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HEADLINE: LR grad 1st in state to win Jackie Robinson
scholarship
BYLINE: TRACY COURAGE, ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Catholic High School for Boys graduate Tranny Arnold IV leaves
Thursday for Georgetown University as Arkansas' first Jackie
Robinson Foundation scholarship recipient.
Arnold, 18, is one of 57 freshmen scholarship recipients beginning
college this fall with help from the foundation.
Jackie Robinson's wife, Rachel, created the foundation in 1973, a year after his death. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball. He was the first black to be included in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. ...
"He's been a real inspiration in my life," Arnold said of the baseball legend. "He's gone through so much and overcome so much, and he always wanted to give back. That's what the scholarship is about -- giving back."
Arnold, the only son of Virginia and Tranny Arnold III of Little Rock, leaves Thursday for Washington, D.C. He plans to study accounting and international business at Georgetown University. Classes start Sept. 1.
"Hopefully, I'll be able to study and work overseas and come home and probably be a corporate tax attorney," he said.
Arnold applied to the University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Georgetown University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. All but Harvard accepted him. ...
HEADLINE: Florida State top-ranked 'party school'; Montana
ranks No. 6 nationally
BYLINE: By DAVID ROYSE, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: TALLAHASSEE, Fla.
Florida State University students can tap a keg in honor of their latest No. 1 ranking - but maybe they wouldn't need a reason to anyway.
Florida State was named this week as the "No. 1 party school" in the newest edition of The Princeton Review guide to the nation's 331 "best" colleges. ...
The Princeton Review, which isn't affiliated with Princeton University, ranks schools based on surveys of students conducted every three years. ...
NOTE: Versions of this story appeared in newspapers, radio and TV outlets throughout the United States.
BYLINE: By Alex Beam, Globe Staff
Because they are smart, the publishers Farrar, Straus and Giroux have released a new edition of John McPhee's classic profile of the collegiate Bill Bradley, "A Sense of Where You Are." The 140-page book, which chronicles Bradley's 1965 season as the All-American basketball captain of the Princeton Tigers, is a sportswriting gem and is especially timely as Bradley emerges as the main challenger to Al Gore for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The McPhee book makes for a powerful piece of campaign literature, because it was originally written by a disinterested outsider for The New Yorker magazine. Like the Bradley campaign - like all modern presidential campaigns - it is a work of nostalgia, hearkening back to an era long before the invention of the three-point arc, when college athletes spent four years on campus and wore button-down shirts to class. ...
I don't believe in the Bill Bradley candidacy, by which I mean that I don't believe that I will ever live in a country that elects Bill Bradley president. I'd like to live in that country, though. In one of several postscripts, McPhee emphasizes that the 1999 "Dollar Bill" (Bradley was the only child of a well-to-do bank president) closely resembles the 1965 issue. ...
HEADLINE: UW Ranked 10th for Women's Sports
The University of Wisconsin is ranked No. 10 on Sports Illustrated for Women's list of the top 20 schools in the nation for women's athletics.
The UW is the highest-ranking Big Ten Conference school. Penn State (11th) is the only other Big Ten school on the list.
Stanford is ranked No. 1, followed by Florida, Texas, North Carolina, UCLA, Georgia, Arizona, Maryland, Harvard and Wisconsin.
The second 10 consists of Penn State, Washington, Virginia, Princeton, Notre Dame, Nebraska, Connecticut, Tennessee, Old Dominion and Duke.
The magazine evaluated schools on the number of varsity and intramural sports, athletic scholarships and success in NCAA competition. ...
HEADLINE: Are School Voucher Programs Good for Students?
GUESTS: Tommy Thompson, Carole Shields
BYLINE: Mary Matalin, Bob Shrum
HIGHLIGHT: Gov. Tommy Thompson (R) of Wisconsin, and Carole Shields, president, people for the American Way Foundation, discuss voucher programs and school choice.
MARY MATALIN, CO-HOST: Tonight: reading, writing, arithmetic -- and controversy. A federal judge says no to using public funds to send kids to private schools in Cleveland. Did he make thhe right decision? ...
SHRUM: There's a five-year study in Milwaukee which shows that students who receive vouchers don't do better than students in regular public schools. There's also a Princeton University study that shows you have bigger gains if the money is invested in smaller class sizes instead of vouchers.
Now, Wisconsin has raised its spending on education like most states, but why shouldn't you spend that $25 million to $75 million that vouchers now or will cost in Milwaukee on something that really does work, like smaller class sizes. ...
HEADLINE: Schools in Texas making the grade
SOURCE: Staff
BYLINE: MELISSA FLETCHER STOELTJE
When it comes to toga-ing, students at the exclusive Southern Methodist University in Dallas can shimmy, shake and chug-a-lug with the best of 'em.
So says the newest edition of the "Princeton Review Guidebook: The Best 331 Schools" (Random House, $20), which ranks top schools on various categories based on student surveys conducted over three years. ...
The survey brought good news to officials at Rice University, whose students earned it a No. 9 on the Top 20 list for "best overall academic experience" category, which included institutional data such as collective SAT scores as well as student responses. ...
Schools ranking in the Top 5 for academic excellence are: the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.; Princeton University in Princeton, N.J.; Williams College in Williamstown, Mass.; Swarthmore in Swarthmore, Pa.; and the State Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. ...
"In this age of consumerism, colleges can no longer control every word parents and students get about them," says Ed Custard, lead author of the Princeton Review company, a New York-based educational services company not affiliated with Princeton University. ...
HEADLINE: The unknown genius fights for credit for the Big
Bang
SOURCE: DISCOVER MAGAZINE
BYLINE: Joseph D'Agnese
No one ever recognizes him, although he is arguably one of the most important scientists of the century.
On campus he's the predictable physics professor, emerging from the science building at Union College with his hands deep in his pockets. But you can blow his cover with a single question: Where did we come from?
Ralph Alpher knows the answer.
Back in 1948, Alpher wrote a Ph.D. dissertation that gave birth to the scientific theory known as the Big Bang. He revealed mathematically how the universe began in a superhot explosion 14 billion years ago. But in 1948, these were loony ideas, and radio astronomy was a very young science.
The years rolled by, and everyone forgot about Ralph Alpher. Then one day in 1964, two radio astronomers from Bell Labs stumbled on the evidence that Alpher was right. Except they had never heard of him. They got the Nobel Prize, and he got bupkis.
But that's exactly the kind of injustice Ralph Alpher is used to. ...
Then in 1965, the world turns around. The Astrophysical Journal hits Alpher's desk, featuring two articles: Item 1: Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two radio astronomers using an ultrasensitive radio telescope at Bell Labs in Holmdel, N.J., unexpectedly detect unwavering radiation of 3.5 degrees K bathing the universe.
Item 2: Working independently, a research team, led by physicist Robert Dicke at Princeton University, pegs the finding as radiation left over from a primordial fireball.
Alpher feels ecstatic until he pages through the reports looking for his name. He finds one single line indicating that in the 1940s, he, Herman and Gamow had envisioned a nucleosynthesis process like the one mentioned in the report.
But there is not a single mention of Alpher and Herman's 1948 prediction.
Several months before, the editor of the Physical Review had sent a paper from the Princeton team to Alpher and Herman, asking that they review it, a common practice in technical journals. The two men told the editor that the Princeton team had duplicated their work. They suggested rejecting it. ...
Left out of the glory, Alpher and Herman and Gamow hit their typewriters in 1965 and never stop. Finally in 1971, James Peebles, the key author of the controversial Princeton paper and today Albert Einstein Professor of Science at the university, sets the record straight in his book, "Physical Cosmology."
But Alpher and Herman keep writing letters. Stephen Hawking gets one in the late '80s, after he credits the Princeton team -- and Gamow alone -- in " A Brief History of Time." ...
HEADLINE: Hit Gains in Popularity Among Weightlifters
BYLINE: By Nancy Del Pizzo Newhouse News Service
You work long hours and your child needs to be picked up from day care. Your study and work/study schedules take 10 hours of your day.
