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January 12, 2000
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HIGHLIGHT• Scientists create 'DNA computer' that performs complex calculations
OTHER HEADLINES• Bradley intervened for N.J. firm campaign denies link between contributions, 1994 letter
• Gasoline: we're the only route that guarantees easy refuelling
• The Palestra always thrills O'Hanlon
• Whitman focuses on aiding high technology initiatives
• Man in the news; philanthropist and fan
• Something old, something new / Kate Betts is reinventing Harper's Bazaar
• The Jets sale / new boss, but who'll lead? Belichick may have seen light
• Dartmouth plans to revise greek system, residential life
• Bradley reverses decision, keeps papers in princeton library private
• Quiet monument honors Wilson; memorial to 28th president is yet to be dedicated
• Ohio insurance executive's arrest raises concern among some analysts
• Consultant : community college plan a necessity higher education task force expected to make final recommendations
• Yale University new book looks at Yale from chinese point of view
• College application process stresses out high school seniors
• Criminal inquiry is sought in tobacco lobbying case
• Hale says he's planning Northwestern U. visit
• Mccain wants memos released
• 'i can't explain the market'
• Internet intuition CEO Meg Whitman powers ebay on instinct and experience and gains
• Influence, fame, cabinet posts motivate presidential underdogs
• Parkland swimmer still seeking title to call his own
• News digests
• Compressed data; venture capitalist's plan tripped up by N.C.A.A.
• Hpcc.news
• 'it ain't over,' new independent counsel says
• American ceo beats new zealand pot rap; medicinal-use backer seized at airport
• Elite schools resist 'common application'
• The (silent) Lubitsch touch jewish film fest spotlights a master direc tor's early classics
• Gaining momentum; index fund, Vanguard's 500, may soon be largest mutual fund
• Black studies moves into its 'golden age' in the last 30 years, the once controversial field has found acceptance
• Leopards' 46-year wait was worth it
• Bobby Kennedy, you were no Bobby Kennedy
• The music of america; opening minds as well as ears, Aaron Copland dedicated his long life to
• Only human
• Drug count against ceo at progressive 'discharged'
• A tough d's a given in gpsl competition
• Storied walls; like its namesake, Alexandria now has a landmark library
• Father indicted for failing to pay child support
• Milken institute awards first annual distinguished economic research prize to five american scholars
• Jordan and all that non-jazz
• John Mclaughlin's "one on one"
• Portrait of a young man; family traces famed artist's painting of
OBITUARIES• David Brady Bryson
• Pianist Richard Chronister
• 'mystery' death shatters family
• Christian K. Preus
• Stockton Rush
• Alexander J. D. Wainwright
HIGHLIGHT
AP Worldstream
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January 12, 2000HEADLINE: Scientists create 'DNA computer' that performs complex calculations
BYLINE: RICK CALLAHANScientists have created a ''DNA computer'' from strands of synthetic DNA they coaxed into solving relatively complex calculations.
The short-lived chemical computer has no immediate practical applications, but it nudges the fledgling technology of DNA computing further out of world of science fiction and into the realm of the possible, researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison said. …
Laura F. Landweber, an assistant professor of biology at Princeton University in New Jersey, is leading a team working to exploit RNA's computing potential. Her team recently fashioned RNA strands that processed complex problems similar to those that chess players encounter.
While Smith's team produced a chemical computer that tackled a problem with 16 possible solutions, the Princeton RNA computer searched through 512 possible answers, she said. The research will be published this year in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
OTHER HEADLINESThe Boston Globe
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January 12, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: BRADLEY INTERVENED FOR N.J. FIRM CAMPAIGN DENIES LINK BETWEEN CONTRIBUTIONS, 1994 LETTER
BYLINE: By Jill Zuckman, GLOBE STAFFDAVENPORT, Iowa - Though he says he had a "basic policy" as a New Jersey senator of not intervening in the federal regulatory process on behalf of any individual, Bill Bradley did just that in 1994 for a company where two officers had contributed to his campaign.
According to correspondence obtained by The Boston Globe, Bradley wrote to Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown "to ask your personal assistance" resolving a trade dispute involving the Sigma Corp. of Cream Ridge, N.J. The size of the contributions is relatively modest - $500 apiece. And Bradley's letter certainly doesn't stand out as anything out of the ordinary in Washington political circles. But its existence appears to contradict statements he has made to the contrary.
"Go take a look," Bradley challenged the other day, when asked if he had written letters on behalf of contributors - letters of the sort that have drawn discomfiting news coverage to another presidential candidate, Republican Senator John McCain. McCain and Bradley have made campaign finance reform a central issue in their campaigns, even appearing together at a forum last month in Claremont, N.H., to promise to fight the special interests and unregulated money in politics. …
Bradley told reporters this weekend that while he would not object if they culled through letters from his 18 years in the Senate, he had given his Senate papers to Princeton University's Selley Mudd Manuscript Library with the proviso that they not be made public.
Justin Harmon, a spokesman for the university, said the papers could be made available if Bradley changes his mind. "It's not a decision for the university," Harmon said. …
HART'S EUROPEAN FUELS NEWS
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January 12, 2000HEADLINE: GASOLINE: WE'RE THE ONLY ROUTE THAT GUARANTEES EASY REFUELLING
Meanwhile, many oil industry advocates continue to argue that 'gasoline' (zero-sulphur, zero-aromatics, low octane, no additives or detergents) is really the only practical route for fuel cells, since gas stations are everywhere and the existing pipeline and storage tank system could more easily handle a new 'gasoline' fuel, unlike all the alternatives.
"A gasoline-type fuel is the only economically sound approach to widespread market penetration over the 5-10 year horizon," said Epyx gasoline fuel-cell reformer technology developer James Cross. …
Example: A study comparing 'gasoline' (and also an FT distillate) with methanol and direct-hydrogen by Princeton University researcher Joan Ogden showed that 'gasoline' (or FT fuel) is the most expensive option on a per-car basis - about $850 to $1,250 per car more than a direct-hydrogen car.
Ms Ogden's study lumped together both the on-board (car) costs as well as the off-board (fuel refining and distribution) costs of getting hydrogen into the fuel cell. …
The Morning Call (Allentown)
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January 12, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: THE PALESTRA ALWAYS THRILLS O'HANLON
BYLINE: PAUL REINHARD; The Morning Call
DATELINE: PHILADELPHIAFran O'Hanlon was a 13-year-old boy the first time he saw a basketball game in the Palestra. He had been cut from his eighth-grade basketball team, so he didn't have any real designs on a career.
But that game hooked him.
In the intervening years, O'Hanlon has become the only player to win a Philadelphia Catholic League championship in the storied building, then come back later and coach a high school team to a Catholic League title here.
On Tuesday night, he went looking for the trifecta.
This was no small task.
Consider that Lafayette College had not defeated the University of Pennsylvania in 16 games in this building nor in 24 games on any Penn home court in the history of the series.
And consider that while Ivy League teams had tried 258 times since 1956-57 to complete a sweep of road games against Penn and Princeton in the same season, they succeeded only three times. …
Lafayette had defeated three Ivy League opponents before Tuesday night, and the last one was Princeton in Jadwin Gym, a building in which the Leopards had not won since 1954. To pull off the double would have been a perfect way to prepare for Sunday's league opener against Navy. But it didn't happen.
