINE: ELDON KNOCHE
SOURCE: Journal Sentinel staffUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison history professor George L. Mosse, who wrote pioneering books on European history and Nazi culture, died of liver cancer Friday at his Madison home. He was 80.
Noted for his exuberant teaching style, his spellbinding lectures and his research, Mosse was named the campus' first Bascom professor in 1965. ...
In 1964, Mosse wrote "The Crisis of Germ an Ideology: The Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich," and "really turned the field on its head," said Anson Rabinbach, a history professor at Princeton University. "Before that, people argued Nazism was a brutal and repressive regime devoid of ideas. Mosse . . . showed that Nazism was deeply rooted in a set of beliefs and an ideological framework which he called volkish ideology." ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
January 26, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: Conservatives Open Drive Against Affirmative Action
BYLINE: By ETHAN BRONNEROn 15 campuses across the country, students will open their college newspapers today to a full-page advertisement with the headline "Guilty by Admission" and, in bold print, "Nearly Every Elite College in America Violates the Law. Does Yours?"
The advertisement, which condemns "the lingering presence of unlawful racial preferences" and urges students to download or send away for a free handbook on how to tell whether their college is breaking the law on race and admissions, is part of a new campaign by the Center for Individual Rights, a conservative public-policy law firm in Washington.
The student handbook includes sections on how to use freedom of information laws, what kinds of data to request from the university, what disparities to note and how to find a lawyer and bring a lawsuit.
The campaign, to be announced today at a Washington news conference featuring former Education Secretary William J. Bennett and the commentator Nat Hentoff, asserts that most colleges that engage in race-conscious admissions do so in a way that violates the law. ...
Mr. Pell said many colleges had reduced the notion of "diversity" to nothing more than skin color or ethnicity, in violation of the Bakke ruling. He said the center's campaign was necessary now because the debate had shifted with recent defenses of race-conscious admissions, notably in a book by William G. Bowen and Derek Bok, "The Shape of the River" (Princeton University Press, 1998), which points to the policy's benefits, largely the building of a black middle class. ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
January 26, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: Molecule Study Puts Student in Finals of Science Contest
BYLINE: By WILLIAM H. HONANNobody at the Bronx High School of Science much knows what Daniel H. Grollman is talking about when he gets going on platelet-endothelial adhesion, but the topic caught the attention of researchers at the Cornell medical college. And yesterday, it won him nationwide attention: He was one of 40 high school students chosen as finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search. ...
All Intel Science Talent Search entries were reviewed and judged by scientists from a variety of disciplines and overseen by J. Richard Gott, a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University and a former Science Talent Search finalist in 1965. ...
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
January 25, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Princeton expenses up 3.5 percent
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.
Princeton University's trustees have passed a $614 million budget that raises tuition by 3.4 percent to $24,630 a year.With room and board, undergraduates will pay $31,599 to go to Princeton in 1999-2000. The increase in total expenses is 3.5 percent, a drop from last year's 3.7 percent increase, according to the budget passed Monday.
Room charges increased 6 percent to $3,262 and board charges increased 2 percent to $3,707.
Graduate tuition will also be $24,630. Room and board prices will rise 3.4 percent, although the actual expenses vary depending on graduate students' residential and dining plans.
BUSINESS News New Jersey
Copyright Snowden Publications Inc 1999
January 25, 1999HEADLINE: Taking aim at the mass market
BYLINE: Rob GarverDATELINE: Princeton; NJ; US; Middle Altantic
For years, the icon of architect Michael Graves' side business in home products design was the whistling bird teakettle, manufactured by the Italian firm Alessi. The kettle, made of stainless steel and topped with a little red bird on the spout, retails for more than $100, and since 1985, more than a million have been sold.
At a party at the Whitney Museum in New York City last week, Graves launched his new collection of home and garden products designed for the Target discount retail chain. At the door, attendees were given a name tag to hang around their necks; dangling from the bottom was a bright red plastic whistle. Inside the museum, they were immediately faced with a wall on which dozens of teakettles from Target's Michael Graves Design Collection were mounted, each with the same red whistle at the end of the spout. The message was clear: Graves' designs for Target may not be made of the same materials or carry as hefty a price tag as his other work (the Target whistle kettle retails for $34.99) but, the architect insists, he did not skimp on the design.
Graves, a professor at Princeton University who runs his architecture firm out of two converted 18th and 19th century homes on Nassau Street in the college town, took the podium to make this very point midway through the festivities. The combination of free wine and a whistle around every neck had its predictable result, but when the noise finally died down, Graves tried to explain his latest project in terms that the assembled design aficionados would understand. "If Steuben asks me to design a glass vase, I am delighted to do so. If Target asks me, I'm delighted as well. The same energy goes into both projects. Steuben glass may be one kind of glass and the glass made for the mass market may be another, and the price reflects that, which we think is proper. ...
Buy Outs
Copyright 1999 Securities Data Publishing
January 25, 1999HEADLINE: Whatever Happened to the Leverage in LBO?
