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November 25 to December 2, 1999
HIGHLIGHTS• Visualize This: Display-Screen Technology Poised For Takeoff
• Three New Patents Issued In Universal Display
• FBI, Companies Battle Computer Hackers Statewide
• FBI Organizes State Businesses To Prevent Computer
OTHER HEADLINES• Army vs Navy Still A Real Rivalry
• Logan's Run Takes Him To Princeton
• Bradley's Gun Control Plan Brings Cheers In
• Little-Known Ad Campaign Goes Live On the Airwaves
• Technicality Lowers Charities' Take From Retirement-Fund
• 2000 Years of Christianity; the Real Story of The
• Nevada Focus: New York Investor Buys New Track For High
• Revenge May Play Role As Unlv Faces Princeton
• Gore Leadership Is Anemic On Health Care, Bradley Says;
• the Home Gym Muscle Plan
• Ambassador Richard Holbrooke Beginning A Tour of 11
• Life In Cyberspace / Advertisers Let the Cat Out of the
• Army-Navy: Century of Drama 100th Meeting Set For
• Caps Remain Inconsistent On Power Play
• High School Teacher Gets Prime Assignment
• Suddenly Brooke Shields' 'Susan' In Danger of Demise
• It's Still the Employers' Headache; Managed Care Awaits
• Database / Up To the Minute News And Information
• Princeton Sophomores To Hold Alternative To Nude
• Bradley's Former Princeton Teammates Raise Money
• Princeton Earns 13th-Highest Salary Among
• Are Stepparents Just As Caring?
• A Life With Computers: Doctor's At Home -- And At Work
• Alternatives To Employer's Health Plans Get A Closer
• Roll Back the Power of Dangerous Regimes
• Bradley Strikes Supportive Vein In Male Voters
• Stephen Greene, 82, Painter With Distinctive Abstract
• Mansfield Park' Was An Ocean Liner To Its Director
• Professor Shakes Up Debate Over Questions of Life And
• Rutgers Students Protest Racism Against
• Supreme Court Marshal Keeps Things Shipshape; Ex-Navy
• Buffalo Lore Gets Politically Incorrect; Historians Give
• Conservatism's Hour
• 'Flowers For Algernon' Author Reveals Secrets of His
• Kudos To Catholics For Tightening Controls
• The Theater Is Not Dead. It's Into the Second Stage.;
• Art Review; Writer And Artist, All In One Package
• NTSB Sifting For Clues To Crash / Pilot, Deemed Skilled,
• Saul Kripke
• A Loner For White House
• Fiscal Flexibility
• the Earth May Be Round, But the Universe Is Looking More
• Early Version of 'Gatsby' Gets A Chance of Its Own
• Lachlan Fails Mogul Test: Survey
• Reagan Ideology Fuels Forbes's Run
• Washington People
• Science: Stars And Planets: December
• Communications: Dialogue Among Civilizations
• Princeton May Begin Admitting More Students
• Columbia Back From the Dead
• A League of Their Own Ivy League Football Is A Unique
• US Dept of State Bader Sworn In As Assistant Secretary
• Pilgrim's Progress
OBITUARIES• William W. Scott; Retired Teacher At Country Day
• Lewis Sarett, 81, Viola, Idaho
• Richard Lyon Salsbury; Humble Stockbroker Known For His
• Philip Elman Dies At 81; Federal Trade Commissioner In
• Theodore S. Hauschka,91, Dies; Headed Roswell Park
• Frederick R. Swan, Sr.
• Ashley Montagu, 94
• Sargent Karch, 63, Cleveland Native, Nfl Lawyer
• John Tweedy, Lawyer, 78, Co-Founder of Vail Resorts
• Calvin Dodd MacCracken, 79, New Jersey engineer who held
• John P. Owens, 72, Foreign Service Officer
TheStreet.com
Copyright 1999 TheStreet.com, Inc.
November 26, 1999 FridayHEADLINE: Visualize This: Display-Screen Technology Poised for Takeoff
BYLINE: By John Rubino, Special to TheStreet.com
John Rubino, a former equity and bond analyst, writes a column on mutual funds for POV and is a frequent contributor to Individual Investor, Your Money and Consumers Digest. His first book, Main Street, Not Wall Street, was published by William Morrow in 1998. At time of publication, he was long Universal Display. While Rubino cannot provide investment advice or recommendations, he invites your feedback at rubinoja@yahoo.com.
DATELINE: November 26, 1999 10:47 AM ET
You've all probably heard the "ubiquitous computing" rap by now, about how tiny, cheap microprocessors will soon imbue with intelligence everything from toasters to wristwatches to window blinds.
But you may not have heard the story's visual corollary: Thanks to a new technology called Organic Light Emitting Device, or OLED, by the end of the coming decade, display screens will be ubiquitous, too. Office windows will become videoconference monitors. Car windshields will be interactive maps. Wallpaper and T-shirts will change design on command. The list goes on, but you get the idea. The business model will be low price/high volume, and whoever owns the key technologies will put up serious numbers.
"This is the hottest thing I've seen in my 20 years in the field," says David E. Mentley, senior vice president for display-industry research at Stanford Resources, a San Jose, Calif., research firm. "There are between 50 and 100 companies around the world that are playing with OLEDs right now, and several dozen that are serious about getting products into the market." …
In October, Kodak and Sanyo (SANYY:Nasdaq ADR) unveiled what they claim is the world's first commercially viable full-color, active matrix OLED display. The 2.5-inch screen is as thin as a dime, weighs less than its LCD (i.e., liquid crystal display, the standard notebook monitor) counterpart and uses less power. It's thus a good candidate for the screens on digital video cameras and personal digital assistants, or PDAs. Scaled up, it's a notebook monitor candidate.
At the other end of the size spectrum is Universal Display (PANL:Nasdaq), which is commercializing a string of OLED patents generated by researchers at Princeton and the University of Southern California.
Universal Display's variations on the OLED theme include one that's transparent when not energized, making it a possibility for incorporating a data display into windshields, helmets and eyeglasses. Another can be built on flexible plastic and unbreakable and/or curved surfaces, while a third involves stacking red, green and blue pixels on top of one another for high-resolution displays.
According to Janice Mahon, Universal Display's vice president of technology commercialization, "2000 is our commercial prototype year, and in 2001 we'll partner with someone to introduce our first products." …
Business Wire
Copyright 1999 Business Wire, Inc.
December 2, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: Three New Patents Issued in Universal Display Corporation's Organic Light Emitter Project Expands Its Intellectual Property Position in the Emerging Flat Panel Display Technology Market
DATELINE: PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2, 1999
Universal Display Corporation (UDC) (NASDAQ: PANL; PHLX: PNL), a developer of flat panel display technology, announced today that it's research partners, Princeton University and the University of Southern California, received three new patents for the Organic Light Emitter Project, bringing the total number of US patents issued in the Project to 18.
UDC has the exclusive worldwide license to all patents issued in the Project.
"These patents cover a broad range of technological applications for our proprietary OLED technology, ranging from high contrast displays (US Pat No. 5,986,401) to increasing the speed of the fabrication process (US Pat No. 5,981,306) to a method of increasing the efficiency of photovoltaics and photodiodes by providing an organic coating on these devices (US Pat No. 5,986,268)," said Steven V. Abramson, President and Chief Operating Officer of UDC. "With these patents issued, more than 40 patents pending in the United States, and additional patents pending worldwide, we are in the forefront of OLED innovation for exciting new flat panel display opportunities." …
UDC has been developing Organic Light Emitting Device (OLED) technology with Princeton University and the University of Southern California (USC) since 1994. The partnership is committed to the innovative research and commercialization of this proprietary OLED technology for applications such as flat panel displays, lasers, and light generating devices. …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Copyright 1999 Bergen Record Corp.
December 1, 1999, WEDNESDAYHEADLINE: FBI, COMPANIES BATTLE COMPUTER HACKERS STATEWIDE ALLIANCE WILL SHARE DATA TO HEAD OFF DISRUPTIONS
BYLINE: DAVID VOREACOS, Staff Writer
Two dozen New Jersey companies have joined a new program to make their computer networks more secure by sharing confidential information with the FBI about cyber threats.
Known as the InfraGard program, companies have agreed to report actual or attempted disruptions of their computer networks by hackers.
Other companies will learn of the threats through a secure FBI Web site and computer network, and also will have access to government and academic experts on security. …
Under the program, companies will have access to a secure computer network run by the FBI, and will use encryption software to report attacks on their systems. If the company agrees, the FBI will provide a "sanitized"version of the attack to other companies that have signed confidentiality agreements.
Companies can then use the information or talk to FBI experts to protect their own computer systems, Dick said.
Experts at Princeton University also will be available to help companies figure out how to keep hackers at bay.
"Certainly, the bad guys communicate with each other,"said Princeton computer Professor Edward Felten."We ought to communicate at least as well as they do, hopefully better."
Felten implored businesses to report their problems with hackers so that his computer students can help perform technical analyses of the attacks.
"You can help us by helping us understand what's really happening out there," Felten said."We have a lot of really smart 20-year-olds looking for something to do." …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
November 30, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: FBI organizes state businesses to prevent computer crime
BYLINE: By JEFFREY GOLD, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: NEWARK, N.J.The FBI on Tuesday encouraged businesses in New Jersey to share information about attacks on their computer systems in an effort to reduce the chances that hackers, criminals or terrorists will cause problems.
"It's not possible to eliminate these threats, but it is possible to reduce the risks," said Leslie Morton of Public Service Electric & Gas Co., chairman of the state chapter of InfraGard, a new offshoot of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center.
InfraGard chapters around the nation are composed of and operated by businesses and schools interested in protecting information systems. The chapters get funding and administrative support from the FBI.
Membership is free and includes access to a secure Web site through which members can exchange experiences and solutions, through "sanitized" accounts, if desired, that remove a company's name and identifying information, said FBI Agent Ronald Dick, chief of NIPC's computer investigations and operations section. …
The concept was endorsed by a computer security expert in the group, Dr. Edward Felten, director of Princeton University's Secure Internet Programming Lab.
"The bad guys communicate with each other. We should, too," Felten said, urging businesses to let him and his cadre of "really smart 20-year-olds" tackle their problems.
"If you're looking to the research community to generate silver bullets, you'll be disappointed," he cautioned, adding that InfraGard can help reduce vulnerabilities. …
Other Headlines
Cox News Service
Copyright 1999 Cox News Service
December 2, 1999HEADLINE: Army vs Nacy still a real rivalry
BYLINE: Jack Wilkinson
DATELINE: WEST POINT, N.Y.The raid was planned perfectly. Three planes buzzed the grounds of the U. S. Military Academy shortly after noon Tuesday, just as the Army Corps of Cadets walked from classes to lunch. Suddenly, they were strafed by most unfriendly fire. Thousands of missiles fell through the frigid air along the banks of the Hudson River. The missiles were encased in toilet paper. Inside each was a blue, foam rubber battleship, shaped more like a tugboat, bearing a direct order in gold lettering:
GO, NAVY
SINK ARMY!
"Two of those planes were Air Force planes," said Cadet Matt Rasmussen, 20, a junior from Conyers. "We were wondering, 'What was up with that?"' He grinned. "Probably selling themselves out."
Welcome to Army-Navy week. But not just any Army-Navy week. When the service academies play Saturday in Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, their last meeting of the 1900s will be the 100th in football's most storied rivalry. …
Army-Navy has been staged in 13 different sites. Everywhere from Yankee Stadium to the Rose Bowl, Soldier Field to Franklin Field, the Polo Grounds to once-Jersey swampland. And six times in Annapolis and West Point, where the inaugural meeting was held on Nov. 29, 1890, Navy winning 24-0. Presidents from Teddy Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy to Bill Clinton -- in 1996, the first president since Gerald Ford in '74 to attend the game -- have marched ceremoniously across the field at halftime from the Army stands to Navy's, or vice-versa. … Woodrow Wilson by then president of Princeton University was so enamored of Army-Navy, he persuaded the academies to play the 1905 game at Princeton. …
Daily News (New York)
Copyright 1999 Daily News, L.P.
