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April 7, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Premier National Catholic Law School to be Established in the Ann Arbor Area
DATELINE: ANN ARBOR, Mich.Ave Maria Foundation Funds the First Catholic Law School to Open in New Millennium
Bernard Dobranski Named Dean
The Ave Maria Foundation announced today itsplans to build a new, world-class Catholic law school scheduled to open in the fall of 2000. The Ave Maria School of Law, a not-for-profit educational corporation, will be the latest educational institution added to a new campus of Catholic schools in the Ann Arbor area. …
Members of the Ave Maria School of Law Board of Governors include: Professor Robert P. George, Princeton University
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY.)
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April 7, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: The Insider
TRUE TALES ABOUT PEOPLE IN THE NEWS StatsWomen of 18 are more likely to be depressed than men the same age, Self magazine reports.
Citing studies done at the University of Michigan and Princeton University, Self says women are most concerned about how they look, friends and family, self-worth and safety. Doing well in sports was No. 1 with the guys.
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April 7, 1999HEADLINE: BIOLOGIST ASKS: WHY SHOULDN'T KIDS BE GENETICALLY IMPROVED?
BYLINE: RON SOUTHWICK
Newhouse News ServicePRINCETON, N.J. - Princeton University professor Lee Silver does more than defend the use of genetic engineering and cloning technology to make better babies.
Silver encourages it, aggressively and passionately. He takes up the task with relish.
Many people in the bioethics community despise him for it.
While acknowledging that manipulating genes could make dreams and nightmares come true simultaneously, Silver, a molecular biologist, says such science must be encouraged. His explanation is simple:
We all want medicine to make our lives healthier and happier. Silver's book Remaking Eden, just published in paperback, explores how genetic engineering and cloning may change the world.
As its title suggests, he argues that manipulating genes and cloning can lead to a heaven on earth. But even if it leads to hell, Silver suggests, people with money will force the technology to be used.
The American way is If you've got the money, you get what you want,' he says. …
Newsbytes
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April 7, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Java 2 Security Hole Exposed By Experts
BYLINE: Steve Gold;NewsbytesDATELINE: STIRLING, VIRGINIA, U.S.A.
Two US information technology (IT) specialists have confirmed pioneering work carried out by a German researcher into security problems with Java 2, the second iteration of Sun Microsystems' [NASDAQ:SUNW] extensible programming language that was released last December.
Dr. Gary McGraw of Reliable Software Technologies, told Newsbytes that he has been working with Ed Felten of the Secure Internet Lab at Princeton University to verify a very serious flaw in several current versions of the Java Virtual
Machine (JVM) that was originally discovered by Karsten Sohr at the University of Marburg in Germany
"Ed Felten and I announced this Java (2) security hole yesterday to the security research community," he said, adding that Sun was notified several weeks earlier and has developed a patch.
"This hole serves to emphasize that security problems are likely to crop up in new releases of complex systems like Java, even when security is a major goal," he said. …
St. Petersburg Times
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April 07, 1999, WednesdayOBITUARIES
RUSSELL, FRED O., 83, of Clearwater, died Sunday (April 4, 1999) at Bayfront Medical Center, St. Petersburg. He was born in New York City and came here in 1978 from Long Island, N.Y. He retired as vice president of Fleming-Potter Co., Orlando. He was an Army veteran of World War II. He was a member of Countryside
Country Club and was an alumnus of the Lawrenceville School and Princeton University, New Jersey. …
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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April 6, 1999, TUESDAYHEADLINE: THE BLACK ELITE;
A THRIVING NETWORK OF CLUBS TOOK ROOT DURING SEGREGATION
BYLINE: Monte Williams The New York Times News Service
Dr. Chester Redhead opens his garage, walks to his green-and-tan Rolls-Royce and bursts into a 1,000-watt grin.
"This is my baby," he says, opening the front door so a visitor can get a closer look. "This is my toy."
Earlier, this black dentist showed off another passion: a 1,000-bottle wine cellar in his home, which is on a leafy block in Scarsdale, N.Y.
Six years ago, Harold Doley, the first black person to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, bought a 35-room mansion originally built by Madam C. J. Walker, the first black, self-made, female millionaire in America. She amassed a fortune from hair care products and beauty schools.
While building the 20,000-square-foot house in Irvington, N.Y., she created quite a commotion. "Impossible," one resident exclaimed in an article in The New York Times Magazine of Nov. 4, 1917. "No woman of her race could afford such a place."
These men belong to what Lawrence Otis Graham calls America's black elite in his new book, Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class (HarperCollins, $ 25).
