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November 19 to 24, 1999
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November 24, 1999, Wednesday
HEADLINE: Princeton may boost enrollment by 500 students
BYLINE: By RICHARD BRAND
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.
Princeton University is considering boosting student enrollment by 500, citing the school's expanded curriculum, a need to accommodate more international students, and a desire to increase student participation in non-sports activities.
It would be the Ivy League school's first significant enrollment increase since women were admitted in 1969.
University trustees met this past weekend to weigh the financial and academic benefits of increasing individual classes by 125 students over the next ten years.
There are currently 4,600 students at Princeton, 1,150 per class.
Paul Wythes, the chairman of the committee making the proposal, said he expects the plan to be easily approved by the Board of Trustees at their April meeting.
Wythes says the plan should increase the number of students involved in arts and academic programs at the university, where 29 percent of students are on varsity teams and 23 percent play club and intramural sports. …
HEADLINE: For candidates, it's old school ties that bind
BYLINE: Linda Feldmann, Staff writer of The Christian Science
Monitor
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
Stanislaw Maliszewski of Chicago, Princeton University class of '66, is a Republican, and he played football, not basketball, for the school.
But he's a Bill Bradley man - raising money for his fellow Princetonian's presidential campaign. He's done cocktail parties, and events on the East Coast and in his hometown of Davenport, Iowa, a key early nominating state in the 2000 election.
"I've tapped into the Princeton network around the country, anybody with $1,000, anybody that knows me - nobody's safe!" he says.
Former New Jersey Senator Bradley has presented a far more formidable challenge to Vice President Al Gore for the Democratic nomination than most pundits anticipated, partly a result of his secret fund-raising weapon: the Princeton connection.
In candidates' efforts to tap into any networks they can, college ties often prove a good place to start. No hard figures were available from any campaign that show how much college connections have contributed to the bottom line, but political analysts say Sen. John McCain of Arizona, for instance, has been helped by the intense loyalty of his fellow US Naval Academy graduates. …
For Bradley, his network of Princeton fund-raisers, donors, and campaign workers goes well beyond people he knew at the school when he was there from 1961 to 1965. He's attracting young Princeton grads, male and female, including former students of renowned literature professor John McPhee, who immortalized Bradley in his 1965 book "A Sense of Where You Are."
Still, says Mr. Maliszewski, Princeton grads' pride in Bradley is "not a 100 percent Bill Bradley phenomenon. It's a Princeton phenomenon."
Ironically, in speeches Bradley has played down the role Princeton played in forging who he is, highlighting instead his 10 years in the National Basketball Association.
But Bradley's people knew from the start Princeton would be important. As the underdog challenging a sitting vice president, Bradley has found many political fund-raising sources unavailable. "We couldn't raise from the usual Democratic lists," says Bradley finance director Rick Wright, class of '64 and a former college basketball teammate.
"I'd go into various cities and try to find leaders from different parts of the community, outside of the political arena - the arts, teaching, business, labor," he says. "And there was always a Princeton group."
A spokesman for the other Princeton graduate in the race - publisher Steve Forbes, class of '70 and a member of the university's board of trustees - says raising money from Princetonians "hasn't been a big focus." But then, Mr. Forbes's campaign is largely self-financed, and he is fighting with Princeton right now over the hiring of a controversial bioethics professor.
For some Princetonians working the phones for Bradley, though, campaign 2000 is nothing less than an Ivy League showdown: Princeton vs. Gore's Harvard and Bush's Yale. Of those three, Princeton is by far the smallest school (6,000 students to Yale's 11,000 and Harvard's 17,500) and has gone the longest without putting a graduate in the White House. The last was President Woodrow Wilson. President John F. Kennedy began at Princeton, but finished at Harvard. …
What makes Bradley's Princeton connection more compelling to some is the fact that he did the school great honor while there - as an all-American basketball player, a member of the Olympic basketball team, and a top student. None of the other candidates can boast that kind of performance; Mr. Bush and Senator McCain slid through college with mediocre grades. …
HEADLINE: Steve Tosches fired as Princeton football coach
BYLINE: By TOM CANAVAN, AP Sports Writer
Three Ivy League football championships in 13 years wasn't enough to save Steve Tosches' job as coach at Princeton.
Tosches, whose teams have posted only one winning season in the past four years, was fired Tuesday, days after the Tigers' only last-place finish in 23 years.
"We have elected to go in a different direction at this point," Princeton athletic director Gary Walters said in a telephone interview Tuesday evening.
Tosches did not return a telephone call by The Associated Press seeking comment.
University spokesman Jerry Price said Tosches will not be available for comment until after the Thanksgiving holiday, at the earliest.
Walters said senior administrators have been evaluating the football program, and that he and Tosches were discussing the situation Tuesday morning when the coach decided to submit his resignation. …
HEADLINE: Princeton fires head football coach
Princeton, NJ (TSN) - Princeton University has fired head football coach Steve Tosches after the program's first last-place finish in 23 years.
Tosches, who won one outright Ivy League title and shared two others, was believed to have submitted his resignation in a closed door meeting with athletic director Gary Walters on Tuesday, but sources in the Ivy league and with the university say that the coach was fired after 13 years.
Princeton has had only one winning season since 1995, when the Tigers captured their first outright title since 1964.
Tosches compiled a 78-50-2 mark, but was only 17-23 in the last four seasons, including 3-7 last season.
HEADLINE: Books and Authors: Stendhal
BYLINE: HILLEL ITALIE
DATELINE: NEW YORK
No one could have mistaken this gathering for a tribute to ''Chicken Soup for the Soul.''
Some 30 friends, admirers and general readers assembled recently in a downtown Manhattan bookstore to hear poet Richard Howard discuss one of the great 19th-century novels, Stendhal's ''The Charterhouse of Parma.'' …
''Charterhouse'' continues a notable tradition of a new translation begetting a new audience. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky's acclaimed rendition of Dante's ''Inferno'' has sold more than 100,000 copies since being published five years ago. Recent editions of ''The Odyssey'' and ''The Iliad,'' both translated by Princeton University classics professor Robert Fagles, have sold more than 200,000 copies apiece.