December 2, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: LOGAN'S RUN TAKES HIM TO PRINCETON
BYLINE: By ROGER RUBIN DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
In the end, Andre Logan's college decision made perfect sense.
Here was a guy who wanted a school with outstanding academics and an equally outstanding men's basketball program. He is a 6-7 forward at Poly Prep, has great on-court instincts and passing is an aspect of the game at which he excels.
Could anywhere be a better fit than Princeton?
Logan, the Blue Devils' senior star, made his announcement at the school yesterday shortly before the team opened its season by beating Bishop Ford, 73-46. He opted for Princeton over Yale, Boston University and Loyola (Md.).
"I think of myself as a smart player and I've always been told I was a great passer," Logan said. "That's what Princeton players are like. It just seemed to fit." …
The Ivy League doesn't offer athletic scholarships, so Logan is awaiting a reply to his application, which is expected this week. With a high academic average and college board score, he has a strong shot. …
The Plain Dealer
Copyright 1999 Plain Dealer Publishing Co.
December 2, 1999 ThursdayHEADLINE: BRADLEY'S GUN CONTROL PLAN BRINGS CHEERS IN CLEVELAND
BYLINE: By JAMES F. McCARTY; PLAIN DEALER POLITICS WRITER
Just a couple of hundred yards from where Shaker Heights High School freshman Penny Chang was gunned down on her way to classes in March, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley delivered a strong statement in favor of gun control yesterday.
Bradley proclaimed his proposal "the boldest gun control policy of any presidential candidate in history."
Among the estimated 300 people at the Shaker Heights Community Building yesterday afternoon, many nodded in solemn agreement as Bradley presented his plan. It included provisions for registering and licensing all handguns; banning gun dealers in residential neighborhoods; mandatory trigger locks; no third-party sales; gun show background checks; and a ban on cheap Saturday night specials. …
Lawyer Bob Rawson (Princeton University Board of Trustees) and business entrepreneur Tony George, who co-chaired the events, said they considered the crowds signs of the Bradley campaign catching momentum in Northeast Ohio.
A second fund-raiser held last night was expected to bring in up to $200,000 from supporters willing to pay $1,000 a plate at the Ferris Steak House, George said.
Rawson has been a Bradley supporter longer than most people. They attended Princeton University together and were basketball teammates.
"I was a walk-on and he was an All-American, but that didn't matter to him," Rawson said. "You cut to the basket and he gets you the ball." …
University Wire
Copyright 1999 Yale Daily News via U-Wire
December 2, 1999HEADLINE: Little-known ad campaign goes live on the airwaves
BYLINE: By Tim R.A. Cooper, Yale Daily News
SOURCE: Yale U.
DATELINE: New Haven, Conn.As if the Yale name weren't enough to attract the interest of high school seniors, the University has taken to television advertising.
A minute-long clip featuring the University's campus and academic life appears at the half-time of televised Yale sporting events. The University created the advertisement four years ago to promote a better understanding of Yale to a broad audience.
National satellite broadcasting company DirecTV ran the clip at half-time of this year's football game against arch-rival Harvard University. The Ivy League also has a contract with DirecTV to televise selected Friday night basketball contests and some football games. As a member of the league, Yale takes advantage of the right to run 30-to-60-second spots at half-time of these events. …
Ivy League schools like Princeton University and Harvard have negotiated contracts with local broadcasters to show their programs to a broader local audience, Yrigoyen said. …
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Copyright 1999 The Chronicle of Philanthropy
December 2, 1999HEADLINE: Technicality Lowers Charities' Take From Retirement-Fund Bequests
BYLINE: DEBRA E. BLUM
Planned-giving experts say that a minor provision of federal law may discourage people from bequeathing their retirement-plan money to charities.
According to the provision -- which is part of the law that governs the distribution of assets from many kinds of retirement accounts -- charities are considered to have a life expectancy of zero. That designation, in effect, forces people who name a charity as a beneficiary of their retirement plans to take bigger-than-usual distributions from the account once they have reached 70-1/2 -- the age at which people who have set up plans are required to start withdrawing money annually.
The large distributions mean that people have less money in their accounts as they grow older, and that charities and other beneficiaries of the plans, such as the planholders' children, will inherit less money.
The provision also speeds up the time in which the plan's assets must be paid out after the planholder's death -- in some cases forcing total withdrawals within one year. That means that other beneficiaries, such as the donors' children, would have to take their entire share -- and its tax liabilities -- in a short period of time. …
Cynthia Carr, Princeton University's associate general counsel and executive director of planned giving, says that the rules treat strangers more favorably than charities. Since the distribution rules are based on the life expectancy of the planholder and the beneficiary, naming a person -- any person -- allows for more flexibility in distributions over time than does naming a charity.
"You can care a lot more about the American Cancer Society than about a total stranger off the street," Ms. Carr says, "but under the present system, that stranger would get a whole lot more money than the American Cancer Society would." …
Life
Copyright 1999 Time Inc.
December, 1999HEADLINE: 2000 Years of Christianity; The real story of the millennium: A religion bruised, battered and divided survives as the world's largest.
BYLINE: Robert Sullivan, Additional reporting by Daren Fonda, Mimi Murphy and Joshua Simon
In the beginning, there was the short but dramatic life of Jesus of Nazareth, a strange and charismatic Jewish preacher. Some who met Jesus could not forget Him, and in the decades after His death, writings began to appear and circulate that portrayed a life of uncommon wisdom and compassion, radical sociological ideas and alternating periods of willfulness and fatalism. Jesus' philosophy was new and difficult: The meek will be exalted, love your enemy, give the shivering man your cloak. After the preacher's death, the writing, sermonizing and proselytizing by His apostles spread Jesus' "gospel," His "good news" about gaining salvation through faith and love. The movement grew to where the emperor took notice. The emperor determined to crush Christianity, which would surely not be difficult.
Two millennia later, two billion people call themselves Christians. It is the world's largest religion, and in more than
20,000 sects and denominations it offers an astonishing variety of ways to worship. Since the beginning, Christianity has been outlawed, persecuted, split, split again, warred against and--in the face of scientific advance--declared obsolete. But it has reshaped itself and mended itself, and even at the end of the 20th century, a century that has threatened Christianity in new and unpredictable ways, it lives. …
Some argue that the modern face of Christianity can't be judged by a census of the pews. Says William McKinney, president of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif.: "Today, millions consider themselves to be followers of Jesus but find no compelling need to be members of traditional churches." And Christianity, influential everywhere but Asia, exists even in places where it travels unrecognized--the Christian philosophy now pervasive in the weave of world culture. "One thing Christianity did right was popularize Hebrew teachings--every human being is created in God's image, all things are created equal," says Elaine Pagels, professor of religion at Princeton University and author of The Gnostic Gospels. "That conviction shaped America. The Declaration of Independence claims equality is self-evident, but it's not self-evident and never was--look at the slaves in biblical times. Also, before Christianity, physicians provided care to those who could pay. Christianity's conviction was that caring for the sick and dying was a service to Christ. I don't think we'd have hospitals or hospices without that notion." …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
December 1, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: NEVADA FOCUS: New York investor buys new track for high school
BYLINE: By DON COX, Reno Gazette-Journal
DATELINE: YERINGTON, Nev.William Weaver Jr. looked at Yerington High School's track and made a quick decision.
The track, built by community volunteers in 1951, had a lot of history. It was old, it was dirt, and it was rutted.
So Weaver, a full-time New York investor and part-time northern Nevada rancher, wrote a check for $200,000 and bought Yerington High a brand new, bright red, artificial-surface, all-weather track.
The color doubled the price.
"He said, 'I don't want a black track, I want a red track,"' Yerington High athletic director John Dibble said. "We said, 'Sure."' …
Weaver, 87, knows tracks. He bought one for his alma mater Princeton University. …
Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV)
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December 1, 1999 WednesdayHEADLINE: Revenge may play role as UNLV faces Princeton
BYLINE: Steve Carp
The sting remains intact, some 18 months after the fact.
Bring up the subject of the 1998 NCAA Tournament and more than one UNLV basketball player winces.
In some ways, it was a celebration of a program that had struggled in recent years finally getting back to the Big Dance after a seven-year hiatus.
But after the Rebels were defeated 69-57 by Princeton in the opening round of the NCAA East Regional at Hartford, Conn., there was no celebrating. The joy of a few days before at the Si Redd Room, when 12th-seeded UNLV learned it had drawn the fifth-seeded Tigers in the first round, had turned to gloom.
'I'll never forget they ended our season,' senior Mark Dickel said of the Tigers. 'That still bothers me.'
For Dickel and three of his teammates _ Donovan Stewart, Kaspars Kambala and Issiah Epps _ revenge can help motivate them for Friday's game with the Tigers at the Food Lion MVP Classic in Charlotte, N.C.
But with the circumstances totally different this time, revenge may take a back seat to merely maintaining the current momentum by this year's Rebels, who are off to a 4-0 start and are fresh off an impressive 85-69 win over Georgetown.
'We definitely want to win Friday,' Stewart said. 'I've thought about that game (in 1998), and it would be nice to get another crack at Princeton. …
Los Angeles Times
Copyright 1999 Times Mirror Company
December 1, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: GORE LEADERSHIP IS ANEMIC ON HEALTH CARE, BRADLEY SAYS; POLITICS: FORMER SENATOR SAYS VICE PRESIDENT 'TURNED HIS BACK' ON SOLVING INSURANCE PROBLEMS AFTER 1992 DEFEAT OF CLINTON REFORM PLAN.
BYLINE: STEPHEN BRAUN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: MANCHESTER, N.H.Faulting Vice President Al Gore for a failure of leadership, former Senator Bill Bradley chided Gore on Tuesday for having "turned his back" on a full-bore approach to solving the nation's medical insurance woes.
Bradley used a sedate morning public forum on health care to question Gore's commitment to overhauling a medical insurance system that does not provide coverage for more than 40 million Americans. The former senator from New Jersey also leveled scorn at both Gore and President Clinton for giving up after the administration's 1992 health care plan was scuttled in Congress.
"The lesson that our leaders--and Al Gore--seem to have learned from the health care defeat of 1992 was that big, bold solutions to a national problem cannot happen in Washington, so let's do a few small, symbolic things," Bradley said, adding: "That was the wrong lesson." …
Uwe Reinhardt, a Princeton University professor of political economics and an expert in the health care debate, said Tuesday that the continued sniping between Bradley and Gore over their rival health care programs is obscuring the "proper debate that should be going on." Reinhardt, who is sympathetic with Bradley's plan to abolish Medicaid and replace it with a sliding-scale mixture of federal and private coverage, said "the Republicans are smiling while the Democrats are slicing each other up."
But by defining his plan early on, Bradley said, "you have a much better chance of overcoming the opposition of special interests than if you were vague" until the general election. …
Men's Health
Copyright 1999 Rodale Press, Inc.
December 1, 1999HEADLINE: The Home Gym Muscle Plan.
BYLINE: SCHULER, LOU
Build the body you want without stepping outside your front door (except, of course, to show off)
BEFORE I WORKED for a company that came with a gym, I often built my brawn at home, with nothing more than a bar, a bench, and some dumbbells. It wasn't much, but it was home.
The results I got in my living room weren't a whole lot different from those I get now in a gym fully equipped with lots of fancy machines. "It's not the equipment you have, it's the work you do," says Alwyn Cosgrove, C.S.C.S., a personal trainer. You can get a great workout at home, and build a great body. The secret: You have to be smarter--much smarter--than the guys who work out at the health club. You've got to make more with less. …
PROBLEM #4
You want to push yourself, but you work out alone and you're afraid to go for a one-repetition maximum without a spotter. How do you max out without crushing your larynx?
First of all, you're right to worry. Never do a one-repetition-maximum bench press when you're by yourself. According to a University of Oregon study, the bench press accounts for more than half the deaths associated with home-workout equipment. It's common sense: If you can't get the weight off your neck, you die. That really screws up a workout.