Graham, 37, a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School and the author of 12 other books, looks at the college fraternities and sororities, social clubs for adults and summer resorts tailored to a black aristocracy - insular arenas unfamiliar to the black underclass, working class and whites of any class. …
International Herald Tribune
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April 6, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: With Stock as Bait, Microsoft Lures Elite Professors
BYLINE: By Mark Leibovich; Washington Post Service
DATELINE: REDMOND, WashingtonThe company well known for its aggressive domination of the software world has set itself a new target: the best minds of academia.
With cash, stock options and the promise of vast resources, Microsoft Corp. is luring faculty elites to its research center at a pace so fast that some campus departments say they are being picked clean.
Last month, Microsoft hired Lazlo Lovasz, a mathematician and recent winner of his field's prestigious Wolf Prize, away from Yale University. He will start in June and will join, among others, Michael Freedman, a Fields Medal-winning mathematician from the University of California at San Diego, and Jim Blinn, a MacArthur fellow and computer graphics expert from California Institute of Technology.
Microsoft Research, known as MSR, is aiming for a ''faculty'' of 600 people by the end of next year. It already is among the biggest computer science laboratories in the world, with 350 researchers. But while other private research labs, including Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Bell Labs, IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center and Xerox Corp.'s Palo Alto Research Park, recruited faculty stars long before Microsoft, no company has raided universities so brazenly, university administrators said. And none has offered such stock options as those that have mass-produced so many Microsoft millionaires. …
Microsoft officials deny that they have spurred a university brain drain. Nathan Myhrvold, the company's chief technology officer, said MSR probably hired six full professors a year. The rest are junior-level professors and Ph. D.s.
''We haven't taken all that many top people in all,'' he said.
Some universities scoff at this, saying that Mr. Myhrvold is counting only fully tenured professors, a shallow measure of a department's teaching cache. …
While seemingly at odds, Mr. Reddy's joint roles underscore the mixed feelings of many in academia toward Microsoft. On one hand, the company is depleting universities' staff. But on the other, ''Microsoft is not a clear- cut force for bad,'' said David Dobkin, Princeton University's computer science chairman. The company, he said, should be praised for contributing to basic research when other corporations were cutting back. …
NOTE: This story first appeared in The Washington Post.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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April 6, 1999, TuesdayOBITUARY
HEADLINE: GEORGE D. LOCKHART; FOUNDING PARTNER OF DOWNTOWN LAW FIRMBYLINE: JAN ACKERMAN, POST-GAZETTE STAFF WRITER
He reached a pinnacle of success in the legal profession that few lawyers could imagine, but George D. Lockhart always retained his quiet sense of humility.
Mr. Lockhart, one of the founding partners of the Downtown law firm, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, was known as a man who treated all people with kindness, whether they were young lawyers starting out or clients seeking his legal advice. …
Mr. Lockhart was born into an old Pittsburgh family, and attended Princeton University, where he played field hockey and graduated in 1931. Returning to Pittsburgh, he received his law degree from Pitt in 1935 and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1936. …
Press Journal (Vero Beach, FL)
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April 6, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: OBITUARIES Eben Hall
Eben Clarke Hall, 82, of Vero Beach and Little Compton, R.I., died April 2, 1999, at his home after a brief illness. …
Mr. Hall graduated from Princeton University, Class of 1939. He worked at the Grace Line in New York, N.Y., from 1940 to 1956, and at ACF Industries Inc. until his retirement in 1982. …
University Wire
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April 6, 1999HEADLINE: Princeton U. accepts small class from largest applicant pool in history
BYLINE: By Jed Seltzer, Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.By admitting 1,600 of 14,874 applicants this year, the admission office accepted only 10.8 percent of the largest applicant pool in Princeton University history, Dean of Admission Fred Hargadon said.
"It's the largest number of applicants and the smallest number of admits I have seen initially," he said Monday. Last year, the University admitted 13.1 percent of applicants -- 1,698 out of 13,006.
Though he said he did not know precisely how many students of each minority group were admitted, Hargadon said more than one third of admitted students indicated they are from a minority background. Thirty-two percent of current students are minorities or international students. …
The Christian Science Monitor
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April 5, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Rise of the tiger
BYLINE: James L. Tyson, Staff writer of The Christian Science MonitorDATELINE: WASHINGTON
Step away from the frenzied din on Wall Street and listen: That faint growl is the sound of the Asian "tigers" back on the prowl.
Just 20 months after triggering the worst global financial turmoil in five decades, East Asia is changing for equity analysts from polecat to pussycat.
"East Asia is leading the emerging-market charge long term," says Joshua Feuerman, manager of the Emerging Markets Fund at State Street Global Advisors in Boston. …
"These economies are finally stabilizing and equity valuations are still excellent, particularly compared to the US market," says Princeton University economics professor Burton Malkiel. "It's a wonderful time to begin making commitments" in East Asia. …
The Columbus Dispatch
Copyright 1999 The Columbus Dispatch
April 5, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: 2 UPPER ARLINGTON STUDENTS GET AWARDS
Courtney Maser and Dan Stover of Upper Arlington High School have been named Tandy Scholars. They are two of 100 students to receive the award nationally. Each will receive a $ 1,000 scholarship, funded by Radio Shack/ Tandy, to be used toward college.