While new versions of ''The Odyssey'' and other canonical works come out all the time, most are scholarly texts intended for the classroom. But publishers such as Penguin and the Modern Library want to appeal to a larger audience and seek more ''literary'' translations. …
HEADLINE: COLLEGE FOOTBALL;Princeton Coach Leaves Job
Steve Tosches, who led Princeton to one Ivy League football championship and a share of two others in 13 seasons as coach, left his job yesterday, three days after the Tigers finished last in the league for the first time in 23 years.
"We have elected to go in a different direction at this point," Athletic Director Gary Walters said. Tosches, who had one winning season in the last four years, did not return a telephone call seeking comment. Walters refused to comment when asked if Tosches was fired.
Walters said that senior administrators had been evaluating the football program and that he and Tosches were discussing the situation yesterday morning when the coach decided to submit his resignation.
Princeton, which has had only one winning season since 1995, was 3-7 this season, including 1-6 in the league. Tosches's teams went 78-50-2, but just 17-23 in the past four seasons.
HEADLINE: PRINCETON LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
BYLINE: Brian Compton
A confident Princeton men's basketball squad entered the 1999-2000 season with hopes of improving last year's 22-8 record. After losing in the third round of the NIT to Xavier, the Tigers were bringing back three starters and were hoping to regain the form they had two years ago when they went 27-2 and were ranked seventh in the nation.
Head coach Bill Carmody knew better, though.
"We've got a lot of young guys," Carmody said. "Right now we're not a very good team."
That showed immediately as the Tigers dropped their season-opener at Syracuse and fell the next night to Missouri. On Saturday, in a sloppy performance in which they were outplayed, the Tigers picked up their first win, 37-35 over Monmouth.
Despite the slow start, the future is certainly bright for the Tigers, who finished second in the Ivy League last season to arch-rival Penn.
Carmody is 73-14 in three seasons at Princeton. Those 73 wins are the fourth most after three years in Division I history, and Carmody is the only coach since World War II to begin his head coaching career with back-to-back perfect conference seasons.
"We've had good players," Carmody said. "That's basically it. The guys listen and put the ball in the basket." …
HEADLINE: On Campus - Interdisciplinary Study
BYLINE: VICKI CHENG, STAFF WRITER
DURHAM -- With tests to grade, grants to write and committees to serve on, sometimes it's hard for faculty members to do what academics do best: think.
So Duke University is renovating a 52-year-old campus building for scholars who want to take six months or a year off from their regular duties to reflect under optimum conditions.
It will be called the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, and organizers say the think tank has the potential to change our ideas about who we are and where we're going. Race, religion, gender and the concept of "creativity" are just some of the topics faculty members, freed from their teaching duties, will study and write about during their sabbaticals there. …
"Somebody described it as an incubator for the best ideas at the university," said Cathy Davidson, one of the administrators involved in the project. She thinks it's one of the boldest things going on at a U.S. university today.
She said the center is modeled partly after the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey, with informal ties to Princeton University. Georgia Whidden, a spokeswoman, said the Institute for Advanced Study was designed to create optimum conditions for scholarship. There are no labs and no classes to teach, and there is no emphasis on practical applications.
"The work that's done here is very abstract, theoretical work," Whidden said. "It's really at the frontiers of creating new knowledge." …
SECTION: COMMENTARY; Charted Territory
HEADLINE: It Ain't Holyfield-Lewis
BYLINE: By Gary B. Smith, Special to TheStreet.com
Gary B. Smith is a freelance writer who trades for his own account from his Maryland home using technical analysis. At time of publication, he held no positions in any securities mentioned in this column, although holdings can change at any time. …
All right, here's what I want to know: What is it with Burton G. Malkiel and Thanksgiving?
Okay, as background, let me digress. BGM is not only a Princeton University professor, but also is the well-known author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street. Now if you're a trader, and particularly a technician, this is not the kind of book you take with you on vacation.
But that's exactly what your idiot columnist did a few years ago when the family trekked to London for Thanksgiving. Yes, I took along Malkiel's seminal work, and had the most depressing vacation ever, as the prof dismantled not only TA, but fundamental investing, trading, apple pie and Chevrolet.
If you were a full-time trader, after reading it, well, you basically wanted to kill yourself. But, a few years later, with a bit more equity under my belt, I'm now able to handle Malkiel. In fact, in the ultimate sign of closure I suppose, I even put his book on my latest reading list. …
In an interview with Reuters News Service, Malkiel says that technicians have a single-minded devotion to their trading systems.
As Reuters reporter Pierre Belec cleverly put it, "Not earnings, nor dividends, nor risk, nor gloom of high interest rates will keep them from their assigned task of figuring out where stocks will go."
Says Malkiel: "Technical analysts build their strategies upon dreams of castles in the air and expect their tools to tell them which castle is being built and how to get in on the ground floor.''
Boy, talk about putting technicians on the defensive -- how about the use of "castles in the air?" Right away, it sounds like anything I could muster up would be silly dreaming. Nevertheless, let me press on. …
HEADLINE: FOR RUSSIAN ECOLOGIST, OLD CHARGE, NEW TRIAL
BYLINE: By Brian Whitmore, Globe Correspondent
MOSCOW -- If retired navy captain Alexander Nikitin thought he was off the hook when a Russian court dismissed espionage charges against him last year, he was wrong. Today he will be back on trial again, defending himself against the same accusations.
Rights groups say that Nikitin's plight is a disturbing reminder that rule of law can be a malleable thing when it suits the interests of Russia's military and security services. "If this case is decided on its merits and according to the law, we will win," said Yury Shmidt, Nikitin's defense attorney, yesterday. "Our only fear is that certain political forces will try to pressure the court and influence the verdict."
A retired naval officer turned environmentalist, Nikitin was arrested in February 1996 by the Federal Security Service or FSB, successor to the feared Soviet-era KGB.
Nikitin's crime? He co-authored a report on the slipshod handling of nuclear waste by Russia's northern fleet. Nikitin said he used only public sources to write the report and was acting in the public's interests - trying to bring international attention to what he calls a creeping ecological disaster - in hopes of attracting funds for a clean up. …
Last week, the FSB charged Igor Sutyagin, a leading Russian nuclear arms researcher who studied nuclear safety issues, with treason. Boston native Josh Handler, a Princeton University graduate student, had his Moscow apartment searched and was questioned in Sutyagin's case. Handler has since left Moscow. …
HEADLINE: In Bid for Presidency, Bill Bradley Wins Favor on Wall Street
BYLINE: By Lauren Chambliss
With a year to go before America elects its next President, Wall Street is already looking forward, to Bill Bradley. In a little noticed but telling factor in the early-Presidential race, Bradley has received three times as much money from Wall Street professionals as his rival and party favourite Al Gore, and four times as much as the Republican front-runner George W Bush.