BYLINE: David SnowWhen it comes to growing a company, you can't have too much liquidity. But how about when you're trying to show a return on a buyout fund? As the amount of equity going into deals increases, buyout professionals are lauding the positive effects the trend will have on a portfolio company's financial stability and sustained growth. What they are less eager to talk about is the effect that less leverage is having on returns.
According to data from Portfolio Management Data, L.L.C., the equity piece in buyout deals is steadily growing. In 1988, for instance, an average deal used 9.7% equity. In 1998, that percentage crept from 31.1% before Labor Day to 34.2% afterwards, and even higher in the fourth quarter.
General partners point out that the unusually large amount of equity going into deals in the fourth quarter of 1998 had more to do with the temporary credit crunch than with any long-term trend, but others, particularly lenders to the buyout community, say they believe that buyout transactions will continue to be more conservatively structured, that the percentage of debt in deals will continue to be lowered, and with it returns to buyout funds and their limited partners. In response, general partners are trying, against the odds, to maintain price discipline, and to employ a buyout strategy that seeks to increase returns from growth, not leverage. Another tactic has been to acquire a platform company with a high level of equity and hope that subsequent add-on companies can be bought with more leverage, bringing down the overall proportion of equity. ...
Jon Sweemer, a managing director at Nassau Capital L.L.C., the investment arm of Princeton University, says that buyout funds still give good returns when adjusted for risk. But he also feels that the larger amounts of equity going into deals now is symptomatic of the large amounts of equity capital that buyout funds are sitting on. "If you believe that buyout funds are overcapitalized, then you'll believe that they may be overcapitalizing their companies," he says.
Mr. Sweemer also says that he sees buyout funds as good investments for the long term, but adds that the run-up in multiples has the potential to make buyout funds lose some luster. "You don't want to hear Hey, I just got you a 15% risk-adjusted return, and you should be happy with this,'" he says. ...
Crain's Chicago Business
Copyright 1999 Crain Communications Inc.
January 25, 1999HEADLINE: PEOPLE: IN NEW ROLE, LEFF OUT TO REAP GAINS FOR SECOND HARVEST
BYLINE: JEFF BORDEN
Professional goals and personal interests are intertwined for Deborah Leff, who in February becomes president and CEO of Second Harvest, a national food bank that distributes more than 1 billion pounds of donated food and grocery products annually.
''My own personal giving has always focused on hunger,'' says Ms. Leff, 47, most recently president of the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation. ''People shouldn't be hungry in America. Not having enough food affects people in so many ways. Sometimes, just two bags of food can be the difference between making it and not making it.'' ...
A Princeton University graduate with a law degree from the University of Chicago, Ms. Leff worked as a trial attorney for the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice in the 1970s. She later joined ABC News, where she was a senior producer of ''Nightline,'' ''World News Tonight'' and ''20/20.''
She joined the Joyce Foundation in 1992. With assets of more than $850 million, the foundation awards more than $35 million in grants annually in the areas of employment, education, gun violence prevention, environment, culture and campaign finance reform. ...
THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN
Copyright 1999 The Daily Oklahoman
January 25, 1999, Monday CITY EDITIONHEADLINE: Vouchers Await Final Grade Inner-City Choice Important, Supporters Say
BYLINE: Bobby Ross Jr., Staff WriterAs the superintendent of Milwaukee's 100,000-student public school system, Howard Fuller advocated vouchers.
Now a Marquette University education professor, the prominent black leader remains an outspoken supporter.
Vouchers let students choose any public, private or church-related school - at taxpayer expense.
"For me, quite honestly, it has always been an empowerment issue," said Fuller, who directs Marquette University's Institute for the Transformation of Learning. ...
Meanwhile, Princeton University professor Cecilia Rouse concluded the voucher students did perform significantly better in math, but not in reading. ...
The New Republic
Copyright 1999 The New Republic, Inc.
JANUARY 25, 1999HEADLINE: The Rubble
BYLINE: Stephen KotkinHIGHLIGHT: Russia, the Soviet Union, and the presentness of the past.
The Collapse of the Soviet Military
by William E. Odom
(Yale University Press, 523 pp., $35)Likholet'e Cursed Years
by Nikolai S. Leonov
(Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia, 396 pp., $16.95)The Price of the Past: Russia's Struggle with the Legacy of a Militarized Economy
by Clifford G. Gaddy
(Brookings Institution Press, 250 pp., $42.95)Nobody has yet captured the enormity of the Soviet collapse. Hindsight has brought the belated understanding that when Leonid Brezhnev's carotids hardened and he sank into a long, dribbling stupor, the entire Soviet Union began to go blue; but it took commentators a long time to catch on that Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms were an unintentional intensification of the decomposition. It has taken even longer for the same grim recognition regarding Boris Yeltsin's reforms. The Soviet decay began many years ago and it did not end in 1991. Even more importantly, it may not end anytime soon.