The big reasons were the play of Michael Jordan and the mystique that is the Palestra. …
The New York Times
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January 12, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Whitman Focuses on Aiding High Technology Initiatives
BYLINE: By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
DATELINE: TRENTON, Jan. 11Saying New Jersey must make high technology "the undisputed engine" of its economic growth, Gov. Christine Todd Whitman proposed $100 million in new spending today to help researchers convert their scientific advances into thriving businesses, and to help train what she called "the high-tech work force of tomorrow."
In her sixth annual address to the Legislature, Mrs. Whitman, who in past years has used the occasion to tackle difficult problems like high auto insurance rates and rising property taxes, instead outlined a modest agenda for her remaining two years in office, with the state's economy, education, the environment, and the elderly all sharing her attention. …
Mrs. Whitman's economic plan, called New Jersey Jobs for a New Economy, was conceived by the Edison Partnership, a group of high-technology business and institutional leaders including the president of Princeton University, Dr. Harold Shapiro, and the president of the New Ventures Group at Lucent Technologies, Thomas M. Uhlman. …
The New York Times
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January 12, 2000, WednesdayNAME: Robert Wood Johnson IV
HEADLINE: Man in the News; Philanthropist and Fan
BYLINE: By RICHARD SANDOMIRRobert Wood Johnson IV -- nicknamed Woody -- owns one of New Jersey's most famous names. But the respected hospital in New Brunswick and the foundation in Princeton were named for his grandfather -- the General -- who built Johnson & Johnson into one of the country's top health-care companies.
Woody Johnson, who is 52, has made his name in quieter philanthropic and political endeavors that have let him maintain an inconspicuous public life below the intense radar of the sports world.
That changed dramatically yesterday when the estate of the late Leon Hess -- an oilman who defined flying below the news media's crowded radar -- approved his purchase of the Jets for $635 million. …
Harvey Holzberg, president of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, said Johnson briefly published a magazine dedicated to "Monday Night Football" after his graduation from Princeton University and coveted buying the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an expansion franchise. And although his courtside seats for Knick games indicate a preference for basketball to football, the Jets' availability after Hess's death last year focused his interest. …
Newsday (New York, NY)
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January 12, 2000HEADLINE: SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW / KATE BETTS IS REINVENTING HARPER'S BAZAAR
BYLINE: By Paul D. Colford. STAFF WRITERTHE VIEW from the corner office, 37 floors in the sky, is one of the best in New York. On a clear winter morning, the city of building blocks below gives way to the shimmering Hudson River and an endless expanse in the western reaches of the Garden State.
Quite a weather station for Kate Betts, who's sitting on top of the world as the new editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar.
"This is a dream job," she said last week. "First of all, having the freedom to reinvent a magazine is an incredible experience, an incredible opportunity.
It's completely unique. It's very rare that you get to start all over again with something like Bazaar, which has this amazing history." …
Betts, 35, who is married to writer Chip Brown and has a 6-month-old son, is a Princeton University graduate and a well-wired journalist who spent years in Paris working for Fairchild Publications before she returned to her native New York in 1991 to become fashion news director of Vogue under that magazine's formidable editor in chief, Anna Wintour. In choosing Betts as Tilberis' successor, Hearst struck a competitive blow against Vogue and lured away Wintour's presumed successor. …
Newsday (New York, NY)
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January 12, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: THE JETS SALE / NEW BOSS, BUT WHO'LL LEAD? / BELICHICK MAY HAVE SEEN LIGHT
BYLINE: Johnette HowardSo the Jets' ownership issue was all but settled yesterday and Charles Dolan, the Knicks/Rangers/Cablevision tycoon, found out he'd struck out for a third time with the NFL. This time he lost to latecomer Robert Wood Johnson IV, the baby powder and shampoo company heir whose decision to bump up his bid by $35 million in the past month provided the best (and so far only) insight into what kind of owner he might be. …
No one has any idea what kind of head coach Groh would be. But this much is sure: Installing Groh without considering anyone else would mean the Parcells-run Jets are forgoing a leaguewide search for Parcells' replacement in favor of a man who, with all the NFL head-coaching jobs available, was on the head-coaching short list of only one place-Princeton University-a few weeks ago. And not only does Princeton not have a $58-million salary cap to fret about, it doesn't even give out scholarships! …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Daily Princetonian
January 12, 2000HEADLINE: Dartmouth plans to revise greek system, residential life
BYLINE: By Emily W. Johnson, The Daily PrincetonianSOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.As the Princeton University community struggles to grow into this year's new alcohol initiative, Dartmouth College took a crucial step Monday toward its goals of controlling alcohol abuse on campus and improving student life.
Dartmouth's Committee on the Student Life Initiative released a comprehensive list of recommendations, which included reconstructing the Greek system and creating a dormitory system similar to Princeton's residential colleges.
Last year, Dartmouth's campus was in an uproar after its board of trustees announced its intention to eliminate the Greek system. Though the Student Life Initiative Committee has not called for an end to Dartmouth's Greek system, it has recommended that new rules be established to control it. …
University Wire
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January 12, 2000HEADLINE: Bradley reverses decision, keeps papers in Princeton library private
BYLINE: By Rob Laset, The Daily PrincetonianSOURCE: Princeton U.
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley (class of '65) has decided not to make public some personal papers that are located in the Seeley Mudd Library, despite a promise to the contrary earlier this week, Princeton University officials said Tuesday.
Bradley said Sunday he would make public the personal papers from his 18-year tenure in the Senate to prove that he had never used his office to plead financial contributors' cases.
Monday, however, Bradley campaign officials said, rather than making the papers open to the public, they would instead file a request through the Freedom of Information Act to have federal agencies release any correspondence they have had with Bradley.
Bradley deposited the papers in Mudd Library two years ago so archivists could prepare them for future public access. Officials in Mudd said the documents are currently not open to the public, but Bradley retains control of the collection and can choose to make it available at any time, University spokesman Justin Harmon '78 said.
"As is generally the case with deposits that aren't gifts, the University meets the depositor's wishes as to if they should be opened to the public," Harmon said. "We are holding them as a public trust." …
Even if Bradley had followed through with his decision to make the papers in Mudd Library public, they would not have been made available for immediate release, according to Harmon.
"It would be a bit of a logistic undertaking for us," Harmon said. He explained that archivists are in the process of sorting the papers -- which take up 2,100 linear feet of bookshelves -- into containers and removing the ones that "were not germane to public scrutiny." …
The Washington Times
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January 12, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Quiet monument honors Wilson; Memorial to 28th president is yet to be dedicated
BYLINE: Patrick Butters; THE WASHINGTON TIMESIn the broad daylight of Federal Triangle is a Washington anomaly: a little-known monument to a well-known president.
Step into the open plaza of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center and look through seven high windows along a curving facade. A tiny sign outside anchors it: "The Woodrow Wilson Memorial."
The bronze-and-stone structure is the nation's monument to the 28th president. Two years have passed since it opened, and it has yet to be dedicated officially by the president - or anyone else for that matter.
"Obviously, it's not the Washington Monument or Jefferson Memorial or the Lincoln Memorial, each of which commands its very own separate structure," says Dean W. Anderson, who directs planning at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, "but it nonetheless, in the scale of its immediate surroundings, announces that here is something special.
"It deserves to be seen by more and more people." …
Indeed, though Wilson usually is ranked among the top 10 presidents by historians, John Milton Cooper, author of "The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt," says he is fascinated by the controversy surrounding the former New Jersey governor, who skyrocketed to the Oval Office just three years after leaving the presidency of Princeton University.