* The safest option: "Don't do a free-weight exercise over your head or chest without a competent spotter," says Matt Brzycki, a strength and conditioning specialist at Princeton University.
* Next safest: Pick a weight you're sure you can lift a few times, and, after a thorough warmup, pump out repetitions until you feel that you can do only one more. Don't do that last one; it's not worth the risk.
Believe it or not, there's a mathematical formula that tells you how those repetitions translate to a maximum lift. It's called the Brzycki equation, and though it looks like the blueprint for cold fusion, it's actually easy to use:
WEIGHT LIFTED/1.0278 - (0.0278 X number of repetitions) = MAXIMUM LIFT
Didn't major in math? Neither did we, so Brzycki walked us through it. Let's say the weight you chose was 175 pounds, and you lifted it six times. But since you stopped short of complete muscular failure, give yourself credit for seven. Multiply 7 by 0.0278. You get 0.1946. Subtract that from 1.0278 and you get 0.8332. Now divide the 175 pounds you lifted by that number, and you get 210. If you went into a gym today, that's how much you could bench once. …
National Public Radio (NPR)
SHOW: MORNING EDITION (10:00 AM ET)
December 1, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: AMBASSADOR RICHARD HOLBROOKE BEGINNING A TOUR OF 11 AFRICAN COUNTRIES ANCHORS: BOB EDWARDS REPORTERS: TED CLARK
BOB EDWARDS, host:
As the US ambassador to the United Nations arrives in Africa today, a faltering peace agreement in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be on the agenda. The cease-fire may be collapsing. Richard Holbrooke will visit 11 African states in 12 days, including Congo and several nearby countries that have been drawn into the conflict there. He wants to explore what the United States and the UN might do to reinforce the fragile cease-fire and prevent renewed violence. NPR's Ted Clark reports.
TED CLARK reporting:
Some have referred to it as Africa's world war. Five African nations have troops inside Congo, partly to protect themselves from spillover violence. Some countries support Congolese rebel groups that are challenging the government of Laurent Kabila. Other African nations back Kabila, who was a rebel leader himself until capturing the capital, Kinshasa, in 1997.
This past summer Kabila and the rebel factions and the nearby states signed an agreement to end the conflict. The neighboring countries were supposed to withdraw their troops. Kabila and the rebel groups were supposed to lay down their weapons, and there was supposed to be a national dialogue to bring democracy to the Democratic Republic of Congo. It hasn't worked out that way. …
CLARK: Some of the neighboring states are less than enthusiastic about the peace plan, too, especially those backing the rebels. Jeffrey Herbst is a professor at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
Professor JEFFREY HERBST (Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University): Uganda and Rwanda were not satisfied with the status quo as it was going to emerge from the cease-fire. They wanted greater security guarantees. Whether they'd ever be able to get them is unclear. …
CLARK: And, once again, the people would be hurt most by this, not the combatants. If Congo were to fragment even more than it has, economic recovery in this bankrupt country would be pushed still further down the road. Professor Herbst.
Prof. HERBST: There'll be a shifting set of regimes, the government of the day, various rebels, which have as their primary interest fighting the other side, exploiting whatever minerals are available and protecting themselves with no one having as the agenda promoting development in this vast country of tens of millions of people.
Newsday (New York, NY)
Copyright 1999 Newsday, Inc.
December 1, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: LIFE IN CYBERSPACE / ADVERTISERS LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG
BYLINE: Tim Blangger. Tim Blangger is a writer for the Allentown Morning Call.
FELIX, A VERY CUTE desktop cat, made a visit to several of my colleagues last week.
His creators at AdTools, a Boston company that specializes in computer-generated advertising, call him a MessageMate-an attention-getting form of promotion that can be sent as an attachment to an e-mail message or downloaded from a company's site.
Once a user downloads the Felix MessageMate and launches it, the cartoon cat prances around the screen and, occasionally, peeks around any active windows that are open. Like real-life cats, Felix seems to have a mind of his own and disappears for a time, only to reappear at the top of the screen. …
The desktop feline is part of a new breed of advertising being made possible by the Internet. He's an eye-catching animation that may change the way we think about advertising. …
MessageMates such as Felix have a more limited time frame, although users can relaunch them as many times as they wish.
At about the same time that Felix the cat was romping across my colleagues' screens, I stumbled upon a quote from Ed Felten, who works at Princeton University's Secure Internet Programming Lab, where scientists look for flaws in computer software. "Given the choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time," Felten said.
This is powerful stuff. Felix isn't a dancing pig, but it comes as an executable file. These are files ending with an .exe ending.
"There is no fool-proof way to know that an executable is safe," said Felten.
"The problem is that there is no effective way of looking inside an executable to know what's in there. Virus scanners can find problems, but not all problems. So, it really is like a Trojan horse, in that there is this beautiful horse, but who knows what's inside? "If you got this thing from one of your friends, you might think it is safe.
But who knows where they got it or who originally wrote it or messed with it last." AdTool's Harris said the company has no way of offering end users reassurance that the MessageMates or ScreenMates haven't been tampered with. The company is looking at a type of authentication software and is working with Microsoft on the issue. …
USA TODAY
Copyright 1999 Gannett Company, Inc.
December 1, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Army-Navy: Century of drama 100th meeting set for Saturday
BYLINE: Eddie Timanus
The annual football game between the United States Military Academy and United States Naval Academy has been called the purest rivalry in sports. It is as fraught with emotion as it is steeped in tradition. Few Americans, in fact, can confuse the white-gloved Mids with the gray-caped Cadets or do not know which team has the goat and which one brought the mules.
The only match for the intensity on the field, perhaps, is the exuberance in the stands, where through the years hundreds of thousands of officers-in-training have stood and roared -- and wept -- in sun and rain and snow. Followed by soldiers and sailors stationed throughout the world, the contest known simply as the Army-Navy Game is a spectacle of mythic proportion.
The games are usually pretty good, too. …
The 1900s. The event's popularity already was becoming evident. Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University, convinced both academies to move the 1905 game to his campus from its usual Philadelphia home. But a huge traffic jam made both teams late for kickoff and the game, tied 6-6, was suspended because of darkness with four minutes left. …
The Washington Times
Copyright 1999 News World Communications, Inc.
December 01, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Caps remain inconsistent on power play
BYLINE: Dave Fay; THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Washington Capitals coach Ron Wilson is deeply concerned with the lack of production from his power-play units this season, and he probably should be. The Caps have been streaky so far, and a serious dip could be on the horizon.
The Caps opened the season on a high note, scoring more than 30 percent of the time in the first three games of the season. But that was the high point. Since November began, the club has scored 11.9 percent of the time with the man-advantage, and that won't win many games.
Monday night in Toronto the Caps went 0-for-4 in a game in which one power-play goal - or a goal of any kind, for that matter - would have pushed the game into overtime and earned them at least a point in the standings. It has been the story of the season; the team has dropped five one-goal games, and four others have ended tied. …
HALPERN TO SPEAK
The only goal scored by the Caps on Monday night was a shorthanded effort by Potomac's Jeff Halpern. The rookie center will skate at 6:15 p.m. today with the Montgomery Youth Hockey Association at the ARC IceSports facility (50 Southlawn Court) in Rockville. Halpern will discuss his hockey experiences and practice with the PeeWee and Squirt level teams.
Halpern is the first local product to play for the Caps. He graduated from Princeton University, where he led the Tigers in goals and points in his junior and senior seasons. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
November 30, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: High school teacher gets prime assignment
DATELINE: LOUISVILLE, Ky.
To his students, John Wheaton is a physics teacher making the complex seem simple. That approach apparently figured in his selection as a J. William Fulbright Teacher Exchange scholar.
Wheaton, 43, will leave St. Francis High School in late December to spend a year in South Africa, teaching at Pretoria Boys High School, with 1,500 pupils.
In turn, Michael Brasler, a science teacher at Pretoria, will spend a year at St. Francis, a private school with 140 students. …
Wheaton is a Quaker, has a degree from Princeton University in comparative literature, worked as a newspaper reporter and has a passion for physics.
"I sense in him all the things that, to me, make a good teacher in this school," Pike said.
Wheaton grew up on Long Island, N.Y., and didn't plan to be a teacher.
He enrolled at Princeton and, after two years of studying physics, switched to literature. He was a reporter and editor for his college newspaper, The Princetonian, and once wrote a story about a Princeton alumnus who had been detained by police in South Africa, sparking his interest in the country.
He's always dreamed of traveling abroad, but other than a two-week tour of Sweden when he was 23, he's never had the chance. …
NOTE: This story first appeared in The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky.
The Associated Press
November 30, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: Suddenly Brooke Shields' 'Susan' in danger of demise
BYLINE: By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: BURBANK, Calif.All of a sudden, "Susan" has got trouble. Not just trouble as in a sitcom script. "Susan" has got real-life trouble, right here in Burbank.
Talk in the trade speculates that the current, fourth season of "Suddenly Susan" starring Brooke Shields will be its last, attributed to anemic ratings and network meddling.
"Suddenly Susan" opened its first season in 1996 with great promise. It attracted splendid ratings, occupying as it did the best time slot in television - 9:30 p.m. Thursdays between "Seinfeld" and "ER."
The critical reaction was positive as well, with reviewers marveling at former teen sensation Brooke Shield's unexpected talent for comedy.
Then NBC executives began schedule juggling. "Suddenly Susan" was yanked during February sweeps 1997 for "The Naked Truth." "Susan" returned at 8:30 on Thursday, then went back to 9:30 in June. During the summer it also appeared Monday at 9:30. In the second and third seasons, it was seen at 8 p.m. Monday. …
Is this any way to build a rating? …
Miss Shields works as hard as anyone associated with "Suddenly Susan." But then, she has worked all her life, beginning as a soap ad model at 2. At 12 she shocked the movie world as the child prostitute in Louis Malle's "Pretty Baby." She admits that few took her seriously as an adult actress until the TV series.
Her single respite from work came with four years at Princeton University, where she earned a B.A. in French literature. She considers that period the most productive of her life.
"It was the overall education that allowed me independence of thought, which didn't occur to me before I'd gone to the university," she remarked.
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Copyright 1999 The Hartford Courant Company
November 30, 1999 TuesdayHEADLINE: IT'S STILL THE EMPLOYERS' HEADACHE; MANAGED CARE AWAITS SOLUTIONS BY COMPANIES
BYLINE: JOHN A. MACDONALD; Courant Staff Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON --American business, which forced a revolution in the U.S. health care system in the 1990s, is being pressed on the eve of a new millennium to lead a new wave of change.
The agenda confrontingbusiness leaders includes:
* Growing numbers of uninsured at a time of strong economic growth.
* Increasing complaints that the health care system is not accountable for the restrictions it imposes on consumers.
* Nagging questions about quality as spending on health care has been more tightly controlled.
The agenda comes from a variety of health care analysts in think tanks and universities as well as experts in business and labor unions. Their comments came recently from interviews, conferences and in articles in journals focusing on health care issues.
Responses from business leaders range from the controversial to the benign. Some are considering a plan to end a half-century tradition as the chief sponsor of employee health plans. Others want stability and small changes that would leave the current system largely in place.
Some business leaders would like to rid themselves of health care problems. "I think there is fatigue on the employers' side now," said Uwe E. Reinhardt, a Princeton University economist who is one of the nation's leading health care analysts.
Reinhardt and others agree there is no consensus among business leaders on how to repair the current system, which sprang up during World War II and has put the United States virtually alone in the world in leaving it to employers to decide who does and does not have health care. Business leaders strongly opposed President Clinton's ill-fated 1994 health reform plan, which would have required them to provide health insurance to all their workers.
The lack of agreementsuggests that radical change is not imminent and that any shifts will be evolutionary. Failure to deal with problems could alter that, health care analysts said, but there is virtually no prospect of returning to the system as it was before managed care. …
Newsday (New York, NY)
Copyright 1999 Newsday, Inc.