Maser was honored for her work at Ohio's Center of Science and Industry, where she has volunteered more than 1,900 hours since she was in middle school.
She now helps train new volunteers.
She also has worked on infant- formula research at Ohio State University.
Stover was recognized for his research on mutated cancer genes through the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital.
His work also earned him first place at the International Science Fair.
Maser plans to study science education at OSU. Stover is to study molecular biology at Princeton University.
The Denver Post
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April 5, 1999HEADLINE: Chinese emigres upbeat on Zhu visit
BYLINE: By Bruce Finley, Denver Post International Affairs WriterAfter lugging mud on a rural Chinese work crew, Yufeng Shen reached America at last, only to make a sacrifice that tears his soul.
He and his wife have given up their newborn daughter - carried her back to grandparents in China - while they string together jobs and school here.
Shen will be among those watching closely when Premier Zhu Rongji, a leader in the land Shen left behind, visits Denver this week on a U.S. trip that will feature the highest-level talks with Beijing since President Clinton went to China in June. …
The emergence of Zhu "is encouraging," said 37-year-old Rong Harlan, a 1992 graduate of Princeton University, now the victims' assistance coordinator for Asian Pacific Development, a Denver-based social services agency.
Harlan knows some of Zhu's background. His experience as a "rightist" relegated to factory work under communism "may give him some reasons to be sympathetic" with people who want greater freedom in China, Harlan said. "That's one of the main things I want them to solve."
She left China in 1987 out of a mixture of frustration and ambition, she said, though members of her family - rooted in the countryside - believe deeply in Chinese communist ideals. At Princeton, she excelled, and passed up potentially lucrative jobs to pursue a social-work career she finds satisfying. …
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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April 5, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Earth will survive climate change, but man may not, says expert
DATELINE: Madrid
Interviewed at a conference in Barcelona, U.S. scientist George H. Philander said the Earth would survive climate changes, but mankind might not.
"We can already feel the effects of global warming," he said. "Scientists are now discussing how much time is left before catastrophe strikes."
"Our planet is highly resistant. The dinosaurs have vanished but the Earth lives on," he told "El Pais" newspaper, published in Madrid.
Philander is head of Princeton University department of atmospheric and oceanographic sciences in New Jersey and one of the world's foremost experts on climate change.
"The worst factor is that we have lost the psychological battle. Many people, especially in the United States, have yet to realise that a problem exists. And the U.S. authorities are reluctant to impose restraints on the business community," he said. …
Electronic Engineering Times
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April 5, 1999HEADLINE: Sun patches a bug in Java security
Palo Alto, Calif. - Sun Microsystems disclosed it has created a fix to a newly discovered implementation bug in the Java Development Kit that affects both the JDK 1.1.x platform and the Java 2 platform. The bug poses a potential
security risk by allowing an untrusted applet to execute unverified code under certain circumstances. There are no reports of any attacks based on this bug.
After learning of the bug from the Princeton University Secure Internet Programming Lab earlier this month, Sun created and tested a fix.
Releases of the patch for all Java 1.1.x platforms and the Java 2 platform are currently being distributed. The patch will also be available as a part of JDK 1.1.8 and Java 2, v 1.2.1, both scheduled for release in April.
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April 5, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Cream of the crop win scholarships for overseas studies, HONG KONG
A DRUG dispenser at the Prince of Wales Hospital was among 130 people who won scholarships from the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund this year. Yuen Wing-sze plans to use her scholarship to do a master's degree in clinical pharmacy at the University of London. …
The winners will be studying, respectively, chemistry at Harvard, mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), computer engineering at Princeton University and biological sciences at MIT.
Internet World
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April 05, 1999HEADLINE: Melissa Virus Portends Bigger Security Risks
BYLINE: David F. Carr and James C. LuhMisuse of Microsoft Office macro seen as easy prey
The Microsoft Office macro viruses that struck the Internet last week exposed no previously unknown technical vulnerabilities, but experts said the virus' rapid spread underscored the security risks posed by file attachments that contain programming code.
The "Melissa" virus uses Microsoft's Visual Basic macro language to e-mail itself from an unsuspecting user's PC to the first 50 addresses in the user's Microsoft Outlook address book. The virus masquerades as a legitimate e-mail
message containing a Microsoft Word document. Once the recipient opens the document, the virus can infect the recipient's computer, where it can replicate itself again. …
Security experts agreed that the cause for concern was not so much this particular outbreak, but the knowledge that it could have been--and might yet get--much worse.
"To a large extent, the panic is because this is reminding people of the level of vulnerability--the vulnerability is not new," said Edward W. Felten, director of Princeton University's Secure Internet Programming research group.