Bradley has collected nearly $500,000 (UKpound 300,000) from employees at the eight biggest securities firms and has been particularly popular at Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Salomon Smith Barney and Lehman Brothers, where he has many friends from Princeton University days, including Lehman chief executive officer Richard Fuld. …
HEADLINE: Panel discussion calls intercivilizational dialogue timely as world enters new era
HIGHLIGHT:
World Bank Speaker Warns that Dialogue is Difficult Due to Rising Inequity Among Countries; Calls for "Profound Engagement"
A panel discussion on ways to enhance international understanding through constructive dialogue among peoples of all cultures and civilizations, held this afternoon at Headquarters, was virtually unanimous that the reality of today's interdependent world made the need for such a dialogue more acute than ever. The discussion, which was the second such event to be organized by the Permanent Mission of Iran in preparation for the United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations (2001) declared in 1998 by General Assembly resolution 53/22, brought together: Richard Falk, Professor of International Law and Practice, Princeton University; Javad Faridzadeh, President of the International Centre for Dialogue among Civilizations; Koshore Mahbubani (Singapore), participating in his individual capacity; and Ismail Serageldin, Vice-President of the World Bank. The Secretary-General's Personal Representative for the Year of Dialogue among Civilizations, Giandomenico Picco, served as moderator. Speakers generally agreed that in a shrinking world, the dialogue urged by the General Assembly was profoundly important. Mr. Serageldin, however, warned that it was difficult for civilizations to "talk with each other" when some were "coming apart" from within. Global trade had exceeded $1 billion a minute, but there were still more than 1.4 billion people earning less than $1.00 a day, he noted. Tolerance was not enough to counter the rising inequity within and among countries; engagement, such as that envisaged by the dialogue, was far more profound. …
Mr. FALK, asked how to avoid using the dialogue to define those we might deem uncivilized, said that the word "civilization" was indeed problematic. The claim of moral advantage could be used as a mandate for intervention and for by-passing international law. Everyone agreed on a minimum content of what it meant to be human. If that minimum were violated, one was outside the framework of acceptable behavior. Still, he preferred not to call such behaviour uncivilized. …
HEADLINE: Physicists Invading Geologists' Turf
BYLINE: By JAMES GLANZ
Dr. William Dietrich has walked, driven and flown over more natural landscapes than he can remember. As a veteran geomorphologist, he has studied how everything from the plop of a raindrop to mighty landslides and geologic uplift have shaped the face of the planet.
So when he admits to the growing influence on his field of an insurgent group of physicists, mathematicians and engineers with all-encompassing mathematical theories but hardly any field experience, the earth almost begins to rumble.
Geology, a field that has always gloried in descriptive detail but has had less luck deriving mathematical generalizations, is changing. Invigorated by satellite maps, supercomputers and fresh ideas from physics, researchers are deriving sweeping theories without ever having put hammer to rock. …
"We've taken the point of view that there are certain generic processes, and therefore equations" that describe them, said Dr. Daniel H. Rothman, a professor in the department of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For example, Dr. Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, a professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton University, said that "regardless of the infinite variety that you find in river basins, there are some scaling laws that hold amazingly well for the different ones." He cites the structure of tributaries as a prime example of that kind of scaling.
SECTION: HEALTH & DISCOVERY;
HEADLINE: CONSTRUCTION ZONE / TRANSPLANTED BONE MARROW CELLS BECOME NEURONS IN STROKE-INJURED ANIMALS
BYLINE: By Jamie Talan. STAFF WRITER
IN SEARCH OF WAYS to rebuild the brain, scientists have injected stem cells from bone marrow into the brains of rats and mice to see whether the cells, which continuously divide to rebuild tissue in the marrow, could do the same thing for the brain.
To the surprise of Michael Chopp, a neuroscientist at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, the experiment paid off: The stem cells performed like neurons and, what's more, eventually became functioning neurons able to reverse some of the brain damage associated with stroke in animals.
"We had this wild idea and we gave it a shot," said Chopp, who presented his findings to a packed audience of colleagues at the Society of Neuroscience annual meeting, held last month in Miami. Other researchers say they've discovered similar results, but wouldn't discuss the details because their work has been submitted for publication. …
"You wouldn't believe the claims scientists are making these days," said Fred Gage, a neurobiologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif.
Gage was the first scientist to report finding new neurons in the brains of older adults. Previously, it was thought that the adult brain did not grow new neurons. The neurons that Gage, and now others, found were located in the dentate gyrus, an area of the hippocampus that regulates aspects of learning and memory.
"I am not being negative," Gage added. "I am just overwhelmed by all of these reports. There's a feeling these days that all bets are off and that anything is possible." Indeed, Gage is now trying to replicate a report released last month by Elizabeth Gould of Princeton University suggesting that in the adult monkey, some higher thinking areas of the cortex also are giving birth to thousands of new neurons. …
HEADLINE: Colleges use namesake schools attract students
BYLINE: By Jodie Kaufman, Michigan Daily
SOURCE: U. Michigan
DATELINE: Ann Arbor, Mich.
Presidential candor will give prestige to the School of Public Policy beginning next fall. The University of Michigan Board of Regents approved a plan to rename the school the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy last Thursday.
But the new name is not the only change coming to the school.
"The school is in expansion mode, we are starting new programs, figuring out undergraduate programs, this increase in public visibility came exactly at the time we are trying to expand," School of Public Policy Dean Rebecca Blank said. …
The University is following other institutions, such as Harvard University, Princeton University and the University of Texas in adopting a president's name in the title of its public policy school.
"Obviously, naming the school after a president makes it easy to remember what the school is, but it also helps recruit students and faculty, and attract financial resources," said Edwin Dorn, dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. …
HEADLINE: Princeton students drive to Georgia to protest military school
BYLINE: By Michael Koike, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.
Ten Princeton University students and an alumnus were among thousands who spent this past weekend at the U.S. Army's School of the Americas protesting the institution's alleged practice of training soldiers to torture and commit other human rights violations.