November 30, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: DATABASE / UP TO THE MINUTE NEWS AND INFORMATION
BYLINE: COMPILED FROM NEWS DISPATCHES
Latin America Cited for Heavy Reliance on Caesareans
Women and babies in Latin America are being exposed to unnecessary risks because of the high rate of Caesarean births, researchers say.
A study of births in 19 Latin American nations by the World Health Organization (WHO) showed that 12 countries had Caesarean-section rates ranging from 16.8 to 40 percent. WHO recommends that Caesareans be limited to 15 percent of all births.
Caesarean sections are normally done when a natural birth is not possible to save the mother and the child.
But the operation is becoming more popular with women who want to avoid a painful labor or who think their partners will find them less attractive after a vaginal birth. …
Criticizing the study, Elaine Showalter and Anne Griffin of Princeton University said the 15 percent rate for Caesareans, set by the WHO, was arbitrarily chosen. They say the operations are safer than ever and women should be able to choose how they give birth. …
University Wire
Copyright 1999 The Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
November 30, 1999HEADLINE: Princeton sophomores to hold alternative to Nude Olympics
BYLINE: By Michael Jenkins, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.Monday afternoon's brief snow flurry rekindled talk across Princeton University's campus of the banned Nude Olympics, but planning for alternative events has been in the works for months, with sophomore class leaders advocating a beach party as a probable replacement for the annual naked run through Holder Courtyard Even as students and administrators plan the alternative event, however, many are speculating whether anyone will brave the possibility of a one-year suspension to uphold the quarter-century-old tradition
Sophomore class president Ben Shopsin '02 said Monday afternoon's flurry served as a sort of "wakeup call." He added that talk among sophomores of Nude Olympic activity has escalated Since their election last spring, the sophomore class officers have been working to plan an activity to be held on the first snowfall in place of the Nude Olympics.
The officers' first idea was to have a bonfire on Cannon Green, surrounded by a host of other activities to keep students entertained. After being tentatively approved by the administration, the proposal recently failed to meet New Jersey state fire department regulations, class vice president Loran Gutt '02 said According to Shopsin, the class has considered other alternatives, including a food fight and a snowball fight on Poe Field. Officers said a tropical beach party and rally now are the most likely options. …
University Wire
Copyright 1999 The Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
November 30, 1999HEADLINE: Bradley's former Princeton teammates raise money for White House bid
BYLINE: By Ryann Manning, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.During his senior year in high school, Allen Adler '67 came to Princeton University for a basketball recruiting weekend and played one-on-one with his host, a sophomore varsity player named Bill Bradley '65. Adler matriculated the following fall, and later played on the 1965 team that Bradley led to a third-place finish in the NCAA tournament Now, more than 30 years later, Adler -- a private investor in New York -- is raising millions for Bradley's run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Adler is only one of a number of former Tiger cagers who are throwing their support behind their All-American team captain, providing the cash critical to his race against front-running Vice President Al GoreLoyal support
Just as past and present NBA players have gathered to raise money and voice their support for Bradley's White House bid, so too have many teammates from his college days "Virtually anybody in the Princeton basketball community supports Bill Bradley," said Don Roth '65, who played with Bradley for three seasons Roth said many players who followed Bradley in the Princeton orange and black as well as those who played alongside him are supporting him now "because of the esteem they hold him in
Bradley's teammates' involvement sparks a special response from the fund-raising team, his staffers say "There is a lot of excitement when ex-teammates show up," said Bradley's finance director Rick Wright '64, also a former college teammate From a financial perspective, the excitement is warranted . …
University Wire
Copyright 1999 The Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
November 30, 1999HEADLINE: Princeton earns 13th-highest salary among nation's college presidents
BYLINE: By Jennifer Yeh, The Daily Princetonian
SOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.Princeton University's president earned a total compensation package of $417,011 in fiscal year 1997-98, ranking him 13th in the nation among college presidents, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week Compared to results in 1996-97, Shapiro improved four places in the national rankings as a result of an 8.5-percent increase in his total pay package. This included a 9.2-percent rise in his base salary to $376,120 and a 2.5-percent increase in benefits to $40, 891
Scott Jaschik, news editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, explained why a university president might merit a raise. He said salaries are based on performance, and a raise "reflects how well the board of trustees think he's doing."
A benefits package might include health insurance or pension plans and are determined by the school's board of trustees, along with the base salary, Jaschik added. Trailing behind Shapiro among the highest paid University employees are Andrew Golden, president of the Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO); Provost Jeremiah Ostriker; psychology professor Daniel Kahneman; Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School Michael Rothschild; and Dean of the Engineering School James Wei. Aside from Wei, all of these officials were listed by the Chronicle among the University's highest paid faculty members last year PRINCO is responsible for investing the endowment of the University. Golden said his salary, which is also determined by the trustees, reflects "the comfort the trustees have with the investment program. An important measure of the quality are the returns that it produces." …
Compared to other universities in the Ivy League, Shapiro ranked fifth in terms of his total compensation package. University of Pennsylvania president Judith Rodin led the Ivy League with compensation amounting to $548,374, including a base salary of $529,677 and benefits of $18,697. …
Business Week
Copyright 1999 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
November 29, 1999HEADLINE: ARE STEPPARENTS JUST AS CARING?
BYLINE: BY GENE KORETZ
HIGHLIGHT: Blood mothers spend more on foodIt wasn't so long ago that social observers regarded remarriage as providing a decent substitute for the family environment that children had when living with both biological parents. Recent research, however, has found that children in families with stepparents tend to fare worse than those from intact original families -- doing less well in both school and the job market.
While such outcomes can have many causes, some economists have speculated that one reason may be that stepparents are less inclined to invest in their nonbiological children. In a new National Bureau of Economic Research paper, Anne Case, I-Fen Lin, and Sara McLanahan of Princeton University test this idea by comparing food spending in families where there is at least one stepparent with such outlays in families having two biological parents.
The results are intriguing. Controlling for income, household size, age of children, and other factors, the researchers found that households with nonbiological mothers spent significantly less (averaging 5%) on food than households with biological mothers.
If economic considerations -- such as the expectation of receiving financial and social support later in life -- were the motive, the authors theorized that food spending by adoptive moms would parallel that of biological mothers. As it happens, they found lower outlays in all types of families with nonbiological mothers, whether step, foster, or adoptive. Thus, they conclude, it is the biological tie itself -- perhaps the motive of sustaining one's genetic line -- that apparently makes the crucial difference.
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY.)
Copyright 1999 The Courier-Journal
November 29, 1999HEADLINE: A life with computers: Doctor's at home -- and at work -- with PC, software
BYLINE: RICHARD DES RUISSEAUX
LET'S CHECK and see where she is,'' says Dr. George Stege III, sliding off a stool at the kitchen island and stepping over to the 21-inch computer monitor atop a waist-high counter.
The keyboard is tucked away in a slide-in drawer and the beige box - networked on a high-speed DSL (digital subscriber line) Internet connection with several other computers sprinkled around the house - is on the floor, around the side, hidden in a cranny.
''My wife doesn't like the way it looks,'' Stege explains. She's also not too fond of the 15-inch monitor and AMD 450megahertz DSL router in the den, next to the desk where her husband keeps his paper-thin Sony Vaio laptop, but such is the aesthetic price of technology.
Stege mouse-clicks on the American Pearl Web site (www.adept. net/americanpearl) and an animated chart pops up. A succession of green dots shows Louisvillian Tori Murden's hourly progress - or lack of it - as she rows toward Guadaloupe and the completion of her solo trip across the Atlantic.
''I found that program in Russia,'' Stege says, emphasizing the worldwide nature of the World Wide Web. ''I was looking around for tools to use on the page.'' Click. He bought it online with a credit card.
Stege, 46, is marking his roughly 30-year anniversary as a computer aficionado. At 16, he built what may have been the first personal computer in Louisville, creating it from surplus parts bought ''for pennies on the dollar'' from a company in Cincinnati. It filled up the basement of his parents' home, cost a little under $1,000 and made the front page of The Courier-Journal. …
Stege went to Princeton University and pursued his medical degree, but he also earned a master's degree in physiology and biophysics and didn't abandon his interest in computers.
While he was in college in the early 1970s, he began building his second computer, using one of the first microprocessors, an 8008 chip.
But the hardware was only half the adventure. ''The other project I had going was writing a Basic compiler for it,'' Stege said. An operating system, if you will. A bit farther north, at Harvard University, another Ivy League student, Bill Gates, was taking a similar tack. …
Federal & State Insurance Week
Copyright 1999 JR Publishing, Inc.
November 29, 1999HEADLINE: ALTERNATIVES TO EMPLOYER'S HEALTH PLANS GET A CLOSER LOOK.
Alternatives to the current employer-based health insurance system got a closer look last week as representatives of corporations, academia and think tanks gathered to discuss whether to "repair it or replace it."
Two notions receiving attention at the conference were expanding the system through tax credits and allowing employees a wider choice of plans.
The conference in Washington, DC, was sponsored by the Alpha Center, a nonprofit health policy center with the mission of improving access to affordable, quality health care, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Probably the harshest assessment came from Uwe Reinhardt, a Princeton University professor specializing in health economics.
"It is high time to look for an alternative, if not an outright replacement," Reinhardt said, but "killing it was so messy that I lost my taste for it." …
Insight on the News
Copyright 1999 News World Communications, Inc.
November 29, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Roll Back the Power of Dangerous Regimes
BYLINE: Peter Schweizer; INSIGHT
On July 27, 1984, during the height of the Cold War, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko sat down with former U.S. senator George McGovern to discuss the state of U.S.-Soviet relations. Frustrated by the Reagan administration's hard line, the Russian reportedly told his guest: " The Reagan administration members want to cause trouble. They want to weaken the Soviet system. They want to bring it down." A few months later, in a September 1984 face-to-face meeting with President Reagan, Gromyko declared that "behind all this the arms buildup lies the clear calculation that the U.S.S.R. will exhaust its material resources before the U.S.A. and therefore will finally be forced to surrender."
In the 10 years that have passed since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, there has been a continued debate about why the Soviet bloc dissolved when it did. But as a growing body of recently declassified material becomes available from both sides of the Cold-War divide, Gromyko's complaints ring true: The Reagan administration did have a plan to undermine the Soviet system. And understanding those plans is invaluable to shaping U.S. foreign policy today. …
Under Reagan the U.S. goal became to roll back the Soviet Union, and this policy was played out on a number of fronts. The administration undertook the largest peacetime buildup in U.S. history. The procurement budgets increased by nearly 25 percent per year, and the overall budget doubled between 1980 and 1985. The particular emphasis was on high-tech weapons, which were considered a key Soviet weakness.
It was a military challenge a weak Soviet economy would have trouble matching. In a May 4, 1983, closed session of the Warsaw Pact's Political Consultative Committee, Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov chillingly noted, "The Soviet Union feels the burden of the arms race into which we are being pulled, more than anybody else. It is not a big problem for Reagan to shift tens of billions of dollars of appropriations for social needs to the military-industrial complex."
At a Princeton University conference, former Soviet foreign minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh recalled the concern among Soviet officials: "The atmosphere in Moscow was very tense for the first few years of the Reagan administration, especially because of the SDI, or Strategic Defense Initiative, system: It frightened us very much." …
Los Angeles Times
Copyright 1999 Times Mirror Company
November 29, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: BRADLEY STRIKES SUPPORTIVE VEIN IN MALE VOTERS
BYLINE: STEPHEN BRAUN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: DERRY, N.H.Middle-aged men sidle up to Bill Bradley at nearly every stop he makes in his insurgent campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Some carry basketballs for him to autograph--so sheepish they get tongue-tied when they meet him. Some slap him on the back as if they have known him for years.
Restaurant owner Richard Ferrin found himself tagging along recently as Bradley led a small crowd of supporters on a walking tour down the main drag of this tiny Manchester suburb. Ferrin approached the candidate as he passed a tattoo parlor and joshed with Bradley about the candidate's days as a New York Knicks basketball great--and as an enemy of Ferrin's beloved Boston Celtics. When the crowd moved on, Ferrin hung back, watching in admiration.
