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March 15, 2000
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HIGHLIGHTS• Who owns the human genome?
• Peeking parents
• VLSI technology teases out inner workings of cells
• Peter Singer clarifies his attitudes on 'sentience' to the editor:
OTHER HEADLINES• Two massive quakes due to hit istanbul in coming decades: scientists
• What you won't learn at Harvard
• Poverty of numbers
• NCAA fairy tale begins; look out: cinderellas emerge every season, and st. bonaventure has its sights set on kentucky.
• UCLA expects maturity to pay dividends
• Margin notes: a cultural study: professor says scribbles can be priceless
• Samford looking for long-range shot at win
• Nit game summary Princeton at Penn State
• Along the water, disasters are waiting for their moment
• Cloning of pigs a huge step in human transplants; research expected to lead to organs that won't be rejected
• Spy again hosting swim championships at UM
• It's picking the cinderellas that wins the office pools
• Newsmakers - UN man moving up to hq
• Achievers
• Slaves to south's cause; the confederacy was fighting to preserve slavery, historians
• Royal boost for peace: jordan's queen noor aids mcgill's mideast program, which aims to empower poor people in the region
• Heidi Miller, CFO of priceline.com, joins enterprise risk solutions' board of directors; former cfo of citigroup latest member of esteemed board
• Lawyers take a detour along campaign trail
• State historic sites listed as endangered; landshortage, development pose a threat
• Princeton remains low in black faculty numbers
• Letters - Napoleon the pig at Princeton
• Fatherhood matters
• Playing the early decision game
• Quorex funding accelerates novel antibiotic discovery targeting drug resistant bacteria;
• Experience magazine creates new publishing niche; attracts top advertisers and one million readers in first year of publication
• Italy bestows math award on u. professor ; medal representing country's highest honor for a foreign mathematician is presented at weekend banquet
• Ranks of uninsured are rising
• Prison population distorts stats on unemployment
• Maria Ressa struggles with life choice
• Johnson gains elusive gold metal at state meet; emmaus cierski also realizes his golden dream in the 100-yard backstroke
• Colgate's women's cager coach returns to hometown
• Dance; the steps and songs of eastern Europe
• Briefing: education;princeton protest
• The Bronx boy was always good for a story
• New computers getting better at judging intensity of hurricanes
• Monroe latest topic for Oates
• Moorestown, NJ, stockholders try to stop executive bonuses at Coke
• Maximum density - an american chemist has cast doubt on the theory that a random
• Educators fight over who gets to teach adults
• Oxford is condemned by woman professor over 'sexual slur' novelist said written apology was not acceptablE
• UK; aust biologist nominated to prestigious science post
• Campaign 2000; with contests decided, late primaries lose steam
• Candidates neglect Asia
• Price vs. pride ; students weigh costs of black colleges
• Ethicist Singer elicits strong reactions from everyone
• The race is on to be new ba flag-carrier
• Art for the mind's eye
• Editorial - online notes threaten integrity
OBITUARIES• Atwater, Charles B.
• Robert W. Minton, at 81; worked as hollywood scriptwriter, author
• David Lightfoot Milbank, 70; cia officer, author
• Joseph 'bo Sullivan; ran for governor; former New Jersey Turnpike chief was 63
• John Warren Walker at 68; ran real estate brokerage
HIGHLIGHTS
The New York Times
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March 16, 2000HEADLINE: Who Owns the Human Genome?
BYLINE: By Lee Silver; Lee Silver is a professor of molecular biology at Princeton University.DATELINE: PRINCETON, N.J.
When President Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain stated this week that all scientific data on the human genome "should be made freely available to scientists everywhere," they entered a long-simmering fight in the furious competition to unlock the human genetic code. The problem is, the Clinton-Blair admonition won't further the public interest and may give one group of researchers an unfair advantage over the other.
On one side is a group of publicly supported Americans working in cooperation with British researchers financed by the nonprofit Wellcome Trust. This consortium, operating on the high-minded principle that nobody should own the human genome, releases its findings each day for scientists around the world to use freely.