The Princetonians drove 17 hours to the Fort Benning, Ga., school to join religious groups, activists and students in the rally to force the government to close the institution. The demonstration took place on the 10-year anniversary of the murder of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her young daughter in El Salvador. A United Nations panel found that 19 of the 26 Salvadoran military officers involved were School of the Americas alumni.
"I am from a Latin-American refugee family, so this touches very close to home," said Christina Alvarez '02, who traveled to Georgia. "The United States gives the training with taxpayer money to these people who commit these crimes. I would encourage everyone to write their congressmen to close down the school." …
HEADLINE: Alexandrians judge library by its cover; Unusual design elicits residents' strong views
BYLINE: Stephen Dinan; THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The new $12.3 million central library being built on Duke Street in Alexandria is a monstrosity and an outrage to their pocketbooks, some city residents say.
But city officials aren't worried. The design - a mix of five steep teepee roofs with a stumpy round-roofed Monticello-style portico on one end and a midget Midwest-style corn silo on the other - is exactly the sort of thing they had in mind, right down to the two big pyramids on the right side of the building.
The corn silo, by the way, will be the reading room.
One thing everyone agrees on: The building doesn't match anything nearby its Duke Street location, or anywhere else in the historic city where George Washington once kept a town house.
"We didn't want it to fit in. We wanted it to define," said Patrick O'Brien, the city's library director. "We wanted that building to be a new landmark defining the West End." …
The architect, Michael Graves, a professor of architecture at Princeton University, is from the Walt Disney school of art, having designed several buildings for Disneyland. Washingtonians also know him from his design for the scaffolding currently wrapping the Washington Monument.
Those who first saw the blueprints he submitted thought they looked weird but are thrilled with the way the project is turning out. Others thought it looked neat in the design phase, but are less than enthusiastic with the actual building. …
HEADLINE: Nassau Capital, Portal Software, Battery Ventures, Hummer Winblad Announce Over $17 Million Investment in Excelergy
DATELINE: CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 22, 1999
Investment Reflects Unprecedented Market Opportunity for Technology Provider to the Deregulating Energy Industry
Excelergy Corporation, a technology leader for the deregulated energy industry, today announced that it has secured $17.6 million for a second round of venture funding, bringing the total amount invested in 1999 to approximately $25 million. The new financing led by Nassau Capital L.L.C. includes significant new funding from Portal Software. Excelergy's two existing venture capital investors, Battery Ventures and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, are also investors in this round.
"We have been actively searching for companies that are extremely well-positioned to benefit from the opportunities being created by energy deregulation," said Thomas C. Barnds, managing director of Nassau Capital L.L.C. "We believe Excelergy has the right combination of energy industry knowledge and technology expertise in addition to a great management team that is poised to capitalize on this enormous market opportunity." …
Nassau Capital (www.nassau.com) is a private equity investment firm that manages approximately $2 billion of capital on behalf of Princeton University's $6.3 billion endowment. Nassau invests opportunistically across many industries, but is particularly drawn to those undergoing structural change, such as energy. Nassau has also recently invested in other billing and customer care companies including Portal Software (Internet Protocol billing) and LiveWire (wireless billing). …
HEADLINE: Universal Display Corporation Announces Third Quarter Results
DATELINE: EWING, N.J., Nov. 22, 1999
Universal Display Corporation (UDC) (NASDAQ: PANL), a developer of flat panel display technology, announced today its unaudited results of operations for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 1999.
Universal Display had a net loss of $987,225 (or $0.07 per share) for the quarter ended September 30, 1999 compared to a loss of$746,514 (or $0.07 per share) for the same period in 1998. The increase in the net loss was attributed to increased research and development costs and general administration expenses. Research and development costs were higher in 1999 because they were primarily associated with research being performed at Princeton University by employees of the Company, the Company's hiring of additional researchers and patent expenses….
The Company recently announced that it received a two (2) year,$400,000 Phase II award from the National Science Foundation in support of its high efficiency Stacked Organic Light Emitting Devices (SOLED) Technology. UDC teamed with its long-standing research partner, Princeton University, for the proposal under the NSF's Small Business Technology Transfer Program. …
SECTION: Health & Fitness
HEADLINE: WHEN THE BEST EFFORTS FAIL THE SUDDEN DEATH OF A MODEL PATIENT
BYLINE: By Amanda Gardner
Carl Fields fit nobody's profile of a person with diabetes. The first African-American dean of an Ivy League university (Princeton), he watched his diet carefully and weighed 160 pounds - perfect for his 5-foot-10 frame.
In his early 70s, he was still jogging every morning in Central Park.
When he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at age 76, Fields checked his glucose levels twice daily, took pills to lower his blood sugar, and even managed to quit smoking for a while.
"He really appeared to be in good shape," says his son Carl Jr. "Obviously, things were happening inside that we didn't know about." On July 17, 1998, Fields was getting ready to fly to California to see his other son when he became lightheaded and fell down.
An ambulance raced him to Roosevelt Hospital.
He was bleeding internally. Although surgeons removed portions of his small and large intestines that day, the bleeding continued. They decided to operate again the next day, but never got a chance.
During the night, his kidney and liver shut down, and he soon died.
Doctors said the immediate cause of the internal bleeding was an ulcer that had flared up. But the underlying cause was probably diabetes. …
HEADLINE: HABITAT WAY IN PATERSON; SWEET EQUITY, VOLUNTEERS SPARK REBIRTH ON RUNDOWN NORTHSIDE
SERIES: NEIGHBORHOODS: HABITAT WAY IN PATERSON
BYLINE: MICHAEL CASEY, Staff Writer
DATELINE: PATERSON
Kevin Greenwood remembers passing the burned-out warehouse along Haledon Avenue seven years ago, watching as young children turned the charred remains into a playground.
These days, the 40-year-old associate minister lives in one of the 28 Habitat For Humanity duplexes built on the site between North First and North Second streets. And instead of children climbing on twisted metal, he sees them riding bikes and playing catch in small back yards. …
The future, they said, lies in turning the remaining vacant lots and abandoned homes into viable commercial and retail ventures. Habitat is working with the Northside Alliance on a redevelopment plan for the area, and a Princeton University graduate class will submit a plan for the area next month.