In the late 1980s, when the much-delayed "renewal" began, the Soviet Union became trapped in the ultimate hollowness of the Communist enterprise, and its predicament took the form of auto-liquidation. Planning was junked, but the Soviet-era industrial stock could not be disposed of merely by pulling a chain. Duly privatized, this largely nonviable economic base coughs and wheezes on, its toxicity still degrading the environment and diminishing life expectancy. In the absence of investment, even the Soviet-era infrastructure that is worth retaining crumbles. Outside Moscow, schools and hospitals chip away, airports are conquered by weeds, villages try to recall what life was like when power grids supplied electricity. The fitful marketization of recent years did not begin this colossal breakdown, and it will not reverse it. ...
Stephen Kotkin, director of Russian studies at Princeton University, is writing a book on the Soviet-Russian decay.
Plastics News
Copyright 1999 Crain Communications, Inc.
January 25, 1999HEADLINE: TONER PLASTICS IS LACING UP CRAFT INDUSTRY
BYLINE: Frank Antosiewicz PLASTICS NEWS CORRESPONDENTAGAWAM, MASS. -- With a product many crafters call gimp, extruder Toner Plastics Inc. has been growing steadily, moving to a bigger building in the past two months and adding one more extrusion line.
Gimp, a flat plastic lace made of flexible PVC, is a staple for the craft industry. It can be braided. Beads and other additions can turn into a fancy bracelet or necklace. Summer campers are quite familiar with it. So are any children involved in any craft classes.
''They call it boondoggle, lanyard and gimp, depending what part of the country you're in,'' said co-owner and President Steven L. Graham. ''In France, it's Scooby-doo."
He said the product is made under a variety of trademarked names, but it is a simple extruded lace produced in a variety of colors. ...
The company is named after the late Richard K. Toner, a professor at Princeton University. Graham said he chose to honor his adviser, who convinced him to stick with chemical engineering when he was in school.
Toner Plastics found its niche in the crafting business. ...
Sports Illustrated
Copyright 1999 Time Inc.
January 25, 1999HEADLINE: Pussycats No More;
After decades of mediocrity (or worse), the Princeton Tigers are in the Top 10
BYLINE: E. M. SwiftThe long, dark Russian winter of Princeton hockey has come to an end. How long? How dark? Well, the Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush presidencies came and went without Princeton hockey's having so much as a .500 season. But the 1998-99 Tigers are cats of a different stripe. Halfway through the season Princeton is 11-4-1, ranked eighth in the country and tied for second in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) with a 7-2-1 record.
"Guys are sick of the talk about the past," says Princeton's co-captain and leading scorer, Jeff Halpern, a senior from Potomac, Md., who is a candidate for the Hobey Baker Award, given to the nation's top collegiate player. (Baker, class of '14, led the Tigers to a 27-7 record over his three-year career, during the golden era of Princeton hockey.) "My freshman year, guys just wanted to get to the middle of the pack," Halpern says. "Now our goals are different. We can't be compared yet to the elite teams in the country who do it year in and year out, but on any given night we can beat any of those guys." ...
University Wire
Copyright 1999 Michigan Daily via U-Wire
January 25, 1999HEADLINE: Recent complaints address U. Michigan 'Naked Mile' safety
BYLINE: By Adam Brian Cohen, Michigan Daily
SOURCE: U. Michigan
DATELINE: Ann Arbor, Mich.Since the early 1970s, sophomore students at Princeton University have gathered in a campus courtyard on the eve of the first snowfall of the year to participate in the Nude Olympics, an evening of naked festivities.
But a week and a half ago, Princeton President Harold Shapiro submitted a letter to The Daily Princetonian expressing his intent to end the Nude Olympics because of alcohol-related problems following this year's event and other safety issues surrounding the tradition.
"I am simply not willing to wait until a student dies before taking preventive action," Shapiro, who served as president of the University of Michigan in the 1980's, wrote in his Jan. 11 letter to Princeton's student newspaper.
Concerns similar to Shapiro's now have Ann Arbor questioning the safety of it's own nude tradition - the Naked Mile, which began in 1986 when members of the Michigan men's crew and track teams peeled off their clothes and ran down campus streets to mark the last day of class. ...
"It started as an innocent celebration of the end of classes," said Vice President for Student Affairs Maureen Hartford,
The New Republic
Copyright 1999 The New Republic, Inc.
JANUARY 25, 1999HEADLINE: The Rubble
BYLINE: Stephen KotkinHIGHLIGHT: Russia, the Soviet Union, and the presentness of the past.
The Collapse of the Soviet Military
by William E. Odom
(Yale University Press, 523 pp., $35)Likholet'e Cursed Years
by Nikolai S. Leonov
(Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia, 396 pp., $16.95)The Price of the Past:
Russia's Struggle with the Legacy of a Militarized Economy
by Clifford G. Gaddy
(Brookings Institution Press, 250 pp., $42.95)Nobody has yet captured the enormity of the Soviet collapse. Hindsight has brought the belated understanding that when Leonid Brezhnev's carotids hardened and he sank into a long, dribbling stupor, the entire Soviet Union began to go blue; but it took commentators a long time to catch on that Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms were an unintentional intensification of the decomposition. It has taken even longer for the same grim recognition regarding Boris Yeltsin's reforms. The Soviet decay began many years ago and it did not end in 1991. Even more importantly, it may not end anytime soon.