These are typical scenarios for many adults or college students. If they want to get or stay fit, they somehow have to fit in a couple hours of gym time.
The good news is, they really only need 30 minutes, one to three times a week.
That's according to personal trainers and coaches who advocate High Intensity Training (HIT), a shorter, more intense workout using slow, single sets of weightlifting for various muscle groups. And, they've got research to back their claims. ...
The traditional method of training to build muscle strength and/or size is to choose a moderate weight for each muscle group and lift a certain number of repetitions just short of muscle fatigue. Then, do several sets at that repetition and weight. A workout of three sets of 10 to 15 repetitions for each muscle group could take two hours or longer.
HIT, on the other hand, is "a form of strength training that is brief by necessity," says Matt Brzycki, coordinator of health fitness, strength and conditioning programs at Princeton University. "With HIT, we want the person to pass the threshold of muscle fatigue by completing enough reps until they can't do any more. HIT requires a person to train at a high level of effort, so the workouts have to be brief. For most people, the limit is an hour, tops. But, a full workout can be completed in 30 minutes."
HEADLINE: The 'Natalie' factor
BYLINE: By Matthew Laflihn, Cornell Daily Sun
SOURCE: Cornell U.
DATELINE: Ithaca, N.Y.
Another year, another round of rankings hoopla. Once again, the editors of U.S. News & World Report have toyed with our collective psyche, bringing Cornell achingly close to the top last year and swiftly deeming us Ivy League also-rans in their most current poll.
From six to eleven. Life is too cruel to bear.
But whether Cornell is sixth or eleventh is virtually irrelevant. Our shortcomings as a university are only truly manifested in a perennial inability to crack the collegiate elite. Simply put, our current trajectory indicates that Cornell won't be joining the Harvards, Princetons, Yales and, dare I even suggest it, the Cal Techs of the world anytime soon. Not a chance.
While some pay lip service to oft-cited deficiencies like insufficient alumni giving and excessive acceptance rate, these excuses are just so much smokescreen intended to distract students from the real problem at hand: the administration's continued inability to attract teenage starlets to Cornell.
Or as I like to put it, the Natalie Factor.
See, the statistics put forward by U.S. News become just meaningless numbers when you look at the real pattern of dominance among American colleges. Top three schools can continually boast of a litany of actresses, singers and models among their alumni and current student bodies. To cite just a few:
Princeton: Brooke Shields. Yale: Claire Danes, Jodie Foster. Harvard: Natalie Portman. Cornell: No starlets. ...
Just envision this possible exchange between Harvard students: "Hey, want to go to the registrar's office and help me request a transcript?" "Sure ... Natalie Portman might be there." ...
HEADLINE: U. Missouri named nation's best value
BYLINE: By Patrick Finley, The Maneater
SOURCE: U. Missouri
DATELINE: Columbia, Mo.
It really is a great time to be a Tiger. At least that's what U.S. News and World Report states in the issue set to hit newsstands today. The magazine places MU No. 1 in its ranking of "America's Best Values in Colleges."
The rankings, which compare the average cost of tuition for students receiving aid to the percentage of students who receive aid, placed Missouri first among national universities.
Thirty-one percent of MU students who needed financial aid received an average tuition reduction of 59 percent.
Ranked below MU were, in order from second to tenth, Caltech, Harvard, Stanford, Rice, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Columbia, Princeton, University of Texas-Austin, University of Virginia. ...
HEADLINE: Alpha Center Studies Incentive-based Purchasing in
Medicaid Managed Care
CONTACT: LeAnne DeFrancesco or Carole Lee, 202-296-1818, Web site:
http://www.ac.org
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Aug. 24
Managed care, if used properly and effectively, holds tremendous promise for improving access to and quality of care. However, states and managed care organizations (MCOs) are faced with a troubling problem: how to balance increasingly complex, often process-oriented contracts designed to protect access and quality of care with risk-based payment systems that reward underutilization.
In response to this challenge, the Center for Health Care Strategies' (CHCS) Medicaid Managed Care Program -- a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation- sponsored initiative -- has funded an Alpha Center study on incentive-based purchasing inn Medicaid managed care. ...
The Center for Health Care Strategies (www.chcs.org), an affiliate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, is home to The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Medicaid Managed Care Program. Based in Princeton, N.J., CHCS sponsors studies, funds demonstration projects, and provides technical assistance to improve the delivery of managed health care to the 35 million beneficiaries of Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
HEADLINE: High Clouds, No Storm In Sight
BYLINE: By Alan S. Blinder; Alan S. Blinder, a professor of
economics at Princeton University, was vice chairman of the
Federal Reserve in the mid-1990's.
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.
One thing an economist should never predict is the future. Ignoring that wisdom, I'll boldly do just that: in February of next year, the current economic expansion will, at 107 months, become the longest in United States history.
How much beyond that can the good times roll? No one knows, of course, but we can venture some educated guesses about what could end the party.
Macroeconomic folklore holds that expansions don't die of old age; they die because the Federal Reserve kills them. This aphorism summarizes two statistical regularities. First, the mortality table of economic expansions is unlike that of humans: the odds that an expansion will end do not increase significantly as it ages. Second, almost every American recession since World War II has been preceded by tighter monetary policy -- that is, higher interest rates.
The current expansion may also end that way, but so far the nation has been blessed by a nonhomicidal Federal Reserve.
True, Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman, has repeatedly emphasized his concern that extremely tight labor markets may trigger a surge in inflation. But that hasn't happened yet. As the mild-mannered report on the Consumer Price Index released last Tuesday reminds us, this expansion has been different. We are now midway through the ninth year of unbroken growth, yet inflation is lower than when the boom began. There is no convincing evidence that pay is rising faster than is consistent with inflation in the 2 to 2 1/2 percent range.
I wish I could tell you why inflation has been so tame, but no one has a full explanation. Part of the answer, however, surely is a fortuitous series of what economists call favorable supply shocks, that is, special factors that push inflation down. ...
HEADLINE: Pittsburgh-Based Firm Takes Low-Key Approach to
Property Deals
BYLINE: By Dan Fitzpatrick
Amid the quiet, cream-colored hallways of one of Pittsburgh's most private and secretive companies, the only evidence that The Hillman Company recently completed the largest Downtown real estate acquisition of the 1990s is a maroon-colored chair. After Hillman closed on the six-building, 1.57-million-square-foot PPG Place this summer, general counsel Vaughan Blaxter III spotted a director's chair in the complex's main plaza. On the chair's back are the words "PPG Place." Blaxter liked the chair, and he wanted it for his office. "So, they got me one," Blaxter said.
Such understatement is characteristic of Hillman's quiet approach. After years of solitude, the company remains notoriously media shy and cautious. "We have not found it beneficial to be public about any of our holdings," Blaxter said. "It doesn't enhance the returns." Its top real estate officers agreed to a rare interview, though, to "let the world know that we are not out of the real estate business," Blaxter said. ...
Hillman's father, John Hartwell Hillman Jr., was a coal, steel and gas baron who built Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical. Henry Hillman started in the business after graduating from Princeton University and assumed control in 1959, following his father's death. He shifted the company's focus into light industry and real estate, buying offices, hotels, shopping centers, industrial parks and golf courses across the country. ...
HEADLINE: Justice Handler Joins Wilentz, Goldman &
Spitzer
DATELINE: WOODBRIDGE, N.J., Aug. 24
Retiring New Jersey Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Alan B. Handler will join Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer as Of Counsel effective September 1, 1999.
Justice Handler is the longest-serving member of the current Court. He was first appointed to the Superior Court in 1968 by Governor Richard J. Hughes. Prior to his judicial appointment, he was in private practice and then served as deputy attorney general from 1961 to 1964 and as first assistant attorney general from 1964 to 1968. Following his judicial appointment, Justice Handler served initially in the Superior Court, Law Division, and was then assigned to the Appellate Division in 1973. Justice Handler resigned from the bench in 1976 to serve as Counsel to Governor Brendan T. Byrne. In March 1977, he joined Chief Justice Hughes on the state's highest court. He thereafter served on the Supreme Court with Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz and the current Chief Justice, Deborah T. Poritz.
Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer is the fifth largest law firm in New Jersey with 126 attorneys headquartered in Woodbridge. The firm was also home to the late New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Wilentz. ...
Justice Handler attended Princeton University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in 1953 from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Justice Handler received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1956 and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar the same year. ...
HEADLINE: Monmouth County Horse Show: Levy beats more
experienced competitors
BY: ARLENE J. NEWMAN/PRESS EQUESTRIAN WRITER
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP - At the age of 18, Kate Levy is barely out of
the junior ranks but she had no problem besting a field of more
seasoned competitors on her equally inexperienced horse in
yesterday's $25,000 Stillwell-Hansen Ride for Riverview Grand
Prix.
Levy was one of two riders out of a field of 25 who left all the jumps standing within the 90 second time allowed.
Princeton University student Gabriella Salick turned in a third clear round but was two-tenths of a second too slow, which kept her out of the tiebreaking jump-off and in third place aboard her Sandstone Conway. ...
HEADLINE: 'U.S. News & World Report' Releases School Rankings to Growing Criticism, CNNfnBYLINE: Beverly Schuch, Gary Tuchman
GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Prospective Princeton University students tour the campus on the same day the most well-known college rankings are released on the newsstand. (on camera): Do you ever read the rankings in "U.S. News & World Report"?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, every time they come out. TUCHMAN (voice-over): This year, they are reading that Princeton, tied for the top school in the United States last year, is now tied for fourth, and that has caused some growling.
JUSTIN HARMON, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: There will be some number of people who believe that the ranking is legitimate statistically, and it is not.
TUCHMAN: It may sound like sour grapes to some, but criticism comes from many quarters. "Time" and "Newsweek" also have college guides, but say they don't rank, because it can't be done accurately. A company well-know for its college guide says ranking schools is like comparing apples and oranges.
MICHAEL BRANNICK, PRESIDENT, PETERSON'S PUBLISHING: Basically we are saying that it's inaccurate, and therefore, unfair. ...
TUCHMAN: But "U.S. News & World Report" says the rankings, based partly on test scores, student-teacher ratio and graduate placement, are comprehensive and fair. ...
NOTE: Versions of the U.S. News & World Report rankings story appeared widely in newspapers, radio and TV outlets throughout the United States.
SECTION: OPINION
HEADLINE: The Search for Answers
Readers' Letters
Sir,- If David Grecht and others like him have asked questions and gotten no answers, it may be that he approached the wrong people.
When he asked, in the July 30 Post, "How do we know that God exists?" he would have received this answer from Professor Conklin, a Princeton University biologist: "The possibility of the entire universe appearing by accident is comparable to the possibility of the entire dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory." ...
Meir Abelson, Beit Shemesh.
HEADLINE: Career Singed in Global Bank Fires
BYLINE: By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN with RAYMOND BONNER
Seven years ago, Natasha Gurfinkel, a young executive at the Bank of New York, joined an elite contingent of American bankers sent to Russia and earned an important break in her career.
Her mission was to help the new Russia create a Western-style banking system, and her self-assured, savvy touch impressed top bankers and regulators on the trip. Only a few months after her return, she was promoted to head the bank's division for Eastern Europe.
At 37 she was taking on a big assignment for a woman at a buttoned-down New York bank.
But she seemed perfect for the job. Fluent in her native Russian and able to move seamlessly from Wall Street to Moscow, she built a lucrative business for the bank. New Russian companies needed access to American money and American banks, and Ms. Gurfinkel became known as banker who could get things done. ...
But last week Ms. Kagalovsky was suspended by the Bank of New York, and she is a central figure in what Federal investigators suspect could be one of the biggest money laundering schemes in history. Investigators say billions of dollars may have been channeled through accounts at the Bank of New York by Russian organized crime as well as by embezzlement from Russian companies. ...
All of that was a long way from Ms. Kagalovsky's modest beginnings. Born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, in 1954, she attended what was then Leningrad State University and earned the equivalent of bachelor's and master's degrees in Oriental studies.
In 1979 she immigrated to the United States and eventually enrolled at Princeton University, earning a master's degree in Near Eastern studies. In 1986 she joined the Irving Bank Corporation, which Bank of New York acquired in 1988. ...
HEADLINE: In Wake of Dale, It's Time for a New Look at 'Public
Accommodation'; (157 N.J.L.J. 747)
BYLINE: Melinda Maidens
The author, a member of the Law Journal editorial board, is an associate at Jeffer, Hopkinson & Vogel in Hawthorne.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Boy Scouts of America must reinstate James Dale, whom it had dismissed after learning that he is homosexual. Dale had been an exemplary scout through his childhood and adolescence, rising through the ranks and earning dozens of merit badges. Membership in the Boy Scouts usually ends at age 18, but Dale applied for and was granted adult membership, a separate category from youth membership, and only infrequently granted. ...
Dale thus appears to be an unavoidable consequence of National Organization of Women v. Little League Baseball, Inc., 67 N.J. 320 (1974), in which the meaning of a "place of public accommodation" was stretched to its breaking point. Relying on NOW v. Little League, the Court held that the Boy Scouts constitute a "place," because of the "various locations where Boy Scout troops meet"; the movement is "public" because it invites the public to "join, attend, or participate in some way" and engages in public solicitation for membership. ...
These and other examples cited by the Court would make virtually any but the most secret societies subject to the LAD. Even the Ku Klux Klan might not avoid its operation. The Court need not have reached so far, however, NOW v. Little League notwithstanding. That decision and Frank v. Ivy Club, 120 N.J. 73 (1990) (eating clubs at Princeton University), addressed the issue of restrictions on membership in voluntary groups. In Dale, however, the Court ventured further and subjected to judicial review not merely the membership policy of the Boy Scouts but its internal regulations governing leadership. ...
HEADLINE: Population control vital for economies
BYLINE: Richard Shainwald
Here's some staggering statistics from the United Nations: Just last week, the world's population passed the 6 billion mark.
China is approaching 1 billion people. This is five times the U.S. population, and in a smaller land mass. India, at this time slightly smaller in population than China, is growing more rapidly and will soon surpass China as the world's most populous country. Our neighbor to the south, Mexico, has 95 million people. Since most Mexicans are under the age of 21, it is estimated that Mexico's population will double in just 17 years.
Although America is far from perfect and not without certain ills, most of us anticipate that our political leaders, for the most part, share our dreams and will strive to achieve them. Our economy appears to be relatively strong, unemployment is not a highly pervasive problem, and our confidence in the near future appears to be optimistic and consumer-driven.
So why should we be concerned with these faraway places. Does it really matter that countries with huge and unmanageable populations cannot control the balance between underemployment and environmental disaster?
It matters a great deal, because we have an interdependent relationship with the world that allows us to live the lifestyle of our choice. Many scholars have written that rapid population increases without commensurate economic development create a number of problems. Among the most pressing are the numbers of new jobs needed to accommodate the flood of people entering the labor pool.
According to the Center of Population Studies at Princeton University, it is estimated that 1.2 billion jobs must be created worldwide by the year 2025 to accommodate new entrants. Furthermore, most of these jobs will have to be created in urban areas where more than 85 percent of the population will live. ...
HEADLINE: With Aid from Uncle Sam; State Ranks 10th in Research Grants
BYLINE: LAURENCE ARNOLD, The Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
In his final State of the Union address in 1988, President Ronald Reagan launched a shot across New Jersey's bow.
He complained about funds for cranberry, blueberry, crawfish, and wildflower research "tucked away behind a little comma here and there" in a $650 billion catchall spending bill, and challenged lawmakers to rescind the spending.
For New Jersey, those were fighting words. Lawmakers rallied around the state's berry industries, in particular, the Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension Center at Rutgers University, the recipient of federal support since its founding in 1962. ...