"The term 'Wilsonian' remains an epithet," Mr. Cooper says. "Actually, I think it's a tribute to the power and ideas of his presidency." …
Akron Beacon Journal
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January 11, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Ohio Insurance Executive's Arrest Raises Concern among Some Analysts
BYLINE: By Mary EthridgeWhen news of the marijuana arrest of Peter B. Lewis, head of the Mayfield-based Progressive Corp., raced through the financial and philanthropic communities yesterday, few seemed downright shocked.
After all, the colorful chief executive officer of the insurance giant had long made known his support for legalizing the medical use of marijuana. He had, for years, been rumored to use the drug personally, analysts said.
But the arrest of the high-profile Lewis -- a trustee of Princeton University and director of the board of the Guggenheim museums -- was cause for some concern among analysts keeping an eye on his company.
"Frankly, no one is particularly surprised. He's always made his feelings on the issue known," said Blair Sanford, an analyst with Cochran, Caronia Securities in San Francisco.
Sanford said one of the strengths of Progressive, the fourth-largest U.S. insurance company, is decentralized management. The chief executive's leadership is less important at Progressive than at other companies that rely heavily on the CEO, he said.
"The bench is very deep at Progressive. It's a great company separate from Lewis," said Sanford.
Lewis, 66, son of Progressive co-founder Joseph Lewis, was arrested Wednesday in New Zealand and charged with possession of 3.5 ounces of marijuana, according to Bloomberg News.
He reportedly appeared in court Friday, and the charge was later dismissed after Lewis made a donation to a drug treatment center in Auckland. Lewis had been on vacation in New Zealand. Through his company spokesperson, he declined comment yesterday. …
This fall, Lewis announced a gift of $55 million to Princeton in honor of his graduating class of 1955. Lewis once gave $2.5 million to a senior fitness center with the stipulations he be given a lifetime membership and they never ask him for money again. …
The Charleston Gazette
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January 11, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Consultant : Community college plan a necessity Higher education task force expected to make final recommendations
BYLINE: Phil KablerAs state legislators met again Monday to discuss major higher education reforms, a statewide network of independent community colleges continued to be the most controversial part of the proposal.
Higher education task force members will meet again today and give a final recommendation on proposals by consultants from the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems.
Consultant Aims McGuinness stressed Monday that a free-standing community college system is the only way the state can serve the 400,000 adults in the work force who are in desperate need of additional training and education.
Under the proposal, state colleges that have community colleges would give up control of those branches in a four- to six-year transition. The proposal also calls for lowering tuition for community colleges and for freshmen and sophomore courses at four-year institutions. …
Delegate John Doyle, D-Jefferson, and Sen. John Unger, D-Berkeley, questioned whether lowering community college tuition would discourage people from going to four-year institutions.
"The decision I had to make when I went to school was whether to go to WVU or Princeton University. ... It was a financial decision," said Unger, a former Rhodes Scholar at West Virginia University. …
M2 PRESSWIRE
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January 11, 2000HEADLINE: YALE UNIVERSITY
New book looks at Yale from Chinese point of viewDATELINE: New Haven, Conn.
It's a small world and getting smaller, thanks, in part, to Kang-i Sun Chang, whose latest book, "Reflections on Yale, Gender, and Culture," will be published in China next month.
Chang is a literature professor at Yale. Her writing in English is scholarly academic work. In China, however, she is best known for lively magazine articles about Yale, American life, feminism, literature and film. "Reflections" brings together about 40 of these articles, including essays on Yale's mascot, Handsome Dan, the bulldog; the Women's Table and coeducation at Yale; Yale's residential college system; the difference between Yale and Harvard; and the trials and triumphs of graduate student life.
Why publish a book in Chinese about Yale?
"Recently, readers in both China and Taiwan have been extremely interested in information and stories about Yale," Chang said. "People are interested in modernization, in general, and especially want to learn about the great universities of the world. …
Chang was born in Beijing and raised in Taiwan, where she graduated from Tunghai University in 1966 with a major in English literature. She earned her Ph.D. degree in 1978 from Princeton University in classical Chinese literature, with additional studies in Chinese history and comparative literature. She joined the Yale faculty in 1982 and has been here since then. …
The Morning Call (Allentown)
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January 11, 2000, TuesdayANOTHER VIEW
HEADLINE: COLLEGE APPLICATION PROCESS STRESSES OUT HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
BYLINE: BARBARA DIAMANT; (A free-lance story for The Morning Call).
DATELINE: BETHLEHEMThe deadline has passed -- Jan. 1 -- not for Y2K, but for college applications at many schools. High school seniors and their parents have learned that applying for college this year is a fulltime job. My daughter, a high school senior, complains, "It's taking up the entire senior year!"
For the last few years, the application process has become an endurance test requiring the strategies of a professional gambler. A decade ago, private colleges were scrambling for students. Not any more. Suddenly,the boomers' babies are all grown up and hankering for admission to college. In 1977, 980,000 students took the Scholastic Aptitude Tests, the SATs. In 1999, 1,300,000 students took them. The number of college freshmen has swelled to 14.8 million, a new record. …
High school students have been forced into making savvy application choices. With some acceptance rates as low as 12 percent, it's not unusual to find students applying to as many as 10 colleges. One student profiled in The New York Times article could boast of 750 on his verbal and 700 on his math SATs and an impressive list of Advanced Placement courses. He was president of his high school's political action club, drum major of his high school's band, and director of his synagogue's youth group. And he had published poetry.
Not good enough. He found himself rejected from Harvard, Brown, and Georgetown, on the waiting list at Wesleyan, and accepted only at the University of Massachusetts. When I visited Princeton University last summer, the tour guide translated the school motto, "Dei sub numine viget" (she flourishes under the will of God) as, "God went to Princeton." So that's who gets in. …
The New York Times
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January 11, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Criminal Inquiry Is Sought In Tobacco Lobbying Case
BYLINE: By IVER PETERSONDATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 10
On Sunday, Bill Bradley said he would prove that he had never intervened on behalf of contributors by letting reporters see all his papers from his 18 years in the Senate. Today, that did not seem so easy.
Officials from his Democratic presidential campaign said today that Mr. Bradley would file a request through the Freedom of Information Act to get just some of those papers.
In Des Moines on Sunday, Mr. Bradley said it had been his policy in the Senate never to plead the case of constituents before federal regulators, and he said he would have "no problem" with reporters sifting through his Senate papers, which he had given to his alma mater, Princeton University.
But a Princeton spokesman said today that Mr. Bradley had deposited the papers with the university on condition that they not be open to the public. Bradley campaign workers at first responded by saying the papers would have to be screened to remove personal names and information, and then, a few hours later, they said they would instead file the freedom of information request with federal agencies for any correspondence Mr. Bradley had with them as a senator. …
University Wire
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January 11, 2000HEADLINE: Hale says he's planning Northwestern U. visit
BYLINE: By Nathan Winegar, Daily Northwestern
SOURCE: Northwestern U.
DATELINE: Evanston, Ill.Matt Hale, leader of the white supremacist World Church of the Creator, announced Monday he will meet on campus next week with Northwestern student supporters to discuss establishing his group as a campus religious organization.
