PrincetonUniversity
Communications Office
Stanhope Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
Tel 609 258 3601, Fax 609 258 1301
Feedback
Princeton in the News
February 2, 2000
Previous page Next page Clippings archive Current news index
HIGHLIGHTS• Princeton moves to ease financial burden on students, families
• Princeton receives $10m for study of peace, justice
• Editorials: standardized tests not best gauge
OTHER HEADLINES• Health bulletin; health related articles
• Numbers
• Chairman confident about building up democrats; schwartz brings ideas, energy to help boost once-powerful party
• Hecklers heat up bible course rift
• Bradley and the big steal; when UConn beat his Princeton tigers
• McCain, Gore take New Hampshire; Bradley promises to stay in fight
• Twelve pioneering researchers will receive the 1999 national medal of science
• The Philadelphia Inquirer Andrew Cassel column
• SAT didn't; predict Bush or Bradley success
• Professor's vision of math as 'poetry earns him a medal
• Health concerns test Princeton's depth
• Several universities plan to build multi-million dollar science buildings
• Princeton refuses to shy from top foes
• In with lego test, out with SATs Colorado College tries new approach with some applicants
• Black history month; a primer
• Bradley and Wilson
• Cubans in exile; group splits along generational lines
• Surfer on billboard sends shills down the spine
• Bell Labs' babies profit off its ideas
• In the land of rising sum; ohioans tell japanese they're glad for business
• The Haunting
• Sarnoff: past is prologue to future
• Providing domestic partner benefits
• Internet policy institute issues paper examining the role of the internet on america's enhanced economic productivity
• Chris Thomforde, Princeton center; february 27, 1967
• RNA computer
• Mandela cancels Princeton U. appearance
• Some experts wary of wiping out national debt
• Farewell at NOAA lab
• Prepare to meet a queen; widow of Jordan's Hussein to speak
• Best seat in the house; ever-evolving chairs have many reclining for super bowl
• Latest polls show Gore leading Bradley
• Competition for wannabe millionaires
• Dreaming of Jerusalem
• Man 'stalked star Brooke for 15 years'
• World round-up
• Man indicted for e-commerce credit card theft
• Stalking defendant accused of terrorizing actress for half her life
• Campaign notebook
• Off-seasoning; some of the area's top sophomores have been honing their basketball skills
• The state of the union: news analysis grand ideas, little time
• Morris delves into his subjects' stream of consciousness
• Student charged with hacking
OBITUARIES• Howard R. Bloch
• Ex-headmaster here dies at 79; Elmer guided St. Christopher's for eight years
• Henry Engler Jr., retired loyola business dean
• Tamara Horowitz; chairwoman of pitt philosophy department
• John G. Kloepfer, went ashore in d-day landing
• Neal McCallum
• William Mccleery, 88, playwright and editor
• Oliver Cromwell Munson
• Harold t. White, Jr.
HIGHLIGHTS
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
January 31, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Princeton moves to ease financial burden on students, families
DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.Beginning in the fall, Princeton University will reduce the amount its middle-income students must borrow to pay the $32,636-a-year tab for tuition, room and board, officials said Monday.
The university also plans to stop including the value of a family's home in calculating assets for financial aid purposes.
Together, the changes could boost individual scholarship grants by up to $2,250 per student. The average Princeton freshman gets $18,290 in scholarship grants annually, the university said.
"Our aim is to do as much as we can to be sure that no student decides not to apply to Princeton solely for financial reasons," said university President Harold Shapiro.
In 1998, Princeton stopped requiring students to take out loans if their family's income was $45,000 or less. That year, the university also implemented a sliding scale to reduce the amount of loans required of students from "middle income" families - those earning between $45,000 and $63,500.
Under the changes, approved Saturday by the University's Board of Trustees:
-The amount middle-income students must borrow again will be reduced, to between $500 and $3,300. It is currently $600 to $3,800.
-Home equity, which has routinely been considered among the family's assets by colleges, will no longer be considered. Two years ago, Princeton eliminated home equity from the financial aid calculation for low-income students and counted it less for other students.
Families have said they don't view home equity the same way they do other assets, explained university spokesman Justin Harmon. "It was sacrosanct," he said. …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Copyright 2000 Bergen Record Corp.
February 2, 2000, WEDNESDAYHEADLINE: PRINCETON RECEIVES $10M FOR STUDY OF PEACE, JUSTICE
COLUMN: BRIEFLY . . .SOURCE: Wire services
DATELINE: PRINCETONPrinceton University received a $10 million grant from a New York-based foundation to create a center for the study of peace and justice, university officials said Tuesday.
The Elmer and Mamdouha Bobst Foundation, which promotes initiatives that include medical research, cultural programs, and higher education, provided the funding.
"We are grateful for this generous gift, and are hopeful that this new center will play a meaningful role in securing more equitable and harmonious relationships among all peoples of the 21st century," university President Harold T. Shapiro said in a prepared statement.
The center, which will be named the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, will fall under the auspices of the university's Department of Politics. Academic programs will begin in the fall. …
NOTE: This story first appeared on The Associated Press wire.
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Copyright 2000 The Atlanta Constitution
February 2, 2000, WednesdaySECTION: Editorial
HEADLINE: Editorials: Standardized tests not best gaugeThe SAT, created almost 75 years ago by a Princeton University professor, could have led Princeton to reject a student who has since become one of its most successful and respected alumni.
Presidential candidate Bill Bradley, a Princeton grad, scored 485 out of possible 800 on the verbal portion of the SAT. Today a 485 equates with a 565, since scores are calculated differently. Still, Bradley's score falls below usual Ivy League criteria. He calls himself an affirmative-action admission because his prodigious basketball talent, not his test scores, got him into Princeton. After a professional career with the New York Knicks, Bradley went on to distinguish himself as an intellectual powerhouse in the U.S. Senate.
The Bradley story is far from unique. Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes says he was allowed into the University of Georgia Law School provisionally because of low test scores. He finished at the top of his class, and no one who's ever sparred with Barnes doubts his smarts.
Their stories, and tens of thousands like them, reveal the weakness of standardized testing. They do not necessarily reveal the studiousness of a Bradley or the mental quickness of a Barnes. To rely too heavily on those test results is to risk shutting out people who clearly have the ability to succeed.
Test results are useful, but only in conjunction with other indicators of intelligence and diligence. For example, teacher evaluations of students ought to matter in every decision affecting student progress, whether promotion to the next grade or admission to gifted programs. Students also ought to be assessed on demonstrated skills, whether it's writing samples or art work. …
NOTE: Related stories below.
OTHER HEADLINES
Men's Health
Copyright 2000 Rodale Press, Inc.
March 1, 2000HEADLINE: HEALTH BULLETIN; health related articles
BYLINE: Marion, MattPick a home HIV test that works
* According to the Federal Trade Commission, HIV test kits that promise at-home results may be unreliable. The FTC evaluated five kits purchased through an Internet site, and all of them gave negative results when used on a known HIV-positive blood sample. "Only one home testing kit currently has FDA approval," notes Brian Zack, M.D., director of sexual health services at Princeton University. For reliable results, use the Home Access Express HIV-1 Test System or see your physician.
Time
Copyright 2000 Time Inc.
February 7, 2000HEADLINE: Numbers
BYLINE: Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Daniel Levy, Ellin Martens, Julie Rawe, Chris Taylor, Owen Thomas and Josh Tyrangiel485 Verbal SAT score of presidential candidate Bill Bradley, a Rhodes scholar and magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University
566 Verbal score of George W. Bush, a C student at Yale University …
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
February 3, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Chairman Confident About Building Up Democrats; Schwartz Brings Ideas, Energy to Help Boost Once-Powerful Party
BYLINE: Graeme Zielinski, Washington Post Staff WriterPeter Schwartz believes that building is in his nature.
It's how he makes his living, as a successful real estate developer. It's what he's doing to his Georgian-style estate in Delaplane, part of a years-long renovation project. And it's what he must do to the moribund Democratic Party of Fauquier County, which recently chose him as chairman.
"I like to build," Schwartz said, standing in the middle of unfinished wood and molding at his house-in-progress. "I guess I've always loved the challenge." …
Schwartz grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, the older of two children. His father was a structural engineer; his mother, a child psychologist. He said his household was not that political, though he remembered stuffing League of Women Voters pamphlets into envelopes for his mother. ("And now I'll be stuffing pamphlets for him," his mother, Anne, said recently.)