Princeton University, approximately $600,000 for research on design of a wind tunnel to test hypersonic vehicles.
HEADLINE: Strange But True: It's child's play - but why does my
hoop hop? TRICKY TOYS
BYLINE: By Robert Matthews
IF YOU think you suffered at the hands of sarcastic teachers, then think yourself lucky that you were never a student of the Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli. One of the most brilliant theoreticians of this century - he won the 1945 Nobel prize for finding the central law underpinning all chemistry - Pauli had a nasty line in put-downs.
His favourite was to dismiss the ideas of others as so bad they were "not even wrong". No allowance was made for youth: he put down one up-and-coming theorist by saying: "So young - and already he has achieved so little." But then, with Pauli, we are dealing with someone who as a teenager wrote a treatise on relativity that drew praise from Einstein himself. ...
A classic case has just reared its head in the pages of the American Mathematical Monthly. It centres on a question set to Cambridge University engineering students in the Fifties: imagine you have a lightweight hoop with a heavy weight fixed to its rim. Starting off with the hoop upright and the weight at the top-most point, what happens when you roll the hoop across the ground?
Cranking through the relevant equations, the short answer is: the hoop hops. And on reflection, one can see this makes sense: as the weight rolls round to the horizontal position, its desire to fall under gravity becomes so great that it overwhelms the restraining effect of the hoop, and jerks the whole lot up into the air.
This, at least, was the appealingly simple explanation put forward by Tadashi Tokieda of Princeton University earlier this year in the AMM. But as Pauli would have said: "Simple it is, but it is also wrong." ...
HEADLINE: Regional Week in Review
OCEAN COUNTY: A man who drowned off Island Beach State Park last Sunday despite rescue efforts has been identified as a Toronto resident visiting New Jersey to meet friends.
The victim, Dengfeng Wang, 34, was in the park with an unidentified friend and went swimming in the ocean after lifeguards went off duty at 6 p.m., Chief Ranger Jim Hanebury said.
Greg Bhenke and Chris Falco, members of the park's foot patrol, and Park Ranger Leighton Miller responded to a report by beachgoers of a body drifting about 100 feet offshore.
Bhenke and Falco swam out and pulled Wang from the ocean. Beachgoer Anne Sambueini, a registered nurse from Basking Ridge, administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but Wang could not be revived, Hanebury said.
Wang was in New Jersey to visit friends at Princeton University, authorities said.
HEADLINE: Builders blamed for quake losses
BYLINE: By Aliza Marcus, Globe Correspondent
ISTANBUL - Turkish building contractors have gone into hiding to avoid angry survivors of the earthquake that killed more than 12,000 people as engineering experts yesterday accused the government of not protecting people against shoddy buildings.
The government arrested three builders as Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit pledged to go after contractors who built that substandard housing - among more than 115,000 buildings demolished or rendered uninhabitable after Tuesday's quake.
But engineering experts demanded that the government investigate itself instead.
"Only the state can stop people from building without proper plans, from using bad materials. They are the ones to blame and there must be an investigation that starts with local authorities and goes all the way to the top," said Cemal Gokce, director of the Building Engineers Association in Istanbul. ...
One building expert said Turkey's building codes related to protecting against quakes were advanced but the problem was that contractors ignored the rules.
"People don't follow procedures because contractors are not licensed, they don't have any liability insurance, and they don't understand the complications of the earthquake codes," said Ahmet Cakmak, a professor of civil engineering at Princeton University. ...
HEADLINE: LETTERS PAGE
It does not follow that rape accusation should always be accepted at face value
The recent article about state rape statistics referred to rape as an ''underreported'' crime. But false accusations of rape are more common than the current political climate would have us believe. According to FBI and Uniform Crime Statistics, ''unfounded'' reports of crime this decade average 2 percent. Rape charges, however, carry an 8 percent unfounded rate. ...
The third reason for false reporting is to get sympathy or attention. A woman at Princeton University, during a ''Take Back the Night'' rally a few years ago, accused a student of raping and abusing her. When the male student sued her, she retracted the accusation, claiming she was ''overcome by emotion.'' ...
HEADLINE: A life overseas: Teenage trip opened doors to other
countries for Kathy Van de Vate
BYLINE: By Amy McRary, News-Sentinel staff writer
Seventeen-year-old Kathy Van de Vate knew nothing about Morocco but that she wanted to go there.
She pleaded over her prep school's pay phone to her parents to let her go. After all she said with teen angst, "I'm going to college, and I'm going to work, and I'll never get to go abroad again!"
So began the first leg of a journey that has seen the now 44-year-old Van de Vate live most of her adult life overseas. Her three-month student study in Morocco spurred a fascination with the Middle East that evolved into a career as a Foreign Service officer who speaks fluent Arabic. ..
In 1988, she and Shimwell married and moved to America to work at Princeton University. After three years in the Arabic section of Princeton's library, Van de Vate was looking for a career move. At a friend's suggestion, she took and passed the Foreign Service exam. The USIA hired her and sent her to Amman as assistant cultural attache from 1992 to 1994. ...
HEADLINE: Russia; Echoes of an Empire in Free Fall
BYLINE: Michael A. Reynolds, Michael A. Reynolds is a Fulbright scholar in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He has lived, studied and, worked in Russia, the North Caucasus and Turkey
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.
A new constitution granting new rights and freedoms, including the right to vote, is proclaimed. People dance and joyfully embrace in the streets. Their country is free, moving ahead, joining the civilized nations of the world.
Boris N. Yeltsin's Russia in 1991?
No, the Ottoman Empire in 1908, the place described, ironically enough, by Czar Nicholas II as "the sick man of Europe," the multiethnic and multiconfessional empire that few can or wish to remember today, including its main successor state, Turkey.
Western policymakers would do well to dust off their history books and reread the sections dealing with the terminal decline of the Ottomans. After the "new start" of 1908, the reform movement faltered and the government drifted. Giddy optimism among Ottoman subjects turned into bitterness and a sense of betrayal. Finally, the reform movement came to an end when the empire's former subjects humiliated it in the Balkan Wars of 1912-13. ...
The similarities between Ottoman disintegration and the continuing collapse of Russian power should be disquieting. The Ottomans built their empire fighting under the banner of Sunni Islam. Their all-encompassing Islamic ideology gave the Ottoman state more than a transcendent purpose: It stamped its institutions with the imprimatur of eternal truth. Even tax codes were defined till the end of time. ...
HEADLINE: Gursky: 'Great Place to Be Part of a Family'
BYLINE: MICAH J. GURSKY; (A free-lance story for The Morning Call).
'Why would you want to live in Tamaqua?"
I've been asked this question by friends, neighbors and even family members. Certainly, they mean no harm and are truly curious, but I always feel a little insulted when I have to justify living in my own hometown of Tamaqua.
Not only did I grow up in this small, coal-region town, but I've been living and working in Tamaqua for more than four years since my wife, Penny, and I graduated from Princeton University in 1995. Like many people, the coal region is where I benefited from the kindness and guidance of family, neighbors, teachers, coaches and many others who have asked for nothing in return. Although Penny spent most of her life in a New Jersey suburb, sometimes I think that makes her appreciate living in this community even more than I do. ...
HEADLINE: ECONOMIC VIEW; Inflation? It Just Doesn't Add Up
BYLINE: By SYLVIA NASAR
BARELY a year after a worldwide deflation scare -- when markets and currencies were crashing, banks and businesses in Asia, Russia and Latin America were failing, and prices of oil and raw materials were plunging -- inflation is back on peoples' minds.
On the face of it, fretting about inflation when every major price gauge in the United States is rising just 2 percent or so a year seems a little like Uma Thurman obsessing over her weight.
But what concerns Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, and Wall Street investors is the nagging suspicion that the stellar inflation record of the last two years was mostly the product of a few lucky, highly transitory breaks -- and therefore won't last. That suspicion is likely to propel the Fed's policy-making committee toward another interest-ratee increase when it meets on Tuesday. ...