"Had the person programming this been more malicious, it could have done much worse things." …
The New Republic
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APRIL 5, 1999HEADLINE: A TSAR IS BORN
BYLINE: Stephen KotkinHIGHLIGHT: Is Russia ready for a film-director president?
Nikita Mikhalkov, the Oscar-winning Russian director of Burnt by the Sun, continually insists that he plans to participate in Russia's June 2000 presidential elections as a voter. He neglects to add that candidates also vote.
Anyway, major directors, let alone ordinary voters, do not have film premieres at the Kremlin, as Mikhalkov did in February for his epic The Barber of Siberia, in which he plays Tsar Alexander III. While the guests arrived, a military
orchestra in prerevolutionary dress uniform played "God Save the Tsar"--in the foyer of the hall built for Communist Party congresses. …
Stephen Kotkin is director of Russian studies at Princeton University.
The Herald-Sun (Durham, N.C.)
Copyright 1999 The Durham Herald Co.
April 4, 1999, SundaySECTION: Your Money
Quotable: Like every other newspaper in America, Wednesday's Business Day section of The New York Times had a story about the Federal Reserve Board's decision to leave interest rates unchanged.
A good decision, according to Alan Blinder, a Princeton University economist and former Fed vice chairman.
"I am sure most members of the committee think everything is going rather beautifully," Blinder said. "They have not allowed themselves to be provoked into some sort of pre-emptive action against inflation and, in hindsight, their patience has proven to be correct."
The Montgomery Advertiser
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April 04, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: HOLIDAY BRINGS IN WORSHIPERS
BYLINE: By Jannell McGrew Montgomery AdvertiserOn Easter Sunday last year, more people attended church than those who stayed home glued to their seats paying homage to Super Bowl XXXII. The holy day also outdrew Christmas, beating out the eve and the day combined.
Although Christmas is a bigger holiday commercially and church attendance numbers are elusive, Easter rules when it comes to which holiday actually makes people go to church, say academic and religion experts from the Montgomery area and beyond.
"It doesn't surprise me because of the sacredness of this holiday and its roots in American culture," said Leigh Schmidt, a religion professor at Princeton University.
According to a recent Gallup national opinion poll, about 170 million Americans now attend church on Easter. According to the Nielsen ratings, about 90 million watched the Super Bowl last year.
"What we have is at least 25 percent more people going to church on Easter versus on a regular Sunday," Schmidt said. Comparing the Christmas holiday to Easter, a 1994 Gallup poll shows that 50 to 68 percent of adults attend Easter service while 49 percent go to church during Christmas and its eve. …
The New York Times
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April 4, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: SCHOOLS: Princeton Plans to Stop Streak of 'Nude Olympics'
BYLINE: By KAREN DeMASTERSKeep your shirt on, Princeton. Keep your pants on, too, or face a year's suspension. That is a recommendation of a committee at Princeton University that would end the annual ritual known as the Nude Olympics.
Since the streaking days of the 70's, sophomores have run naked around a campus quadrangle on the night of the school year's first snowfall. There was no snowfall in the 1997-98 year, so on Jan. 8 a group of 350 sophomore and juniors ran naked through the flakes in Holder Courtyard quadrangle while at least as many looked on. …
The New York Times
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April 4, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: College and Money; And Never Lie About Your Grades
BYLINE: By Andrew Ross Sorkin; Andrew Ross Sorkin is a frequent contributor to Business Day.At first glance, the letter seemed promising. "We have reviewed your background and are impressed with your accomplishments," wrote Martha Day Smalley, the recruiting coordinator for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. "However, we are unable to offer you the opportunity to interview with us." With one sentence, the door is slammed shut, any hope of an interview dashed. …
But students don't need to lose that much sleep. The job market for the class of 1999 is expected to be 10 percent greater than last year's, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, a nonprofit group in Bethlehem, Pa., that tracks hiring trends. For sophomores and juniors, summer-internship opportunities are also on the rise. …
"There are so many firms that have chosen to come and use on-campus recruiting early in the year, and so it leaves students thinking, 'Oh, my God, it's all done by the time they stop coming,"' said Beverly Hamilton-Chandler, the director of career services at Princeton University. "But that is never the case. We see students still getting jobs over the summer, but it means making overtures to companies now." …
The Ottawa Citizen
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April 04, 1999HEADLINE: Fighting to preserve culture: The Kosovo crisis is about the very essence of cultural identity. In that respect, it is a microcosm of many of the world's unresolved conflicts. Robin Wright reports.
BYLINE: Robin Wright
DATELINE: WASHINGTONWASHINGTON - From a crammed bookshelf in his grim and tiny high-rise apartment, Kosovo leader Ibrahim Rugova pulled down a well-read copy of James Joyce's Ulysses. ''This book,'' he pronounced, ''is what our struggle is all about.''