He had an abiding interest in government, though not politics. He majored in public affairs at Princeton University, graduating in 1975. From there, he enrolled in a joint program with Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and its law school. He received degrees from both in 1979 but, instead of going into public service, became a real estate lawyer in Philadelphia. …
The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL)
Copyright 2000 The Florida Times-Union
February 2, 2000 WednesdayHEADLINE: Hecklers heat up Bible course rift
BYLINE: Walter C. Jones, Times-Union staff writerATLANTA -- The debate over using state funds for an elective high school course based on the Bible grew heated yesterday when supporters and opponents met inside the Capitol Rotunda for separate news conferences.
At one point, state troopers escorted John Elliott, an opponent of the Bible course, out of the Rotunda until the supporters' rally ended. Then, as he met with reporters, he was booed and heckled by high school students who came from across the state to lobby for bills establishing the course. …
During their rally, supporters listened while preachers, students, legislators and even former Atlanta Braves center fielder Brett Butler explained their reasons for wanting the course. Most argued that knowledge of the Bible is important to understanding classical music, literature and history.
'The point is not indoctrination,' said Robert George, a Princeton University law professor. 'The point is not to save people. We do that in church.'
The U.S. Supreme Court never has declared teaching non-religious Bible lessons in public schools unconstitutional, George said. The high court only has ruled against preaching in the schools, he said. …
THE HARTFORD COURANT
Copyright 2000 The Hartford Courant Company
February 2, 2000 WednesdayHEADLINE: BRADLEY AND THE BIG STEAL; WHEN UCONN BEAT HIS PRINCETON TIGERS
BYLINE: JIM SHEA; Courant Staff WriterPoliticians are always looking for a local connection.
Bill Bradley, who will be campaigning in Hartford today, has such a link -- although it is one that would take some personal pain on his part to exploit.
Bradley played a major role in an athletic drama that put University of Connecticut basketball on a national stage for the first time.
It occurred in a 1964 NCAA tournament regional semifinal game in Raleigh, N.C., between the Huskies and Princeton Tigers, who were led by their junior All-American Bill Bradley, one of the best players in the country.
With 1:05 remaining in the hard-fought game, Bradley hit a jumper to tie the score at 50. UConn then took possession, and with 32 seconds remaining, UConn co-captain Dom Perno was fouled and sent to the line to shoot one and one.
"The first shot must have hit every part of the rim before it went in," Perno says. "After that, the second one was easy."
Down by two points with 20 seconds remaining, Princeton looked to Bradley, who was averaging 32 points per game but had only 22 this evening.
Bradley was holding the ball over his head near the top of the key when Perno suddenly snatched it from his hands. Bradley was so stunned that he stood motionless before giving chase. He was too late, as the Huskies proceeded to run out the clock. …
What does Perno think of Bradley the candidate?
"He's the kind of person I could vote for," Perno says. "I think he's a fine politician, not that I'm a big political guy or anything. But I think he's gone at the presidency in a different way, as an honest man trying to win on his own merits."
Of course, Perno's perspective does come with just a bit of self-interest.
Stealing the ball from a U.S. senator is one thing; stealing the ball from a president could get a guy in a history book some day. …
The Houston Chronicle
Copyright 2000 The Houston Chronicle Publishing Company
February 02, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: McCain, Gore take New Hampshire; Bradley promises to stay in fight
BYLINE: CRAGG HINES
DATELINE: NASHUA, N.H.NASHUA, N.H. - Vice President Al Gore, enhancing his status as the clear front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, defeated former Sen. Bill Bradley in New Hampshire's political season-opening primary Tuesday.
Bradley vowed to fight on, setting the stage for a personal, possibly vengeful battle in the five weeks before the next big Democratic contests in a dozen states, including California and New York. But without a victory in New Hampshire - a state fabled for its openness to insurgent, underdog candidates - the short term could be a tough slog for the former professional basketball star and the longer term could be even more bleak.
With nearly all precincts reporting, Gore led Bradley, 52 percent to 47 percent. Gore scored best with traditional Democrats, who will figure more prominently in coming contests. Sunny skies pulled out a significant number of independent voters who supported Bradley. …
Some political analysts were unimpressed with Bradley's performance.
"It looks like the handwriting is on the wall," said George C. Edwards III, director of presidential studies at Texas A&M University. "I don't see Bradley winning, no matter what."
"It's hard to see Bradley lighting a spark," said Fred I. Greenstein, a Princeton University political scientist. "A lot of people have tried that," but even with victories in New Hampshire "didn't make it to the end." …
M2 PRESSWIRE
Copyright 2000 M2 Communications Ltd.
February 2, 2000HEADLINE: Twelve pioneering researchers will receive the 1999 National Medal of Science
President Clinton today named 12 of the nation's most respected researchers, three of them Nobel Prize winners, to receive the 1999 National Medal of Science.
Honoring the discoveries and lifetime achievements of the nation's top scientists, the Medal of Science recipients named by the president today represent a widely diverse group that: created wholly new scientific fields, such as conservation biology and speech sciences; led to discoveries that determined why the ozone "hole" exists; and legitimized theories about technological progress on economic growth, among others. …
David Baltimore, president of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), is one of three new medalists to have won the Nobel Prize. Baltimore made a key discovery of a protein carried in cancer-inducing viruses that reverses the ordinary flow of information in biological systems, leading to further discoveries of cancer-causing genes known today. Baltimore's discovery was made simultaneously with Howard Temin of the University of Wisconsin, for which they shared the 1975 Nobel Prize. Physicist James W. Cronin at the University of Chicago won a Nobel Prize in 1980 with Val Fitch of Princeton University for discovering one of the essential ingredients in explaining the predominance of matter over antimatter in the universe. Economist Robert M. Solow, professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), won the 1987 Nobel Prize for demonstrating the critical importance of technological advances on economic growth. …
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Copyright 2000 The Philadelphia Inquirer
February 2, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: The Philadelphia Inquirer Andrew Cassel Column
BYLINE: By Andrew CasselWELL, HERE IT IS AGAIN; that special day we've all read about. Comes around as regular as clockwork. Today, a familiar little character with a big talent for forecasting will wake up, peep out of his winter dwelling, and let us know if we're in for a change in the weather.
And all America will be watching, to find out ... whether Alan Greenspan sees the shadow of inflation.
If he does, it's a sure bet that short-term interest rates are headed up again, as the Federal Reserve Board chairman and his crew attempt to rein in the economy. …
Yet the need to do something may be increasing. Little inflationary alarm bells are going off all over the place, in gauges like the Employer Cost Index, which measures both wages and fringe benefits such as health care. …
Mainstream Fed-watchers think both left and right critics are dead wrong. "Anyone who thinks the unemployment rate can go lower than 4 percent without kicking up inflation is making a serious error," said Ben Bernanke, chair of Princeton University's economics department.
Letting inflation creep up during periods of expansion can be dangerous, Bernanke said. The 1970s are a case in point. It took a monetary shock -- and a very deep recession -- to reverse the high inflation of those years, he said.
"You take very very serious risks if you go back to the old 60s or 70s style policy, of thinking a little inflation can't hurt you," Bernanke said.
The Plain Dealer
Copyright 2000 Plain Dealer Publishing Co.
February 2, 2000 WednesdayHEADLINE: SAT DIDN'T; PREDICT BUSH OR BRADLEY SUCCESS
BYLINE: By Geoff KabaserviceThe papers of the late Kingman Brewster Jr., who was president of Yale in the 1960s and '70s, include a letter from one E. Alden Dunham III, a former director of admissions at Princeton. Dunham argued that Ivy League universities were overemphasizing the importance of SAT scores.
For example, Dunham wrote, consider a recent Princeton graduate named Bill Bradley.
"Here is a guy who graduated Magna Cum Laude in history, the greatest basketball player in the Ivy Colleges, Rhodes Scholar, probably a governor of Missouri someday - and all with a 485 verbal SAT!"
Bill Bradley, the thinking presidential candidate, scored a 485 verbal on his SAT? That's lower than George W. Bush, the allegedly slow-witted presidential candidate. As reported recently in the New Yorker, Bush got an SAT verbal score of 566.
So what conclusions should we draw? The important conclusions aren't about whether Bradley is really smart or Bush is really dumb. They're about ways in which these two are actually similar. Above all, both of them are beneficiaries of affirmative action. …
By the time Bradley applied to college in the early '60s, selective schools such as Princeton and Yale viewed themselves as intellectual training grounds, not the clubby enclaves of previous times. In that era, a score below 500 on either the verbal or math section of the SAT normally meant rejection.