Even skeptics now say that the low inflation of the 1990's is not just a fluke, but rather a return to a norm that prevailed for a quarter-century, beginning in the late 1940's -- years when 4 percent inflation seemed scandalously high. As Alan S. Blinder, an economist at Princeton University annd former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, said recently, "To a substantial extent, we're back to the 50's." ...
HEADLINE: The Nation; Who You Gonna Call After the Next
Bust?
BYLINE: By LOUIS UCHITELLE
There will be a recession. That is inevitable - if not this year, then next year or maybe the year after. The question is, how severe will it be? The answer is that despite all the fanfare about these prosperous times, the eight-year expansion walks on precarious legs, and when it collapses, getting the U.S. economy back on its feet could be surprisingly hard and painful. ...
When hard times come, households and companies will almost certainly cut back on spending, investing and borrowing, a nightmare for an economy that has become increasingly dependent on such voluntary activity. Government, mainly federal, but also state and local, will suddenly be expected to take up the slack. As Alan Blinder, a Princeton University economist, put it, ''In the event of a recession, people turn to government en masse.'' ...
NOTE: This story also appeared in The International Herald Tribune.
HEADLINE: As Russian Power Wanes, Violence Spreads
To the Editor:
Robert D. Kaplan (Op-Ed, Aug. 17) overlooks the real significance of the ongoing challenge to Russian rule in the republic of Dagestan. The conflict is not just "one new chapter in the larger, bloodstained history of the Caucasus" but rather a significant new chapter in the history of the disintegration of Russian power in the Caucasus and of the power of the Russian state in general.
The problem suggested by the struggle in Dagestan is not the projection of Russian power into Georgia and Azerbaijan. It is the more serious problem of the retraction of the power of the Russian state from the North Caucasus in particular, and from all aspects of Russian life in general.
In the Caucasus, Shamil Basayev, the Chechen commander of the insurgents, is making a bid to fill the resulting vacuum. Elsewhere in Russia, that vacuum has already been filled by organized-crime syndicates and gangs.
MICHAEL A. REYNOLDS
Madison, Conn., Aug. 18, 1999
The writer is a doctoral student in Near Eastern studies at
Princeton University.
HEADLINE: Deadbeat Dad in Trouble Even After 3 Years in Jail
SOURCE: Wire services
BYLINE: The Associated Press
DATELINE: PHILADELPHIA
A former investment banker who has spent three years in a county jail for failing to pay $271,000 in court-ordered child support is now being charged by federal prosecutors who say he has shown no remorse for his actions.
Warren Matthei, 47, has spent three years in the Essex County Jail in Newark, and will be released soon.
But once he sets foot outside, he will be taken into custody to await federal prosecution under the 1992 deadbeat dad law.
Prosecutors filed the criminal complaint in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia on Friday, charging Matthei with evading child support and willfully failing to pay support to his three children, ages 10, 15, and 16. They live in Delaware County with Matthei's former wife, Susan Kelly.
Matthei was charged under federal law after he apparently showed no regret on the eve of his release, said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael L. Levy.
Matthei has said he is broke, and would not pay the money to his children even if he had it.
Matthei and Kelly were married in 1976 and lived in Summit until their 1992 divorce. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School, he worked at several major Wall Street brokerages, including Merrill Lynch. ...
HEADLINE: Software Payrolls Surpass Aerospace -- Stock Options Cause Momentous Shift in Puget Sound Area
BYLINE: DAVID HEATH; SEATTLE TIMES STAFF REPORTER
The software industry, led by Microsoft, now has a bigger Puget Sound payroll than Boeing and its parts makers - even though software employs one-fifth as many workers.
It's a momentous shift of economic might. Since the 1940s, Boeing has been unchallenged as the dominant force in Seattle's economy. But last year, 23,500 software workers in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties earned $6.77 billion, while 110,000 aircraft workers made $5.98 billion. ...
But the sudden shower of stock-option wealth could quickly dry up. All it would take at Microsoft is for the stock price to stop doubling or tripling every couple of years and to start behaving in a more ordinary way. The company has made doomsayers look foolish before. But few serious market watchers expect Microsoft's extraordinary run to last forever.
"It can't continue indefinitely because they can't continue the growth rate forever. It's just mathematically impossible," said Burton Gordon Malkiel, a Princeton University economist and author of "A Random Walk Down Wall Street."
Malkiel points out that if Microsoft revenues and the U.S. economy were to continue growing at their current extraordinary rates, Microsoft revenues would surpass the gross domestic product - the total of all goods and services sold in the United States - in 30 years. ...
HEADLINE: If You've Seen Bradley Play Basketball, You've Seen Him Run for President
BYLINE: Philip Din
Bill Bradley never dunked.
Whether he could have is another issue.
One theory is that the Missouri native, who starred at Princeton University before helping bring the New York Knicks their only two National Basketball Association championships, deliberately chose not to.
Bradley took a cerebral approach to the game, compensating for modest natural talent by out-thinking and out-hustling his opponent. Two points are two points, whether by a slam dunk or a routine lay-up, so why expend energy that could be better used on the next possession to free yourself for a jump shot?
Or, perhaps Bradley, though 6 feet 5 inches tall, was afflicted with what's known in hoop circles as white man's disease and lacked the airborne prowess of so many of his peers.
The staff of his presidential campaign said last week that they couldn't answer why he didn't dunk "without an embarrassing phone call."
Either explanation -- his deliberative nature or lack of flair -- captures a part of Bradley and reflects as much about him now as it did then. IIndeed, to have seen Bradley play ball 30 years ago is to watch him run for president today, even to imagine what he'd be like in the White House. ...
HEADLINE: Bulldog gridder also a lifter
BYLINE: Michael DiRocco, Sports writer
ABDULLAH HONORED -- Former Bolles School standout Hamin Abdullah has been named a captain on the Princeton University football team.
Abdullah (6-feet-3, 275 pounds), a senior, was a first-team All-Ivy League selection at offensive guard last season. He helped the Tigers generate 352.3 yards per game of total offense (fourth in the conference), including 157.4 yards per game rushing.
Abdullah graduated from Bolles in 1996.
SECTION: EDITORIAL/OPINIONS
HEADLINE: Me in the Ivy League? That's what I thought
BYLINE: Jacquelyn Kung, Special to the Star-Telegram
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Cornell, Penn and Columbia.
All are names that command respect and inspire dreams. We love how their names roll easily off our tongues: "Haah-vuhd . . . Kulumm-bia . . . "
Yet how distant the names make their schools seem. Far, far away in "New England land," wherever that might be. They seem to be settled comfortably in their own little world, a little corner of the world where ivy-covered buildings house intellectual thought. Far, far away ... But they don't have to be.
All my life, I gawked shamelessly at Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League schools. Their names alone place them on the pedestal of"untouchability," worthy of only distant admiration. In fact, I sincerely believed that I could not touch the Ivy League. It was, after all,distant and untouchable.
But application time came, and I challenged myself to reach higher and further than the "safe" state schools. It was a challenge to apply to top colleges even though I was scared to face what was involved: a daunting application process and the possibility of rejection.
Through God's grace, I reached this untouchable. I was admitted to Harvard. But still, I could swear that this was a mistake. ...
I soon learned that what defines Harvard is not merely Harvard.
Rather, what really defines Harvard - or any of the fun-to-say colleges - are its students and professors. Together, they create a uniquely dynamic atmosphere where learning is a way of life. ...
HEADLINE: Sense and sentience; Peter Singer We might not need pig hearts if the ban on human embryo experiments were lifted
When a human embryo consists of not more than 64 cells, its cells are, like a young dog, able to learn new tricks. If injected into a diseased kidney, they take on many of the properties of ordinary kidney cells, and may help the kidney to perform its normal function. This seems to hold for any organ, even any kind of cell.
This is exciting medical researchers because it means that, at least in theory, the cells from an early embryo could eliminate the need for organ transplants entirely, cure leukaemia, enable people with diabetes to manufacture insulin, treat Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, and repair the nerve systems of quadriplegics. ...