On the other side are a handful of American biotech companies that are also mining the genome but are not revealing what they have found (at least for now). The most prominent of these ventures is Celera, which is decoding the genome at a faster pace than the public consortium. Its president, J. Craig Venter, is unapologetic about his motives: he wants to exploit the genome for profit.
Thus it is easy to see Dr. Venter in the role of Darth Vader while the government-supported scientists are Luke Skywalker, with only the interests of the public at heart.
But things are not as simple as they seem. This is less a fight about ethics than it is about profits and control.
In truth, no geneticist can deny that the secrets of the human genome will serve mankind most fully through the profit-motivated efforts of pharmaceutical and biotech companies to develop drugs and therapies. And despite the high-minded rhetoric of the top academic scientists in the genome effort, a number of them have financial stakes in companies that are not mapping the genome themselves but hope eventually to profit from the information generated by both the private and public efforts. …
The Christian Science Monitor
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March 14, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Peeking Parents
BYLINE: Mark Clayton, Staff writer of The Christian Science MonitorHIGHLIGHT: Increasingly, Mom and Dad are staying up close and parental as a 'virtual' presence on college campuses.
To Marsha Cohen, the squirrels that hopped into her son's Princeton University dorm room, scrounging for junk food, were neither cute nor amusing, but a potential health hazard.
Did anyone else know or agree? What, if anything, should be done?
Such are the questions that trouble parents when children go to college. In years past, such gnawing issues dropped silently into the abyss. This time, however, Ms. Cohen broached her concerns with 100 or so fellow Princeton parents who were part of a new e-mail discussion group formed last fall.
Cohen's squirrel in the dorm became part of an ongoing debate over dorm cleanliness, fire-sprinkler systems, the academic calendar, health issues, even campus parking problems at the New Jersey school. And that's a switch.
Parents have long been a silent campus constituency, seemingly destined to drop their college kids off, pay their bills, and wait for that rare letter, e-mail message, or phone call home. Now, at a handful of colleges and universities, parents are getting involved by going online and organizing e-mail roundtables, or "listservs," to inform and comfort each other with knowledge about the details of campus life. …
"Institutions are being changed through the electronic community," says John Dippel, who got the idea for a Princeton listserv for parents prior to dropping off his son for first-year student orientation. He printed up fliers inviting parents to send him their e-mail addresses and handed them out during visits to campus last fall. He got about 75 responses. …
Electronic Engineering Times
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March 13, 2000HEADLINE: VLSI technology teases out inner workings of cells
BYLINE: Chappell BrownPRINCETON, N.J. - The microfabrication capability of VLSI circuit technology could become a central aid in the quest to unravel the inner workings of living organisms. By making it possible to replicate and analyze biological experiments in parallel arrays on micro analysis chips, biologists are acquiring a new set of tools for probing the complex innards of cells.
The new possibilities for mass-producing biological experiments are being explored at Princeton University by biological researcher Robert Austin. Austin has developed a lab-on-a-chip technology capable of identifying unique biological characteristics at the micron scale. One goal of the project is to develop the capability of finding one unique cell among millions.
"Biological experiments are inherently nonrepeatable-that is one of the fundamental characteristics of all biological systems," Austin said. Often the data point of interest is not the result of a statistical average, but is a single unique individual among countless variations.
The nature of cancer cells reveals this essential problem in biological analysis. "It only takes one mutated cell to kill you," said Austin. "So even if a strategy such as chemotherapy kills off almost all cells in your body that are in a growth state, it will fail if one cancer cell remains."
Micron-scale lab eyed
Austin wants to develop a micron-scale lab to find that one individual cell. He and his colleagues at Princeton are putting together a lab technology that could do that, as well as sequence and map DNA molecules themselves. The effort involves the physical characterization of biological materials such as blood cells and macromolecules as well as the physical characterization of the inorganic compounds used in the manufacture of semiconductors. …
The New York Times
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March 12, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Peter Singer Clarifies His Attitudes on 'Sentience' To the Editor:
Lest your readers start bombarding me with even more letters, may I correct two errors in Debra Galant's otherwise very fair account of my "settling in" at Princeton (front page, March 5)?