A 1960 New Yorker article described the case of an African-American applicant to Yale who was valedictorian and president of his high school class and a stellar athlete to boot. His application was rejected because his 488 SAT average "would certainly be the lowest in the entire Yale class."
But the cutoff point was more flexible for top athletes, for alumni "legacies," and, starting in the late '60s, for blacks and other minorities.
This leads to a question for Bradley and Bush: If you got into an Ivy League college for reasons other than "qualifications" narrowly defined as grades and test scores, what is so terrible about bending the same rules on behalf of African-Americans? …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Copyright 2000 Bergen Record Corp.
February 2, 2000HEADLINE: PROFESSOR'S VISION OF MATH AS 'POETRY EARNSHIM A MEDAL1 NEW3
BYLINE: ADAM GELLER, Staff WriterThere are people who see math as just so many numbers and formulas.
Then there is Felix E. Browder, for whom mathematics is pure inspiration, a key for unlocking the mysteries of the world around us.
"Math does captivate the imagination. It carries you above yourself. It's a form of poetry,"says Browder, a Rutgers University professor who this week was named by President Clinton to receive the National Medal of Science and Technology. "It just sort of liberates the imagination."
Browder is one of 17 Americans honored this year with the nation's highest award for scientific achievement. The medals will be presented at a White House ceremony next month. …
The love of math has been part of Browder's life since he was a boy, in Yonkers, N.Y. Browder, who was born in Russia and came to the United States at 5 or 6, was a prodigy who completed high school at 16, graduated from the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology at 18, and earned his doctorate at Princeton University two years later. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
February 2, 2000HEADLINE: Health concerns test Princeton's depth
BYLINE: By Alex Iliff, The Daily Princetonian
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.Seventeen games into its season, two games into its Ivy League schedule, the Princeton men's basketball team is learning some new things. The first of those things is a knowledge of medicine, which leads to the second -- the discovery of depth.
With injuries to senior power forward Mason Rocca and junior forward Nathan Walton, the characteristically rigid Princeton lineup has had to learn flexibility quickly in order to fill the holes. Sophomore forwards Mike Bechtold and Ray Robins have changed from bit players to regulars over the last few games, giving the Tigers a new look on the court.
The most recent subtraction from Princeton's frontcourt was Walton, who broke his hand in practice on January 19. The injury has mended nicely, however, as Walton contributed a vital basket and two rebounds in the late stages of the Tigers' win over Columbia. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 Brown Daily Herald via U-Wire
February 2, 2000HEADLINE: Several universities plan to build multi-million dollar science buildings
BYLINE: By Shannon Tan, Brown Daily Herald
SOURCE: Brown U.
DATELINE: Providence, R.I.In an effort to remain competitive with other universities, last month Yale University announced its plans to spend $500 million to upgrade its science programs and facilities.
Although only a quarter of Yale students are currently majoring in science or engineering, this initiative will establish Yale's reputation for the sciences as well as the humanities, according to Larry Haas, director of public affairs at Yale.
"We consider ourselves to be on everyone's short list of universities over the globe, but to remain there, we should continue to excel in sciences," Haas said.
The new buildings, which will be completed in six to eight years, include new facilities for chemical, biological, and environmental research as well as for engineering and for the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. …
Many other colleges and universities, including Princeton University, Hofstra College, Middlebury College, Williams College, and the College of Wooster, have announced new science centers in recent years. …
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
February 2, 2000HEADLINE: Princeton refuses to shy from top foes
BYLINE: By David Mordkoff, The Daily Princetonian
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.While its academic strength is unmatched, when it comes to women's basketball, the Ivy League is lightly regarded around the rest of the country. The league champion seldom garners a seed outside the mid-teens in the NCAA Tournament, and even more rarely advances past the first round.
Part of this lack of respect stems from the fact that most of the schools in the league play weak out-of-conference schedules.
While teams from other small conferences make a concerted effort to schedule teams from elite conferences, the majority of Ivy League squads are content with playing equal or lesser competition.
Princeton, however, is the exception to this rule. Thus far this season, the Tigers have played a formidable out-of-conference schedule.
In a recent simulation of the Rating Percentage Index for women's basketball, the Southeastern Conference, the Big East and the Big Ten were ranked as the top three conferences in the nation, respectively.
Princeton has played four of its 14 out-of-conference games against opponents from these conferences -- Arkansas and Vanderbilt from the SEC, Providence from the Big East and Northwestern from the Big Ten. The other seven Ivy teams have played a total of five games against these conferences.
Of these nine games, the Ivy teams lost eight -- Harvard managed a win against Ohio State in November. While losses against superior squads may hurt a team's overall record, they also compel its players to improve. …
The Denver Post
Copyright 2000 The Denver Post Corporation
February 1, 2000HEADLINE: In with Lego test, out with SATs Colorado College tries new approach with some applicants
BYLINE: By Dave Curtin, Denver Post Higher Education WriterColorado College, in an effort to attract minority and disadvantaged students, is dumping those stodgy old college-admission exams in favor of a novel Lego-building test for a handful of applicants.
Instead of filling in bubbles with a No. 2 pencil, selected high school seniors are snapping together colorful Legos in hopes of attending the prestigious private college in Colorado Springs.
The revolutionary test is designed to pinpoint students likely to succeed at tough colleges despite below-average standardized test scores. The Lego test helps identify initiative, leadership and an ability to work in groups - qualities that hours-long ACT and SAT tests never quite get at. …
The Lego test and the 11 other exercises were devised by Deborah Bial, a Harvard doctoral student in education, and is supported by a $1.9 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The foundation is headed by William Bowen, a former president of Princeton University who co-wrote 'The Shape of the River,' a book that makes a case for affirmative action in college admissions. …
THE FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
Copyright 2000 Star-Telegram Newspaper, Inc.
February 1, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Black History Month; A primer
BYLINE: Javonna May-Mons; Special to the Star-TelegramWhat is the purpose of Black History Month?
Each February, the current and past achievements of African-Americans are celebrated in various ways. During this month, more positive images and information on black people are dispersed in the media than at any other time. Numerous celebrations and parades take place in most cities to promote black history and culture. Many museums, libraries and art galleries have special presentations and showcases in honor of black history. …
Listed below are just a handful of famous black Texans:
Barbara Jordan (1936-1996) Jordan was born in Houston. In 1956, she graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in government and history from Texas Southern University. She received a law degree from Boston University in 1959.
In 1966, Jordan became the first black woman to win a seat in the Texas Senate, and the first black since 1883. In 1972, she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1978, she left public office to teach at the University of Texas at Austin. During her lifetime, more than 25 schools awarded her honorary doctorate degrees, including Princeton University and Harvard University.
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Dartmouth via U-Wire
February 1, 2000HEADLINE: Bradley and Wilson
BYLINE: By Scott Given, The Dartmouth
SOURCE: Dartmouth College
DATELINE: Hanover, N.H.Bill Bradley has taken New Hampshire by storm, using the New Hampshire electorate's infatuation with the "outsider" candidate to his advantage. While it is uncertain whether this candidate's personality and vision will resonate beyond the small towns of New Hampshire in future weeks, it is clear that his nature and themes echo those of a former President whom many historians hold in high esteem: Woodrow Wilson.
Asked last October about the qualities a leader must possess, Bradley answered: "I think that a leader has got to have the ability to see around the corners, to see the future before it's here. I think Woodrow Wilson had that. What he talked about America became America in the 20th century."
Raised in the South, both Bradley and Wilson came from families in which religion had the greatest influence on their young lives. Wilson's father was a Presbyterian minister and Bradley's mother, a Presbyterian Sunday school teacher. Their quests for secular knowledge brought each student to the Northeast, where they both attended Princeton University.
Wilson's path led him to the presidency of the university, and Bradley went on to play in the National Basketball Association. Each profession, dotted by triumphs and failures, brought the rising stars into the national spotlight, helping to launch their respective political careers. The citizens of New Jersey elected Wilson their Governor in 1910, and they elected Bradley to the United States Senate in 1978. …
The Washington Times
Copyright 2000 News World Communications, Inc.
February 01, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Cubans in exile; Group splits along generational lines
BYLINE: Alejandra BronfmanPublished at the same time as the troubling spectacles enacted recently in both Miami and Havana over the fate of 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez, Maria de los Angeles Torres' new book, "In the Land of Mirrors: Cuban Exile Politics in the United States" (University of Michigan Press, $42.50, 235 pages, illus.), voices a timely warning to both sides of this feud about the dangers of intransigence. The loudest voices on both sides of the battle over Elian have used the occasion to revive demonizing rhetoric that by many accounts ought to have died with the Cold War. Lost in the fray is sensitivity to the traumas suffered by a little boy who watched his mother die and clung to a raft for two days in the middle of the ocean.