"I just want someone who has a clear mind, no baggage, a straight shooter," said Ferrin, 54, a Republican who recently registered as an independent. In February, he said, watching Bradley's elongated frame lope down the street, he may vote Democrat. "I like this guy." …
Sooner or later, they all come back to Bradley's laconic and seemingly unvarnished campaign style. "I think what comes across is that he's at home with himself," said Don Roth, the managing partner in a Washington-based international investment firm and a former World Bank treasurer who has been tight with Bradley since their days as teammates on Princeton University's basketball squad. "Maybe because he's going for broke." …
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
November 29, 1999, MondayNAME: Stephen Greene
HEADLINE: Stephen Greene, 82, Painter With Distinctive Abstract Style
BYLINE: By ROBERTA SMITH
Stephen Greene, an abstract painter who whose sensuous brushwork and half-buried symbols synthesized elements of several postwar movements into a distinctive style, died on Nov. 18 at his home in Valley Cottage, N.Y., where he had lived for more than 40 years. He was 82.
Throughout most of his career Mr. Greene was a respected odd man out among New York painters. He knew everyone, taught at prestigious schools and almost always had a dealer. Starting in 1947 with a show at the Durlacher Galleries and ending in 1998 with a show at the David Beitzel Gallery in SoHo, he had 26 solo gallery shows in New York. But he was never affiliated with any of the painting styles that regularly rolled off the assembly line in the city, and he once said that his art supported him for only two years of his long career. …
He began teaching painting in 1954 at Princeton University, where his students included Mr. Stella, and Mr. Greene taught for many years at the Tyler School of Art of Temple University and the Art Students League. He had several surveys of his work, beginning at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington in 1963, and is represented in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Gallery in London. …
The Seattle Times
Copyright 1999 The Seattle Times Company
November 29, 1999HEADLINE: MANSFIELD PARK' WAS AN OCEAN LINER TO ITS DIRECTOR
BYLINE: JOHN HARTL; SEATTLE TIMES MOVIE REVIEWER
Patricia Rozema is best-known for her Emmy-winning television show, "Bach Cello Suite 6: Six Gestures," and three modestly budgeted Canadian films: "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing," "The White Room" and "When Night Is Falling."
Her new $10 million adaptation of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" (at the Harvard Exit) might be considered a low-budget production by Hollywood standards.
But not to her.
"It was like driving an ocean liner," she said when she brought the movie to the Women in Cinema festival, where the audience voted it the best of the fest. "Everything before that was speedboats." …
Nearly everyone who writes about the movie says something on the order of "this one will have the Austen purists' tea cups rattling." But that hasn't been Rozema's own experience. Such Austen experts as Princeton University's Claudia Johnson have thanked her for the changes she made.
"I make the subtext more evident," she said. At the same time, she encourages another look at the book: "I think it bears re-reading." …
The Toronto Star
Copyright 1999 Toronto Star Newspapers, Ltd.
November 29, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: PROFESSOR SHAKES UP DEBATE OVER QUESTIONS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Arthur Hirsch 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 Centre 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. …
University Wire
Copyright 1999 Daily Targum via U-Wire
November 29, 1999HEADLINE: Rutgers students protest racism against Korean-Americans
BYLINE: By Julie Suh, Daily Targum
SOURCE: Rutgers U.
DATELINE: New Brunswick, N.J.While the rest of Rutgers University prepared to unwind for the Thanksgiving holiday, nearly 100 Rutgers students boarded buses to attend a rally last Tuesday in protest of recent racist acts against Korean-American merchants in the borough of Palisades Park.
Billed as the Anti-Racism Peace Demonstration, the rally marked the first grand scale Asian American demonstration in the history of Bergen County, according to Inchol Yon, president of the Palisades Park Chamber of Commerce.
Police on hand said they estimated that nearly 3,000 demonstrators -- a mixture of merchants, locals and out-of-towners -- participated in the rally.
Broad Avenue -- the main artery of commerce in Palisades Park and the territory in dispute -- has grown into a stronghold for Korean immigrants in the past decade and has for many become a symbolic turf for the American Dream.
The month of October saw graffiti of "Koreans go home!" sprayed on overpasses and storefronts of Korean-owned businesses along Broad Avenue, which has grown into a stronghold for Korean immigrants in the past decade. …
Another 50 students from a dozen universities in the tri-state area -- including Columbia University, Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania -- attended the rally. …
Petitions, drafted by Rutgers students, are currently circulating the nation's campuses, from Stanford University to Florida State University.
The petitions serve to "collectively condemn the prejudiced statements made against Korean Americans in (Palisades Park), whether in the form of graffiti, speech, or most shamefully, law," said P. J. Kim, a Princeton University junior who spoke at the rally.
Over 2,000 signatures were collected from Princeton and Columbia Universities, Kim said. …
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
November 29, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Supreme Court Marshal Keeps Things Shipshape; Ex-Navy SEAL Finds the Job Has Its Share of Stress
BYLINE: Joan Biskupic, Washington Post Staff Writer
As a specially trained Navy SEAL in hot spots such as Cambodia and Beirut, he was accustomed to dodging bullets and avoiding ambush. Now Dale E. Bosley is the marshal at the Supreme Court. There's no comparison in danger and tension. Still, the marble palace has its moments.
Like the day back in October 1997 when the courtroom sound system failed and the justices couldn't hear the lawyers arguing before them.
"Nothing quite gets your attention like having nine of the most powerful people in the country turn toward you," said Bosley, who is stationed at the far left of the justices during oral arguments. He felt the pressure of all eyes on him to get the microphones to work. On the spot. But neither he nor anyone else could. The perturbed justices had to repeatedly ask the lawyers to speak up and spectators couldn't hear a thing. That fiasco ranks right up there as one of Bosley's worst days in the five years since he became marshal. …
And it is the marshal--Bosley--who is in charge of making sure these appearances are kept, security is tight and the building shipshape. The marshal controls nearly half of the court's 400-employee work force, including all the police officers. He's the general manager and paymaster. …
Dale E. Bosley
Title: Marshal of the Supreme Court
Age: 53
Education: Bachelor's degree, Princeton University; master's degree in English literature, Georgetown University; law degree, Georgetown University Law Center.
Family: Married. Wife, Janine, is also a lawyer.
The Washington Times
Copyright 1999 News World Communications, Inc.
November 29, 1999, Monday, Final EditionHEADLINE: Buffalo lore gets politically incorrect; Historians give Indians share of blame for depletion of herds
BYLINE: Valerie Richardson; THE WASHINGTON TIMES
DATELINE: DENVERDENVER - In movies like "Dances with Wolves," American Indians are depicted as living in harmony with nature, killing animals only as needed for survival, while blame for the mass buffalo slaughter of the 19th century is placed squarely on the heads of the white hide hunters.
But like many stories of the Old West, this version of history may have more in common with myth than fact.
A small but influential band of historians is challenging the status quo, arguing that the Indians - along with climate, disease and other environmental factors - played a far greater role than previously thought in the near-annihilation of the great bison herds. …
Andrew Isenberg, an assistant professor at Princeton University, puts the buffalo population at 25 million to 30 million at the start of the 19th century, but says the herd probably had been depleted by half by the time of the Great White Hunt in 1870.
"That doesn't let the white hide hunters off the hook," said Mr. Isenberg, whose book, "The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920," published by Cambridge University Press, is due out in April. "They were there from 1870 to 1883. The Indians' killing was more spread out."
Mr. Isenberg also rebuts the popular theory that the Army and hide hunters engaged in a conspiracy to kill off the buffalo and thus force the Plains Indians onto reservations.
"The Army didn't command the hide hunters to kill the buffalo, but they commended them," he said. "The Sioux, Cheyenne and others had put all their eggs in one basket - they had come to over-rely on the bison. There are certain commanders in the Plains saying, 'If and when the bison population declines, the Indians will have to go to reservations.' That doesn't mean they were orchestrating it." …
The Washington Times
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November 29, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Conservatism's hour
BYLINE: Donald Lambro; THE WASHINGTON TIMES
I've been reading some strange analyses lately in our newspapers that attempt to make the case that there is a newly resurgent liberal political movement sweeping across America. Really?
An obscure Princeton University professor argued this in a recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times, which has been desperately trying to breathe life back into American liberalism ever since Ronald Reagan pounded a stake through its heart in the 1980s. Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. seems to have made a career of being one of liberalism's last cheerleaders, searching for remnants of its existence wherever he can find it: under beds, in a Teddy Kennedy speech, or in a bill to expand this or that government program.
In fact, even a cursory examination of the political and public-policy trends of the last two decades shows just the opposite to be true. We are in a conservative political era both here and around the globe. The worldwide movement toward conservatism shows no sign of slowing down. Here are a few reminders of some of the fundamental changes in our body politic:
Twenty years ago, liberals dominated American politics by dominating Congress, state governorships and most of the state legislatures. The Democrats held a strong lead in party identification.
Today, Republicans are in majority control of both chambers of Congress. It should be noted that the majority leaders in both chambers are not just conservative, they are staunchly conservative. …
The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo)
Copyright 1999 The Yomiuri Shimbun
November 28, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: 'Flowers for Algernon' author reveals secrets of his success
BYLINE: Isabel Reynolds Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer ; Yomiuri
International Book Day on April 23 saw the publication of the results of a survey in which more than 24,000 Japanese people were asked to name the most memorable book they had ever read. Surprisingly enough the most popular choice, several places ahead of the top-ranking Japanese work, was "Flowers for Algernon," written by American Daniel Keyes and first published as a magazine story in 1960. Published in Japanese in 1978, it created a huge and loyal following for Keyes, and reading the book has become part of growing up in this country. To try to find out the secret of the novel's lasting appeal, I went along to hear the author, now in his 70s, speak at a packed Hayakawa International Forum on Nov. 21.
"Algernon" is a difficult book to define--it is perhaps first and foremost a romance, but it is based around an intriguing science fiction concept. The hero, Charlie Gordon, is a man of very limited intelligence, but boundless goodwill and enthusiasm for learning. He is chosen as the first human subject of a surgical experiment that suddenly grants him more intelligence than he had ever dreamed possible. Previously, the surgery had only ever been performed on a mouse called Algernon, hence the title of the book. …
Fiction may follow fact in many aspects of Keyes' work, but in one important sense, reality is only just beginning to catch up with him. On Sept. 2, he opened his morning newspaper to find the headline, "Scientist creates smarter mouse." The story explained that this had been achieved by altering genes in mouse embryos, and that the process tended to improve "emotional intelligence" as well as IQ. Fascinated, Keyes called up the researcher, a Dr. Tsien at Princeton University, to discuss the project. When pressed, the scientist estimated that it would be possible to carry out a similar procedure in humans within the next 30 years. …
The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Copyright 1999 The Deseret News Publishing Co.
November 28, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Kudos to Catholics for tightening controls
BYLINE: By John Robinson, Deseret News editorial writer
The battle rages.
Some professors feel the church is too heavy-handed, that even though it sponsors the institution, it needs to back off in the name of academic freedom. They resent the "Big Brother is watching you" approach. Today's world, they claim, requires new thinking and a freedom of expression that is being stifled by increasing religious mandates.
But, as the sponsor, doesn't the church have a right and even an obligation to impose guidelines, even strict ones, to assure that its goals, whatever they may be, are carried out?
That's what Catholics are debating following the overwhelming passage of a landmark and controversial decision.
By a 223 to 31 vote, America's Roman Catholic bishops have agreed to impose tighter doctrinal controls over the nation's 235 church-related colleges and universities.
Good for them.
This is a necessary and probably overdue step in resolving the struggle between Catholic theologians and the leadership of the church, beginning with Pope John Paul II. …
So, Catholic institutions are trying to be more Catholic. Is that a surprise? Isn't that what someone should expect who attends a Catholic school?
The problems for church schools arise when they drift from those values that set them apart, not when they adhere to them. And those values necessarily are theological in nature.