According to Hale, five Northwestern University students are members of the "covert chapter" of his "racist and anti-Semitic" organization on campus, and they have recruited 15 more potential members. …
Hale said members of his group attend Harvard University, Yale University and Princeton University. He is also attempting to start branches of his group at universities in Ohio and Kentucky, among other campuses. …
AP Online
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January 10, 2000; MondayHEADLINE: McCain Wants Memos Released
BYLINE: WILLIAM C. MANN
DATELINE: WASHINGTONSen. John McCain is using the federal Freedom of Information Act to get copies of all his correspondence with federal regulatory agencies since he entered Congress in 1983.
The Republican presidential candidate's aim is to show that his contacts with the agencies' officials on behalf of big donors and other companies were aboveboard.
McCain's campaign spokesman, Howard Opinsky, said the request is being channeled through the Senate Commerce Committee, which the Arizona lawmaker chairs, using the FOIA rather than the less formal tactic of a direct request. …
Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Bradley, a partner with McCain in the push to overhaul campaign finance laws, told reporters, meanwhile, that he ''had a practice of not intervening in regulatory matters.'' His Senate correspondence is archived at Princeton University. ''Go take a look,'' he said. …
Business Week
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January 10, 2000HEADLINE: 'I CAN'T EXPLAIN THE MARKET'
BYLINE: BY ROBERT BARKEROn Dec. 31, John Bogle leaves the board of Vanguard Group, a $520 billion titan he founded in 1974. This was no smooth move. After turning 70 in May, Bogle learned Vanguard aimed to enforce a retire-at-70 policy. He squawked, forcing a face-saving pact with the board and his successor as chairman, John Brennan: Bogle quits the board but stays in his bully pulpit with a new research job at Vanguard. What's in Mr. Indexing's sights now? He told me when I met him recently in his office at Vanguard's suburban Philadelphia headquarters.
Q: Your final days were pretty rocky. Why? A: It worked out in a way that's satisfactory to me. Life is complicated. People are complicated. I think we all do our best in some of these struggles. We all have egos, we all have pride. The time comes when you have to put that aside and make things work. …
NEXT BOOK Collected speeches, plus his 1951 Princeton University senior thesis on-what else?-mutual funds.
Computerworld
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January 10, 2000HEADLINE: Internet Intuition
CEO Meg Whitman powers eBay on instinct and experience and gains an education in technology
BYLINE: Kathleen Melymuka"This is in trouble. You'd better get down here. The guys aren't moving fast enough." The call was from eBay Inc. CEO Meg Whitman to her new president of eBay Technologies, Maynard Webb. Not only had Whitman spotted impending trouble while monitoring the operations center, she had diagnosed it. "She said, 'That's a hardware issue. This is what you'll see, and this is how long it will take.'" Webb recalls. "And she was right."
Whitman brings new meaning to the concept of a hands-on CEO. She literally lived in the information technology operations center through much of last summer after a catastrophic 22-hour outage in June convinced her she was battling for San Jose-based eBay's life. "We put in cots, and I was just there," she says. "I lived it." …
Whitman grew up on New York's Long Island and topped off an economics degree from Princeton University with an MBA from Harvard. Following that were stints as brand manager at Procter & Gamble Co.; consultant at Boston-based Bain & Co.; marketing executive at The Walt Disney Co.; division president at The Stride Rite Corp. in Lexington, Mass.; CEO of FTD Corp., the flower delivery service in Downers Grove, Ill.; and general manager at Pawtucket, R.I.-based Hasbro Inc.'s preschool division, from which she was lured to eBay in May 1998. …
The Detroit News
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January 10, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Influence, fame, Cabinet posts motivate presidential underdogs
BYLINE: Lisa Zagaroli / Detroit News Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Remote is a concept familiar to Daniel J. Hughes.
He lives in a small town north of Wisconsin on the underbelly of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
From there, he's doing his part to help elect the leader of the free world by going door-to-door and maintaining a Web site for a guy who's only showing up in single digits in surveys gauging public preference for the next president.
"It's a long shot," the Upper Peninsula district coordinator for Alan Keyes admits, "but I don't care about that. We're going to vote for what's right regardless."
That kind of dedication in the face of monumental odds is what seems to keep the drive alive for the extreme underdogs -- Keyes, Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch and Steve Forbes -- as they race for the Oval Office amid skepticism by pundits, scribes and regular folks. …
Steve Forbes
Born: July 19, 1947
Family: Wife, five daughters
Education: Bachelor's degree, Princeton University, 1970
Career: President of Forbes Inc. and editor of Forbes magazine, 1990 to present; chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting, 1985-93; ran for president in 1996
Top issue: Flat tax
Quote: "I'm an independent outsider who can bring change to Washington. I will get rid of this corrupt tax code and give you a real tax cut and not make a pretend tax cut pledge."
The Morning Call (Allentown)
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January 10, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: PARKLAND SWIMMER STILL SEEKING TITLE TO CALL HIS OWN
BYLINE: ANDRE WILLIAMS; The Morning CallChris Johnson, the Princeton-bound swimmer from Parkland High, has long been in top gear. Actually, he might be in overdrive.
Johnson, who'll have a news conference soon to announce his decision to attend the prestigious Ivy League institution in the fall, has the best boys' time among Mountain Valley Conference swimmers in the 50-, 100- and 200-yard freestyle events.
Johnson has been a key member of Trojan relays that have won two state titles in the 200 free relay, and a state title and runner-up in the 400 relay over the last two years. …
Nation's Restaurant News
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January 10, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: NEWS DIGESTS
Edward Nase was named the director of dining services at the University of Maine. Nase was associate director of dining services at Princeton University. …
The New York Times
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January 10, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Compressed Data; Venture Capitalist's Plan Tripped Up by N.C.A.A.
BYLINE: By BOD TEDESCHIWhen John Hummer, co-founding partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, created a collegiate competition for Internet business plans, he figured "March Madness" had a nice ring to it.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association thought otherwise, telling Hummer Winblad that the name infringed on a trademark reserved for the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament.
Mr. Hummer expected better treatment. He had participated in the collegiate tournament as Princeton's starting center in 1969, long before the postseason playoff was known as March Madness.
But the 6-foot-9 Mr. Hummer, who went on to a six-year career in the National Basketball Association and averaged 6.9 points a game, knew better than to fight the N.C.A.A. on the point.
The new name for the Hummer Winblad tournament is the February Madness Start-Up Tournament: Nothin' but the Net. …
USA TODAY
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January 10, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: 'It ain't over,' new independent counsel says
BYLINE: Judy Keen; Kathy Kiely
DATELINE: WASHINGTONWASHINGTON -- It has been nearly a year since the Senate acquitted President Clinton and three months since independent counsel Ken Starr quit the five-year inquiry that led to the historic impeachment trial.
Robert Ray, the federal prosecutor who inherited Starr's job, says he knows what most Americans are probably thinking: " 'We went through this. We had this trial. What are you still doing here?' "
Ray's answer: "It ain't over till it's over."
Facing this relatively unknown prosecutor, who won't turn 40 until April, is one of the most potentially explosive decisions of the entire investigation: whether to seek Clinton's indictment for perjury after he leaves office next January. …
At Princeton University, he wrote his senior thesis on President Kennedy and the Peace Corps. One of his college roommates, Carl Blumenstein, now a San Francisco lawyer, says that back then, Ray was "almost a Kennedy-worshiping liberal Democrat."
Ray chose Princeton because it was the alma mater of his basketball hero, New York Knicks star Bill Bradley, now a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. The 5-foot-9-inch Ray played briefly on Princeton's junior varsity team. Until a year ago, he was a Democrat. Now, he's registered as an independent. …
The Washington Times
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January 10, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: American CEO beats New Zealand pot rap; Medicinal-use backer seized at airport
BYLINE: Michael Field; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
DATELINE: AUCKLAND, New ZealandAUCKLAND, New Zealand - A wealthy American arrested on drug charges in New Zealand has been identified as a prominent campaigner for medical use of marijuana, despite a court order protecting his name.