If the bickering and manipulations of public sentiment by American, Cuban-American and Cuban politicians have been appalling, they have not been surprising. One accomplishment of this book is its presentation of the history of the frequently cynical use of Cubans who have left Cuba by different sets of politicians - in both Cuba and the United States - as pawns in struggles between states, whether it involves international diplomacy, nationalist mobilizations, or domestic electoral strategizing.
Cuban emigrants, concentrated in Miami but with sizable outposts in New Jersey, New York and Chicago, have been invoked as the representation of treason by the Cuban government even as that same government sought ways to tap its impressive accumulation of wealth. On the other hand, the U.S. government has vacillated between opening its ports to welcome exiled Cubans as heroic seekers of democratic freedom and regarding them with the suspicion and disrespect with which it treats many immigrants from other Latin American countries. …
Alejandra Bronfman has visited Cuba a number of times in the course of her history studies at Princeton University.
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Copyright 2000 The Atlanta Constitution
January 31, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Surfer on billboard sends shills down the spine
BYLINE: Elliott Brack, StaffDURING THESE COLD DAYS, each morning when making a left turn to come to work, which is before the car heater is putting out good heat, I spy a billboard with a guy holding a surfboard, with no shirt on. It sends shivers down my cold back these winter days. It won't be too soon for us when Mindspring changes that billboard, so that we'll be cozier coming to work. Even if Mindspring keeps it up during hot weather, it'll probably still send shivers down my back! …
Just thinking of it sends chills up my back. …
What brought it to mind was a new book by Gary Krist, "The Chaos Theory." It made me remember the guy who abducted Barbara Mackle was also named Gary Krist, along with an accomplish, Ruth Eisemann Schier. They both were later found guilty and sentenced to prison. I also remember reading a few years ago where Krist had been released from prison.
Well, the author is not the perpetrator. The author Krist was only 11 years old in 1968, and went on to graduate from Princeton University. …
Austin American-Statesman
Copyright 2000 The Austin American-Statesman
January 31, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Bell Labs' babies profit off its ideas
BYLINE: Joseph R. PeroeMURRAY HILL, N.J. -- It sounds like the best idea since the bagel-slot toaster: a hard drive that is 25 times faster and stores a hundred times the data of today's computers.
Bell Labs -- the Lucent Technologies research unit that created the transistor and the laser -- has developed a new light-sensitive plastic that could revolutionize data storage.
Princeton University's library could be stored on just 10 hard drives coated with the new material. Decades of animal photos from National Geographic could be stored in holograms read by a green laser.
Who decides if the idea gets the green light? Lucent New Ventures Group. It's the judge and jury that rules on whether an invention at Bell Labs can be turned into a profitable small business. Lucent is using the ventures group to turn more ideas into income and spin out entrepreneurial firms that could go public in the new millennium. …
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Copyright 2000 The Cincinnati Enquirer
January 31, 2000HEADLINE: In the land of rising sum; Ohioans tell Japanese they're glad for business
BYLINE: JOHN J. BYCZKOWSKI
SOURCE: The Cincinnati EnquirerTOKYO - One thing doesn't add up with Ohio Gov. Bob Taft's trade mission to Japan, and that's his height vs. Japanese structures.
On a Saturday evening cruise through Tokyo harbor for Ohio companies and state trading partners, the 6-foot-3 governor had to crouch to keep from banging his head on the 6-foot ceiling of the ship's dining room.
He welcomed his Japanese guests with konban wah (good evening), and introduced many by name, with accuracy one Japanese guest described politely as "almost."
The constant crouching had its effect, the governor said later: "I am now in a permanently bowed position." …
Mr. Taft is no stranger to Far East affairs. The governor's experience with Japan might be limited to a visit or two, but he spent two years in Vietnam with the State Department during the Vietnam War.
In attendance for the evening cruise were Shin Hasegawa, the governor's Princeton University roommate who is today a printing executive in Tokyo, and a Tokyo opera singer who - when she was 9 - was a neighbor of first lady Hope Taft's in Thailand during the governor's stint in Vietnam. …
Editor & Publisher Magazine
Copyright 2000 Editor & Publisher Co., Inc.
January 31, 2000BYLINE: Allan Wolper, Greg Mitchell
The Haunting
Their past looked perfect, until reporters finally took another look
As a political metaphor for the 2000 presidential race, the image speaks volumes: a reporter from Senator John McCain's home state, banished from his campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express, and forced to follow that bus - filled with reporters from across the country - in a rented car, trailing behind the candidate like his Arizona past, ignored for a spell, but unshakable.
Until the dawn of the new year, exactly one month before the New Hampshire primary, John McCain, a Republican, was one of two candidates who seemed to be living a charmed political life. The other was former Senator Bill Bradley, the Democrat from New Jersey. They were the fresh faces of Campaign 2000, the pampered warriors of political pundits, twin mavericks whose party affiliation was incidental to their quest for the presidential nomination. …
Mike Wallace, the investigative bulldog from CBS television's "60 Minutes," broadcast his desire to work for a McCain administration: "I'm thinking I may quit my job if (McCain) gets the nomination."
Bradley, the Princeton University basketball legend turned Rhodes Scholar and New York Knicks basketball star, was the insular scholar of the Senate who reformed the tax code, then resigned in 1996 after three terms complaining that Washington was besieged by special interests. Bradley was the anti-Clinton who would make the country forget about Monica Lewinsky and impeachment.
The New York Times published a front- page story last Nov. 12 promoting a Bradley campaign fundraiser three days later at Madison Square Garden that featured former National Basketball Association stars. The article included a 1969 picture of him sinking a shot in a basketball game. The Times sports section also rooted noisily for him. …
Electronic Engineering Times
Copyright 2000 CMP Media Inc.
January 31, 2000HEADLINE: Sarnoff: past is prologue to future
BYLINE: George LeopoldThe result of nearly six decades of research and development at Sarnoff is a lengthy list of consumer products that have quite literally changed the way Americans live.
At the southern end of the great American research triangle dominated by Bell Laboratories and IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center, the former David Sarnoff Research Center is busy reinventing itself as the Sarnoff Corp. The television and CMOS pioneer has changed hands several times since the salad days of analog TV in the 1950s and '60s and the emergence of consumer electronics. But the spirit of intellectual curiosity and pursuit of the leading edge of product technology remains strong in the storied corridors of this gracefully aging complex next to Princeton University.
The place is steeped in history, from its legendary founder, RCA Corp. Chairman "General" David Sarnoff-the Russian immigrant who became a key figure in the first half of the 20th century-to Richard Williams' and George Heilmeier's pioneering work on liquid-crystal displays and advances in charged-coupled-device technology. In between, Sarnoff Labs developed the first linear CMOS chips, eventually cranking out more of the devices than any other in history.
One of the tasks of the managers of Sarnoff Corp., now a $140 million for- profit subsidiary of SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.), is to preserve the laboratory's legacy of innovation while surviving in the cutthroat world of single-technology spin-off companies and contract research. …
The story of Sarnoff's transformation from a TV research lab into multidisciplinary incubator of new businesses is nicely illustrated by the " Princeton engine," a powerful machine in search of an application.
Work on the 17-layer board began in the laboratories here in the mid-1980s. It was envisioned as a programmable PC for testing digital signal processing in new TV receivers. But the Princeton engine was considered so complex by TV engineers at RCA's Indianapolis manufacturing plant that its chances of working were no better than one in a million, said Carnes, who ran the Indianapolis plant.
To his surprise, the Princeton engine developed by a handful of Sarnoff researchers not only worked well but became an enabling technology that eventually found its way into Sarnoff's recently unveiled Diva video server, a key component of the company's digital video strategy. A Sarnoff technology venture, Diva Systems Corp., is promoting interactive video-on-demand systems for the cable industry so it can offer access to more than 1,000 movies and other special programming. …
New Jersey Law Journal
Copyright 2000 American Lawyer Newspapers Group, Inc.
January 31, 2000HEADLINE: Providing Domestic Partner Benefits; (159 N.J.L.J. 413)
BYLINE: Martha L. Lester and Julie Levinson WernerLester is a member and chair of the employment practices group of Roseland's Lowenstein Sandler. Levinson Werner is an associate in the group. The authors thank Marie T. DeFalco, an associate in the firm's tax department, for her contributions to this article.