In the late 1980s, when the much-delayed "renewal" began, the Soviet Union became trapped in the ultimate hollowness of the Communist enterprise, and its predicament took the form of auto-liquidation. Planning was junked, but the Soviet-era industrial stock could not be disposed of merely by pulling a chain. Duly privatized, this largely nonviable economic base coughs and wheezes on, its toxicity still degrading the environment and diminishing life expectancy. In the absence of investment, even the Soviet-era infrastructure that is worth retaining crumbles. Outside Moscow, schools and hospitals chip away, airports are conquered by weeds, villages try to recall what life was like when power grids supplied electricity. The fitful marketization of recent years did not begin this colossal breakdown, and it will not reverse it. …
Sports Illustrated
Copyright 1999 The Time Inc. Magazine Company
January 25, 1999HEADLINE: Pussycats No More; After decades of mediocrity (or worse), the Princeton Tigers are in the Top 10
BYLINE: E. M. SwiftThe long, dark Russian winter of Princeton hockey has come to an end. How long? How dark? Well, the Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush presidencies came and went without Princeton hockey's having so much as a .500 season. But the 1998-99 Tigers are cats of a different stripe. Halfway through the season Princeton is 11-4-1, ranked eighth in the country and tied for second in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) with a 7-2-1 record.
"Guys are sick of the talk about the past," says Princeton's co-captain and leading scorer, Jeff Halpern, a senior from Potomac, Md., who is a candidate for the Hobey Baker Award, given to the nation's top collegiate player. (Baker, class of '14, led the Tigers to a 27-7 record over his three-year career, during the golden era of Princeton hockey.) "My freshman year, guys just wanted to get to the middle of the pack," Halpern says. "Now our goals are different. We can't be compared yet to the elite teams in the country who do it year in and year out, but on any given night we can beat any of those guys." …
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Copyright 1999 The Atlanta Constitution
January 24, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: The Game Zone; 'Final Four' has maddening flaws
BYLINE: Vox DayIt's good to see the NBA is on the way back, but real basketball fans follow the college game, where there are more than two teams capable of playing defense and teamwork supersedes showmanship. However, college hoops has always lagged behind the pros in the video world. Unfortunately, that's still the case. One of my biggest complaints about the game is the small schools that create all the March upset excitement have, until now, always been excluded from the video games. So I was psyched to see "NCAA Final Four 99" includes every school from every conference with a reserved place in the NCAA Tournament. Princeton is there, UNC-Charlotte is there, Valpo is there, and even my alma mater from the Patriot League, Bucknell, is there. It's about time the teams that put the madness in March get their spot on the small screen. ...
THE BALTIMORE SUN
Copyright 1999 The Baltimore Sun Company
January 24, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: The welfare reform issue is rooted in social values; Scholars, books and policies are returning to basic American principles.
BYLINE: Special to the Sun
If you can work for a living, you should support yourself. And, if you work full-time, you should earn a living wage. These two bedrock beliefs one seemingly conservative, the other liberal, sum up what most Americans think about the intricate, intertwined, and emotionally-charged issues of work, wages and welfare. And they explain why public policies are being shaped by two trends enjoying broad public support but espoused by political leaders from different ends of the ideological spectrum. ...
"Work and Welfare" by Robert Solow and edited by Amy Gutmann (Princeton University Press, 112 pages, $19.95) presents a series of lectures at Princeton shortly after the enactment of the 1996 welfare reform. ...
Calgary Herald
Copyright 1999 Southam Inc.
January 24, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Good luck, pros: Tray to beat unorthodox stock picker: It's time for the Finger-of-Fate Portfolio Challenge
BYLINE: BARRY NELSON, CALGARY HERALDHow did you enjoy paying those hotshot investment experts to lose your money last year? Does it get you boiling mad when you think about the fact that the Toronto Stock Exchange 300 Index fell 3.2 per cent during 1998, but the average Canadian equity mutual fund lost 5.5 per cent? ...
Want to watch your broker wiggle? Want to make a grown financial planner whimper? Just mention the name of Princeton University professor Burton Malkiel.
In 1973, Malkiel published a terrific book called A Random Walk Down Wall Street in which he demonstrated the absolute, statistical truth of the following statement:
"The history of stock price movements contains no useful information that will enable an investor consistently to outperform a buy-and-hold strategy in managing a portfolio." ...
The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Copyright 1999 The Deseret News Publishing Co.
January 24, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Mergers in health-insurance industry criticized
BYLINE: By Milt Freudenheim New York Times News ServiceThe health insurance industry is rapidly whittling itself down to a few giant companies that dominate the health systems of some of the country's biggest cities. Critics warn that the trend no longer is simply a threat to doctors and hospitals. It is increasingly raising questions about the cost and availability of care to millions of patients and their employers.