The arrest and subsequent treatment of insurance magnate Peter B. Lewis of Cleveland sparked a political furor after the charges were dropped and his identity was suppressed by a court in New Zealand.
An American newspaper named Mr. Lewis as the chairman and chief executive officer of Progressive Corp., the fourth-largest U.S. personal auto insurer, with profits of $456.7 million in 1998.
The suppression order has kept Mr. Lewis' name out of New Zealand's newspapers, but his hometown newspaper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, has named him, and New Zealanders have been invited to read the report on the Internet. New Zealanders have no free-speech rights such as those guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution, but the suppression order has no effect on Internet sites. …
Mr. Lewis, 66, admitted to three charges of importing drugs after customs officers found two ounces of hashish and 1.7 ounces of cannabis at Auckland Airport and elsewhere, the New Zealand Herald said.
Judge David Harvey invited Mr. Lewis, in New Zealand to watch the challenger rounds for the America's Cup yacht race, to "enjoy the fresh air" and, in what may have been a subtle reference to smoking marijuana, told him he should not let anything get in the way "of you and the atmosphere." …
He contributed $50 million to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and his alma mater, Princeton University, announced in June that Mr. Lewis had given the school its second-largest grant ever - $55 million - for a center housing biology's biggest project, the mapping of the human genome. …
The Washington Times
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January 10, 2000HEADLINE: Elite schools resist 'common application'
BYLINE: Liz Marlantes; CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITORThe "common application" has made life easier for high school seniors. Gone are the days when applying to eight colleges meant writing eight essays on topics ranging from "discuss a time you failed" to "describe someone who has profoundly influenced you." Now applicants can simply write one "personal statement" and send out multiple copies.
But not if they are applying to the University of Chicago or a small number of other holdouts, mostly in the Ivy League. Those schools refuse to accept the common application. "We want students to write directly to us," says Ted O'Neill, Chicago's dean of admissions. …
Princeton University has its applicants fill out a section called "Hodge-Podge." Students are required to list their favorite book, recording, movie, TV program, source of news, pastime, time of day, food, place to get away from it all, academic subject and word.
Although the admissions committee tells applicants not to "lose any sleep" over these questions, many students wind up spending far more time on this section than they do on the rest of the application, weighing the pros and cons of "Pride and Prejudice" vs. "The Catcher in the Rye" and trying to come up with a favorite word that isn't pretentious or too cute.
In contrast, Princeton's essay question - "Discuss something (anything) you just wished you understood better" - seems easy. …
Daily News (New York)
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January 9, 2000, SundayCULTURAL TOURIST
HEADLINE: THE (SILENT) LUBITSCH TOUCH Jewish Film Fest spotlights a master direc tor's early classicsBYLINE: BY HOWARD KISSEL
There is a photograph of the great director Ernst Lubitsch - best remembered for such films as "Ninotchka," "The Shop Around the Corner" and the original "To Be or Not to Be" - staring at a German newspaper in the mid-'30s.Lubitsch's expression is one of pain and incredulity because the front page has an article denouncing him as Jewish scum.It was, of course, a Nazi newspaper, but what probably hurt Lubitsch the most was that barely 20 years had passed since he had been one of the biggest stars of German cinema.What makes the turnabout even more fascinating is that Lubitsch - the recipient of a special Oscar in 1937 for his 25 years of cinematic achievement - built his early career in silent German films playing stereotypically Jewish comic characters.Some of these early films will be shown as part of the Ninth Annual New York Jewish Film Festival, co-sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Jewish Museum. The festival begins next Sunday with the 1916 "Shoe Palace Pinkus" and the 1918 "Meyer From Berlin," both of which were written and directed by and star Lubitsch. The following Sunday, Jan. 23, the 1916 "When I Was Dead" will be screened.The silent part of the festival, which also includes a 1919 German film about homophobia, was curated by Thomas Levin, associate professor at Princeton University, who will introduce the screenings."The most important thing to remember about the Lubitsch films," says Levin, "is that they were not simply popular - they were hugely successful." …
THE HARTFORD COURANT
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January 9, 2000HEADLINE: GAINING MOMENTUM; INDEX FUND, VANGUARD'S 500, MAY SOON BE LARGEST MUTUAL FUND
BYLINE: MIRIAM HILL; Knight Ridder NewspapersSomeday soon, Vanguard Group in Malvern, Pa., will have the world's largest mutual fund.
With $104.7 billion in assets, Vanguard's 500 Index Fund is poised to surpass Fidelity's Magellan fund, with $105.9billion in assets. No one is planning a ticker-tape parade through Malvern to celebrate the event, but it will be momentous even so. The ascent of the 500 fund, which mirrors the Standard & Poor's index of 500 large-company stocks, symbolizes the influence that indexing has gained over the fund industry.
Anyone who owns mutual funds today, even those that are not index funds, feels the iron grip of indexes. …
Burton Malkiel, a Princeton University professor and Vanguard director, suggested that individual investors should be able to buy such funds. Bogle happily complied, but the idea was not well received at first. …
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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January 9, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Black studies moves into its 'golden age' In the last 30 years, the once controversial field has found acceptance
BYLINE: JAMAL E. WATSON
SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
DATELINE: Cambridge, Mass.Barely three decades ago, the fight for ethnic studies on American college campuses began. Black students with big Afro hairdos and dashikis took to the streets to stage sit-ins pressuring universities to embrace curriculum diversity by offering courses that reflected their culture and heritage.
A lot has changed since then. Black studies has been enthusiastically accepted and supported, with some universities, including Yale and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, offering graduate degrees in the discipline.
"Black studies has been legitimized by time," says Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., chairman of Harvard University's acclaimed Afro-American Studies department and the author of numerous bestselling books about black culture and literature. …
On top of his list was Cornel West, a scholar, author and progressive activist who had attended Harvard in the 1960s but by 1994 was chairman of his own black studies department at Princeton University. Gates lured West with one of Harvard's 16 endowed university professorships.
"This must have been unprecedented in the history of black mergers," says Gates. "For a black CEO, in effect, to give up that position to come and be a faculty member -- he really wanted to come and build Afro-American studies and do it together." …
The Morning Call (Allentown)
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January 9, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: LEOPARDS' 46-YEAR WAIT WAS WORTH IT
BYLINE: PAUL REINHARD; The Morning Call
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.Four Lehigh Valley men were taking the fifth in a Senate Investigations Committee hearing about communism; Ralph Guglielmi of Notre Dame, Howard "Hopalong" Cassady of Ohio State and Alan "The Horse" Ameche of Wisconsin were in the backfield of the college All-America football team; Bobo Olson was Boxer of the Year, and a young kid named Jody Silvester scored 26 points in a Bethlehem Catholic basketball victory over Hellertown.
Oh, yes, and Lafayette defeated Princeton 85-74 in the Tigers' Dillon Gym.
The date was Dec. 8, 1954. Until Saturday night, no Lafayette team had been able to win again at Princeton. Fourteen had left town on the losing end.
Coach Fran O'Hanlon figured his 1999-2000 Lafayette team would need an almost perfect game to end that string of disappointment against the perennial Ivy League contender. In many ways, the Leopards were anything but perfect, but they made up for their imperfection with a tenacity that made the fifth-year head coach proud.