Other things being equal, there is less reason for objecting to the use of an early human embryo, a being that has no brain, no consciousness and no preferences of any kind, than there is for objecting to research on rats, who are sentient beings capable of preferring not to be in situations that are painful or frightening to them. ...
Peter Singer is DeCamp professor of bioethics at Princeton University
HEADLINE: Whitney Darrow; A quiet, small-town homebody whose satirical cartoons added a streak of pessimism to the New Yorker
BYLINE: Christopher Hawtree
The cartoonist is often thought to be a carousing interloper, a frivolous spirit among those for whom art is a high calling. One looks in vain for the great Saul Steinberg in many a reference work which takes 20th-century art as its purlieu. There is even less chance of finding Whitney Darrow, who has died at the age of 89. Yet Darrow was one of the last of the New Yorker's artists from the pre-war era.
His work is marked by a gentle wit which has an undertow of something stronger, evident in more than 1,500 cartoons published in the magazine between 1932 and his retirement five decades later. ...
He was brought up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and his father - Whitney Darrow senior - was a founder of the Princeton University Press. Darrow graduated from Princeton in 1931 and immediately set about a career in print (he had already written parodies). Although he had prose in mind, this was eased aside by drawing, and he was one of those - like Paul Crum and Pont in England - who sought to bring the cartoon closer to a psychological study. ...
HEADLINE: Colleges Putting Spin on Ratings by News Magazine
BYLINE: Staff And Wire Reports
The controversial annual rankings of colleges by U.S. News & World Report were issued Friday, and some Connecticut colleges quickly began putting their spin on their ratings.
Connecticut College and the University of Connecticut were among colleges that quickly issued press releases on their rankings. Colleges such as Yale University traditionally dismiss the rankings as unimportant. Stanford University has called the rankings -- now in their 13th year -- misleading.
Connecticut College dropped from 24th to 25th among national liberal arts colleges in the magazine, which hits newsstands Tuesday. Its press release points out that over the past 10 years, the college has moved up from 41st to the top 25. ...
Yale, tied for first among national universities last year, fell to a tie for fourth with Princeton University. The best college rankings, available on the Internet at www.usnews.com, ranked the California Institute of Technology No. 1 for the first time. ...
HEADLINE: Earthquake in Turkey: The Onerview; Turkish Quake Relief Turns to Preventing Epidemics
BYLINE: By STEPHEN KINZER
DATELINE: ISTANBUL, Turkey, Aug. 20
With the death toll from Tuesday's earthquake projected to soar into the tens of thousands and the vast dislocation of people showing no sign of ending, relief workers and Government officials today turned to the challenge of preventing the outbreak of disease.
In many towns in the earthquake zone, the stench of decomposing bodies has become thick and almost unbearable in the damp summer heat. Medical supplies are scarce, and running water is unavailable in most of the affected area.
The exact number of victims -- dead, injured and missing -- is impossible to determine with precision in the chaos of a city and country unprepared for suuch destruction. ...
The official crisis center announced tonight that more than 10,000 bodies had been recovered so far, and that the number of injured had risen to 34,000. Those still alive among the many, many thousands missing are at grave risk if they are not found and freed soon.
According to historians, major quakes have shaken Istanbul more frequently than that. Their accounts say that in the last 5,000 years, there has been such a quake about once every 175 years. Istanbul is now home to 12 million people.
"The area where this recent quake was centered will not be hit again any time soon, because the seismic pressure there has dissipated," said Ahmet Cakmak, a professor of engineering at Princeton University who is an expert on Turkish seismology. "But the fault that runs closer to Istanbul is still very dangerous, and a major quake here is very likely. "
He added: "There's plenty of time to prepare for that quake, but usually the memory of devastation lasts five years at most, and then people go back to building and living as they did before. The newspapers are saying we survived the big earthquake, but that's silly. It's a big mistake. What we should do is learn from this one, expect a bigger one and be prepared." ...
NOTE: This story also appeared in The International Herald Tribune.
HEADLINE: FOCUS: FOMC to raise rate to 5.25 pct; analysts seek clues to future moves
WASHINGTON (AFX) - The Federal Reserve Board is expected to raise its overnight lending rate one-quarter of one percentage point to 5.25 pct when the Federal Open Market Committee meets on Tuesday, economists said.
It will mark the FOMC's second effort in seven weeks to slow the economy and head off a potential rise in inflation, economists said.
The hike in the Federal funds rate, anticipated by a large majority of Wall Street analysts, is already priced into the financial markets. ...
Despite what Gayle called the "optimistic" response of the bond market, analysts remain divided over whether recent indicators require Fed chairman Alan Greenspan to "act promptly and forcefully" to halt imbalances in the economy, as he said he was prepared to do during his July 22 semi-annual testimony before lawmakers if signs of imbalances emerged.
"Nothing would give the Fed reason to take an aggressive anti-inflationary stance at this time," said Alan Blinder, a former vice-chairman of the Fed who now teaches at Princeton University.
"I think an objective reading of the evidence is that there is scant, but not zero evidence of inflation pressures building in the economy. There is a whiff here, a straw in the wind there, but its hardly a strong buildup," Blinder said. ...
HEADLINE: More and More, The People Get Their Say
BYLINE: BY ANASTASIA STANMEYER
HIGHLIGHT: Democracy in Asia will become increasingly deep-rooted
Ancient Athens had the world's first democracy. Everybody had a vote. Except women, slaves, beggars and people below 30. Clearly, the Greek model could use some fixes. The same goes for modern-day Asia, many of whose nations are still a long way from establishing genuinely democratic cultures. Democracy gives people not only the right to vote, but also political and civil rights to fulfill their needs. It allows rich and poor, weak and strong, equal priority and justice.
By those yardsticks, will Asia become truly, deeply democratic? Not in the next decade or two, say political pundits. ...
It is a sobering lesson for countries that sacrificed democratic principles in the pursuit of development. For others, the chances for political freedom have increased as they have become wealthier. According to Pei Minxin, a China analyst and former Princeton University professor, rising affluence tends to make countries remain free longer. So while Thailand's democracy may be immature, at least it is there to stay, Pei believes. ...
HEADLINE: Green Technologies Ahead
FUSION REACTORS Fusing atoms of hydrogen isotopes, which are abundant in sea water, produces heat and nontoxic helium. Princeton University's National Spherical Torus Experiment aims at making fusion reactors a viable power source by 2050.
HEADLINE: Caltech tops magazine college ranking list
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
U.S. News & World Report has issued its annual ranking of America's colleges and Caltech leads the list.
The 1999 rankings are included in the magazine's annual publication, "America's Best Colleges."
The magazine goes on sale Tuesday and the rankings will also be available on the Internet at www.usnews.com.
Over the 13 years of the magazine's best college rankings, the California Institute of Technology - a 900-student school in Pasadena - has always been in the top 10. It placed as high as third in the 1989 edition, but this year, for the first time, it tops the list.
The magazine used several criteria, including a school's reputation among academics; the percentage of students that go on to graduate; faculty pay, class size, student-faculty ratio and other indicators of faculty resources; student selectivity; financial resources, such as spending per student; and alumni giving.
In addition to Caltech, the top national universities for this year are: Harvard (ranked No. 2); the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (No.3); Princeton University and Yale University (sharing the No. 4 spot); Stanford University at No.6; Duke University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania (sharing the No. 7 spot); and Columbia University at No. 10.
DISTRIBUTION: Business Editors/High-Tech & Education Writers
HEADLINE: Lycos Inc.'s HotBot Reveals Web's Most Popular University Picks; 'US News & World Report's' Best Colleges List Ranked by HotBot's Millions of Monthly Web Searchers
DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO
Aug. 20, 1999--Based on the release of "US News & World Report's" highly publicized annual list of top colleges and universities, new ddata(a) released today by Lycos Inc.'s top-rated search site HotBot (www.hotbot.com) reveals which schools from the list are making the grade among people on the Web.