The criticism sharpened after the recent announcements of two billion-dollar deals that would propel Aetna Inc. to first place among the nation's health insurers. Last month, Aetna agreed to buy Prudential Health Care, the No. 5 for-profit managed care company, while it was still digesting its July purchase of Nylcare, No. 11. ...
"The health system is stumbling toward a bilateral monopoly of insurance companies and provider groups in every market," said Uwe E. Reinhardt, a health care economist at Princeton University. ...
If only one insurer is left to deal with local doctors and hospitals, Professor Reinhardt said, "They will send the bill to the consumer" by raising premiums. "Then the government will say: 'You have converted health care into a public utility. We are going to regulate you."' ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Copyright 1999 Journal Sentinel Inc.
January 24, 1999 Sunday FinalHEADLINE: Smaller classes pay off, study finds
Improved test scores could boost program that shrinks student-teacher ratioBYLINE: JOE WILLIAMS
In what appears to be the most successful effort to date in closing the achievement gap between black and white elementary school students, an evaluation released Saturday shows significant gains in a statewide program to reduce class sizes.
The 100-page evaluation of Wisconsin's SAGE program (Student Achievement Guarantee in Education), which looked at 30 schools during the 1997-'98 school year, gives statistical weight to the notio n that smaller classes can result in better outcomes. SAGE targets schools that have a high percentage of low-income students.
The findings are expected to generate a statewide call for expanding the program in Milwaukee and other areas with high numbers of low-income students. ...
A Princeton University researcher last year suggested that one reason schools in Milwaukee's original school choice program outperformed their public school counterparts on standardized tests was because the city's private schools tended to have lower teacher-pupil ratios.
The Princeton study, conducted by Cecilia Rouse, listed the teacher / pupil ratio in MPS at 19.4:1; and in choice schools at 15.3:1. ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
January 24, 1999, SundayBYLINE: By Victor Brombert; Victor Brombert teaches romance and comparative literatures at Princeton University. His new book, "In Praise of Antiheroes," will be published this spring.
PRIMO LEVI
Tragedy of an Optimist.
By Myriam Anissimov.
Translated by Steve Cox.
Illustrated. 452 pp. Woodstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press. $37.95.The voice of Primo Levi (1919-87) is perhaps the most moving to have come out of the hell of the Nazi death camps. Its special resonance has much to do with tragic paradoxes at the core of his work. Levi wanted to speak for those who did not survive, yet he questioned his trustworthiness as a witness. He saw it as a sacred duty to tell the story of those who had reached the bottom of abjection, but considered himself unworthy, even guilty, because he came out alive. He felt compelled to denounce the horrors perpetrated, but preferred to understand rather than judge. At Auschwitz he had stared into the face of irrational cruelty, but he did not give up his optimistic faith in rationality. After the lager, or camp, there was no way for him to believe in divine providence. Yet the same man who referred to the stories that emerged from the camps as a "new Bible" ended up committing suicide.
When Myriam Anissimov's biography of him appeared in France in 1996, it was hailed as an important event. It was the first full-length account of the salient episodes of Levi's life: his growing awareness of the personal threat of Fascism, his capture by the Fascist militia in a Resistance hideout in the Alps, his deportation to Auschwitz, his liberation a year later by Soviet troops, the railway odyssey of his return to his native Turin, his work as a chemist and then as the manager of a chemical factory, his gradual emergence as a major writer and intellectual figure. Anissimov's book, now appearing in a shortened English translation, provides a serious, lively, at times fervently told story that is always sympathetic to Levi's shy personality and restrained tone. ...
The Ottawa Citizen
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January 24, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Shadowing Infeld: Secret documents show the lengths to which Canadian spies went to try to prove exiled physicist was a communist
BYLINE: LEONARD STERN; THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
On the evening of April 16, 1948, a member of the RCMP's "special branch" attended a public lecture at McGill University in Montreal. The special branch served as a domestic spy agency, forerunner to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. On this spring night the operative mingled in the audience, probably posing as a scholar or student, most of whom were associated with McGill's theology department. The agent had been assigned to report on guest speaker Dr. Leopold Infeld, then Canada's greatest physicist. A professor at the University of Toronto, Infeld was well known as a close collaborator of Albert Einstein. It was a great prize for Canada's scientific community when, 10 years earlier, Dr. Infeld left the United States to come north.
Like Einstein, Infeld was a peace activist. "It has been clearly proven that no problem has been solved by war and if we think any problem can be solved by war we are preparing a chain of many wars," declared Infeld, according to the RCMP report filed after the Montreal lecture. ...
Yet two years later Parliament denounced Infeld as a traitor who planned, if he hadn't done so already, to provide Russia with atomic secrets. As the Citizen's Weekly reported last July, the allegations against Infeld were based on rumour. Even so, his photograph was splashed across the nation's newspapers, his family was harassed, and in 1950 he moved to Poland, his country of birth. His Canadian citizenship and that of his young Canadian-born children were revoked. Infeld died an unhappy man in Warsaw in 1968. His tombstone says, simply, "Leopold Infeld, physicist."