"Yeah, but we're perfect in the new millennium," O'Hanlon quipped, trying to downplay the streak following the Leopards' emotional 70-69 victory before 6,432 in Jadwin Gym. "That other thing is just history." …
The New York Times
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January 9, 2000HEADLINE: Bobby Kennedy, You Were No Bobby Kennedy
BYLINE: By Sean Wilentz; Sean Wilentz is a professor of history and director of the program in American studies at Princeton University.
In Love With Night
The American Romance With Robert Kennedy.
By Ronald Steel. 220 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $23.Robert F. Kennedy always irked liberals; and they always irked him. As he emerged as one of the country's great liberal leaders, this paradox persisted. Kennedy's association with the reckless Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950's forever tainted his reputation in some reform circles. As his brother's presidential campaign manager in 1960, and thereafter as attorney general, he struck many liberals as ruthless in the pursuit of power and reluctant in the pursuit of principle, especially regarding civil rights. In 1964, when Kennedy ran in New York as the carpetbagger Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, a host of liberal and left-leaning luminaries, including Richard Hofstadter, I. F. Stone, Nat Hentoff and Gore Vidal, joined this newspaper in berating him and supporting his Republican opponent, Kenneth Keating. ("At least they can never say I got my job through The New York Times," Kennedy remarked.) Four years later, Kennedy's entry into the campaign for his party's presidential nomination, following a strong early showing by the antiwar Democrat Eugene McCarthy, brought renewed howls from liberals about the latecomer's supposed craven opportunism.
"In one day," Murray Kempton wrote bitterly of Kennedy's announcement speech and the attendant hubbub, "he managed to confirm the worst things his enemies have ever said about him." Kennedy, for his part, regarded his liberal critics as hopeless, sanctimonious losers who put purity above political realism, and who seemed to think that sure-fire defeat was inherently noble. …
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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January 9, 2000HEADLINE: The music of America; Opening minds as well as ears, Aaron Copland dedicated his long life to the cause of his country's music, inspiring generations of composers.
BYLINE: Gwendolyn Freed; Staff WriterIf the 1900s were indeed the American Century, then it galloped along to the music of Aaron Copland. The Brooklyn-born son of eastern European Jewish immigrants, Copland came to exemplify through music all that is loved as truly American.
His ballets "Appalachian Spring," "Billy the Kid" and "Rodeo" mythologize life in the great, wild West. His concert works "Fanfare for the Common Man," "A Lincoln Portrait" and "Quiet City," along with his opera "The Tender Land," speak with an unmistakably American sincerity and optimism. His compositions also include scores for such films as "The Red Pony" and "Our Town," and much important early, atonal work. …
Steven Mackey, professor of music, Princeton University.
The special thing about Copland is that he gave his music a voice that is uniquely American, secular, humanistic and optimistic. His contribution was as a sort of alternative to European high modernism. I love his music's clean, hopeful optimism.
His mentorship was so effective because, for one thing, he lived a long time. And the guy really made it. He wrote all kinds of music well. As a young man, there were the experimental pieces, the big canvases for full orchestra. His royalties are still paying for lots of stuff!
Things have changed, but when I was in school, Copland's more-populist music was sort of taboo. Occasionally you'd find a closet Copland lover. It was always a guilty pleasure. The Piano Variations were considered acceptable, but not the bigger, more-famous pieces.
I love "Appalachian Spring." It's so shamelessly beautiful. I love Copland's willingness to wear his heart on his sleeve, to openheartedly play and laugh and cry.
New Scientist
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January 8, 2000HEADLINE: Only human
BYLINE: Nell BoyceHIGHLIGHT: Good riddance to a warped philosopher - that was the gist of many newspaper headlines when Peter Singer left Australia for Princeton University earlier this year, only to be welcomed by protesters waving placards that branded him a murderer and a Nazi. Why ? It all started some 25 years ago with Animal Liberation, in which Singer created a moral framework for the modern animal rights movement. Then, as now, Singer argued that giving humans special status is outmoded "speciesism" on a par with racism or sexism. Over the years, Singer, a passionate believer in euthanasia, has also repeatedly questioned the idea that human life should be sustained at all costs via, for example, life-support systems. But his most shocking argument is that it's not wrong for parents to kill severely disabled infants. Nell Boyce asked Singer how he was surviving in the US
How do you cope when protesters call you a Nazi who supports killing the sick and disabled ?
Let's not get too carried away. There's only been one protest since my arrival in the US - I think there may have been one or two before. And these protests have their good side as well. Certainly everyone knows that I've arrived in the country and that gives me the opportunity to talk about things that I want to talk about.
You've said that research on a chimp can only be justified when the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would also be justifiable. So would it be OK to use brain-damaged humans ?
You would have to look at it on a case by case basis. I wouldn't absolutely rule it out. The point of what I said is that we are just incredibly more protective of human beings than we are of non-human animals. Getting people to make that comparison makes you think about what kind of case for experimentation would be strong enough for us to say, yes we really are prepared to do that on a brain-damaged human. I was wanting to say: "Do you think that the cases in which you would defend experimentation on chimpanzees, say, are really that strong ?"
Do you feel that any of your ideas have been misrepresented ?
My views regarding euthanasia for disabled infants. The misrepresentation is of various kinds but it usually comes from taking a sentence or two from "Practical Ethics", which is written as a textbook, and suggesting that this is my view or that it should immediately be put into practice as public policy, or something of that sort. Very often what I am doing is following the implications of various ethical views and getting students to think about whether they accept these implications. …
The Plain Dealer
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January 8, 2000 SaturdayHEADLINE: DRUG COUNT AGAINST CEO AT PROGRESSIVE 'DISCHARGED'
BYLINE: By KEVIN HARTER; PLAIN DEALER REPORTERPeter B. Lewis, the chairman and chief executive officer of Progressive Corp. in Mayfield, was arrested Wednesday at the Auckland, New Zealand, airport and later charged with possession of more than 3 ounces of marijuana and marijuana resin.
Lewis, 66, a proponent of legalizing marijuana for medicinal use, appeared Friday (Thursday in the United States) in the Otahuhu District Court, according to a source in Auckland. The source said Lewis made an unspecified contribution to an Auckland drug rehabilitation center, and the charges against him were "discharged without conviction."
Judge David Harvey then suppressed Lewis' name, which is allowed under provisions of New Zealand law. Marie Dyhrberg, an Auckland attorney who represents Lewis, declined to comment.
"It would not be in the interest of my client," she said. …
A colorful, energetic executive, Lewis also is known for his philanthropy. He contributed $50 million to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and his alma mater, Princeton University, announced in June that Lewis had given the school its second-largest grant ever - $55 million - for a center housing biology's biggest project, the mapping of the human genome. …
The San Francisco Examiner
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January 8, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: A tough D's a given in GPSL competition
BYLINE: CICERO A. ESTRELLASt. Ignatius: The Wildcats are running a new offense as well, with 6-foot center Jacquelyn Hontalas as the focal point. Coach Tim Reardon thought it the perfect time to install the famed Princeton University offense - which involves plenty of motion, backdoor cuts and outside bombs - with four new faces joining Hontalas in the starting lineup. …
The Washington Post
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January 8, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Storied Walls; Like Its Namesake, Alexandria Now Has A Landmark Library
BYLINE: Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post Staff WriterWhen it chose Michael Graves to design its new central library, the city of Alexandria was doing more than trying to solve a few practical problems and establish a civic presence in its burgeoning west end. It was, in a sense, declaring independence from the architectural constraints of historic Old Town.