POP:
Employers are increasingly exploring ways to provide health insurance coverage and other benefits to partners of unmarried employees in long-term, committed relationships.
One of today's most controversial employee benefit law issues involves extending domestic partner benefits (DPBs) to workers. Recognizing that cohabitation among both heterosexual and gay couples is increasingly common, many private companies and government entities are offering DPBs to their employees in an effort to accommodate existing workers and recruit new ones in a tight job market. …
Echoing private sector trends, government and university employers are also introducing DPBs. An estimated 73 state and local government entities and 130 colleges and universities now offer these benefits, including Princeton University and Rider University in New Jersey. The growing list of cities now providing such benefits include: New York City; San Francisco; Los Angeles; Cambridge, Mass.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Minneapolis; Ithaca, N.Y.; Seattle; Atlanta; and Denver. …
PR Newswire
Copyright 2000 PR Newswire Association, Inc.
January 31, 2000, MondaySECTION: WASHINGTON DATELINE
HEADLINE: Internet Policy Institute Issues Paper Examining the Role of the Internet On America's Enhanced Economic Productivity;
The Internet Policy Institute today issued a paper by Princeton University economist Alan S. Blinder that examines the relationship between U.S. productivity and the Internet. Blinder writes, in the second of a series of briefing papers aimed at presidential candidates and high-level policymakers, that the Internet could be the "missing link" between U.S. business investment in computers over the past two decades and the new acceleration in national productivity.
Blinder's paper, "The Internet and the New Economy," examines possible explanations for why U.S. productivity accelerated at about the same time that the Internet became a critical communications tool for businesses.
"For two decades, American businesses invested in ever more powerful and cheaper computers, but with no apparent productivity gains. Now we may finally be seeing some dividends on these investments. What changed?," writes Blinder, who is also a Visiting Fellow of the Brookings Institution. "A working hypothesis, which is highly conjectural for now, is that all these high-speed computers required greater interconnectivity before they could really boost productivity on a national scale -- and the Net has now provided the missing link.
"Some evidence ... points to a speedup of productivity growth (and hence of sustainable GDP growth) in recent years, and it occurs at just about the time that access to the Internet was diffusing rapidly through the economy," Blinder concludes. Blinder's briefing paper reviews several economic concepts that impact his hypothesis, such as why the growth rate of labor productivity is the primary determinant of how fast real wages can and will grow in the long run. He also discusses ways a society can boost the growth of productivity, how technology relates to productivity, and the implications of the impact of technology on public policy. …
Sports Illustrated
Copyright 2000 Time Inc.January 31, 2000
HEADLINE: Chris Thomforde, Princeton Center; February 27, 1967
BYLINE: Kelley KingNot five years before his beatific smile landed on the cover of SI, Chris Thomforde was a string bean of a kid who, if he couldn't be a wide receiver for Vince Lombardi, wanted to be a missionary for the Lutheran church. But then Thomforde sprouted to 6'9", developed a sweet shooting touch and became a basketball All-America at Long Island Lutheran High in Brookville, N.Y. When Thomforde was a senior in 1964-65, it took a member of Princeton's Fellowship of Christian Athletes--Bill Bradley--to persuade him to continue his hoops career as a Tiger. …
"God gives us special skills, and mine was basketball," says Thomforde. "I had a responsibility to develop that talent." Along with senior point guard Gary Walters--now Princeton's athletic director--Thomforde as a sophomore took this mission to the 1967 Eastern Regional semifinal, in which Princeton lost in OT to eventual NCAA runner-up North Carolina. …
Thomforde, who used to pray not for a win but that no one would get hurt, serves as Princeton basketball's informal chaplain. While he and his wife, Christine, have settled in the advent-calendar town of Lindborg, Kans., where Thomforde is pastor and president of Bethany College, former teammates still call on him for spiritual counsel. Among his flock is his former coach Pete Carril--who once, during a sloppy game against Harvard, screeched to his mild-mannered center, "How can there be a God when people play this way?"
Philadelphia 76ers coach Larry Brown, an assistant on the North Carolina team that sent Princeton packing in 1967, recently asked Thomforde if he misses the game. "I had to say no," says Thomforde, apologizing in advance for sounding like Jimmy Stewart. "Playing in the NCAA tournament was exciting, but to be present when someone is entering marriage or leaving this world--that has made for a blessed life." --Kelley King
The Tampa Tribune
Copyright 2000 The Tribune Co. Publishes The Tampa Tribune
January 31, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: RNA COMPUTER
BYLINE: Compiled by Kurt LoftPrinceton University researchers have developed a kind of computer that uses the biological molecule RNA to solve complex problems. The achievement marks a significant advance in molecular computing, an emerging field in which scientists are harnessing molecules such as DNA and RNA to solve certain problems more efficiently than could be done by conventional computing.
According to the National Academy of Sciences, the Princeton scientists used a test tube containing 1,024 different strands of RNA to solve a simple version of the "knight problem," a chess puzzle representative of a class of problems that requires brute-force computing.
The knight problem asks how many and where can one place knights on a chessboard so they can't attack each other. For the purposes of their experiment, the researchers restricted the board to just nine squares, so there were 512 possible combinations. Of these, the RNA computer correctly identified 43 solutions.
Although the test-tube computer has no immediate applications, it does have attractive aspects, says evolutionary biologist Laura Landweber, who led the research project.
"It begs the question, What is a computer?" Landweber says. "A computer can be an abacus; it can be many types of devices. This is really an abstraction of a computer."
One advantage, she says, is that the genetic molecules DNA and RNA, which encode all the instructions for creating and running life, can store much more data in a given space than conventional memory chips. Another benefit is that, with vast numbers of genetic fragments floating in a test tube, a biomolecular computer could perform thousands or millions of calculations at the same time. It is an extreme example of parallel computing, which is a rapidly growing area of computer technology.
University Wire
Copyright 2000 The Daily Princetonian via U-Wire
January 31, 2000HEADLINE: Mandela cancels Princeton U. appearance
BYLINE: By Mike Grabell, The Daily Princetonian
DATELINE: Princeton, N.J.Nelson Mandela has canceled his visit to Princeton University scheduled for February 25, officials announced Thursday.
The former South African president had been slated to deliver an address in Jadwin Gym and receive an honorary degree from the University recognizing his many contributions to humanity.
Mandela was forced to call off his entire tour of the United States that included a visit to the University because of continuing international obligations, according to a statement from President Shapiro.
Mandela will be traveling to the Middle East and west Africa during the time he was scheduled to visit Princeton, according to University spokesman Justin Harmon '78.
African studies program director Jeffrey Herbst said Mandela holds a critical position as the official mediator for negotiations in Burundi, a nation in central Africa. "Burundi has been a site of mass violence between the Hutus and the Tutsis since its independence in the 1960s," Herbst said, adding that the country is "teetering on the edge" of warfare. …
USA TODAY
Copyright 2000 Gannett Company, Inc.
January 31, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Some experts wary of wiping out national debt
BYLINE: Owen Ullmann"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."
-- Alexander Hamilton, 1781
The observation by America's first Treasury secretary seems to fly in the face of modern-day common sense, not to mention deeply held public opinion.
Yet, at a time when leaders are calling for paying off the national debt, economists across the political spectrum are echoing the view expressed by Hamilton 219 years ago.
Reducing the debt is a good idea, they say, but eliminating the debt might not be the wisest course.
This conclusion is even shared by economic advisers to presidential candidates who want to wipe out the $3.6 trillion debt held by the public by 2013 or sooner. (The government actually has $5.7 trillion in total debt, but $2.1 trillion is money it owes itself for such things as Social Security and federal retirement benefits.
Talk about debt reduction refers only to the $3.6 trillion held by the public in the form of Treasury bills, notes and bonds.)
"Paying down the debt is not always good," says Princeton University economist Alan Blinder, an adviser to Vice President Gore. "We can imagine a recession in which we'd want to be cutting taxes, raising spending and building up debt. . . . We hope we don't face that anytime soon."…
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
January 31, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Farewell at NOAA Lab
BYLINE: Kamen, Washington Post Staff WriterBack on the scientific front, Jerry Mahlman, director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is calling it quits after 30 years of government service.
In a letter to staff, Mahlman said health and family concerns influenced his reason to leave. It's been great, he said, but there was a downside.