Last year, Warsaw University held a symposium in honour of Infeld's memory and organizers invited the Canadian government to send a representative, someone, it was hoped, who would clear the great scientist's name and acknowledge he had been unjustly hounded out of Canada. ...
The Canadian government probably began monitoring Infeld's activities not long after he left Princeton University in 1938 and took up his position in Toronto; by 1945 he was the subject of at least three investigations.
In the early Cold War period, one did not need to be a confessed communist to be a security threat. Infeld once made a complimentary remark about a youth labour federation and that alone earned an entry in RCMP files. Years later, after he was exiled to Poland, he reflected on this climate of mistrust in an essay published by the journal of the Polish Writers Union. ...
Scotland on Sunday
Copyright 1999 The Scotsman Publications Ltd.January 24, 1999, Sunday
HEADLINE: SPORTS DIARY
BYLINE: By Graham SpiersREADERS who like to go naked might be alarmed to learn of the imminent demise of the Nude Olympics - the annual event at Princeton University where students gather at midnight and charge in the stark-nooky across their campus. As Spike Milligan used to say - all that desperately-frozen tackle.
This year's Nude Olympics, which broke out last week, had to have the book thrown at them by authorities after five students entered hospital suffering from "problematic alcoholic poisoning".
This comes after 1997's escapade when 31 Princeton undergrads were in court for marauding through the streets wearing only their birthday-suits, which frightened old ladies. It's good to know that undergrads are still nourishing their minds in this way.
"I am not prepared," said Harold Shapiro, Princeton president, "to wait until a student dies before taking preventive action." Until some undertakings are met - more drinking of Ribena, less flaunting of the cleavages - Shapiro is adamant these Olympics should cease.
I must say I liked the aggrieved response of one Paul Dutton, a third-year economist. With Frank Zappa-like contempt, he inquired: "Can't undergraduates be allowed to run naked in a restrained and dignified manner any more?" ...
Sunday Mail
Copyright 1999 Scottish Daily Record & Sunday Mail Ltd.
January 24, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: NUDE RACES NIGHT GETS BUM'S RUSH
A NUDE sports night at a famous US university is to be axed ... after students indulged in outdoor sex.
Furious executives at Princeton University, New Jersey, were outraged at tales of drunken romps.
Now the college, which has been attended by TV stars like David Duchovny, Brooke Shields and Dean Cain, is banning the saucy sports event after more than 20 years.
College Master Martin Jennings said: "The crowd was very inebriated and there was unacceptable public sexual activity."
Students are to fight the decision to axe the event.
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
January 24, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Mind Altering
BYLINE: Richard MorinNew facts and hot stats from the social sciences
Forget what you've heard about how old dogs can't learn like new tricks. Older people are much like the young in one important way: They're surprisingly flexible in their views and quite willing to reconsider their positions on political and social issues.
"In fact, we found that older adults were just as open to attitude change as were young adults -- it was the middle-aged adults who were most resistant," said Penny Visser, assistant professor of psychology and public policy at Princeton University.
Visser and her research partner, Jon Krosnick, a professor of psychology and political science at Ohio State University, have been sifting through polling data trying to figure out what makes some people change their minds on political issues. ...
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
January 24, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Argentine Plan to Adopt Dollar Draws Interest
BYLINE: Paul Blustein, Washington Post Staff WriterCall it the ultimate act of resistance against the forces menacing the global economy: As currency turmoil in Brazil threatens to swamp its neighbors, Argentina is considering running its economy on U.S. dollars and eliminating its currency, the peso.
The idea of "dollarizing" Argentina, put forward late last week by Central Bank President Pedro Pou, is generating a lively debate among economists and has sparked talk that other Latin American countries might scrap their currencies in favor of establishing a hemisphere-wide dollar zone.
Although some experts are enthusiastic, many deride the proposal as fanciful, and suspicion abounds that the Argentine government is engaging in a rhetorical ploy to convince jittery financial markets that the rigid peg between the peso and the dollar is as sound as the greenback. But the Argentines have been discussing the idea for quite a while with the U.S. Treasury, according to officials on both sides. ...
But critics view dollarization as unlikely to help much. "It's nutty to think that the Argentines can defend themselves by giving up the peso and going with the dollar, when their major trading partner is Brazil, which is undergoing a major devaluation," said Peter Kenen, a Princeton University economist. "They may be able to protect themselves against speculators attacking their currency, but that won't protect them against the real cost of what is happening to their economy." ...
The Toronto Sun
Copyright 1999 Sun Media Corporation
January 23, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: ANIMAL HOUSE RESEARCH WITH MICE SUGGESTS THAT PEOPLE'S ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IS STRONGLYINFLUENCED BY GENETIC FACTORS
BYLINE: STEVE PAYNE, TORONTO SUN
Vices for mices.
Thousands of mice partying at a lab in New Jersey for 10 months at a time.
Booze, cigarettes and cocaine.
All in the name of a scientific study to help show whether drug or alcohol addiction might be in your genes.