While the California Institute of Technology is No. 1 on "US News'" 1999 list for best universities, Stanford University ranks as the most-searched-for school among HotBot users, Harvard taking second place. Ivy leaguers -- Princeton, Cornell, and Yale take third, fourth, and fifth places, respectively in HotBot's popularity rankings, and Vanderrbilt University closes out the top 20.
Although Swarthmore College claims the No. 1 spot on "US News'" college list, HotBot's popularity ranking places Trinity College at No. 1. Following is HotBot's Top 20 list for America's top universities and colleges: -0-
HEADLINE: XU BASKETBALL
Xavier adds Princeton to hoops schedule
BYLINE: MICHAEL PERRY
SOURCE: The Cincinnati Enquirer
Princeton University will fill the last spot on Xavier's non-conference schedule for the 1999-2000 men's basketball season. The announcement comes one week after Fresno State backed out of a national TV opportunity against the Musketeers.
XU will play host to the Tigers on Dec. 27 on ESPN2 in a rematch of last year's National Invitation Tournament quarterfinal at the Cincinnati Gardens. The Musketeers will play at Princeton during the 2000-2001 season. ...
HEADLINE: Do the Best and Brightest Always Come From the Best
Universities?
GUESTS: Peter Cary, Harry Gray, Trent Anderson, Brian Blakshaw,
Frank Newport
BYLINE: Bobbie Battista
BOBBIE BATTISTA, HOST: "U.S. News & World Report" releases it's list of the best universities. Did yours make the grade? Is a degree from Yale or Harvard more valuable than one from, say, the University of Southwestern Louisiana? And if you're buying Ivy League, is it worth top dollar?
All right, for those of you who just can't wait, here are the top five: the California Institute of Technology, number one for the first time; Harvard, MIT; Princeton; and Yale.
Now, do the best and the brightest always come from the best universities? ...
Joining us NOW is Peter Cary, editor of special projects for "U.S. News & World Report." ...
BATTISTA: What does it mean to be number one on this list?
CARY: Well, to be number one, it means that we looked at 16 different criteria that all of the national universities and colleges that we rated supplied us with data for, and then we ranked and rated the criteria and assembled the numbers and ran them through a computer. And in the end, Cal Tech this year came out number one. That's what it means. It's a numerical or quantitative way of trying to evaluate something which is very hard, which is the quality of education.
BATTISTA: Yes, I was just going to ask you if you could, say, take one piece of criteria, like academic standing. How do you rank that?
CARY: Well, we could go through a number of them, which would be pretty interesting. We do a reputational survey which do have real value -- that's a sort of standardized survey in a number of industries. We poll all of the 1,400 colleges and universities and ask top officials at those universities how they rate their peers. And when the surveys come back and they do rank their peers, we do give that 25 percent of the weight for our evaluation. So that's pretty important and that's a peer-driven survey. ...
HEADLINE: Cost of Earning A Sheepskin in Soaring
BYLINE: By LEO STANDORA DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Hang on to your mortarboards!
The average cost of going away to a top college is a whopping $32,000 a year.
This eye-popping price tag has jumped more than 100% since 1980, with tuition and fees climbing as high as 5% in the last year alone, according to U.S. News & World Report. The median family income for the parents of college-age students, meanwhile, has increased 12%.
You can, however, get a top-notch higher education wholesale. In fact, the magazine says, seven of 10 full-time students do just that by taking advantage of such things as scholarships and need-based grants. ...
U.S. News says the local Best Buy universities - all near the top of the rankings - are Columbia University, Princeton and the University of Rochester. ...
HEADLINE: Speaking in Tongues
BYLINE: Dan Williams
Surfing the Net
The new Netscape portal (www.nana.co.il), which can be used in Hebrew, English, Arabic, or Russian scripts, is a major boon. Staunch One World-ists may decry it as a further step toward linguistic sectarianism, but most will no doubt respond with "vive la difference" - or their own version of the phrase.
My only gripe about such developments is that they threaten the practice of transliteration. Frequent e-mailings with the comely Post secretary have me convinced I'm a transliteraphiliac. I invariably find myself entranced by the look of our Hebrew exchanges in English characters, pulsating mysteriously on my computer screen. ...
For more prosaic uses of the Internet, however, transliteration can prove problematic. When it comes to Jewish- or Israel-related issues, the more resourceful sites and services take into account the range of possible English renditions of Hebrew keywords.
Thus, for example, spell "Hanukka" any of a variety of ways on the Judaic directory Maven Index (www.maven.co.il) and you'll still get all the links relevant to the holiday. And if you're looking for a Web site for the paint company Tambour, either the obvious (www.tambour.co.il) or the more elusive (www.tambur.co.il) will do.
But there are sites for those seeking a set standard for their transliteration. The Hebrew and Yiddish Transliteration Table (infoshare1.princeton.edu/katmandu/hebrew/trheb.html) is a dry and detailed set of instructions from Princeton University, while A Brief Guide for Editors and Translators of English Sefarim (binyomin.home.gs.net/) has the comforting simplicity of choice dogma.
HEADLINE: Handler Joins Prestigious Firm
BYLINE: The Associated Press
DATELINE: WOODBRIDGE
Retiring state Supreme Court Justice Alan B. Handler has joined the law firm of Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, effective Sept. 1.. Handler, 68, served on the court for more than 22 years. He wrote more than 280 opinions on a wide range of topics, including one that forced Governor Whitman and lawmakers to do more to help poor urban schools.
He also defended free speech rights on college campuses and set rules for discrimination in the workplace.
The Princeton University graduate was a consistent, often lonely, voice against the death penalty. ...
HEADLINE: Russian Criminals 'Launder Cash in US Bank'
BYLINE: Louise Branson In Washington
THE Russian mafia is suspected of laundering billions of dollars - money used for drugs, contract killings and other underworld activities - through a New York bank which is now under a major FBI investigation.
Two women working at the Bank of New York's Eastern European division - including one, Lucy Edwards, a vice president at the bank's London branch -have been suspended. Both are married to Russian businessmen.
The FBI investigation, reported in the New York Times Thursday, began last year following a tip-off from British authorities. British intelligence believes some of the money went to pay contract killers and some went to drug barons. ...
An investigator said the account at the Bank of New York was opened by a Russian-American last year. The volume of transactions through the account should have raised the bank's suspicions. But it only filed one report with authorities after the investigation began.
The accounts were handled by Natasha Gurfinkel Kagalovsky, 44, a senior vice president of the bank in New York.
She emigrated to the US in 1979 from Russia, earned a master's degree from Princeton University and joined the bank. She later married Konstantin Kagalovsky, a former economics adviser to the Russian government from 1992 to 1995, who was Russia's representative to the International Monetary Fund. ...
HEADLINE: Students win help with college costs
Courtney Endres, a Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School graduate, has been awarded a $6,500 annual college scholarship by Lucent Technologies.
Endres was a National Merit Scholar and president of the school's National Honor Society.
She will attend Princeton University in the fall. ...
HEADLINE: Nightline in Primetime: Brave New World
BYLINE: ROBERT KRULWICH, TED KOPPEL
HIGHLIGHT: CLONING - WHY NOT?
NARRATOR: (reading) O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here? How beauteous mankind is. O, brave new world that has such people in it.
TED KOPPEL, ABC News: (voice-over) Things are changing. And sometimes you don't know it until your world is upside down. As our tools move faster, so do we. We're climbing an evolutionary ladder. But what will humans be when man makes man in his own image? ...
ROBERT KRULWICH: (voice-over) And what is it that frightens us about choosing our children's genes?
Prof. LEE SILVER, Princeton University: That is going to be what turns society upside down in the 21st century. That's much, much bigger than cloning alone. ...
ROBERT KRULWICH: (voice-over) Just the possibility that somebody, maybe soon, might clone a human being was so scary, most of us instantly hated the idea without bothering to ask, what is it exactly that is so frightening and so deeply disturbing about a human clone?
We have these images in our heads from the movies. Ah, there's the problem. If we do ever clone humans, says Professor Lee Silver of Princeton University, they won't be like these movie clones.