The idea, says city library Director Patrick O'Brien, was to create a landmark building--and that happily is what transpired. The new Graves-designed facility at Duke and Pickett streets will be dedicated tomorrow even though, because of construction delays, it will not be ready to receive visitors for another month or so. It is an instant landmark in the sense that, once you see it, you don't forget it.
And also because, in a distinctly Gravesian manner, it is a very good work of architecture. Graves isn't quite at his best here but, even so, he's close enough to ensure that we will continue for many years to get pleasure from passing by and using the building. …
Architectural history is always present, too. A longtime Princeton University architecture professor, Graves loves history and has made it a central focus of his professional identity. He has a scholar's knowledge of the subject and, in his highly idiosyncratic way, he employs historical forms to tell stories with his buildings. …
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January 7, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Father indicted for failing to pay child support
DATELINE: PHILADELPHIAA former investment banker who spent the last three years in county jail for not paying $280,000 in court-ordered child support has been indicted by a grand jury for violating the federal "deadbeat dad" law.
From April 1996 to Dec. 8, Warren Matthei, 48, was held in the Essex County jail in Newark, N.J. When he was released, he was immediately taken into federal custody, said U.S. Attorney Michael Stiles in Philadelphia. …
Matthei and Kelly were married in 1976 and lived in Summit, N.J. until their 1992 divorce. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School, he worked his way through several major Wall Street brokerages, including Merrill Lynch.
By the time he left Merrill Lynch in 1992, Matthei was reportedly earning more than $1 million a year. He then sued Merrill Lynch for wrongful termination, receiving more than $2.6 million in a settlement.
In his divorce trial, a New Jersey judge ordered Matthei to put half of the settlement into an escrow account for his wife and children. But Matthei instead fled to England, remarried, and used the settlement for vacations, jewelry, and other luxuries. He said the money that was supposed to be in escrow now belonged to his second wife - whom he divorced two years after marrying in 1995 - as part of a prenuptial agreement. …
Business Wire
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January 7, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Milken Institute Awards First Annual Distinguished Economic Research Prize to Five American Scholars
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7, 2000Researchers from MIT, Yale, Princeton and Case Western Reserve University have been named winners of the first Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Research.
The scholars, whose winning entries covered such diverse topics as the importance of human capital to metropolitan economic growth, and the effect of class size and school spending on student achievement, will be honored tonight (Friday, Jan. 7) at a special awards ceremony during the annual Allied Social Science Association meeting in Boston.
Institute Chairman Michael Milken will present them with their$2,000 first-place awards, in addition to giving a keynote speech. …
Winning papers were selected for each of the Institute's four research areas: Global Studies; Capital Studies; Regional and Demographic Studies; and Labor Markets and Human Capital Studies.
This year's winners are:
-- Alan B. Krueger, Professor of Economics, Princeton University: "An Economist's View of Class Size Research" (Labor Markets and Human Capital Studies)
DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
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January 7, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: JORDAN AND ALL THAT NON-JAZZ
BYLINE: By Norman Provizer, Denver Rocky Mountain News Jazz CriticDuring my youth, I prided myself on being a jazz purist. After all, why should pure art ever be tainted by commercialism or pandering?
There was even a time when I reined in my enjoyment of Cannonball Adderley's alto saxophone because of the popularity of his recording of the Bobby Timmons' tune This Here.
Today, I listen to This Here often and am less likely to engage in posturing about purism.
All this brings me to the January lineup at Boulder's Fox Theatre (1135 13th St.). Thursday, the music at the Fox begins with guitarist Stanley Jordan, followed by saxophonist Karl Denson and his band, Tiny Universe, on Jan. 14 and 15, bassist Victor Wooten on Jan. 27, and saxophonist Maceo Parker from Jan. 28 to 30.
While purists might scoff at the players in this lineup, each blends definite jazz sensibilities to produce what can be interesting results.
Of the musicians trotting through the Fox this month, guitarist Jordan is the one with the clearest jazz identity.
Born in Chicago in 1959, Jordan went to Princeton University. After graduating from the Ivy League, he hit the streets of New York City with his amazing tapping technique, which turned his guitar into an entire band. …
Federal News Service
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January 7, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: JOHN MCLAUGHLIN'S "ONE ON ONE"
GUESTS: E.J. DIONNE JR. ROBERT P. GEORGE
SUBJECT: RELIGION AND POLITICS
TAPED: FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 2000 BROADCAST: WEEKEND OF JANUARY 8-9, 2000MR. MCLAUGHLIN: "Let Jesus take charge."
The 2000 presidential contest is barely under way, but the race is on to lay claim to divine guidance. GOP front-runner George W. Bush unabashedly says Jesus Christ is his favorite thinker. On the Democratic side, heir apparent Albert Gore Jr. reveals his personal decision-making mantra is WWJD, "What would Jesus do?" Only Bill Bradley seems to have drawn a "cordon prive" around his religious convictions.
Why is religion once again respectable in politics? What explains this moral rearmament? Is it a rebirth of conviction, or is it political gamesmanship? We'll ask these expert observers, E.J. Dionne and Robert George.
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MR. MCLAUGHLIN: E.J. Dionne, we have presidential candidates today, ranging from Al Gore to Governor Bush, in essence bearing witness in public to their religious convictions. Is this a new phenomenon?
MR. DIONNE: It's not entirely new. I mean, historically, American politicians have talked about their faith. But I think we went through a long period where they didn't, in part because of fears on the part of politicians, of stoking religious prejudice. And I think John F. Kennedy's election led a lot of Catholics and others in minority religions to say, "This shouldn't be a public issue."
What really brought it back, I think, initially, was Jimmy Carter. We think of this as associated with the Religious Right. But Jimmy Carter spoke openly about his faith. And I think, since then, you have seen a great increase in the number of politicians willing to bear witness of one sort or another. …
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: That's correct. Jimmy Carter said that he was born again. And that provoked John Chancellor of NBC to employ the vast resources of his news division, announcing on the air that they had, quote, "checked this out" and found the experience to be fairly common, known to millions of Americans, particularly if you're Baptist. …
MR. GEORGE: Well, I think that there is always a tradition of trying to assimilate Jesus and the Bible to whatever point of view someone has. It's a long tradition. There was a book called "The Man Nobody Knows," by, I think it was, by Bruce Barton back in the '20s, which tried to say how Jesus was the most brilliant salesman in our history. I guess I smile because I think reducing things like that can be -- it can be a little bit troublesome. …
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Bill Bradley, unlike Al Gore, has refused to talk about his religion, but as noted, Al Gore is talking about his religion. So, is the Democratic primary shaping up to be a battle between the secular Bill Bradley and the overtly religious Al Gore? We'll answer that question in a moment, but first, here are the profiles of our distinguished guests.
Born, Morgantown, West Virginia. Forty-four years of age.
Wife, Cindy. Two children. Catholic.
Swarthmore College, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa. Harvard University, M.A., Theological Studies. Harvard University, Doctor of Laws. Oxford University, Ph.D., Legal Philosophy.
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, presidential appointee, five years. Princeton University, McCormick (sp) Professor of Jurisprudence and professor of Politics, 14 years and currently
Author, two books, including "In Defense of Natural Law." … Robert Peter George.MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Did you know that Bill Bradley, in 1966, did a warm-up of an audience for an Evangelical preacher?