"We're doing a great job of building homes in the area,"said the Rev. Stafford Miller, who grew up in Paterson and is on Habitat's board. "But now we need to build community and recapture some of what Paterson once was."
HEADLINE: An updated liberalism gains more acceptance
BYLINE: SARA FRITZ
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
Just five years after the vaunted Republican revolution put conservatives firmly in control of Congress, there are signs that suggest the political center on Capitol Hill may be turning leftward. Consider these examples:
President Clinton vetoed a massive tax cut, and the Republican congressional leadership promptly gave up on the proposal, which had been a key element in the GOP plan to reduce the size of the federal government.
The president and Republicans combined forces to protect funding for Social Security, the cornerstone for what conservatives prefer to call "the welfare state."
Some Republicans, along with many Democrats, championed an increase in the minimum wage, something the GOP has opposed as being anti-business. …
"Liberalism is highly correlated with a booming economy," says Benjamin Ginsberg, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University. "It is the equivalent of the Volvo or Saab you think of buying when times are flush. During hard times, the country returns to the more conservative course, like buying a Chevrolet."
Ginsberg's point is widely accepted as a historical truism. But some liberal scholars go a step further. Writing in the New York Times last week, Sean Wilentz, a Princeton University history professor, credited Clinton with causing this change by championing traditionally conservative causes, such as welfare reform, and thus updating the Democratic tradition of liberalism in a way that has made it more acceptable. …
HEADLINE: Oxfam's blinking map sheds light on world hunger, local privilege at Princeton
BYLINE: By Richard Just, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.
It looks like little more than a map with flashing lights, but behind Oxfam's latest attempt to focus attention on world hunger is an elaborate web of electronic circuitry, a few weekends worth of technical labor and more than a little hope that the blinking board will turn Princeton University students' heads long enough to leave an impression.
The board, which is located in front of the art museum, is the handiwork of four undergraduates -- Charles Dumont '01, Sunil Goda '01, Mike Lindahl '01 and Hidei Oki '00. The group decided to undertake the project at the suggestion of Oxfam president Marla Conley '01.
Blinking lights on the board indicate how severely hunger is wracking different populations around the globe. Each light blinks for 3.6 seconds because every 3.6 seconds a child somewhere in the world dies of hunger. Some lights blink more often than others -- indicating that certain countries face particularly acute hunger crises -- while lights located in first-world nations do not flash at all. India lights up most frequently. …
HEADLINE: As Candidate, Independent Counsel Showed Strong Social Views
BYLINE: David A. Vise, Washington Post Staff Writer
Jill Harris recalls being "shocked" when she learned last month that Robert W. Ray had been named to replace Kenneth W. Starr as independent counsel, a job that requires him to write the final report on the investigation of President Clinton and complete a probe into the firings at the White House travel office.
Harris, a lawyer who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., read in the newspapers about Ray's credentials as a successful prosecutor in Manhattan and Washington with great interest. But she and a number of other residents in Brooklyn's Park Slope and Windsor Terrace neighborhoods remember Ray in another role--as an unsuccessful school board candidate who vehemently opposed an elementary school curriculum designed to teach children about families with two moms or two dads, an approach he characterized as an "assault on the moral authority of parents."
While recent articles about Ray have focused almost exclusively on his credentials as a tough-minded prosecutor, his stances in school board races in 1993 and 1996 reveal that he is no political neophyte and that he harbors strong views on social issues. Ray, who has been described as not having a political agenda, is moving into a job that his predecessor left after becoming so embroiled in politics that he no longer felt effective. …
Toole said Ray, a 1982 Princeton University graduate, appeared politically naive but highly articulate during candidate forums. She said he would have brought a balanced view to the school board if he had been elected.
"It is not that he is politically out of step or has a tin ear," Toole said. "He is still in political graduate school."
Since taking over as independent counsel last month, Ray has pledged to "live up to the finest traditions of what it means to be a professional prosecutor" and perform his job in a "prompt, responsible and cost-effective manner." …
HEADLINE: ANCIER REJOINS BIG THREE
BYLINE: JOSEF ADALIAN
HIGHLIGHT: Exec brings love of TV to Peacock prexy slot
HOLLYWOOD Power and prestige come automatically when you're the top programmer at a major network. Yet for NBC Entertainment prexy Garth Ancier, those perks pale in comparision to what he says is the best part of his job.
It's just downright fun.
"I know it might sound corny," he laughs, almost apologetically. "But the process (of network television) is so much fun: from the idea for a show, to the script, to the casting, to crafting the whole thing, to putting it on the air and promoting it. Then, when you see it become a part of the American culture --- it's amazing."
As Ancier speaks of his love for television, his words display the sort of genuine enthusiasm one would expect from a young exec just starting out in the biz.
Instead, that passion comes from a 41-year-old showbiz warhorse who began his media career nearly three decades ago as a radio reporter for an NBC station in his hometown of Trenton, NJ --- and now ranks as only the second person (other than Fred Silverman) who has run three broadcast networks. …
Almost as importantly, there was a natural symmetry about the NBC position: Ancier's first job after graduating from Princeton in 1979 was working for legendary Peacock programmer Brandon Tartikoff as a junior NBC exec.
He landed the post by mounting an impressive lobbying effort, one marked by the bold step of walking into Tartikoff's Burbank office and asking to schedule a meeting with the program chief. He didn't have a copy of his resume, so he gave Tartikoff's assistant a copy of a January 1979 People magazine which contained a brief article about "Focus on Youth," a nationally syndicated radio talkshow which Ancier exec produced and hosted while a student at Princeton University.
"I told her I'd love to talk to him and that I was staying at the Huntington Hotel (now the Ritz-Carlton in Pasadena)," Ancier remembers. …
HEADLINE: Nobel Prize winner tries her hand at children's book
BYLINE: By BETH GARDINER, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: NEW YORK
The vivid descriptions and multi-layered message are just what you'd expect from a book by Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize winner known for her complicated, sometimes confounding novels.
But colorful pictures? And rhyme?
"The Big Box," Morrison's first book for children, offers a through-a-glass-darkly vision of modern American childhood that pushes kids and parents to take a fresh look at the rules and values that structure their lives.