''One of the great moments in my life was finding more than a hundred words of Albanian origin in Ulysses,'' Mr. Rugova said in his Pristina home, long before NATO warplanes were dispatched to the Balkans. ''Our struggle is to preserve the culture that introduced those words to the world.''
The current crisis, which has triggered round-the-clock allied air strikes and a brutal Serb campaign to rid Kosovo of ethnic Albanians like Mr. Rugova, has its roots in something far more fundamental than the politics of power or control of land. …
''There's raw material for ethnic conflict in many countries, but there's nothing inevitable about them today. They have to be deliberately provoked,'' said Alan Kassof, chairman of the Project on Ethnic Relations at Princeton University.
''Conflicts that could have been resolved without violence became violent due to the way leaders radicalized relations among groups,'' he said.
NOTE: This story first appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Copyright 1999 Star Tribune
April 4, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos wrote the book on e-tailing; CEO is confident that his company will triumph over Barnes & Noble
SOURCE: New America News ServiceIt is the end of the 20th century. The stage is set for a very modern clash of the titans. At stake is nothing less than world domination of the electronic marketplace using high-tech computer graphics as ammo and old-fashioned elbow grease as fuel.
The arena is a virtual bookstore frequented by spectators who are coveted by the mighty opponents for their wallets, their loyalty and their repeat business. At this, the dawn of the online revolution, which enterprise will win the hearts and minds of these consumers?
A leading contender is the 35-year-old son of a Cuban immigrant, Jeffrey Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com Inc. the upstart Internet company that boasts 4.5 million customers in 160 countries.
Bezos stands alone against his prime adversary, the very well financed Barnes & Noble Corp., a behemoth on the brutish playing fields of bookselling. ...
The Bezos family grew up in Miami and Houston. Young Jeffrey spent many summers on his grandfather's ranch in Cotulla, Texas, learning the ways of the land and many unoffice-like skills such as fixing windmills, driving bulldozers, laying water lines, building fences and castrating cattle.
All the while, he dreamed of a career as a physicist, and he enrolled at Princeton University to pursue his goal. In his sophomore year, Bezos switched tracks when he realized that his talent was in computers. He graduated in 1986, summa cum laude and a Phi Beta Kappa member, in electrical engineering and computer science. ...
The State Journal-Register
(Springfield, IL)
Copyright 1999 The State Journal-Register
April 4, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Compared to Christmas, Easter is much less commercial
BYLINE: ADELLE M. BANKS RELIGION NEWS SERVICE
DATELINE: CANTON, OhioAt Christmas, Elizabeth Neel buys holiday greeting cards for many people. However, as she prepares for Easter, her spending and sending patterns are markedly different.
"At Easter, I buy cards for people who are closest to me because it's a much more meaningful holiday for me," says Neel, a clerical worker. "It's not really focused on the candy ... It's really on Christ's resurrection and death." ...
While consumers spend more money on candy at Easter than at Christmas, cards and flowers are far less popular during the Christian holiday that marks the Resurrection of Jesus. ...
"The difference is Easter really -- with the focus on the Resurrection and on the Passion of Christ -- is a much more directly religious event," says Mark Harvey, a board member of the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture. ...
Still, Easter does have its enduring cultural icons, says Leigh Eric Schmidt, author of "Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays."
"I can imagine one not even being at church on Easter and having the big, say, Sunday meal that day and also having Easter egg hunts. Even the White House has an Easter egg roll. There's a kind of civic religion of Easter."
Schmidt, a Princeton University religion professor, says the fact that Easter is not so all-consuming might help Christians hold onto its core.
"To the extent that they're both secularized and they both have taken on these deeply American pop cultural forms, I think there's always some loss in that for Christian liturgical traditions. There's a certain sense that you lose control." ...
Sunday Times (London)
Copyright 1999 Times Newspapers Limited
April 4, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Land of the free lives the Scottish dream
BYLINE: Andrew HookThis Tuesday, about 20m Americans will dust down their ancestry to celebrate the United States' National Tartan Day. At one gathering in Virginia, Senate majority leader Trent Lott, whose brainchild the celebration is, will be joined by representatives of all the Scottish political parties.
One wonders which flag they will be waving: the Union Jack, the Stars and Stripes, the Saltire or Virginia's favourite Confederate Stars and Bars? More to the point, why are they there at all?
For many participants, no doubt, Scotland is tartan, whisky, shortbread, Highland games, kilts and golf. But for much of this century, Scottish commentators have fought to challenge that tired old image. Yet on April 6 our political leaders will be shamefully conniving at its continuing existence. ...
The sad irony is that most Scottish-Americans remain totally unaware of Scotland's huge contribution to the shaping of their country and its culture. ...