MR. GEORGE: I believe that Evangelical preacher was the Reverend Billy Graham.
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: That's correct. And today he is refusing not only to talk about his religion, he won't even talk about who his advisers are. He will not talk about any of his personal practices. Do you think that that is good politics on his part?
MR. GEORGE: Well, we don't know what his religion is. We don't know whether he's thrown over his earlier Evangelical faith in favor of something else. We just don't know because he doesn't talk about it. And this isn't something new with Bradley. It isn't that he's suddenly gone mum on religion. Yes, in 1966 and in the late 1960s he was outspoken, but throughout his political career he has not been outspoken on matters of religion, or active, as far as we can see, in religious organizations. So we don't know what his faith is; we don't know what faith there is there to talk about. …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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January 7, 2000, FRIDAYHEADLINE: PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN; FAMILY TRACES FAMEDARTIST'S PAINTING OF DAD1 NEW3
BYLINE: RICHARD COWEN, Staff Writer
DATELINE: MAYWOODWhat happened to Martin O'Sullivan in the summer of 1941 is the kind of chance meeting that a person either quickly forgets or spins into a tale that he spends the rest of his life telling.
And because O'Sullivan's encounter with the renowned artist Henry E. Schnakenberg resulted in the young lad being the subject of two portraits probably still hanging somewhere, it's a story that the retired fence installer will probably keep telling.
Fifty-nine years ago, O'Sullivan was a teenager mowing a lawn on Magnolia Avenue in Tenafly when a Rolls-Royce pulled up to the curb. Out stepped Schnakenberg, a stranger to him, but to the art world a prolific painter. His works today hang in some of the most prestigious museums in the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney.
"I'm an artist," O'Sullivan recalls the stranger saying as he approached the boy."How would you like to come model for me? I'll pay you whatever you're making mowing lawns." O'Sullivan had no idea who the man was, but the expensive gray suit and car convinced him he could afford a quarter an hour. And O'Sullivan was savvy enough to know it was easier sitting in the cool of an artist's studio than pushing a mower in the hot sun.. O'Sullivan never even bothered to ask why the artist selected him. …
Schnakenberg died in 1970. His works hang in more than a dozen museums in the United States. In New Jersey, his works are in the collections at museums in Newark, Montclair, and Princeton University.
As for O'Sullivan, the story became part of his family lore. Over the years, he would tell of his encounter with the artist at family get-togethers. But nobody had ever seen the paintings.
Until this Christmas. …
OBITUARIES
The New York Times
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January 7, 2000HEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths BRYSON, DAVID BRADY
BRYSON-David Brady, 58, passed away peacefully Christmas morning with his family by his side. He is survived by his beloved wife Anita; son Paul, a freshman at Princeton; daughter Hallie, an attorney in San Francisco; and son Ethan, a medical student in New York City. They are eternally grateful for his guidance and support. He is also survived by parents Mary and Brady; sister Linda; and brothers John and Tim. Born August 16, 1941, he grew up in Westminster, Maryland. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1963, and summa cum laude from Columbia University Law School in 1966. He clerked for California Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Traynor and taught law at the University of Ghana. The past 29 years he was committed to securing social justice for the poor through his work at the National Housing Law Project. …
The New York Times
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January 10, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: David Bryson, 58, Housing Advocate for the Poor
BYLINE: By ERIC PACEDavid B. Bryson, a lawyer and advocate of the housing rights of poor people, died on Dec. 25 at a hospital in Berkeley, Calif. He was 58 and lived in Piedmont, Calif.
The cause was lung cancer, The Associated Press said.
Mr. Bryson "was a central figure in the advocacy for public housing residents and residents of all subsidized housing developments," recalled another housing expert, Prof. Florence W. Roisman of the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. "He played a crucial role in developing housing legislation and regulations." …
David B. Bryson was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Westminster, Md. He received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a law degree from Columbia University.
Belfast Telegraph
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January 11, 2000HEADLINE: 'Mystery' death shatters family
THE family of a Carryduff woman who died in a tragic New Year accident have spoken of their heartbreaking loss.
Mary McConville, (21), a student at Princeton University in New Jersey, was killed after falling from an open window of an apartment in Paris on January 1.
Her body was discovered by a neighbour in the courtyard of the apartment complex.
Her heartbroken parents, Peter and Judy, flew to Paris to arrange to have her body returned to Northern Ireland.
Mary, an only child, was buried on Saturday, following Requiem Mass at the Church of the Immaculate Mary on the Saintfield Road.
Speaking after the funeral, Mr McConville said his daughter's death was a "mystery".
He said nobody was sure of what had actually happened, but it appeared she had fallen through an open window after mistaking it for a door.
"She was a very popular girl who was very happy in herself," he said.
TULSA WORLD
Copyright 2000 The Tulsa World
January 8, 2000HEADLINE: Renowned pianist Richard Chronister dies at age 67
BYLINE: JAMES D. WATTS JR.
SOURCE: World Entertainment WriterOklahoma native Richard Chronister, who went from playing piano at church services as a youngster to accompanying the popular singing group Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians to becoming one of the country's leading authorities on piano instruction, died Dec. 31 in Los Angeles. He was 67.
Funeral services will be held Sunday at the Brentwood Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles.
Chronister earned a national reputation in the field of keyboard teaching and teacher training, beginning in 1959 with the degree program in piano pedagogy he founded and for three years directed at the University of Tulsa. …
Chronister later joined the New School for Music Study at Princeton University in 1961, and in 1968 he cofounded the National Keyboard Arts Associates, which develops, tests and publishes educational materials. …
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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January 12, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Christian K. Preus dies; was Lutheran minister
BYLINE: Lucy Y. Her; Staff WriterChristian K. Preus, a fourth-generation Lutheran pastor, died of cancer Sunday at his home near Laporte, Minn. He was 90.
His great-grandfather Herman H.A. Preus started the first Norwegian Lutheran Church in America in 1851.
Christian Preus was the son of Magdalene and the Rev. Ove J.H. Preus. He graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, in 1931 and from Luther Seminary in St. Paul in 1934. After seminary he went to Germany, returned to the United States in 1936 and went to Princeton University, where he graduated with a theological doctorate in the early 1940s. …
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January 7, 2000HEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths RUSH, STOCKTON
RUSH-Stockton. Of San Francisco, a businessman, actor and entrepreneur. Died New Year's Day at the age of 69 after a brief illness. Mr. Rush was born November 15, 1930, in Philadelphia. He graduated from Princeton University in 1953 and served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1953 to 1955. He was a board member of Stockdale Oil and Gas. In the 1970s, he and his family moved to New Zealand to create Takaro, a hunting and fishing retreat with an emphasis on conservation. As founder, chairman and executive director of the Recovery Institute, he was a leader in the field of alcoholism education. …
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January 7, 2000HEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths WAINWRIGHT, ALEXANDER, J.D.
WAINWRIGHT-Alexander, J.D. 82. Of Hightstown, N.J. On January 5, 2000. Retired assistant university librarian for the Collection Department at the Princeton University Library. Brother of Mary King Auchincloss and uncle of Christine Wainwright, Richard S. Jr. and Thomas F.D. Auchincloss, two grand-nephews and three grandnieces. Services Tuesday, January 11 at 2PM at All Saints Episcopal Church, 9601 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia. In lieu of flowers contributions to the Friends of the Princeton University Library, C/O Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1 Washington Road, Princeton, N.J. 08544.
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