First, I have never denied that newborn humans are sentient. That would be crazy position. Obviously babies can feel pain -- as can nonhuman animals. My view is that newborns are not self-aware, that is, do not have a sense of themselves as a separate object, with a past and a future.
Second, I don't think, that "every sentient creature deserves equal consideration for the opportunity to continue living without suffering." It would be more accurate to say that I think that every sentient being deserves to have its interests given equal consideration. The difference is significant, because I don't think that sentient creatures have a personal interest in continuing to live, unless they are also self-aware beings.
PETER SINGER
Princeton
The writer is DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University,
OTHER HEADLINES
Agence France Presse
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March 16, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Two massive quakes due to hit Istanbul in coming decades: scientists
DATELINE: PARIS, March 16Two enormous earthquakes, each equal to or bigger than a temblor that claimed more than 20,000 lives last August, will occur in the Marmara Sea south of Istanbul in the coming decades, seismologists warned Thursday.
Publishing a computer model in the British journal Nature, the team predicted the quakes would erupt in parts of the North Anatolian fault that have remained dormant for centuries but have suddenly been placed under stress by last year's quake. …
The seismologists, from Turkey, France and the United States, used a new mathematical model, called the Coulomb equation, which is based on the concept that earthquakes do not occur in one place all the time but are rather like falling dominoes.
According to this theory, the enormous energies released by a large quake weaken the next section in the fault line which itself then comes under stress and ruptures. …
The August 17 quake, measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale, occurred near the city of Izmit, 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Istanbul, killing more than 20,000 people.
The report was written by eight seismologists from Princeton University; Istanbul University and Istanbul Technical University; the Observatory of Earth Sciences in Strasbourg and the Institute for Global Physics in Paris. …
Money
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April, 2000HEADLINE: What You Won't Learn At Harvard
BYLINE: Penelope WangWhat's an Ivy League degree really worth? According to a new study by Alan Krueger, a Princeton economist, and Stacy Berg Dale, a researcher at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, not as much as you might think.
Krueger and Dale reviewed the 1995 incomes of 14,239 adults who had entered 30 colleges in 1976.
Their findings: Students who enrolled in colleges where the average SAT score was a lofty 1,200 earned about $76,800. Students who were accepted by the elite schools but enrolled in colleges with average SATs of 1,000 earned slightly more--about $77,000. "The most important factor in future success is the student," concludes Dale, "not the school." In fact, bright students who went to the less prestigious colleges may even have had an advantage over elite graduates. "They tended to rank higher in their classes, which helped them get into a better graduate school," says Dale. "And going to the best grad school really does matter." …
India Today
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March 20, 2000HEADLINE: Poverty of Numbers
BYLINE: Jairam RameshHIGHLIGHT: The debate on poverty numbers is stoked again but there are no definite trends
An article titled "Has Poverty declined since economic reforms" published recently in the Economic and Political Weekly is causing a flutter since it shows that rural poverty may have increased since 1991. The article is authored by Gaurav Datt, a World Bank economist. Critics of reforms are gloating, while the defenders of the faith have become sullen. Both are wrong.
Datt uses statistical data from the government's National Sample Survey (NSE) Organisation. During the pre-reform period of July 1989-June 1991, 35.37 per cent of the rural population and during the post-reform period of July 1995-December 1997 36.47 per cent of the rural population were estimated to be living below the poverty line. Urban poverty ratios, however, fell from 33.08 per cent to 29.02 per cent over the same period. Datt hedges his case by saying "there is no evidence to suggest that this has been due to an inegalitarian growth process".
All poverty estimates after 1993-94 are based on a "thin" sample of 20,000 households. This "thin" sample is considered unreliable for drawing any definitive conclusions. …
Meanwhile, a detailed analysis of prices and poverty in India till 1993-94 has just been completed by Angus Deaton and Alessandro Tarozzi of Princeton University, US. Officially, rural poverty fell from 39.18 per cent in 1987-88 to 37.21 per cent in 1993-94. Deaton and Tarozzi estimate that the ratio in 1993-94 may well have been 32.94 per cent, showing that rural poverty may have declined at a faster rate than is officially put out. Officially, the estimate is that urban poverty has increased from 22.56 per cent in 1987-88 to 32.62 per cent in 1993-94. The duo calculate that urban poverty may have instead fallen to anywhere between 18.11 per cent and 21.36 per cent. The state-level estimates are also different. For example, Andhra's rural poverty was officially just 16 per cent in 1993-94, the second lowest in the country after Punjab but the Princeton dons show that it may be more than double that figure. …
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
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March 16, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: NCAA fairy tale begins; Look out: Cinderellas emerge every season, and St. Bonaventure has its sights set on Kentucky.