The book, on which Morrison collaborated with her son, Slade, now 31, meditates - in verse - on the ways in which well-meaning adults sometimes stymie children's creativity and independence. …
Morrison, who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature and teaches at Princeton University, has dazzled readers with novels including "Beloved," "Sula" and "Paradise." She began working with Slade on the poem that became "The Big Box" when he was 9. …
HEADLINE: New power source or sci-fi delusions?; A former farmer claims he can
BYLINE: Kevin Coughlin
EAST WINDSOR, N.J. -- From a cavernous laboratory near Princeton University, a former dairy farmer with a degree from Harvard and inexhaustible confidence is promising to conquer the world.
Randell Mills calls his secret weapon the BlackLight Process.
It is a new and abundant source of cheap power, Mills claims, that will run cities on a swimming pool's worth of water. As a bonus, he says its byproducts are novel "hydrino hydride" compounds with a million and one uses: electric-car batteries that run 1,000 miles on an overnight charge; tinier computer chips; munitions packing more bang for the buck; super sealants for a rust-free Navy.
Sound fishy?
A lot of respected scientists think so. They call Mills misguided at best, a sci-fi con man at worst. P.T. Barnum with an F in physics, a perpetual motion machine of ego. …
"He's getting the same treatment Galileo got from the Vatican," complains investor Shelby Brewer, an MIT-trained physicist and an assistant secretary of energy in the Reagan administration. Brewer writes off naysaying academics as "old ladies, old sinecured bureaucrats."
Mills, 42, pulls no punches, either.
"Quantum mechanics is purely fictitious," he says matter-of-factly, deriding the nearby Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory as a flop that's wasted billions of dollars trying to harness the sun's power.
Mills says he's found the answer and it's chemical, not nuclear. No hellfire, radioactive fusion. And no room-temperature fusion in a jar. …
HEADLINE: Couple want an Ivy League egg donor
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Advertisements are appearing in student newspapers at some of the nation's top colleges offering $50,000 for a bright, tall woman willing to donate an egg to an infertile couple.
A national fertility registry has been running advertisements in Ivy League student newspapers for months. But this ad, which was privately placed, stood out because it took up a half-page and offered so much money, said Nicole Itano, managing editor of the Yale Daily News.
"Fifty thousand dollars is a good deal of money, especially for people looking at graduate school or law school, and that could definitely be a factor in some of the decision-making," said Itano, 21. She said she would not be a donor.
The ad was printed Friday in the Yale Daily News. It also has been placed in student papers at Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology. …
HEADLINE: ETHICS MAN; PETER SINGER'S IDEAS ON THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS HAVE MADE HIM THE WORLD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL LIVING PHILOSOPHER.
HE ALSO THINKS THAT IT IS SOMETIMES RIGHT TO KILL NEWBORN BABIES. MICHAEL SPECTER MET PRINCETON UNIVERSITY'S NEWLY APPOINTED PROFESSOR OF BIOETHICS
BYLINE: Michael Specter
IT HAS BEEN more than 10 years since the disaster at Hillsborough football stadium. Ninety-six football fans were crushed to death that afternoon; yet the final victim, 17-year-old Tony Bland, didn't actually die there - at least, not technically. He was trampled so badly that his chest caved in and his lungs collapsed. Cut off from its oxygen supply, his cerebral cortex was destroyed within minutes.
Four years later, this is how Lord Justice Hoffman described his condition: "Since April 15, 1989, Anthony Bland has been in a persistent vegetative state. He lies in Airedale General Hospital ... fed liquid food by a pump through a tube passing through his nose...His bladder is emptied through a catheter... Reflex movements in the throat cause him to vomit and dribble. Of all this ... Anthony Bland has no consciousness at all. The parts of his brain that provided him with consciousness have turned to fluid. The darkness and oblivion which descended at Hillsborough will never depart. His body is alive, but he has no life in the sense that even the most pitifully handicapped but conscious human being has a life. But the advances of modern medicine permit him to be kept in this state for years, even perhaps for decades."
The justices decided not to let that happen. When they ruled, on February 4, 1993, that doctors could remove the feeding tubes and let Bland die, Britain's highest court made a reasoned decision to kill an innocent human being.
Many people were outraged, but the Australian ethicist Peter Singer was not among them; in fact, Singer has argued for many years that euthanasia and infanticide are obvious necessities of the modern world. …
Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influential. And as he settles into his new job as Princeton University's first professor of bioethics, his unorthodox views are being debated in America and beyond more passionately than ever before. …
BY 1998, Princeton had been searching for its new Ira W DeCamp Professor of Bioethics for nearly a decade. In many respects, Singer was an obvious choice, but he was also a controversial one. The philosophy department wanted a theorist, and Singer specialises in applied ethics, focussing on the world outside the academy. The biology department was nervous about hiring anyone who might oppose experiments with animals. But the university wanted to hire a professor who could stimulate debate. So Princeton made an unusual decision: Singer wouldn't be a member of either department. Instead, he has been appointed solely to the university's Center for Human Values.
Princeton's leaders have been valiant in defending their new professor's right to say whatever he wants. Still, the school is reeling from the public reaction to its choice. Long before Singer even moved to America, the university was picketed by groups such as Not Dead Yet, whose leader, Diane Coleman, told me that Singer "was a public advocate of genocide, and the most dangerous man on earth". …
HEADLINE: Book serves as appetizer 'My Kitchen Wars': Memoir of upscale life leaves readers hungry for more substance.
BYLINE: Anne Kallas Staff writer
As a young girl, I always wanted to be Betty Fussell when I grew up. Betty's daughter, the oddly named Tucky, was my friend. We weren't best friends, we were summer friends. And although teens don't normally pay much attention to moms, it was impossible to ignore Betty Fussell, a beautiful woman with a youthful body and long, blond hair pulled into an impossibly thick braid.
Betty Fussell was one of those people who always have fascinated me, because their lives seem perfect. I guess I hope that by learning more about them, I could become more like them.
I read her memoirs, "My Kitchen Wars," looking for insight into a woman who by all outward appearances had it all. She lived in a huge house in the best section of Princeton, N.J., a Montecito-like community with the added cachet of an Ivy League university. Fussell was an accomplished woman. She taught at nearby Rutgers University, as did her husband, Paul. She wrote scholarly articles and was published regularly. She entertained feverishly, and cooked fabulously. …
HEADLINE: MORE HOLIDAY HOME TOURS; PUT ON SOME WALKING SHOES, CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS
IF YOU'RE LOOKING for inspiration to start decorating for the holiday season, put on your walking shoes and head out for some home tours.