John Witherspoon left Paisley's Laigh kirk to become president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) for almost 30 years. Witherspoon was one of the native Scots who signed the Declaration of
Independence. William Smith, an Aberdonian, became first president of the College of Philadelphia, later to become the University of Pennsylvania. ...
The Washington Times
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April 4, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: The strange life forms of the planet Washington
BYLINE: Martin RubinLittle green men? I must confess that my eyes glaze over at the thought of such phenomena. As a skeptic, I leave open the remote possibility of their existence, but find myself unable to summon up fascination or even interest in the topic.
But if anyone can get past my prejudice against little green men, it would have to be Christopher Buckley, that master of sidesplitting comic satire. ...
John Banion, the novel's protagonist, is a Washington institution. A media pundit whose Sunday morning interview show is television's Mt. Everest for all who have aspirations - or pretensions - to political importance, Banion wields enough power to be a player among Washington's movers and shakers. Not that he'd ever use such a crass expression. Unlike many current and cruder specimens of this type of media star, Banion is Ivy League to his finger tips, his
Princeton degree being just part of the general affect. His aura of class, combined with a somewhat brutal interview style, is what makes his show an irresistible magnet, attracting as guests the holders of the most powerful offices of state. ...
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
April 04, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Among the Believers
BYLINE: Jonathan GronerGROWING UP RELIGIOUS
Christians and Jews and Their Journeys of Faith
By Robert Wuthnow/Beacon. 249 pp. $ 27.50Reviewed by Jonathan Groner
Although America today is indisputably a secular society, the religious mindset continues to hold considerable sway over our public and private life. Look no further than the recently concluded impeachment drama, in which the president adopted the vocabulary of repentance at a prayer breakfast and his critics invoked at least two of the Ten Commandments to condemn his behavior.
But how and in what form is religion being transmitted from one generation to the next, now that the vast majority of Americans are no longer being raised in an all-encompassing community of faith? In our open society, in which church and synagogue have lost their power to compel, people have a real choice of what religion they wish to practice, if any. What can any ancient system of belief, whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim or Hindu, offer to the modern temperament?
Robert Wuthnow, a sociologist of religion at Princeton University, asks that question in this earnest, methodical book. He tries to find the solution lurking in the transcripts of lengthy interviews he conducted with a highly diverse sampling of 200 Americans who were brought up in a religious tradition. As is often true in matters of faith, however, the question turned out to be a good deal better than its proposed answer. ...
ABC NEWS
SHOW: ABC SPECIAL REPORT
APRIL 3, 1999HEADLINE: THE CENTURY
BYLINE: PETER JENNINGSHIGHLIGHT: NO MAN'S LAND
ANNOUNCER: From ABC News, a television event 100 years in the making, "The Century."
PETER JENNINGS, ABC News: (voice-over) It was Christmas Eve 1914, and briefly, the shooting stopped. The allies and the Germans waited in their waterlogged trenches. Suddenly a voice, and then other voices.
PAUL FUSSELL, Author, "The Great War and Modern Memory": Actually, it began, I think, by singing Christmas carols. The Germans sang from their trenches, and then the British sang it back at the Germans. That's how it started, really. ...
PETER JENNINGS: (voice-over) Woodrow Wilson, once the world's most eloquent voice for peace, had become the nation's most persuasive advocate for war. As Americans mobilized for war, many Europeans had had enough. Exhausted by three years of senseless fighting, more than 30,000 French soldiers had mutinied. British hospitals were treating something they'd never seen before, shell shock, a mutiny of the mind and the body against the horror of war.
In Russia, where millions of soldiers had deserted and starving peasants hungered for peace, revolution was brewing. And then into this chaos came a Russian exile. On April the 16th, Vladimir Lenin arrived at Finland Station in Petrograd.
ROBERT TUCKER, Historian, Princeton University: He was met by a large number of people, and he stood on an armored personnel carrier and gave a speech about how Russia needed to leave the war. ...
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
April 3, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Scientists seeking better energy source start work with new fusion reactor|
BYLINE: LINDA A. JOHNSON, Associated Press WriterDATELINE: PLAINSBORO, N.J.
BODY:
Scientists trying to develop a safe and inexhaustible power source for the next century - fusion energy - believe they're a step closer to that elusive goal with the country's newest experimental nuclear reactor.
The National Spherical Torus eXperiment, or NSTX, at the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory in this central New Jersey suburb already is impressing both politicians supporting fusion research funding and the physicists and engineers working on the nationwide collaboration.
"The NSTX is an enormous example of the potential" of the technology, U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said last week. "It brings us closer to the reality of fusion energy." ...
The Dallas Morning News
Copyright 1999 The Dallas Morning News
April 3, 1999HEADLINE: 'Paramedics of the inner city'; NJ program finding that faith groups can't replace government services
SOURCE: Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
BYLINE: Diane Winston
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.PRINCETON, N.J. -- New Jersey led the country 14 months ago by becoming the first state to establish an initiative for faith-based community development.