BYLINE: Jack Wilkinson, StaffOnce upon a time, in the film "Caddyshack," Bill Murray actually spoke with perfect clarity. "It's a Cinderella story!" he cried, meaning golf. But Murray easily could have been talking hoops of the most heavenly kind.
Yes, Cinderella has become a frayed and overused cliche. No matter. At least not in the grandest sporting event of all, the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, where Cinderella imagery is most apt.
So, if the glass slipper fits, wear it. And every March it does, and they do. Every March, some small school from a mid-major conference springs a first-round, even a second-round, upset in the NCAAs and turns a high-seed big-school stepsister ugly. You could look it up.
Last year, Gonzaga and Miami of Ohio, each seeded 10th, along with Southwest Missouri State (12th) and Oklahoma (13th), reached the Sweet 16. Gonzaga advanced to the Elite Eight before the clock struck midnight PST for the Zags in the West Regional final. …
And in 1996, 13th-seeded Princeton showed Jim Harrick's defending national champion UCLA the back door in the first round, 43-41. …
Herewith, some Cinderella possibilities: …
Samford. A year ago, the Bulldogs were a tournament curiosity before a 22- point first-round loss to St. John's. The Trans America champs return with familiar strengths; the Bulldogs were second in the country in field-goal percentage (50.3) and hit 38.7 percent of its 3-pointers. With coach Jimmy Tillette an acolyte of ex-Princeton coach Pete Carrill, 13th-seeded Samford ran its back-door offense well enough to upset St. John's in the season- opener and to win at Alabama. …
Detroit Free Press
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March 16, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: UCLA expects maturity to pay dividends
BYLINE: By David A. MarkiewiczMINNEAPOLIS _ Of all the words used to describe UCLA basketball teams in recent years, "mature" usually wasn't the one that came up most often.
So when coach Steve Lavin spoke of how his Bruins had matured during the season, you had to listen. Mostly, he suggested, it was a case of growing through adversity.
"It was one of the things that really helped the maturity of this team," Lavin said as his squad prepared to take on Mid-American Conference tournament champion Ball State tonight in the Midwest Regional.
He was speaking of his team's reaction to the loss of star sophomore forward JaRon Rush on NCAA violations for most of the season. But he could just as well have been speaking about the stretch in the middle of the season when the Bruins lost six of seven games, including a 29-point blowout at Arizona State. …
Actually, the Bruins went through a lot last year, too, although they reserved the worst for the last. That occurred when they dropped their first-round South Regional game against the Detroit Mercy Titans, 56-53. That came only three seasons after an embarrassing first-round ousting by Princeton. …
The Ottawa Citizen
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March 16, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Margin notes: a cultural study: Professor says scribbles can be priceless
BYLINE: Laura LandonScribbling in books is usually frowned upon, but a University of Toronto professor says readers' margin notations -- which are sometimes lewd, sometimes clever and sometimes shocking -- are cultural gems.
''There are some surprising and even sensational discoveries to be made,'' said professor Heather Jackson, whose recently completed book Marginalia: Reader's Notes in Books, 1700-2000 will be released next year.
''It's like archeology,'' said Jackson, who has perused the margin musings of William Blake, T.S. Eliot, Northrop Frye and e.e. cummings as well as countless anonymous annotators. ''You're sifting stuff, and somewhere there may be something priceless.''
Her 15-year study, which began with the famous but quickly encompassed unknown margin writers, unearthed some surprises and revealed plenty about the cultures in which the marginalia were written, said Jackson.
Her curiosity was tweaked by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose marginalia were recognized for their merit even in his lifetime.