The celebrations get under way this week with holiday tours of the historic Tryon Palace in New Bern, N.C. The next week begins the season in Hampton Roads with tours in Virginia Beach, Suffolk, Cape Charles, Chesapeake and Fort Monroe. The granddaddy of local tours, the 22nd annual Holly Homes tour to benefit Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, travels to Suffolk this year. Look for more details in next Sunday's Home & Garden section.
There's probably a tour in your neighborhood - possibly to benefit your very own civic league. Check it out. …
Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Originally a frame structure built in 1893; remodeled in 1928. The communion silver set was a gift from heirs of the William L. Scott estate. The brass pulpit was a gift from Princeton University, originally a gift of Queen Anne of England. …
HEADLINE: DSU getting $1 million for McGovern Library
DATELINE: MITCHELL, S.D.
Dakota Wesleyan University is getting $1 million for its McGovern Library project.
The money is coming to the private college as part of the federal budget that is waiting for President Clinton's signature.
The appropriation is the largest amount received so far in a fund drive, said DWU President Jack Ewing.
The library will be named for former U.S. Sen. George McGovern. The Avon native graduated from and taught at DWU. McGovern was the Democratic nominee for president in 1972.
Once the budget is signed, the money should be available in the next few months, said a spokesman for Sen. Tom Daschle, who helped secure the money.
Ewing expects the library will cost about $6 million, although final architectural plans have not been worked out. Initially, DWU wanted to house McGovern's papers, but Princeton University already had signed a deal for the documents. …
HEADLINE: Generating a storm over ethics; Professor: With his appointment to Princeton University, Peter Singer's unorthodox moral positions have sparked an emotional debate.
BYLINE: Arthur Hirsch
SOURCE: SUN STAFF
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Peter Singer is the very picture of the avuncular professor. The gracious, soft-spoken manner, the corduroys and roomy sweater, the wispy gray hair and hopelessly unstylish oversized eyeglasses. It just happens that some folks make him out to be a monster.
The trouble is that the newly appointed Princeton University philosophy professor doesn't believe in the sanctity of human life or in several other views cherished in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Singer says, for example, that parents of a severely disabled newborn should, if they so choose after consulting doctors and if willing adoptive parents cannot be found -- be allowed to kill their baby. He poses disturbing questions, such as: If a chimpanzee is a suitable subject for laboratory experimentation, why not a severely retarded human?
Singer, 53, has been saying such things for more than 20 years, but he has been making news since his appointment as Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton's Center for the Study of Human Values. The appointment was approved unanimously by a Princeton search committee and by the university president, who heads the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. …
HEADLINE: Academic charged with high treason
SOURCE: Source: Interfax news agency, Moscow, in Russian 1402 gmt 18 Nov 99
Text of report by Russian news agency Interfax
Kaluga, 18th November: Russia's Federal Security Service has charged the head of the military-technical cooperation section of the United States and Canada Institute, Igor Sutyagin, with high treason.
Kaluga Region Federal Security Service directorate told Interfax today that Sutyagin was arrested on 27th October on suspicion of committing a crime under Article 275 (high treason) of the Russian Criminal Code. The investigation branch of the Federal Security Service directorate charged the academic on 5th November.
In the interests of protecting the confidentiality of the investigation, the Federal Security Service directorate refused to give details of the criminal case against Sutyagin, who lived in the town of Obninsk in Kaluga Region, which is where Russia's nuclear centre is located. …
At the same time, according to a report from a famous ecologist, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Aleksey Yablokov, on the night of 27th-28th October (after Sutyagin's arrest), Federal Security Service staff searched the Moscow flat of the American scientist Joshua Handler, an academic from Princeton University (USA) who spent a sabbatical at the United States and Canada Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to the ecologist, during the search at Handler's, who is the author of dozens of works on radiation and nuclear security, the Federal Security Service staff confiscated research material, manuscripts, notebooks and a computer. …
HEADLINE: California forecasts for election 2000 do not look so rosy for Bush
BYLINE: By Paul Pringle
LOS ANGELES _ For George W. Bush's presidential prospects, no state is more golden than California.
"If he wins here," said Gerald Parsky, the Texas governor's California campaign chairman, "it's over."
A big if, Parsky concedes. But an oh-so-tantalizing one.
Polls show Bush crushing his Republican opponents in the state's March primary. The California forecasts for next year's general election, however, are not nearly as rosy for him. …
Parsky says Bush will aggressively court Latinos in California, just as he will other presumed Democratic constituencies, including Silicon Valley workers and even the Hollywood community. "We have a lot of friends here," he said.
He added that his own role in the campaign is proof that Bush is serious about California. An assistant treasury secretary in the Nixon and Ford administrations, the tanned, easy-going Parsky is a friend of Bush's father and serves as a trustee of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. He has worked for every GOP presidential nominee since 1972, mostly on policy questions and fund raising.
Parsky also attended Princeton University with Bradley.
"A huge percentage of my old classmates are working for Bradley," he said with a laugh. "They can't believe I'm working for Bush."
HEADLINE: THE INCREDIBLE ADAPTING UNIVERSE
BYLINE: TOM SIEGFRIED, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
DATELINE: HERSHEY, Pa.
Even without a clock, the universe can still tell time. After all, the universe had been around 13 billion years or so before people invented sundials. Even before the Earth kept track of years by travelling around the sun, the universe had its own time scale, recorded by the cosmic clock of how fast space expands.
There's nothing special about measuring that expansion in terms of seconds, minutes or hours. Each tick of the cosmic clock could instead be marked by the universe's doubling in size.
Measuring time in that way gives the life of the universe a very different kind of biography. Most of the chapters would cover the first fraction of a second, when the universe might have doubled in size a million times or more, says physicist Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University. Since then, it has doubled maybe only 100 times.
This approach to cosmic timekeeping is part of a bigger story about the nature of the universe, a story that has undergone radical revision in the last two decades of the millennium.
In the old story, Steinhardt told science writers at a recent symposium here, the universe contained only radiation and matter (some of it invisible, or "dark"). In the new story, the universe is also full of a mysterious form of "dark energy."
In the old story, the universe began with a bang, then expanded at an ever slowing rate, possibly heading for an eventual end to expansion and collapse into a big crunch. In the new story, the initial expansion was briefly much faster, and the future of the universe depends on what that dark energy is made of.