Overseeing the party animals -- their genetic systems are similar to humans' -- is professor Lee Silver of Princeton University, N.J.
All else being equal, Silver says 95% of humans crave nicotine if they start smoking. The rest can butt out at will.
With alcohol, 15% of people crave it once tasted and with cocaine it's at least 50%, he adds.
The secret, he says, is finding those people at risk and warning them. ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright 1999 The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 22, 1999HEADLINE: Yugoslavia Bars Scholars Seeking to Meet Dissident Academics in Serbia
BYLINE: LISA GUERNSEYYugoslavia has denied visas to three American scholars and a Canadian Nobel laureate who had planned to meet with academics in Belgrade last week to discuss the government's crackdown on universities in Serbia.
The scholars' visit had been scheduled to coincide with the release of a report critical of new restrictions on academic freedom in Serbia.
Yugoslavia's refusal to admit the scholars was widely denounced by academics and human-rights groups. The U.S. Department of State strongly condemned the action, calling it part of "a comprehensive assault on human rights."
The trip had been organized by Human Rights Watch, an international humanitarian organization. The group also published the report, "Deepening Authoritarianism in Serbia: The Purge of the Universities," which was released last week as scheduled. Serbia and Montenegro are all that remain of the former six-republic Yugoslav federation. ...
The scholars who had been scheduled to make the trip were Jonathan F. Fanton, president of the New School University in New York; John Polanyi, a University of Toronto professor who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986; Richard Rorty, a philosophy professor at Stanford University; and Sam Treiman, a physics professor at Princeton University. ...
The Des Moines Register
Copyright 1999 The Des Moines Register, Inc.
January 22, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Uncharted waters ahead for trial
BYLINE: Terence Hunt
SOURCE: Associated PressWashington, D.C. - After six days of rehearsed speeches, the Senate trial of President Clinton now plunges into uncharted territory.
No one knows what will emerge from 16 hours of unscripted questions from senators, beginning today. After that, there could be unforeseen twists and turns in partisan debate over witnesses, Senate secrecy and motions to dismiss, acquit or convict.
Will Clinton be called or invited to testify? How long will the trial last?
The uncertainty is risky for both sides. ...
For Republicans, there is the threat that scandal-weary Americans will hold them accountable and punish them at the polls for prolonging the ordeal. "You should never go into a war unless you have an exit strategy," Princeton University political scientist Fred Greenstein said. "The problem for the Republicans is to find an exit strategy." ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
January 22, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
NEARY, JOHN F.NEARY-John F., Jr. Died January 8th, 1999 in Rolla, Missouri, at age 91. He was a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School. A long time resident of Englewood, N.J., he was preceded in death by his wife, Rosalia Ingham Neary. He served in the army during World War II and the Korean War and was a partner in the Patent law firm, Brumbaugh, Free, Graves and Donohue, in New York City. His survivors include daughters and sons-in-law; Patricia & Hugh Stewart of Rolla, MO; and Sheila and Wilbur Prezzano of Charleston, SC; and sons and daughters-in-law; J. Michael and Sandra Neary of Federal Way, Washington and Robert and Lettie Neary of Smithville, UT as well as seventeen grandchildren and four great grandchildren. A memorial service was held in the chapel of The Rolla First Presbyterian Church on January 10. Burial will be at Arlington, Cemetery.
Newsday (New York, NY)
Copyright 1999 Newsday, Inc.
January 22, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: LONG ISLAND: OUR FUTURE / BACK TO THE FUTURE . . . / PREDICTIONS FROM THE PAST THAT HAVEN'T COME TRUE . . . YET / WRITING OFF PAPER FILES
BYLINE: BY SIDNEY C. SCHAER. STAFF WRITER
IN THE SPRING of 1979, a model office opened in Washington, D.C., touting itself as a world without paper - a workplace filled with the best technology had to offer, and the promise of more sophisticated automation to come.
"It was pretty impressive," remembered Amy Wohl, a computer expert who was invited to inspect the new, pristine landscape. She recalled the early electronic scanners and microfiche readers and products from more than a dozen vendors, all put together by a management consulting firm.
But the demonstration didn't work out exactly as planned. "The phone began to ring, and it kept ringing, and finally the person leading the tour group answered it," Wohl said. "Then he quietly asked if he could borrow a piece a paper." ...
Edward Tenner, a Princeton University lecturer on the information age, had noticed more than a decade ago that paper wasn't disappearing as expected. Tenner made the reversal a key example in his 1995 book, "Why Things Bite Back - Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences."
"What went wrong with the assumption that electronics would take the place of paper?" Tenner asked in a Harvard Magazine essay in 1988 called "The Paradoxical Proliferation of Paper." "Why did almost nobody foresee that the microchip would be the best thing that happened to paper since governments got people to accept the stuff as money?" ...
Brookings Review
Copyright 1999 Brookings Institution
January 22, 1999HEADLINE: FEDERAL CRIME POLICY TIME FOR A MORATORIUM.