The alternative, as Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston told Chicago Tribune reporter Steve Kloehn, is standing by and watching as Catholic colleges and universities follow the path of formerly Protestant universities such as Harvard, Princeton and the University of Chicago, which were created for religious purposes but are now secular both in mission and culture. …
The New York Times
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November 28, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: The Theater Is Not Dead. It's Into the Second Stage.; First, Broadway Chased Plays to the Suburbs in the 50's. Now, Dircetors Are Experimenting in Even Smaller Spaces.
BYLINE: By ALVIN KLEIN
THERE are no small parts," Sir Laurence Olivier famously said. "Only small actors."
And now there are very small stages.
When Olivier made his pronouncement in the 1940's, American theater was defined and bound by Broadway. But that began changing quickly in the 1950's with the establishment of regional theater as an antidote to the commercialism of Broadway and a suburban counterpart to Off Broadway. Today, residents of the New York metropolitan area are the beneficiaries. It is regional theater -- most healthily in New Jersey and Connecticut, dauntlessly on Long Island and in Westchester -- that represents the future of an art form -- and not only as a lifeline to Broadway.
And regional theaters are creating even smaller stages of their own. These second stages -- usually more experimental showcases, with the potential to reinvigorate live theater in the age of overamplification -- make up a vital part of that future. …
"A variety of spaces expands the potential for repertory, and offers a different kind of experience for audiences," said Emily Mann, artistic director of the McCarter Theater in Princeton, the most prestiguous theater in New Jersey. "Some plays won't work as well in the larger house; some writers are afraid of it. And the second stage will offer a longer run." …
NEW JERSEY
A Second Stage Temporarily on the First
New Jersey's most important second stage is on the drawing board for the McCarter Theater in Princeton. Scheduled to open in 2001 is the Roger S. Berlind Theater, named for the Broadway producer and Princeton University alumnus who put up one-third of the new building's $8.5 million cost. (The university and the McCarter, which will share the space, split the other two-thirds of the money.) Until then, Ms. Mann, is making do with a conceptual second stage. That is to say, if you must do without one, make one. …
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
November 28, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: ART REVIEW; Writer and Artist, All in One Package
BYLINE: By BARRY SCHWABSKY
DATELINE: PRINCETONYES, it really is that Edward Lear: the author of nonsense rhymes like "The Owl and the Pussycat." Lear might have been surprised to learn that he would be remembered more for his writing than for his art. But as an artist, he would have been shocked that the oil paintings he regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy in London are forgotten, while his watercolors, among them the views of Greece now at the Princeton University Art Museum, live on.
These works are not immediately prepossessing. Their colors are subdued, and they never aim to evoke a sense of drama or glamour in the settings they depict, no matter how famous. Instead, they show their subjects as occasions for scrupulous, unromanticizing attention. …
Newsday (New York, NY)
Copyright 1999 Newsday, Inc.
November 28, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: NTSB SIFTING FOR CLUES TO CRASH / PILOT, DEEMED SKILLED, WAS ALSO INSTRUCTOR
BYLINE: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: Bethesda, Md.Bethesda, Md. A Maryland man who was killed with his wife and daughter when their single-engine plane crashed in New Jersey was an experienced pilot who taught others how to fly in all kinds of conditions, acquaintances said yesterday.
Dr. Itzhak Jacoby, 56, his wife, Gail, 50, and their 13-year-old daughter, Atira, all of Bethesda, were killed when the plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in Newark, N.J., Friday, setting a factory afire and crumpling the roof of a fast-food restaurant.
Authorities said 25 people on the ground were injured, and two remained hospitalized yesterday.
Jacoby had been flying for about 25 years and flew jets in the Israeli Air Force, said Doug McNeeley, airport manager of Montgomery County Airpark, where Jacoby also taught. …
Neighbor Rene Bonnel said Jacoby and his wife and daughter were returning home after visiting an older daughter, Orit, and her husband for Thanksgiving. He said Orit Jacoby, a recent graduate of Princeton University's School of Architecture, and her husband were moving her belongings from the Washington area to New York. The couple married a month ago, he said. …
Omaha World-Herald
Copyright 1999 The Omaha World-Herald Company
November 28, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Saul Kripke
BYLINE: David Hendee
SOURCE: World-Herald Staff WriterSaul Kripke's genius has always set him apart. At age 3, he walked into the kitchen of the family home and asked his mother if God is truly everywhere.
Dorothy Kripke said yes. Young Saul then asked if this meant he had squeezed part of God out of the kitchen by coming in and taking up some of His space. He read all of Shakespeare's plays as a fourth-grader. As an eighth-grader at Dundee Elementary School in Omaha, Saul wondered "how we knew that we weren't dreaming."
That same year he started learning calculus and studying philosophy on his own. By age 15 he was convinced that some of his ideas in mathematical logic had never appeared in professional journals. His first published article, "A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic," appeared in The Journal of Symbolic Logic his senior year at Omaha Central High School.
A Pennsylvania State University professor was impressed, saying he had conferred doctorates on students for one-third the work Kripke had done. Kripke, a professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, is considered to be among the world's foremost living philosophers.
Known to have one of the most penetrating minds of our time, his achievements span the disciplines of philosophical reasoning and abstract mathematical theory. He is a pioneer in the logic of subjective sentences, the philosophy of language and the nature of being.
He has extended the boundaries of analytical theory. His two college philosophy books have been translated into Italian, French, German and Japanese.
Kripke graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University. He also studied at Princeton, Oxford and Rockefeller University but his bachelor's from Harvard is the only degree he holds, other than honorary degrees. Prestigious universities offer him full professorships without a doctorate. He never earned one because no one would presume to teach him.
Saul Kripke
Born: 1940
Hometown: Omaha
Noted accomplishment: Philosopher
The Straits Times (Singapore)
Copyright 1999 The Straits Times Press Limited
November 28, 1999HEADLINE: A loner for White House
BYLINE: Louise Branson
Former senator and basketball star Bill Bradley is terrifying Vice-President Al Gore as he wins over Americans tired of slick images and poll-driven campaigns. LOUISE BRANSON reports from Washington
JUST a few months ago, America's 2000 presidential campaign looked sewn up. It would be a lacklustre contest, it seemed, between two runaway front-runners, Republican Texas Governor George W. Bush and Democratic Vice-President Al Gore.
And then something interesting happened: Each now has a serious challenger. In the case of the Democratic Party, it is Mr Bill Bradley, former senator and basketball star.
He has so terrified the Gore campaign that the Vice-President is now describing himself, only half jokingly, as the underdog. In some polls, just a few, he has indeed slipped behind. …
If Mr Bradley is right, America is fed up with the Clinton era that began with such promise but faltered largely on the latter's personal flaws. It is also, he hopes, fed up with Mr Gore, Mr Clinton's loyal sidekick for the past seven years.
America, say his advisers, wants a clean break. And that means big, new ideas. Not personality, but ideas.
Certainly, personality is not his thing. After 35 years in the spotlight, the hallmark of the former Princeton all-America member of the New York Knicks remains a plodding self-assurance, a style with which he has approached -and usually won -every goal in his life. …
In a profile in the New Yorker magazine in 1965, writer John McPhee detailed Mr Bradley's dedication and attention to detail.
McPhee said he once went to watch him practise his jump shot in a gym near Princeton University in the summer of 1964. The Princeton star uncharacteristically missed six 14 foot-shots before he made an adjustment.
"You want to know something?" Mr Bradley asked McPhee. "That basket is about an inch-and-a-half too low."
The author went back with a tape measure and step ladder weeks later. The basket was 1-1/8 inches too low.
At Princeton, Mr Bradley dominated the Ivy League and led his team to national prominence. He captained the 1964 Olympic basketball team that won the gold medal in Tokyo. …
The Economist
Copyright 1999 The Economist Newspaper Ltd.
November 27, 1999, U.S. EditionHEADLINE: Fiscal flexibility
HIGHLIGHT: Could finance ministers learn a few tricks from central bankers?
IT IS now widely accepted that monetary policy is best set by an independent central bank, insulated from political pressures. But fiscal policy still remains in the hands of politicians. Indeed, most people would regard with horror the notion that tax rates might also be set by a band of unelected officials. Yet that is exactly what some economists are now calling for.
For example, Alan Blinder, an economist at Princeton University and a former vice-chairman of America's Federal Reserve, has argued that the institutional framework around monetary policy should be extended to fiscal policy. To understand why, consider the arguments in favour of central-bank independence.
Monetary policy affects the economy only after a long lag, so policymakers need a long time horizon. Short-sighted politicians might try to engineer a boom before an election, hoping that inflation would not rise until after the votes have been counted. An independent central bank shielded from political pressures is more likely to give priority to price stability; as a result its policies are seen by financial markets as more credible. An independent central bank can therefore deliver both lower inflation and more stable growth.
Similar arguments can be applied to fiscal policy. Tax changes also have consequences that stretch far into the future. But politicians' time horizons stretch only until the next election; all too often they are tempted to cut taxes ahead of an election, which can later cause the economy to overheat. Mr Blinder concludes that the tax system would be simpler and more efficient if it were left to an independent agency, in the same way as monetary policy. …
International Herald Tribune
(Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
Copyright 1999 International Herald Tribune
November 27, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: The Earth May Be Round, but the Universe Is Looking More and More Flat
BYLINE: By James Glanz; New York Times Service
DATELINE: NEW YORKLike the great navigators who first sailed around the world, establishing its size and the curvature of its surface, astronomers have made new observations that show with startling directness the large-scale geometry of the universe and the total amount of matter and energy that it contains.
The results of those observations have provided powerful support for an audacious theory, first proposed 20 years ago, that might help answer the ultimate existential question: What ignited the Big Bang explosion in which scientists believe the universe was born?
The delicate measurements relied on telescopes placed high on mountains or borne by balloons to observe slight irregularities, or ripples, in a faint glow that permeates space and is thought to have been emitted from the fading fireball of the Big Bang explosion itself. That glow is called cosmic microwave background radiation, and the ripples imprinted on it can be used like ticks on a ruler to measure the cosmos.
The new data also provide fresh evidence to support a finding two years ago that expansion of the universe is accelerating under the influence of a strange form of energy that fills empty space and apparently acts against gravity. Many researchers had assumed that the bizarre finding would eventually be disproved, but the new observations support the existence of this energy, as well as the theory of what set off the Big Bang, called inflation, which was first proposed in 1980 by Alan Guth, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. …
Last month, scientists at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania who placed a telescope on a mountain in Chile published similar results in Astrophysical Journal Letters. Mark Devlin, from the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the team that worked in Chile, said, ''These are completely different experiments with completely different calibrations and they fall right on top of each other.'' …
NOTE: This story first appeared in The New York Times and ran in several U.S. newspapers.
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
November 27, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Early Version of 'Gatsby' Gets a Chance Of Its Own
BYLINE: By IRVIN MOLOTSKY
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Nov. 24To Prof. James L. W. West III, " 'Ulysses' is the great novel that no one has ever read, and 'The Great Gatsby' is the great novel that everyone has."
As one of the nation's great authorities on "Gatsby" and other works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mr. West might be permitted a bit of cheerleading for his man over James Joyce, especially now as he prepares to bring out the 1924 novel that Fitzgerald completed and then tore apart to create "Gatsby."
The underlying novel was called "Trimalchio" by Fitzgerald, who wrote it while staying at St.-Raphael on the French Riviera. By contrast, Mr. West worked on its reconstruction in the less alluring mountains at Pennsylvania State University, where he is a specialist in the history of publishing and its impact on society.
And while Fitzgerald worked with an advance from Charles Scribner's Sons under the guidance of its great editor, Maxwell Perkins, Mr. West received partial financing for his work in the form of a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which is publishing an article by Mr. West on "Trimalchio" in the January-February issue of its magazine Humanities. …
Was the discovery of "Trimalchio" the result of great detective work?
Not really. It was sitting in the Princeton University Library. "People had known it was there," Mr. West explained. "A number of scholars have commented on the differences between the two versions."