"I have seen the net effect, over my tenure as GFDL's director, of a systematic erosion of NOAA's research base by more than 50% in purchasing power," he wrote. "Disconcertingly, this has occurred over a period when society's demands for NOAA's information services have increased substantially."
The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL)
Copyright 2000 The Florida Times-Union
January 30, 2000 SundayHEADLINE: Prepare to meet a queen; Widow of Jordan's Hussein to speak
BYLINE: Judy Wells, Times-Union staff writerDon't feel bad if you are not sure how to properly greet Queen Noor of Jordan when she speaks at the Florida Forum Tuesday in the Florida Theatre.
Jacksonville has never had a queen visit before, according to the Women's Board of Wolfson Children's Hospital, which sponsors the event.
Noor, formerly Lisa Najeeb Halaby, is the widow of the late King Hussein. She is the American-born daughter of an Arab-American aviation pioneer. …
Noor was born in Washington and grew up there and in New York and Los Angeles. She graduated from Princeton University, Class of '74 (the school's first coed class), and she is an architect by training and a feminist by inclination. She married King Hussein in 1978. …
THE FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
Copyright 2000 Star-Telegram Newspaper, Inc.
January 30, 2000HEADLINE: Best Seat In The House; Ever-evolving chairs have many reclining for Super Bowl
BYLINE: John Austin; Star-Telegram Staff WriterThe boys will be primed for the Super Bowl today - the La-Z-Boys, that is.
While it may not be the greatest game for Cowboys fans, some will be watching from the ultimate armchair quarterback's perch.
"This is a life-support system," said Lewis Brown Jr., who owns furniture stores from the Metroplex to Houston, describing the new La-Z-Boy Oasis. "If you included a diaper, you could just live in there."
Naturally, the chair reclines. …
Still, with recliners of all brands in an estimated 25 percent of American households, there should be plenty of people in a horizontal universe during today's game. And even if they're parked in an dog-chewed, hand-me-down model, Americans' pining for reclining has made the sometimes-scorned chair something of a national icon.
"Absolutely," said Edward Tenner, a visiting researcher at Princeton University who is writing a book on technology and the human body. "It's an American thing. It's the realization of the American dream." …
"In the 19th century, the reclining chair was marketed as an invalid chair that well people could use," said Tenner, who has also written the book Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences. "The irony was, it was first marketed as a health chair and now it stands accused of being implicated in the couch-potato mentality.
"It's an extremely paradoxical thing," Tenner said. "Here's a health chair that's implicated in heart attacks." …
Knight Ridder Washington Bureau
Copyright 2000 Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
January 30, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Latest polls show Gore leading Bradley
BYLINE: By Jodi Enda and David GoldsteinMANCHESTER, N.H. _ Bill Bradley's once-commanding lead here has evaporated and, with just two campaign days left before the nation's first primary, the insurgent presidential candidate is fighting for his political survival.
The only Democrat willing to take on Vice President Gore, Bradley appeared for a brief time to be a real threat to President Clinton's chosen successor. But the feisty Gore changed his image and his game plan, and it now appears that only a major eleventh-hour shift here is likely to prevent his ultimate nomination to the presidency.
Although Bradley has vowed to remain in the race regardless of what happens here Tuesday, a sizable defeat in this state's influential primary would leave his candidacy on little more than life support. …
Fred Greenstein, a Princeton University political scientist, said Bradley is plagued by the nation's good fortune. Unless the economy turns sour -- and to help Bradley that would have to happen by the time New Yorkers and Californians vote March 7 --Democratic voters will see little reason to switch horses midstream, he said.
"It's an insurgent campaign in a period when there isn't a lot of malaise and distress that calls for an insurgent," Greenstein said. …
The San Francisco Examiner
Copyright 2000 The Hearst Corporation
January 30, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Competition for wannabe millionaires
BYLINE: ALAN T. SARACEVIC
SOURCE: EXAMINER TECHNOLOGY WRITESO YOU want to be a millionaire?
The book says you should go to college, get a business degree and start a company.
Reality says you go to college, rack up a ton of debt and start a dead-end job.
The partners of the Hummer Winblad venture capital fund are out to change all that . . . at least for a few lucky students.
The company is holding a business plan competition this spring, guaranteeing funding to the winning team, as well as establishing an equity position for the university the winning team attends.
Patterning the contest after the NCAA basketball tournament, commonly known as "March Madness," Hummer Winblad is soliciting business ideas from students around the world, with the 64 finalists competing in a weekly runoff.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, with finalists to be announced Feb. 17. More details can be found on the contest Web site (winbig.humwin.com).
The basketball theme is a good fit for Hummer Winblad, whose founder, John Hummer, played in the real NCAA tournament back in 1969 as a center for Princeton University. Hummer went on to play in the NBA for the Buffalo Braves and Seattle Supersonics.
Unfortunately for Hummer Winblad, the NCAA was not too thrilled with the contest's title. It recently informed the firm that the use of "March Madness" was a copyright infringement. Hummer Winblad changed the name of the contest to "The February Madness Start-Up Tournament: Nothin' but the Net." …
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
January 30, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Dreaming of Jerusalem
BYLINE: Peter McKennaTHE MULTIPLE IDENTITIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST
By Bernard Lewis
Schocken. 163 pp. $21THE TRANSFORMATION OF PALESTINIAN POLITICS: From Revolution to State-Building
By Barry Rubin
Harvard Univ. 288 pp. $29.95Reviewed by Peter McKenna
In an age of globalization, porous borders and cultural wars, the thorny issue of identity has taken on greater significance. In the Middle East, the multiple and changing identities of peoples -- especially along religious and citizenship lines -- are beginning to erect barriers between "us" and "them." The Multiple Identities of the Middle East, written by Bernard Lewis, a noted author and emeritus professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, explores the potential for identity-based conflict and enmity within the region.
Most of Lewis's energies are focused squarely on the primary elements of personal identity -- religion, language and descent -- in an essentially male-dominated world. He also examines the emergence and growing importance of the state and its ruling elite. Where peoples once based their allegiance on blood, place and religious community, they now identify themselves and their political loyalties according to the state in which they reside. Lastly, the book deals with the symbolic trappings of identity, from national anthems to religious attire, and the obvious (and often resented) Western infiltrations.
Along with the rise of state allegiance and nationalistic pride, Lewis is surprised by the real fears throughout the region of what would happen (e.g., civil war, economic misery and social fragmentation) should the state collapse and dissolve into its constituent parts (a potent argument against the urge to send coalition forces marching toward Baghdad in the waning days of the Gulf War). In the end, though, there is no mistaking Lewis's preoccupation with the resurgence of Islam and its implications for identity politics in the volatile Middle East. What seems to worry him is the relationship between an increasingly disillusioned "Arab street" and the growing appeal of Islamic fundamentalism and religious militancy. …
Birmingham Post
Copyright 2000 Midland Independent Newspapers plc
January 29, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: MAN 'STALKED STAR BROOKE FOR 15 YEARS'
The man accused of stalking actress Brooke Shields has been terrorising her for the past 15 years, a detective told a Los Angeles court.
Miss Shields has been the obsession of Mark Ronald Bailey (41) since her days at Princeton University, said Det Merrill Ladenheim.
He has sent more than 100 letters and 50 nude pictures of himself to her, he said. …
Det Ladenheim said Miss Shields has been bombarded with letters and nude pictures since Bailey was arrested for a burglary at the actress' home in 1985. "She stated that the name Mark Bailey invoked great fear," the police officer said.
Bailey was arrested in Los Angeles after sheriff's deputies began to follow him. He left a hotel, walking several blocks before he lit a cigarette, stared at his own reflection in an office window and calmly pulled out a .25 calibre stainless steel pistol, holding it to his side, Det Ladenheim said.
The semi-automatic pistol was loaded with five rounds, and the serial number had been erased, the investigator said.
Bailey faces three criminal charges: stalking, illegally possessing a gun as a convicted felon and having a gun with its serial number filed off.
THE JOURNAL (Newcastle, UK)
Copyright 2000 Newcastle Chronicle & Journal Ltd
January 29, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: World Round-Up
US: The man accused of stalking actress Brooke Shields has been terrorising her for the past 15 years, a detective told a Los Angeles court. Shields has been the obsession of Mark Ronald Bailey, 41, since her days at Princeton University, the court heard. He has sent more than 100 letters and 50 nude pictures of himself to her.
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Copyright 2000 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
January 28, 2000HEADLINE: MAN INDICTED FOR E-COMMERCE CREDIT CARD THEFT
SOURCE: BLOOMBERG NEWS
DATELINE: SAN JOSE, Calif.