''I became interested in the cultural context that would bring these notes into being and would enable them to be taken seriously,'' said Jackson, who is compiling six volumes of Coleridge marginalia -- together with the texts that inspired the scribblings -- for a forthcoming Princeton University volume of the poet's collected works. …
USA TODAY
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March 16, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Samford looking for long-range shot at win
BYLINE: Gary MihocesCLEVELAND -- Samford University of Birmingham, Ala., isn't in the Ivy League.
But the Bulldogs run a Princeton-style offense, and they look to pull off a Princeton-style upset against Syracuse today in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
That means bombing away with the three-pointers to pull out the defense, then making the backdoor cuts for layups.
"We put five guys on the floor, and all five can shoot the threes. All five can go inside or out," guard Mario Lopez says.
Samford (21-10), champion of the Trans America Athletic Conference, leads Division I with 302 three-pointers on 780 attempts. It averages 9.7 threes a game, third in the nation.
Samford also leads the Division I overall field goal shooting percentage (50.3). Those backdoor layups help that.
Coach Jimmy Tillette, in his third season, committed to the Princeton-type offense after spending a spring watching videos of the Tigers. …
He visited the Princeton coaches. He still watches tapes of Princeton to keep up on new things the Tigers are doing. …
The Sports Network
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March 15, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: NIT Game Summary Princeton at Penn State
(Wednesday, March 15th)
Final Score: Penn State 55, Princeton 41
State College, PA (Sports Network) - Jarrett Stephens and Joe Crispin netted 11 points apiece, as the Penn State Nittany Lions dominated the Princeton Tigers, 55-41, at the Bryce Jordan Center in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament. Chris Young had 16 points for the Tigers (19-11) in the losing cause. …
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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March 15, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Along the water, disasters are waiting for their moment
BYLINE: By Gilbert M. Gaul and Anthony R. WoodThirty-eight years ago this month, the most devastating coastal storm in New Jersey history inundated Long Beach Island, drowning seven people, uprooting 600 houses and tearing the slender barrier island into six pieces.
Along the Eastern Seaboard, from North Carolina to New York, the great Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 killed 22 people, pounded 50,000 houses and left $1.3 billion in damage.
So shocking was the destruction that state and federal officials suggested the unthinkable: restoring the vulnerable shoreline to its natural state -- a buffer zone off-limits to risky development.
But no one listened.
Aided by generous disaster dollars, federal loans, and a grab bag of other taxpayer subsidies, beach towns built back bigger and closer than ever before.
Instead of a natural buffer, a barricade of pricey real estate now lines the nation's endangered coasts. …
The American dream of a house at the beach has turned into a taxpayer nightmare: billions of federal dollars to repair resorts damaged again and again. Billions more to monitor and fix environmental problems _ water pollution, unchecked runoff, leaky sewers, vanishing wetlands. And still billions more in decades to come in an endless struggle to guard beachfront real estate from rising seas and inevitable storms.
"These are not random acts of God," said Gregory E. van der Vink, who teaches a course on disasters at Princeton University. "It's only when people build in dangerous places that it becomes a natural disaster." …
Over the next six days, The Inquirer will examine how government policies have encouraged and subsidized hazardous development at the coast, insulating resorts from the consequences of their risky building, and exposing the U.S. Treasury to huge losses for decades to come. …
The Washington Times
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March 15, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: Cloning of pigs a huge step in human transplants; Research expected to lead to organs that won't be rejected
BYLINE: August Gribbin; THE WASHINGTON TIMESPigs have been cloned for the first time, dramatically changing the world of medicine.
The scientists who engineered the births of the five piglets, now 10 days old, said yesterday their success means it soon will be possible to produce genetically engineered pigs whose kidneys, hearts, livers and other organs could be transplanted into humans without fear of rejection. …
The cloning is important because pig organs are similar to human organs. Heart valves of pigs already are used to replace damaged valves in humans. And scientists around the world have for several years been studying pigs as potential sources for other transplant organs. …
Princeton University microbiologist Lee Silver, a renowned cloning specialist, said "the transition of diseases is a technical problem, and it can probably be overcome." If so, "there is no ethical problem involved."