He added, "Fitzgerald scholars have known for years that there was an underlying manuscript to 'Gatsby.' The mind-set had been that it was the dross from which the golden icon was created." …
AP Worldstream
Copyright 1999 Associated Press
November 26, 1999; FridayHEADLINE: Lachlan fails mogul test: survey
DATELINE: SYDNEY, Australia
Lachlan Murdoch, the fast-rising son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has been given the thumbs-down as his father's successor at the head of the News Corp.
In a survey by Australia's Business Review Weekly magazine published Friday, fund managers that have invested in News Corp. gave Lachlan Murdoch an F for his potential to one day manage the global media and entertainment empire.
In the first of a three-part series on the performance of Murdoch's children in their executive News Corp. roles, the magazine's survey of fund managers and analysts showed that Princeton University graduate Lachlan had passed two subjects and failed four.
Lachlan, Rupert's eldest son, has been chairman of the company's Australian arm since 1996. He was appointed senior executive vice president with the parent company in February 1999.
His worst grade was in e-commerce vision and progress, with fund managers and analysts giving him 33 out of 100. He also scored under 50 when assessed as a shareholder champion, deal maker and for his future potential to manage the company.
The highest mark was 56 out of 100 for both his stewardship of the company's newspaper operations in Australia and overall management quality. …
The Boston Globe
Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company
November 26, 1999HEADLINE: REAGAN IDEOLOGY FUELS FORBES'S RUN
BYLINE: By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Steve Forbes's helicopter has landed. The 600 guests, who have dined at Forbes's expense at the stunning hilltop setting of the Ronald Reagan Library, have assembled in an auditorium. Finally, Nancy Reagan arrives, and Forbes strides rather elegantly onto the stage.
"Tear down the walls of big government!" Forbes shouts. His eyes gleam behind his glasses, showing pleasure as the echo of Reagan's famous Berlin Wall exhortation fills the room. "Tear down this tax code!" Forbes continues, less ringingly, referring to his long-cherished ideal: a 17 percent flat tax.
It is his moment, Forbes believes, his chance to take title to something that cannot - unlike so much else in his campaign - be bought and paid for: Acceptance as Ronald Reagan's true ideological heir.
Not because he worked for Reagan, and broadcast the Reagan revolution to the world as head of Radio Free Europe. Not because he hired Reagan's defense secretary, Caspar Weinberger, as chairman of Forbes Inc., and spent some of his millions to help build the Reagan library and foundation.
No, says Forbes, he is the true Reagan revolutionary in the 2000 presidential field because of what he believes and his rivals do not. He views the other candidates as moderates and no match for his conservative convictions and message. Texas Governor George W. Bush draws his particular contempt for his "government lite" beliefs and "cute" but hollow slogans. …
Now Forbes is under attack from the party establishment and the very constituency he is courting, the conservative wing of the Republican Party. Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, writing in a recent issue of The Weekly Standard magazine, belittled Forbes for spending a fortune on a doomed campaign, blasting Forbes for "ego-tripping through a mid-life crisis."
But Mickey Pohl, who went to Princeton University with Forbes in the 1960s and remains a close friend, said Forbes is driven more than people realize by a lifelong zeal about his economic ideas.
"Some people early in life learn everything there is about baseball statistics or guitars or whatever," Pohl said. "Steve has always been completely absorbed in economics, politics, history and world affairs.
"Steve is not the sort of guy you would make social chairman of your fraternity. But this is a guy you would put on your board or make executor of your will or help you if you have a business problem. He is like a computer with what he knows."
The question, Pohl said, is whether the country is so enamored of style that "they always vote for tallest guy with the best cheekbones" or a candidate with substance such as Forbes. …
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Copyright 1999 The Chronicle of Higher Education
November 26, 1999HEADLINE: Washington People
Jennifer L. Hochschild, a professor of public and international affairs at Princeton University, has been named by Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley to the Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program Fellowship Board.
Florence McGinn, an English teacher at Hunterdon Central Regional High School, in Flemington, N.J., has been appointed by Education Secretary Richard W. Riley to the Web-Based Education Commission. (NOTE: McGinn is a recent recipient of Princeton University's honor for New Jersey Secondary School teachers.)
The Independent (London)
Copyright 1999 Newspaper Publishing PLC
November 26, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: SCIENCE: STARS AND PLANETS: DECEMBER
BYLINE: Heather Couper And Nigel Henbest
AS THIS is our last column this century, we make no excuses for indulging in a grand overview of some of the amazing advances that have taken place in the cosmic arena over the last 100 years.
Manned space flight, probes to the planets, the hauntingly beautiful images returned by the Hubble Space Telescope - all have been astonishing breakthroughs.
But the biggest advance this century has come in the way we perceive our place in the Universe.
At the close of the 19th century, astronomers thought they had the Universe pretty well stitched up. Newton's gravity ruled absolutely; all celestial bodies obeyed it, moving through space as predictably and precisely as clockwork.
The Universe comprised all the stars in the sky, plus several million others that could be seen through large telescopes.
True, there were mysterious fuzzy patches, which provoked some astronomers to suspect that there could be star systems outside our own - other galaxies - but nobody could prove it.
All that was to change. In the early years of the 20th century two American astronomers - Henrietta Leavitt and Harlow Shapley - laid the foundations of the science of ascribing distances to these "fuzzy patches" by picking out celestial beacons in them: stars called Cepheids, which brightened and faded extremely regularly. …
In 1931, Karl Jansky - a radio engineer at America's Bell Laboratories - was conducting investigations into sources of telephone interference. He suspected thunderstorms, and built a huge antenna aimed at the sky in order to track them down. But what he found instead was static from specific places in the sky - primarily from along the band of the Milky Way. …
It was radio astronomy that led to another giant leap in our 20th-century understanding of the Universe. In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were using a horn-shaped antenna in New Jersey (coincidentally, at the same location where Jansky discovered cosmic radio waves) to detect radiation from the area around our Galaxy. Instead, they picked up a very weak signal from all over the sky - which they first put down to coming from the pigeon droppings coating the inside of their antenna!
But the origin of the signal was more fundamental. The physicist Robert Dicke at nearby Princeton University realised immediately what the researchers had discovered: the afterglow of creation itself.
Now all the pieces were in place. The Universe was expanding because of a vast explosion - the Big Bang. The Big Bang was unimaginably dense and hot - and we still feel a relic of that heat today, in the radiation that was picked up by Penzias and Wilson. …
Inter Press Service
Copyright 1999 Inter Press Service
November 26, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: COMMUNICATIONS: DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS
BYLINE: By Jim Wurst
DATELINE: UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 26A U.N. panel this week discussed the need for dialogue among the nations of the world as an "alternative language" to the prevailing trend of globalization and to prevent "misunderstandings" between different cultures.
Experts in the field of international relations, meeting prior to the World Trade Organization (WTO) conference in Seattle, discussed "Dialogue among Civilizations: Call for Common Ground."
Delegates argued that, in an increasingly interdependent world, greater efforts must be made at respect and communication among the world's cultures, while a globalized market economy was viewed as a threat to dialogue.
"The delicate balance in a globalized world is how to celebrate each and every culture and civilization and allow each to make its contribution to the fullest of its potential to the ultimate shape of our world," said Hadi Nejad Hosseinian, ambassador of Iran, which sponsored the event.
Richard Falk, a professor of international law and practice at Princeton University, said dialogue could provide "an alternative language for international relations to that of the economist's market-driven view of world events."
Falk, like most of the panelists, saw globalization as a countering force to dialogue.
Dialogue was important because it enabled everyone to affirm their cultural and spiritual identities at a time when the prevalence of market forces was endangering the full range of human identities, Falk said. …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Copyright 1999 Bergen Record Corp.
November 26, 1999, FRIDAYHEADLINE: PRINCETON MAY BEGIN ADMITTING MORE STUDENTS
BYLINE: RICHARD BRAND, The Associated Press
DATELINE: PRINCETONPrinceton 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 10 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 approved easily by the board of trustees at its 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. …
To accommodate the larger classes, Wythes said Princeton will have to build a sixth residential college and another upper-class dormitory.
The university would not increase the size of the faculty or the graduate student body. …
The Washington Times
Copyright 1999 News World Communications, Inc.
November 26, 1999, FridayHEADLINE: Columbia back from the dead
BYLINE: Jeffrey Hart
The good news is that Columbia University and, most especially, Columbia College have recovered their institutional health. The bad news is that it took more than 30 years for this to happen.
During the 1970s and 1980s, according to press reports, Columbia was struggling with a declining reputation and flatness in fund raising. Key faculty had departed amid ideological acrimony, and recruiting replacements was disappointing. The elite Columbia College - which is part of the Columbia University system - was accepting half of those who applied in order to fill classroom seats. (Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth at the same time were accepting 1 in 10 applicants.)
A friend of mine, who was a professor in the Columbia College English Department at the time, told me the department was without an identity and was dysfunctional.
Ten years later, Columbia College is the third most-selective undergraduate institution in the Ivy League, now just behind Harvard and Princeton, and just ahead of Yale. …
Wisely, George Rupp, Columbia University's president, has stressed the view that the college is the heart of the university. …
THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN
Copyright 1999 The Daily Oklahoman
November 25, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: A league of their own Ivy League football is a unique game
BYLINE: Bob Colon, Sports Edito
DATELINE: HANOVER, N.H.It takes awhile for an outsider to figure out Ivy League football.
Teams play only 10 games and there is no postseason, even though some league supporters think the Ivy champ would fare well in the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs.
There is no red-shirting and no athletic scholarships. There is a more relaxed atmosphere. The win or else philosophy
doesn't prevail, right?
"There haven't been any (coach) firings in recent times," explained Roger Hughes, offensive coordinator at Dartmouth, earlier this week. "The success of a program is based more on the experience players are having. The pressure is to treat your kids right.
"You don't want to tell a kid to skip a class so he can get to a practice." …
Just minutes later the Princeton's firing of veteran coach Steve Tosches was reported.
Princeton blew an 18-0 lead in the fourth quarter here last Saturday to lose to Dartmouth 19-18, and that was apparently the final blow. Dartmouth intercepted a Princeton pass on the first play of the fourth quarter and that keyed the 19-point rally.
"The pass goes through our hands and they intercept and the rest of the game was a nightmare," Tosches said afterwards. The loss dropped Princeton into the Ivy League cellar at 1-6 and 3-7 overall.
The nightmare ended Tuesday morning when he was fired.
"We don't have anybody on this team who knows how to win," said Princeton quarterback Tommy Crenshaw. …
M2 PRESSWIRE
Copyright 1999 M2 Communications Ltd.
November 25, 1999HEADLINE: US DEPT OF STATE Bader sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational & Cultural Affairs
Press Statement by James P. Rubin, Spokesman
William B. Bader was sworn in on November 18 as Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, following confirmation by the Senate on November 10. Dr. Bader will be responsible for all of the Department's educational exchange and cultural affairs programming, including the J. William Fulbright Program, the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowships, the International Visitor Program, citizen exchanges, cultural programs, English teaching programs, and the designation of approved exchange program sponsors. …
He was on the faculty of Princeton University and is currently an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of Austria Between East and West: 1945-1955, The United States and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, and The Taiwan Relations Act: A Decade of Implementation, as well as numerous articles. Dr. Bader has received the Meritorious Service Medal from the Department of State, the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service and the Osterreichische Ehrenkreuz fur Wissenschaft and Kunst 1. …
Dr. Bader graduated from Pomona College with a B.A. in 1953 and received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1964. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Munich in 1953-1954. He and his wife, the sculptor Gretta Lange Bader, have four children. …
The Washington Times
Copyright 1999 News World Communications, Inc.
November 25, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: Pilgrim's progress
BYLINE: William R. Mattox Jr.
As people throughout America feast on turkey and dressing this Thanksgiving, the folks in Plymouth Rock, Mass., have special reason to be thankful this year. That's because the real story of the Pilgrims is beginning to make a comeback in America's public schools.
Or so at least say several prominent education experts who carefully monitor trends in public school curricula.