A federal grand jury yesterday indicted a 22-year-old former Princeton University student, alleging that he stole about 1,800 credit card numbers from an electronic-commerce company in Palo Alto, Calif.
Peter Iliev Pentchev, of Sofia, Bulgaria, broke into the company's computers and installed programs that also enabled him to steal user names and passwords, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Mavis Lee.
Lee did not identify the company at its request.
The incidents, which authorities say occurred in November and December 1998, underscore the growing concern about the vulnerability of Web sites to Internet crime, as consumers have become more confident about using their credit cards to shop online.
Pentchev's actions brought down one of the company's Web sites for about a week and caused the company to lose about three weeks of data, Lee added.
Copley News Service
Copyright 2000 Copley News Service
January 28, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Stalking defendant accused of terrorizing actress for half her life
BYLINE: Norma Meyer
DATELINE: LOS ANGELESThe rambling letters and Hallmark cards began arriving for actress Brooke Shields more than 15 years ago. Sometimes, the sender enclosed lewd Polaroid photos of himself in the nude.
Mark Ronald Bailey's fan obsession with Shields had already landed him in jail in New Jersey. He was convicted for the 1985 attempted break-in of Shield's home while she was a student at Princeton University. Years later, after telling police he would ''get her for what she has done to me,'' Bailey was convicted of making terrorist threats against the former child model. Then in 1998, a federal court in New York issued an injunction ordering Bailey not to contact or go near the ''Suddenly Susan'' star. …
''She stated that the name Mark Bailey invoked extreme fear,'' the detective testified. ''She told me that Mr. Bailey had harassed, stalked and threatened her for the last 15 years of her life, even before she had been a student at Princeton in 1985.'' …
The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL)
Copyright 2000 The Florida Times-Union
January 28, 2000 FridayHEADLINE: Campaign notebook
BYLINE: From news servicesHIGH SCHOOL SMARTS: Bill Bradley, a Princeton graduate and former Rhodes scholar, scored a 485 on his verbal SAT, lower than the 566 earned on the same test by George W. Bush, a graduate of both Yale and Harvard who has had to defend his intellect.
Scott McClellan, a spokesman for Bush, said he could not confirm the 566 score originally reported by the New Yorker magazine.
The papers of the late Kingman Brewster Jr., president of Yale in the 1960s and 1970s, include a letter from E. Alden Dunham, a former director of admissions at Princeton. Dunham argued that Ivy League universities were overemphasizing the SAT's importance, and used Bradley, a Princeton graduate, as an example, according to the Web-based Microsoft publication Slate.
'Here is a guy who graduated magna cum laude in history, . . . Rhodes scholar, probably a governor of Missouri someday,' -- and all with a 485 verbal SAT!,' Dunham's letter said. …
The Morning Call (Allentown)
Copyright 2000 The Morning Call, Inc.
January 28, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: OFF-SEASONING; SOME OF THE AREA'S TOP SOPHOMORES HAVE BEEN HONING THEIR BASKETBALL SKILLS; DURING THE SPRING AND SUMMER PLAYING AAU BALL FOR THE LEHIGH VALLEY TAR HEELS.; AND AREA BASKETBALL COACHES ARE REAPING THE REWARDS.
BYLINE: KEITH GROLLER; The Morning Call
During the winter, Drew Christman is a Zephyr, Matt Guill is a Hornet, Adam Lane is a Trojan, Craig Steigerwalt is a Blue Bomber and Brett Evans is a Bulldog.
In the spring, all five become Lehigh Valley Tar Heels.
The five players are among the most talented sophomores in Lehigh Valley scholastic boys basketball this season and all five owe their development, at least in part, to playing AAU basketball during the offseason. …
Of course, the star-studded opponents offer the best competition and most vivid memories. Jay Radio, a long-time AAU coach, and Ohlson still talk about their team, which featured ex-Central Catholic and Princeton University standout Lewullis, playing against current New Jersey Net Stephon Marbury. …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
January 28, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: THE STATE OF THE UNION: NEWS ANALYSIS
Grand Ideas, Little TimeBYLINE: By R. W. APPLE Jr.
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Jan. 27With one eye on his own legacy and another on the political aspirations of his vice president, President Clinton claimed credit tonight for leading the nation onto the broad uplands of unparalleled prosperity and laid out an election-year manifesto for his party.
Inevitably, he spoke of successfully crossing his bridge to the 21st century. Inevitably, he spoke at great length. Inevitably, he put some Democratic spots on Republican ideas. Inevitably, too, he set sweeping goals -- no child raised in poverty, affordable health care for everyone, a cleaner and safer planet -- without providing much of a road map toward realizing them.
It was Mr. Clinton's last State of the Union address -- his final crack at an annual political ritual that he loves, in part because he is so good at it. Barring some national political crisis, he will have only two more occasions before he leaves office next year to address the nation at length, rather than in the snippets that appear on television and in news articles: at this summer's Democratic National Convention and in a farewell address later. …
(The) focus on the possible and the manageable, of course, seems to some a lack of vision, particularly when it comes to foreign policy. …
But historians increasingly see Mr. Clinton as "a politically talented underachiever" who dealt mainly in "incremental policy departures."
Those phrases come from a new book by Prof. Fred I. Greenstein of Princeton University, to be published in May by The Free Press. Titled "The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from F.D.R. to Clinton," it sums up this president as follows:
"It is a tribute to Clinton's resiliency and political prowess that he has succeeded in serving two presidential terms. It is a commentary on his weaknesses that this talented political leader has not had more to show for his time in office."
NOTE: This story also appeared in The Indianapolis Star.
The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA)
Copyright 2000 The Patriot Ledger
January 28, 2000 FridayHEADLINE: Morris delves into his subjects' stream of consciousness
BYLINE: CONSTANCE GORFINKLE, For The Patriot Ledger
SOURCE: For The Patriot LedgerFred Leuchter speaks with the guilessness of a child, although what he is saying is becoming increasingly bizarre.
He's explaining how he got into the execution business, how having grown up the son of a corrections officer in Malden, he became interested in instruments of death, teaching himslef the arts of electrocution, lethal injection, hanging and gassing. Soon, his expertise was being sought by states that used capital punishment.
Leuchter's soliloquy, in a new documentary film about him, is fascinating at the same time it's repellent. Leuchter talks about the problems of a malfunctioning electric chair with the same chatty matter-of-factness that an auto mechanic might describe a clogged fuel line.
Staring out from behind a pair of huge glasses that give him a bug-eyed look and casually remarking that he smokes six packs of cigaretttes a day and drinks 40 cups of coffee, Leuchter is the latest of the unusual characters that people the movies of Cambridge filmmaker Errol Morris. The films run the gamut from convicted killer Randall Dale Adams in "The Thin Blue Line" to the brilliant, crippled physicist Stephen Hawking in "A Brief History of Time."
"Mr. Death, the Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.," which opens today, is the strangest portrait in a gallery that celebrates the oddities among us. So strange, in fact, that the film languished on a shelf for six and a half years before Morris could raise enough money to finish it. Now it is being acclaimed by critics across the country. …
Having grown up on Long Island and gone to college at the University of Wisconsin and graduate school at Princeton and the University of California at Berkeley, Morris originally thought about becoming a writer. …
"But once I decided to become a filmmaker, that's really all I wanted to be."
San Jose Mercury News
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
January 28, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Student charged with hacking
BYLINE: By Howard MintzA federal grand jury in San Jose, Calif., indicted a former Princeton University student suspected of hacking into the computer system of a Palo Alto, Calif., e-commerce company and stealing nearly 2,000 credit-card numbers.
In the government's latest attempt to hunt down a computer hacker, federal prosecutors brought charges Wednesday against Peter Iliev Pentchev, a 22-year-old native of Bulgaria who is believed to have fled the United States after school officials confronted him about his computer activities.
According to the U.S. Attorney's office in San Jose, Pentchev left the country in late 1998, shortly after the alleged hacking incident occurred. Law enforcement officials believe Pentchev went to Bulgaria and were unclear Wednesday what diplomatic obstacles there may be to returning him to this country to face charges.
The four-count indictment charges Pentchev with violating federal computer laws by hacking into an undisclosed Palo Alto company between Nov. 20 and Dec. 19, 1998, stealing at least 1,800 credit-card numbers, as well as user names and passwords of that company's customers. The indictment does not specify the company, and federal officials declined to name it. …
Princeton University officials confronted Pentchev about the allegations in December 1998, and he disappeared shortly thereafter. If convicted, Pentchev faces a maximum penalty of 17 years in prison.