In any case, the new story offers a dramatic departure from the standard understanding of the cosmos.
"In my view, it's as revolutionary as the Copernican revolution," Steinhardt said at the symposium. …
HEADLINE: Is This the End of the Story for Books?
BYLINE: By DINITIA SMITH
First the scroll, then the codex and the Gutenberg Bible. And now the electronic book? Almost nothing causes more anxiety in the publishing world than the idea that books as we know them might one day be replaced by electronic or e-books. Will paper books, with their distinctive smell and touch, the special, almost trancelike intimacy they can engender between writer and reader, vanish forever? And if so, what will the experience of reading be like in the 21st century?
Books will still be around, many scholars say, but we may read in a different way. Only a handful of e-books -- portable devices with screens designed just for reading -- are available today. …
Robert Darnton, a professor of history at Princeton University who has championed electronic publishing for scholarly dissertations, said, "I think it's only a matter of time before we can have mechanical devices that will make possible a satisfactory but new experience of reading."
But he conceded: "One thing that seems to be missing is paper, the feel of a book when you hold it, its grain, its texture, its elasticity, its whiteness. The sensation of paper is bound up in the experience of reading. We have a long-term kinetic memory of paper. How will we substitute a new medium for it or improve on it?" …
Gaby Casadesus, 98
Gaby Casadesus, 98, a French pianist known for her duets with her husband and for her career as an instructor, died Nov. 11 in Paris. The two were notable for their interpretations of her husband's duos, including "Concerto for Two Pianos" and "Six Pieces."
She held teaching positions at Princeton University in New Jersey; the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France; and the Salzburg Mozarteum. …
Gladys Yang, 80; Translated Chinese Classics
BYLINE: By WILLIAM H. HONAN
Gladys Yang, a British translator who spent most of her life in China, translating and promoting Chinese literature for foreign readers, died Thursday in Beijing, the official New China News Agency reported. She was 80.
"After such famous translators from Chinese as Arthur Waley and James Legge of an earlier generation, Gladys Yang was No. 1," said Perry Link, a professor of modern Chinese language and literature at Princeton University.
"She ran the gamut -- going as far back as China's classical period in the 5th century B.C., through later imperial works in the 7th through 19th centuries, and on to the moderns," Professor Link said. …
HEADLINE: DR. LOUIS AVIOLI; INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN ENDOCRINOLOGIST
BYLINE: Paul Harris; Of The Post-Dispatch
Dr. Louis V. Avioli, an internationally recognized endocrinologist and professor at Washington University School of Medicine, died Sunday (Nov. 21, 1999) at his home in Clayton of complications from cancer. He was 68.
Dr. Avioli was the Sidney M. Schoenberg professor of medicine and professor of orthopedic surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine. He was also director of the Division of Bone and Mineral Diseases at the school. He joined the university in 1966 and was active there until his death.
He was chosen twice as one of the 120 best doctors in the country by the clinical program chiefs of 87 medical schools. …
Dr. Avioli was born in Coatesville. Pa., and reared in Jersey City, N.J. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University and earned his medical degree from Yale University. …
HEADLINE: Philander Priestley Claxton Jr., 84; Longtime State Department Official
Philander Priestley Claxton Jr., 84, a State Department official who advised secretaries of state on links between population control and economic well-being, died of cancer Nov. 20 at his home in Bethesda.
Mr. Claxton came to the State Department in 1947 and until 1961 was deputy assistant secretary of state for congressional relations. He then was a special assistant to secretaries of state Dean Rusk, William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger. He retired from State in 1974. …
From 1978 to 1988, Mr. Claxton was a consultant to the Futures Group in Washington on several projects involving the U.S. Agency for International Development. His work analyzed population as it figured into social and economic factors in foreign countries.
Mr. Claxton, who was born in Washington, was a 1934 English graduate of the University of Tennessee and received a master's degree in politics from Princeton University. He was a 1938 graduate of Yale Law School. …
HEADLINE: John P. Owens Dies; Foreign Service Officer Was a Consul General
John Patrick Owens, 72, a retired State Department Foreign Service officer who had served as a consul general in both Bermuda and Gothenburg, Sweden, died Nov. 18 at Sibley Memorial Hospital after surgery for an aortic aneurysm. He lived in Washington.
He joined the State Department in 1955 and was assigned to Naples. He later served in Venezuela and Greece, including a tour as political officer in Athens. He also served as Greece desk officer at the State Department before going to Sweden, where he was stationed in Gothenburg and also in Stockholm, where he was a political officer. …
Mr. Owens, a Washington native, was a Navy veteran of World War II. He was a history graduate of American University and received a master's degree in history from Georgetown University. In 1971 and 1972, he had been a Woodrow Wilson fellow at Princeton University. …
HEADLINE: Businessman Sylvester Johnson Jr. had raised horses, founded skeet club
A memorial service for businessman Sylvester Johnson Jr., 83, Zionsville, formerly of Indianapolis, will be at 4 p.m. Nov. 20 in Flanner & Buchanan Zionsville Mortuary. There will be no calling.
He died Nov. 18.
Mr. Johnson was former president of Heinicke Industries and Marietta Manufacturing Corp. …
He was a graduate of Princeton University and an Army veteran of World War II.
HEADLINE: OBITUARY: WHITNEY DARROW JNR
BYLINE: Martin Plimmer
FOR 50 years Whitney Darrow Jnr quietly recorded the follies and contradictions, the big-hearted optimism and over-reaching presumption, the energy and clean-cut affluence of middle-class America, and repackaged them for the world in glorious black and white.
Less white than black actually, for Darrow's is a muscular drawing style, dense and darkly etched, a compound construction of grey wash and scribbled shade and bold, reiterated pencil strokes, from which his forms emerge with a precision and lightness of foot that belie all that weight of graphite. Lightness of heart too, for Darrow was never morbid or bitter. Even the most foolish of his subjects glows in the positive light of his enthusiasm and affection.
Darrow graduated from Princeton University in 1931, aged 21, and barely had time to place cartoons with Life, Judge and College Humor before the vibrant, gag-hungry New Yorker snapped him up. He was fortunate enough to arrive at the seven-year-old magazine just as it was reinventing the cartoon as a revealing psychological snapshot armed with a one-line caption. …