Prof. LEE SILVER, Princeton University: The public perception is based on movies and fiction that people have read and looked at. And that's where they get this image of cloning as being an exact duplicate copy of a human being. And that is far away from what's really going to happen. ...
HEADLINE: Hays still winning with grace
BYLINE: ARLENE J. NEWMAN; PRESS EQUESTRIAN WRITER
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP - In the rarefied world of show hunters, in which finesse and elegance count as much as athleticism, Holly Hays has earned a place in an elite inner circle of riders. ...
Princeton University student Gabriella Salick, Thousand Oaks, Calif., won the pre-preliminary jumper championship aboard her Sandstone Sterling Silver. ...
HEADLINE: Event shows Bradley chipping away at Gore support
Vice president's Clinton ties hurt, contributors say
BYLINE: AL CROSS, C-J Political Writer
Vice President Al Gore has called Kentucky ''the next best thing to home.'' But the Tennessean is finding that some Bluegrass Democrats are abandoning him in his quest for the presidency for fear that the political baggage of President Clinton will be too much for him to overcome.
The latest and best evidence was a fund-raiser in Oldham County on Tuesday evening for former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, which his campaign said brought in $100,000 - much of it from former Clinton-Gore supporters. ...
Louisville lawyer Joe Helm, who organized the local fund-raiser for Bradley, a fellow Princeton University graduate, made a similar comparison.
''He's had to toe the Clinton line for eight years, and he's ended up like Hubert Humphrey,'' Helm said. ...
HEADLINE: OSU Family Legacy Lasts Four Generations
BYLINE: Jim Killackey, Education Editor
DATELINE: STILLWATER
On a crisp winter day in 1891, coincidences of alphabet, age and ailments allowed James Homer Adams to enroll as the first student at the new Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College.
The Kansas teen-ager, whose family made the Run of '89, was the initial enrollee because his older brother, Arthur Adams, was sick on Dec. 14, 1891.
James Adams, a bright youngster of 13, was awestruck by his academic surroundings, later recounting to school historians that "we had separate classrooms for different classes and different subjects... and instructors were called professors instead of teachers!"
Adams, who died in 1950, would never know that his legacy lives on more than 100 years and hundreds of thousands of students later in his great-grandson: Oklahoma State University sophomore Phil Sonnenfeld of Boulder, Colo. Sonnenfeld is the first fourth-generation OSU student. Oklahoma A&M became OSU in 1957. ...
The college's first nickname was the "Tigers" because a key faculty member was a Princeton University graduate and wanted Oklahoma A&M to be molded in that Ivy League's school likeness. ...
HEADLINE:
BYLINE: William F. Buckley, Jr.
TWO years ago, two fellow critics of the Supreme Court's decision in 1973 overturning the states' abortion laws met to ask, How might opponents of abortion proceed to make their case and advance their arguments without slamming shut the gates on civilized political exchange?
At one of the initial meetings, Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition was there, as also Henry Hyde, the legislator; George Will, the columnist; and Peter Flanigan, a prominent figure on Wall Street who has engaged in civic and educational work throughout a productive career that included a term as assistant to President Nixon. After innumerable meetings and much correspondence, a statement emerged, endorsing a bill that has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature. It is called the Post-Viability Abortion Ban Bill.
One participant thought it useful to grab the brass ring held out by Gov. Christine Whitman's message of 1997 when she vetoed the bill outlawing partial-birth abortion (the bill was passed over her veto). Mrs. Whitman argued that she thought the attempted prohibition unconstitutional (the court subsequently affirmed her judgment), but suggested that a different formulation on the abortion question might be welcome.
State Sen. Joseph Kyrillos has introduced such a bill, which will be debated next fall.
Charles Colson is a signatory, the learned and adamant head of the Prison Fellowship. Robert P. George is an illustrious legal and philosophical figure at Princeton University.
HEADLINE: Ethernet Gets Nod As Home-Network Technology
BYLINE: Craig Matsumoto, EE Times
If forced to define the future of home networks by choosing only one networking protocol, Sandy Fraser, chief scientist of AT&T, said he would pick Ethernet.
Hoping to stir up some controversy in a keynote address at the Hot Interconnects conference, which began Wednesday at Stanford University, Fraser said he chose Ethernet over IEEE 1394 given the addressing requirements of billions of home devices, and considering that new approaches may be necessary as audio and video streams start to dominate network traffic.
Ethernet is the best fit for connecting home devices and appliances to a WAN, said Fraser, who then went through an exercise to see what it would take to use Ethernet throughout a home.
Home-network usage will almost certainly revolve around entertainment, especially as a generation raised on computers matures, Fraser said. Citing online music delivery as an example, Fraser said Princeton University's computer system reportedly devotes more bits to music than to regular data.
HEADLINE: DEATHS
John Sprinker
John Michael Sprinker, a 1968 graduate of Normal Community High School, died from a heart seizure Aug. 12, 1999, in Port Jefferson, N.Y.
A private memorial service was held at East Lawn Memorial Gardens, Bloomington. Beck Memorial Home, Bloomington, is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials may be made to Community Cancer Center, Normal. ...
Mr. Sprinker, a graduate of Northwestern and Princeton universities, was a professor of English and comparative literature at SUNY at Stony Brook on Long Island, N.Y. ...
Louis Oriol, born December 21, 1931 in Indio, Calif., passed away August 19, 1999. He came to San Diego in 1942, worked as a boatt builder, then moved on to outside construction. He is survived by his wife Lillian, mother Anita Oriol, sons Louis, Rudy, Donald and Mark, sister Anna Maria Zaldivar, brother Robert Oriol, 7 grandchildren, and 3 great-grandchildren. Services 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at California Burial Chapel , 5880 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego.
NAME: Sir John Hale
HEADLINE: Sir John Hale, 75, Historian Of Europe and the
Renaissance
BYLINE: By ERIC PACE
Sir John Hale, a British historian who specialized in the Renaissance and was a former chairman of the National Gallery in London, died on Aug. 12. He was 75.
The cause was not announced, The Associated Press reported, but he had been partly incapacitated by a stroke in 1992.
Sir John's crowning achievement was "The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance," published in 1993. Calling it "one of the great history books of all time," Terence Mullaly, a British art historian and critic, predicted in The Guardian that it would be "the book for which he will always be remembered."
Reviewing it in The New York Times Book Review, Theodore K. Rabb, a professor of history at Princeton University, said Sir John was "one of Britain's most distinguished students of the period."
Professor Rabb called Sir John's work "a sweeping and learned traversal of the age, full of choice details" and added, "He reveals how the very idea of 'Europe' and its sense of worldwide mission crystallized, despite local rivalries and new forms of self-consciousness." ...
He was at various times a visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies at I Tatti, the villa outside Florence that was once occupied by the art historian Bernard Berenson; a visiting professor at Cornell and Berkeley Universities, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.
OBITUARIES
HEADLINE: Lawrence Blair
DATELINE: San Francisco
Lawrence Dilworth Blair, a retired banker and once a nationally ranked squash player, died Tuesday at the Tamalpais retirement home in Greenbrae after a long illness. He was 75.
Mr. Blair, a Pittsburgh, Pa., native who moved to San Francisco in 1953, was a vice president of Crocker National Bank and later handled commercial loan accounts at Wells Fargo Bank, which bought Crocker. ...
Mr. Blair attended St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and graduated from Princeton University. He was an ambulance driver during World War II with the American Field Service, assigned to the British Eighth Army. ...
HEADLINE: OBITUARIES
Walter Seymour, Jr., 87, of MIDDLETOWN, died Wednesday at King James Care Center, Middletown. He was retired from American Express. He was a graduate of Hunn School, Princeton, and a 1936 graduate of Princeton University. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank; a former member of Sea Bright Beach Club, Sea Bright Tennis Club and Monmouth Hills Club. Born in Newark, he lived in Monmouth County most his life, living in Fair Haven before moving to Middletown 3 1/4 years ago. ...