Now, the story of the first Thanksgiving never actually disappeared from the public school classroom - or from the elementary school cafeteria stage. It just got watered down (and distorted) over the years by educators skittish about breaching the infamous wall of separation between church and state. …
Nowhere is this more obvious than in classroom instruction about the first Thanksgiving. "Teaching that the Pilgrims came here because they were wanderers is just plain bad history," notes Charles Stetson of the National Bible Association. "And overlooking the animating spirit that religion has given social movements like abolition, temperance, and civil rights is equally bad history."
Earlier this month, Mr. Stetson joined with Charles Haynes of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in releasing a new report that urges public schools to step up efforts to teach students about the influence of "biblical stories and concepts" in subjects like literature, history, law, art, and social studies.
The report, entitled, "The Bible & Public Schools: A First Amendment Guide," has been endorsed by an amazingly diverse coalition that includes the National Education Association, the American Jewish Congress, the National Association of Evangelicals, the American Federation of Teachers, the Christian Educators Association, and People for the American Way. …
And it forthrightly acknowledges that public school students currently enjoy the freedom to make devotional use of the Bible in a variety of voluntary school programs and clubs. (Indeed, this new report builds upon a 1998 U.S. Department of Education report on "Religious Expression in the Public Schools" which has helped parents, students, and educators see the legitimacy of student-initiated religious expression in the public schools.) While it is encouraging public education officials are showing an increasing interest in teaching about the role of religion in American life - and in accommodating student-initiated religious expression in public schools -Princeton University professor Robert George believes more action is needed to counteract the influence of years of public school neglect in this area.
Mr. George recently urged the U.S. Department of Education to move beyond "a mere recitation of current law" regarding student-initiated religious expression and begin to vigorously promote "a positive vision of the role of religion and religious views in the curriculum and in the school … that is fully consistent with the First Amendment." …
Obituaries
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Copyright 1999 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inc.
December 2, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: WILLIAM W. SCOTT; RETIRED TEACHER AT COUNTRY DAY
William Wallace Scott, a retired teacher at St. Louis Country Day School, died Monday (Nov. 29, 1999) at Missouri Baptist Medical Center in Town and Country after a brief illness.
He was 82 and lived in Olivette.
Mr. Scott taught chemistry, physics and earth sciences for 28 years at what is now Mary Institute & St. Louis Country Day School before he retired in 1987. …
He was born and reared in St. Louis. He earned a degree in chemistry in 1941 from Princeton University. …
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Copyright 1999 P.G. Publishing Co.
December 2, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: RICHARD LYON SALSBURY; HUMBLE STOCKBROKER KNOWN FOR HIS KINDNESS
BYLINE: JOHNNA A. PRO, POST-GAZETTE STAFF WRITER
When Richard Lyon Salsbury walked around the streets of Pittsburgh, he was often stopped by other passers-by.
It wasn't because he was a famous man, or a media personality or striking in the physical sense.
Mr. Salsbury, a stockbroker who traced his roots to the J.B. Lyon glass company and Sydam Paint Co., both prominent 19th-century Pittsburgh firms, was simply a nice person. …
Following a lengthy illness, Mr. Salsbury of Fox Chapel died of a stroke Friday at Longwood at Oakmont. …
As a young man growing up in the 1920s and 1930s, Mr. Salsbury attended Shady Side Academy where he was an honors student. He went on to Princeton University where he studied civil engineering and played on the tennis team before graduating cum laude in 1941. …
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
December 2, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: LEWIS H. SARETT
Lewis H. Sarett, Born December 22, 1917 in Champaign, Illinois. Died on November 29, 1999 at his Viola, Idaho home. Attended Princeton University & graduated with his doctorate in Chemistry in 1942. Received the National Medal of Science in 1975 and the Perkin Medal Award in 1976. He was elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1980 and served on President Ronald Reagan's transition team in 1980-81. In 1982, he retired as Sr. Vice President of Merck & Co. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Survived by his wife, Pamela, and ex-wife, Mary Barrie, four children & five grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 4 PM Thursday, December 2, 1999 at The First United Methodist Church of Moscow, Idaho.
The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
Copyright 1999 Spokane Spokesman-Review
December 2, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: Lewis Sarett, 81, Viola, Idaho
Memorial service for Lewis H. Sarett, 81, will be at 4 p.m. today at First United Methodist Church of Moscow, Idaho. Private burial will be at the Moscow City Cemetery. Short's Funeral Chapel in Moscow is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Sarett, who was born in Champaign, Ill., died Monday.
He graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor of science degree in 1939 and then earned a doctorate in chemistry from Princeton University in 1942. …
Lewiston Morning Tribune
Copyright 1999 Lewiston Morning Tribune
December 1, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Lewis H. Sarett, of Viola, retired chemist
MOSCOW -- The memorial service for nationally renowned chemist Lewis Hastings Sarett will be at 4 p.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church of Moscow.
The Rev. William Green will officiate.
Sarett, 81, died of advanced colitis Monday at his Viola home.
He was born Dec. 22, 1917, in Champaign, Ill., to Lewis and Margaret Husted Sarett.
He graduated in 1939 from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and earned a doctorate in chemistry at Princeton University in New Jersey in 1942.
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
December 2, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: Philip Elman Dies at 81; Federal Trade Commissioner in 1960s
BYLINE: Adam Bernstein, Washington Post Staff Writer
Philip Elman, 81, a Federal Trade Commission member who frequently harangued his peers and corporate-interest "rascals" in the 1960s for what he called "shielding businessmen from the risks of competition," died of respiratory and renal failure Nov. 30 at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He had lived in Bethesda since 1951.
When he retired after nine years in 1970, a Washington Post editorial lauded Mr. Elman as "one of the best men to serve on any of the agencies in recent years" at a time the commission was viewed roundly as kowtowing to the industries it was supposed to oversee in the public interest. …
Mr. Elman was a native of Paterson, N.J., and a graduate of what was then City College of New York. After receiving a law degree from Harvard University in 1939, Mr. Elman clerked for Frankfurter from 1941 to 1942 and in 1956 edited his papers, "Of Law and Men." …
In 1967, he received a Rockefeller Public Service Award, overseen by Princeton University.
The Buffalo News
Copyright 1999 The Buffalo News
December 1, 1999HEADLINE: THEODORE S. HAUSCHKA DIES; HEADED ROSWELL PARK; EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
Theodore S. Hauschka, 91, retired director of experimental biology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, died Nov. 17, 1999, in Boston, Mass., after a brief illness.
Hauschka had retired to Bremen, Maine, in the late 1970s.
A native of Austria, he spent his childhood in Bavaria and moved to Philadelphia in 1927. He was a graduate of Princeton University, but the economic necessity of the Depression forced him to hop a freight train to Georgia, where he worked as a lumberjack. He would recall later being fueled for the exhausting work with a daily ration of corn bread and liquid bacon grease.
During the late 1930s, he taught biology in Philadelphia. After obtaining his doctorate in zoology from the University of Pennsylvania, he began his long career in cancer research, first at Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia and then at the Institute for Cancer Research in Fox Chase, Pa. He specialized in tropical disease research during World War II. …
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Copyright 1999 The Hartford Courant Company
December 1, 1999 WednesdayHEADLINE: FREDERICK R. SWAN, SR.
Frederick R. Swan, Sr., 86, of Case Street, North Canton, husband of the late Beatrice (Johnson) Swan, died Thursday, (November 18, 1999) on board the Sea Cloud as he sailed the Caribbean. He was born February 4, 1913 in Hartford, son of the late Edward Chapman and Nellie (Robbins) Swan and had lived in North Canton most of his life. He was a graduate of the Kingswood School, West Hartford, Class of 1929, and a graduate of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Class of 1933. …
Newsday (New York, NY)
Copyright 1999 Newsday, Inc.
December 1, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: ASHLEY MONTAGU, 94
BYLINE: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: Princeton, N.JPrinceton, N.J.-Anthropologist Ashley Montagu, known for combining rigorous scientific research with witty, accessible writing, has died after suffering from a long illness. He was 94.
Family members said Montagu died at home Friday night.
Montagu authored more than 60 books, ranging from an account of the life of Joseph Merrick, known as "The Elephant Man," to lighter works such as a book on the history of swearing.
Montagu became a controversial figure in the 1950s when he suggested there was scientific evidence of race and gender equality. He recently published a revised version of his 1953 book, "The Natural Superiority of Women," in which he argued for complete equality between men and women. …
Montagu married the former Majorie Peakes in 1931. They lived in Merion, Pa., before moving to Princeton in 1949, the same year he became chairman of the anthropology department at Rutgers University. He held the post for seven years. He lectured at Princeton University from 1978 until 1983.
The Plain Dealer
Copyright 1999 Plain Dealer Publishing Co.
December 1, 1999 WednesdayHEADLINE: SARGENT KARCH, 63, CLEVELAND NATIVE, NFL LAWYER
BYLINE: By RICHARD M. PEERY; PLAIN DEALER REPORTER
DATELINE: EASTON, MD.Sargent Karch, 63, a former labor relations lawyer for the National Football League, died Sunday at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. He had cancer.
Mr. Karch was in charge of negotiations with the NFL Players Association and was responsible for the last contract with the players union that did not include free agency. He left the NFL's employment and returned to the Washington, D.C., office of the Baker & Hostetler law firm, where he continued to represent the football organization.
Mr. Karch was born in Cleveland. He was president of the student council when he graduated from Shaker Heights High School and was a quarterback on the football team. He starred as a single wing tailback on Princeton University's football team. He graduated from the law school at the University of Michigan in 1951 and joined Baker & Hostetler in Cleveland. …
DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
Copyright 1999 Denver Publishing Company
November 30, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: JOHN TWEEDY, LAWYER, 78, CO-FOUNDER OF VAIL RESORTS
BYLINE: By Jerd Smith, News Staff Writer
Attorney John Bayard Tweedy, a co-founder of Vail Resorts and one of the original organizers of the Outward Bound School, died of stroke complications Friday in Denver. He was 78.
Mr. Tweedy's daughter, Kate McGrath, described her father as an ''old fashioned lawyer's lawyer . . . He was a source of great strength and wisdom to his clients.''
Mr. Tweedy was born in Ecuador in 1921. He attended Princeton University and graduated from Columbia Law School. He practiced business law in Denver from 1950 until 1971. He worked for Vail Associates Inc. as chairman, general counsel, treasurer and vice president between 1960 and 1976. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
November 27, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Calvin Dodd MacCracken, 79, New Jersey engineer who held 80 patents dies in N.H.
DATELINE: HANOVER, N.H.
Calvin Dodd MacCracken, a New Jersey inventor who developed products from electric hot-dog cookers to astronauts' space suits, has died at age 79.
MacCracken died of pneumonia at the Kendall at Hanover retirement community Nov. 10, said his wife of 30 years, Mary Burnham MacCracken.
He also lived in West Cornwall, Conn.
He earned his first patent for efforts during World War II, when he worked for General Electric to reduce the size of a British design for a jet engine. After the war, he founded Englewood, N.J.-based Jet Heat Inc., now called Calmac Inc., and served as its president for 50 years.
A native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., MacCracken was born to Vassar College President Henry Noble MacCracken and Marjorie Dodd MacCracken. He graduated from Princeton University in 1940 and received a mechanical engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1941. After graduating from MIT, he entered GE's creative engineering program.
He helped in the development of several hundred products and won 80 patents. The first product marketed by Jet Heat was a residential forced-air furnace, which thousands of Americans bought. …
The Washington Times
Copyright 1999 News World Communications, Inc.
November 27, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: John P. Owens, 72, Foreign Service officer
John P. Owens, 72, a Foreign Service officer and former consul general in Hamilton, Bermuda, and Goteborg, Sweden, died of complications following vascular surgery Nov. 18 at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
He was born in Washington, where he lived most of his life. He received a bachelor's degree in history from American University and a master's degree in history from Georgetown University. He was also a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Princeton University in 1971 and 1972.
Mr. Owens joined the Navy during World War II. In 1955, he went to work for the State Department. …
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