Now, as the rest of the country is getting swept up in the effort to enlist religious organizations in the battle to reduce welfare rolls, the state is starting to turn plans into money and action. Last week, 75 clergy, community workers, state officials and academics met to explore the state's changing social safety net -- stitch by stitch.
The consensus? Faith-based groups are getting more of the credit -- and some of the money -- that they have long deserved as social-problem solvers. But they can't do it all.
"Faith-based communities can help ease the pain; they're the paramedics of the inner city," said John J. DiIulio Jr., a professor of political science at Princeton University. "But they can't replace governmental programs."
For example, he said, if the government cut the $ 80 billion a year it spends on direct low-income cash assistance and food stamps, every congregation in the country would have to raise an extra $ 300,000 a year to make up the difference.
"That would require each congregation to roughly triple its pledges and spend all of the increase on aid to the poor," he said. ...
Diane Winston is a fellow at the Center for the Study of American Religion at Princeton University.
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
April 3, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: THINK TANK;
All the King's Horses and All the King's Men Were Still Optimistic
Wall Street cheered this week as the Dow Jones industrial average finally closed above 10,000. Many analysts are counting on a continuing bull market. Who knows? They may be right. And then again, they may not. Stock market predictions are a tricky business, as you can see from a look back at what was said 70 years ago, before and right after the Oct. 29 crash. ...
"The consensus of judgment of the millions whose valuations function on that admirable market, the Stock Exchange, is that stocks are not at present overvalued." Joseph Lawrence, professor at Princeton University, 1929. Churchill, Nov. 15, 1929. ...
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
April 3, 1999, SaturdayNAME: Lucien Aigner
HEADLINE: Lucien Aigner, 97, Pioneer In Candid News PhotographyBYLINE: By MARGARETT LOKE
Lucien Aigner, a pioneer in candid news photography in the 1930's whose best-known photographs include one of a rumpled Albert Einstein in front of a blackboard, died on Monday in a nursing home in Waltham, Mass. He was 97. ...
GRAPHIC: Photos: Lucien Aigner's photograph of Albert Einstein, which was taken in front of a blackboard in a classroom at Princeton University in 1941.
(Photographs by Lucien Aigner/Robert Klein Gallery); A self-portrait of 1932.
St. Petersburg Times
Copyright 1999 Times Publishing Company
April 03, 1999, SaturdayOBITUARIES
LUCIEN AIGNER, 97, a photojournalist known for his images of a rumpled Albert Einstein in front of a blackboard, died Monday in a Waltham, Mass., nursing home. The Hungarian-born Mr. Aigner, brother of the noted designer Etienne Aigner, was among the first photojournalists to exploit the ability of a small 35mm camera to capture candid images of prewar Europe. His photo of Einstein in droopy trousers standing before a blackboard was taken in a Princeton University classroom in 1941. "Einstein liked it," Mr. Aigner said. "He thought that was the best picture ever taken of him."
THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS
Copyright 1999 The Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc.
April 2, 1999HEADLINE: All the families;
Theatre on the Square works with playwright in staging 'Randy's House,' a story of gays coping with life in a small town.BYLINE: MARION GARMEL; STAFF WRITER
Randy's House
Author: John Clum
Cast: Catherine Mobley, Steve Riser, Michael Wallace, David R. Wald, Brad Melloy, Dave Harold, Chris Goldfarb and Tom Forman; directed by Ron Spencer. ...In 1993, to object to a local productin of Terrance McNally's play "Lips Together, Teeth Apart," the county council of Cobb County, Ga., passed one resolution cutting all funding to the arts and another resolution condemning "the gay lifestyle. "
John Clum, a professor at Duke University who established the drama department there and ran it for 10 years, was passing through on his return from London, where Duke runs a summer theater program, when the incident was in the news. He was able to attend some of those meetings. ...
Educational matinees
A native of New Jersey, Clum has both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Princeton University in English and drama. "I never could get too far away from New York," he said. He grew up on real drama, "playing hooky from high school every Wednesday to catch the discount matinees on Broadway. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the best of William Inge, Paul Muni in Inherit the Wind constituted his theatrical education.
He considers himself a "romantic" and says all of his plays are somehow concerned with marriage and family, whether straight or gay. "Well, I was in Durham, North Carolina, and it didn't seem a good place to be gay," he explained. There were a lot of self-hating people around then. It was a different time. But a lot of kids still go through this," he said.
When he decided he couldn't live that way anymore, he came out not only as a homosexual but as a gay activist in the theater. In Randy's House, he has Rick, his alter ego, say, "If you don't like your family, make a new one. " ...
THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR
Copyright 1999 The Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc.