OBITUARIES
The Washington Post
Copyright 2000 The Washington Post
January 29, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Howard R. Bloch
GMU Economic Professor
Howard R. Bloch, 63, a George Mason University economics professor from 1969 to 1999 who retired as director of undergraduate economics studies, died of brain cancer Jan. 25 at his home in Fairfax Station.
Dr. Bloch was born in Germany and grew up in Alexandria.
He graduated from George Washington High School and received a bachelor's degree in business from Duke University in 1958 and an economics doctorate degree from Princeton University in 1964.
Before joining George Mason, he taught economics at Butler University in Indiana, Dartmouth College, Lawrence University in Wisconsin and Simmons College in Massachusetts. …
The Richmond Times Dispatch
Copyright 2000 The Richmond Times Dispatch
January 29, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: EX-HEADMASTER HERE DIES AT 79; ELMER GUIDED ST. CHRISTOPHER'S FOR EIGHT YEARS
BYLINE: Ellen Robertson; Times-Dispatch Staff WriterWarren Philo Elmer Jr. was headmaster at St. Christopher's School in Richmond only eight years, but the spirit he brought to the school left an enduring legacy.
Drawing inspiration from some of the school's traditional prayers, he wrote the words to the school hymn.
He also started St. Christopher's annual All Saints Day Service of Remembrance, a memorial service for alumni who have died during the preceding year.
Mr. Elmer, a 25-year-employee of the Princeton University administrative staff and a founder of its development office, died Tuesday in a Princeton, N.J., hospital after a lengthy illness. The Princeton resident was 79. …
Mr. Elmer left St. Christopher's to work as an administrator at St. Stephen's School in Rome, Italy. He also served on the U.S. Commission for United World Colleges before going to New Jersey to work at Princeton.
He had earned his bachelor's degree at Princeton before receiving his master's degree from Washington University. …
The Times-Picayune
Copyright 2000 The Times-Picayune Publishing Co.
January 31, 2000 MondayHEADLINE: HENRY ENGLER JR., RETIRED LOYOLA BUSINESS DEAN
BYLINE: From staff reportsHenry Julius Engler Jr., a retired professor and dean of the College of Business Administration at Loyola University who was active in community service projects, died Saturday at his home. He was 83.
Mr. Engler devoted his career in academia to Loyola, teaching in the College of Business Administration from 1949 to 1982 and serving as dean from 1954 to 1967, a time when the business school received its accreditation. …
He received a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Detroit and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Loyola. He also received a master's in business administration from Harvard University and a doctorate in business from Loyola. Mr. Engler also completed graduate courses at Columbia University, New York University, Tulane University and Princeton University. …
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Copyright 2000 P.G. Publishing Co.
February 1, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: TAMARA HOROWITZ; CHAIRWOMAN OF PITT PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT
BYLINE: ANITA SRIKAMESWARAN, POST-GAZETTE STAFF WRITEROn Sept. 1, Tamara Horowitz became the first woman to chair the world-class philosophy department of the University of Pittsburgh. The 22 fulltime faculty members were excited by the prospect of being led by a woman known for her enthusiasm and scholarship.
Within weeks, it became clear that her promising career would be cut short.
Ms. Horowitz was diagnosed with a brain tumor in late September, shortly before her 49th birthday. She died at her Shadyside home on Sunday morning.
"Taking over the chairmanship really was the acknowledgment on the part of her colleagues that she had achieved real stature in the profession," said colleague Robert Brandom, distinguished service professor at the University of Pittsburgh. "We were looking for great things in the next 25 years." …
The National Research Council ranked Pitt's philosophy department second in the country, behind Princeton University's department, based on criteria that included faculty quality. …
The Buffalo News
Copyright 2000 The Buffalo News
February 1, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: NEAL MCCALLUM
Neal McCallum, 71, of St. Petersburg, Fla., a former Bradford, Pa., and Buffalo resident, died Sunday (Jan. 30, 2000) in a St. Petersburg hospital after a brief illness.
Born in Bradford, he attended schools in Bradford, St. Petersburg and Buffalo. He was a 1949 graduate of Princeton University and served in the Army during the Korean War.
He was office manager for Firemen's Fund Group in Buffalo during the 1950s, then worked for Commercial Union Insurance Co. in Cleveland and Boston. He retired in 1989 and moved to St. Petersburg. …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
February 2, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: William McCleery, 88, Playwright and Editor
William McCleery, a playwright and editor, died on Jan. 16 at a hospital in Princeton, N.J. He was 88 and lived in Princeton.
Mr. McCleery had two plays on Broadway in the 1940's, "Hope for the Best," with Franchot Tone and Jane Wyatt, and "Parlor Story," with Walter Abel. He also dramatized Francis Grey Patton's novel "Good Morning, Miss Dove" (starring Helen Hayes) and Peter De Vries's "Mackerel Plaza." In 1949 Miss Hayes was acting with her daughter, Mary MacArthur, in Mr. McCleery's work "A Play for Mary" in a pre-Broadway tryout, but when Miss MacArthur died of polio, the production was canceled.
As an editor Mr. McCleery was affiliated with Princeton University for many years. He was the founding editor of "University: A Princeton Quarterly," edited the papers of Robert F. Goheen, president of the university and compiled several other volumes. …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
February 1, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: MUNSON, OLIVER CROMWELL
MUNSON-Oliver Cromwell, 75, passed away January 13, 2000 in the loving arms of his wife Sheryl. He was President and CEO of Grinnell Lithographic Inc. for the last forty-two years. He was a resident of Fort Lauderdale and Babylon, NY. He was an alumnus of Princeton University-Class of 45. …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
January 30, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: HALLWACHS, ROBERT GORDON
HALLWACHS - Robert Gordon. Died peacefully at home January 2. Beloved husband of Marianne, devoted father of Marianne Charny and Winnie, and grandfather of Matthew and Claire Charny. Taught English literature at Princeton University (1946-1955), Wells College (1955-1967), and Drexel University (1967-1979), where he was also Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. A man of great curiosity, wit and principle.
PR Newswire
Copyright 2000 PR Newswire Association, Inc.
January 31, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: World War II Enemies to Meet Friday, February 4 For History-Making Reconciliation at the River Kwai Bridge;
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31Friday, February 4, Ernest Gordon, retired captain of Scotland's Armed Forces and 3.5 year POW, who was honored recently by Queen Elizabeth II, and Takashi Nagase, Japanese ex-imperial POW officer/interpreter, will reunite for the first time in 50 years, to attempt reconciliation. They will meet at The River Kwai Bridge in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. …
Gordon, now 83, was captured by Japanese forces while escaping from Sumatra (presently Malaysia) after the fall of Singapore. A commander of Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Scotland's elite military, Gordon was forced to build the infamous Burma-Siam Railroad over the River Kwai, during which nearly 16,000 POW's and 80,000 laborers died.
Surviving the horror of the camp, Gordon later served as Dean of the Chapel at Princeton University for 26 years. Last July he was honored by Queen Elizabeth II for his ultimate heroism. Nagase, 81, has made over 100 trips to Thailand to restitute Japan's inhumane treatment of POWs, has established the River Kwai Peace Foundation and has been recognized by the Thai Royal Family. …
The Buffalo News
Copyright 2000 The Buffalo News
January 30, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: JOHN G. KLOEPFER, WENT ASHORE IN D-DAY LANDING
John George Kloepfer, 75, a longtime Central Park resident and member of St. Mark's Parish, died Saturday (Jan. 29, 2000) in Sisters Hospital after a lengthy illness.
Born and raised in Buffalo, Kloepfer graduated from Nichols School and Princeton University. His father, George Joseph Kloepfer, was vice president of Liberty Bank.
He was an Army veteran of World Ear II, a sergeant in the 4th Division and landed on Utah Beach during D-Day's third wave and also fought in the Battle of the Bulge. …
The New York Times
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
January 30, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: WHITE, HAROLD T., JR.
WHITE-Harold T., Jr. A retired investment banker, avid skier and sailor, died January 29, 2000 in his home in New Canaan, CT. He was a resident of New Canaan since 1949 and a summer resident of West Falmouth, MA since 1955. After graduating from the Milton Academy (MA) in 1933 and then Harvard University Magna Cum Laude in 1937, Mr. White pursued graduate studies in Physics at both Harvard and Princeton Universities. His Investment Banking career to White, Weld & Co. was interrupted by WWII. …
top