BYLINE: DIIULIO, JOHN J. JR.BEFORE THE LATE 1960s, crime was rarely on the federal government's agenda--for at least three reasons. First, most legal experts and judges thought that the national government had no constitutional role in crime control. Second, the public at large had no expectation that Washington would, should, or could do much to combat crime, and most members of Congress behaved accordingly. Third, many leaders and citizens in the South feared that if the federal government started passing criminal laws, it might make civil rights violations a federal crime.
Over the past three decades, all three of these barriers to an expansive federal role in crime control have fallen. …
Second, since the late 1960s, crime has consistently been a top public concern, and elected leaders at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue and in both parties have campaigned and governed accordingly. …
Third, since the late 1960s, state and local leaders and members of Congress from the solidly Republican South, the nation's most conservative region on crime and many social issues, have gone from being brakes to bulldozers on federal crime policy. …
Since 1995, the crime policy debate in Washington has taken shape largely around four Republican proposals. The first three--restricting the role of federal judges in directing state prisons and local jails; increasing funding for states that adopt and enforce tougher sentencing practices in cases involving adult felons convicted of multiple violent crimes; continuing the 30-year-old war on drugs--were passed by the 104th and 105th Congresses and signed into law by President Clinton. The fourth proposal--giving the federal government a major role in assisting state and local governments that (in the language of one 1995 Senate proposal) "identify violent and hardcore juvenile offenders and treat them as adults"--has provoked three years of ideologically charged and highly partisan debate but has eluded final action. …
NOTE: John DiIulio is a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright 1999 The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 22, 1999HEADLINE: Yugoslavia Bars Scholars Seeking to Meet Dissident Academics in Serbia
BYLINE: LISA GUERNSEYYugoslavia has denied visas to three American scholars and a Canadian Nobel laureate who had planned to meet with academics in Belgrade last week to discuss the government's crackdown on universities in Serbia.
The scholars' visit had been scheduled to coincide with the release of a report critical of new restrictions on academic freedom in Serbia.
Yugoslavia's refusal to admit the scholars was widely denounced by academics and human-rights groups. The U.S. Department of State strongly condemned the action, calling it part of "a comprehensive assault on human rights." …
The scholars who had been scheduled to make the trip were Jonathan F. Fanton, president of the New School University in New York; John Polanyi, a University of Toronto professor who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986; Richard Rorty, a philosophy professor at Stanford University; and Sam Treiman, a physics professor at Princeton University. …
THE KANSAS CITY STAR
Copyright 1999 The Kansas City Star Co.
January 21, 1999 Thursday METROPOLITAN EDITIONHEADLINE: Bob Luder's Northland notebook
BYLINE: BOB LUDERSwimmers qualify to head west
Three swimmers from the Kansas City area and one former swimmer from the area have a big weekend coming up. They have qualified to train with other elite swimmers during a long weekend at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. …
Matt Vogt, a former swimmer at Park Hill and current senior at Princeton University, will join the other three and coach Pete Clark by virtue of his No. 3 ranking in the nation in the 100 freestyle. …
Los Angeles Times
Copyright 1999 Times Mirror Company
January 21, 1999, Thursday, Home EditionHEADLINE: TRIAL OF THE PRESIDENT; CRITICS SAY CLINTON PLAN WOULD FATTEN, NOT PROLONG, MEDICARE;
BYLINE: ALISSA J. RUBIN and ROBERT ROSENBLATT, TIMES STAFF WRITERSDATELINE: WASHINGTON
President Clinton's proposal to prolong the financial solvency of the government's health care program for the elderly would put huge amounts of new money into the Medicare system but would do nothing to assure its viability for the long term, critics said Wednesday.
The president's proposal, which would commit $650 billion to $750 billion in budget surpluses over the next 15 years to Medicare, the government's health care program for 38 million elderly and disabled people, also contemplates expanding the program to cover a costly new benefit: prescription drugs.
Critics immediately took aim at the plan. …
Moreover, the possibility of adding prescription drug coverage is likely to appeal to lawmakers.
"You have this budget surplus on the one hand, and you have on the other hand, staring at this president, a really crying need for prescription drug coverage," said Uwe Reinhardt, an economics professor at Princeton University.
"He is saying there is a chronically ill old American who cannot afford prescription drugs, and we can help her. It's a very serious non-cynical proposal, in my view," said Reinhardt.
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
January 21, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: Newspaper Editor John Eisenhard Dies
John Eisenhard, 81, a Virginia weekly newspaper editor for nearly 35 years before retiring in 1979 as managing editor of the Fauquier Democrat, died Jan. 18 at Fauquier Hospital after a heart attack. He lived in Warrenton.
From 1945 to 1957, he and his wife were co-editors and co-publishers of the Blue Ridge Herald, published in Purcellville. …
Mr. Eisenhard, a native of Allentown, Pa., attended Colgate and Princeton universities. He came to Washington in 1940 as machine operator with the Veterans Administration. During World War II, he was a writer-editor with the Farm Security Agency and the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Board. He also contributed freelance work to The Washington Post. …
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