April 2, 1999 FridayHEADLINE: OSCAR L. UPDIKE
OSCAR L. UPDIKE, 95, Indianapolis, died March 31. He was vice president and general manager of Prudential Insurance Co., New York, retiring in 1968. He was a 1925 graduate of Princeton University and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Memorial contributions may be made to a favorite charity. Services and calling: pending. Survivors: wife Miriam Corsen Updike; children Leigh Johnson, Donald C., Richard D.
Updike; 10 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren. A.R.N. Cremation Services is handling arrangements.
The Santa Fe New Mexican
Copyright 1999 New Mexican, Inc.
April 2, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Saloon singer finds local city-style venue
BYLINE: Joseph Portal, with photo by David KaufmanPerforms today at Jack's
Jo Shawn-Davis' life might provide lyrics for a country-Western tearjerker but she perceives herself more operatically. In fact she began her musical career as a classically trained coloratura soprano.
"I was so pure in the early days," she recently said on a rehearsal break. "When I first went to New York, I would never have sung jazz or even pop." ...
"Next time she'll be an associate producer, I'm sure," the proud mama beamed.
There's a good chance. Kira Davis' boyfriend is Andrew Kosove. He and Broderick Johnson comprise Alcon Entertainment, producer of Lost and Found, as well as Love Is All There Is with Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna, and My Dog Skip, yet to be released, with Kevin Bacon and Diane Lane.
And Kosove and Johnson haven't been out of Princeton University for very long.
The premiere of Lost and Found will take place April 21 in Los Angeles. ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Copyright 1999 Star Tribune
April 2, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Wellstone and drugs; Promising, if imperfect, Medicare plan
Sen. Paul Wellstone's ambitious proposal to make Medicare cover prescription drugs for 39 million elderly Americans won't become law this year and it probably shouldn't. The bill that Wellstone introduced last week has no realistic funding mechanism and piles a generous new benefit onto an already troubled program.
Still, the Minnesota Democrat is pointing in the right direction. No group of Americans is more dependent on prescription drugs than senior citizens, yet no group has weaker prescription-drug coverage. ...
This isn't just a financial burden, it's bad medicine. Patsy Riley, a Twin Cities health-care consultant, says senior citizens often underdose themselves to save money and that many end up hospitalized unnecessarily. Says
Princeton University's Uwe Reinhardt: "It is one sign of Medicare's obsolescence." ...
The Union Leader (Manchester, NH)
Copyright 1999 Union Leader Corp.
April 2, 1999 FridayHEADLINE: Who was Hobey Baker?
BYLINE: JOHN R. HUSSEY Union Leader Sports
During his short stay on the stage of life, Hobey Baker, in whose name the best college hockey player in the land annually receives the sport's most prestigious award, was viewed as its most skilled and charimastic player in the World War I era.
The Hobey Baker Award is to be presented today at the NCAA Frozen Four in Anaheim, Calif. The University of New Hampshire's Jason Krog, the nation's top scorer, is a favorite to win the honor.
Princeton fans down through the years considered Baker the greatest Princeton athlete of all time and these are the Tigers that also gave the world Dick Kazmaier, the last Ivy Leaguer to win the Heisman Trophy.
It was said that while he didn't consider himself a showman, everything he did on the football field or hockey rink came so naturally to him that he seemed to have a great sense of showmanship.
As a matter of fact, his Princeton classmate F. Scott Fitzgerald was so inspired by his athletic exploits that he brought forth Allenby, the football captain in "This Side of Paradise," a leading Jazz Age Novel. ...
The Washington Quarterly
Copyright 1999 The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1999 SpringSECTION: FACING CHALLENGES, GOING GLOBAL
HEADLINE: Phone Calls and Fax Machines: The Limits to GlobalizationBYLINE: Hugh Louch, Eszter Hargittai, and Miguel Angel Centeno - Hugh Louch and Eszter Hargittai are graduate students in the sociology department of Princeton University. Miguel Angel Centeno is associate professor of sociology and master of Wilson College at Princeton. This article is part of a larger project on "Mapping the Global Web" (http://www.Princeton.edu/eszter/global).
HIGHLIGHT:
Rosabeth Moss Kanter on Global Competitiveness; Marina Whitman on Global Competition: Hugh Louch, Estzer Hargittai, and Miguel Angel Centeno on Global Telecommunications; and James Burnham on Global Economics Globalization is everywhere. States, economies, and societies are increasingly integrated. Flows of goods, capital, humans, and cultural objects now link all of us in a global integrated web. n1 The development of international trade has had the most immediate (or most visible) consequence, but money in and of itself has arguably come to play an even larger role than the transfer of material goods. Labor, while still subject to much greater control than capital, moves transnationally, while tourism involves an estimated 600 million international travelers a year. The ubiquity of CNN is already a cliche, and entertainment industry budgets are calculated on the basis of a global market. ...
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