Nonetheless, Mr. Silver said he suspects some will rebel at the idea of growing genetically engineered pigs for their organs. He said, though, that there is no ethical problem there either. "If people grow and eat pigs, they should be willing to use them as a source of organs to save human lives," he argues. …
The Capital (Annapolis, MD.)
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March 14, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: SPY again hosting swim championships at UM
BYLINE: BY TIM HYLAND Severna Park Staff WriterSixty-five swim teams will descend upon the University of Maryland, College Park, this weekend, bringing along dozens of coaches, hundreds of parents and more than 1,400 swimmers with them.
It's up to the volunteers of the SPY swim club to make sure all of them leave happy. For the second consecutive year, the Severna Park Youth swim club will play host to the YMCA Eastern Regional Swimming Championship, one of the largest swim meets in the country.
"This is a huge undertaking," said SPY Assistant Coach Jim Hutcheson, who is helping to coordinate the meet. …
So huge, in fact, that about 120 volunteers will be needed to make the meet a reality. Most of those volunteers are parents of SPY swimmers. Some volunteers have been working 20 hours a week organiiing, planning and preparing for the meet.
"SPY has by far the biggest parent support system of any club I know of," he said. "The story of this meet is the volunteers that make it happen. Nobody is paid, and it's a huge investment of time."
The work, though, has paid off. The event, first held at Princeton University in New Jersey, once drew just 600 swimmers. Through the work of clubs such as SPY, the meet has more than doubled in size and is now the largest age-group swim meet in the country. …
Copley News Service
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March 14, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: It's picking the Cinderellas that wins the office pools
BYLINE: Ed GraneyThat's Samford, not Stanford.
The rules by which most fill out their NCAA Tournament brackets differ like the waistlines of John Goodman and Calista Flockhart. Everyone has an angle, a theory, a can't-miss formula.
That's why no one ever wins those million-dollar promotions.
March is about madness, not sure things.
But there are a few trends that those sharpening No. 2 pencils might follow this week. …
Samford runs a tweaked version of Princeton's deliberate style and ranked second nationally in field-goal accuracy at 50.3 percent. It has to make shots against Syracuse's zone to have any chance. If the Bulldogs are even the slightest bit cold, this is blowout city for Jim Boeheim's team. But if the three-pointers fall and the Orangemen get tight ...
BANGKOK POST
Copyright 2000 FT Asia Intelligence Wire
March 14, 2000HEADLINE: Newsmakers - UN man moving up to HQ
Leaving Bangkok to take up the number two post at Unicef headquarters in New York is regional director Kul Gautam. The appointment, effective on April 1, makes him the first Nepalese national to become a UN Assistant Secretary General.
Appointed by Unicef Executive Director Carol Bellamy to serve as Deputy Executive Director for Alliances and Resources, Mr Gautam will be responsible for the organisation's global advocacy and communication, inter-governmental and UN relations, resource mobilisation, and alliance building.
In his 27-year career, Mr Gautam has served in various capacities of increasing responsibility, starting as programme officer in Cambodia.
He received his higher education in the US, majoring in international relations at Dartmouth College, in development economics at Princeton University, and as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Population and Development Studies at Harvard.
His leadership skills and warm and down-to-earth personality have made him much liked and respected among his staff in both the regional office in Bangkok and the Thailand office.
The Dallas Morning News
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March 14, 2000HEADLINE: ACHIEVERS
AWARDS & HONORS* Dr. William F. May, professor of ethics at Southern Methodist University, was recently named a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for 1999-2000. The honor will allow Dr. May to travel to eight American universities and colleges to lead classroom discussions, seminars and public lectures on topics of his choice. Thirteen other college instructors, including faculty members from such prestigious schools as Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Duke University, Emory University and Princeton University, are visiting scholars this year.
THE FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
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March 14, 2000HEADLINE: Slaves to South's Cause; The Confederacy was fighting to preserve slavery, historians who have examined the writings of supporters of both sides say.
BYLINE: Barry Shlachter; Star-Telegram Staff Writer
ATHENS - It's not only South Carolina. The Confederate battle flag remains a potent symbol, angering some, pleasing others, right here in Texas.
Lost in the current debate is research into what Southern soldiers actually thought they were fighting for.
"Our understanding of the relationship between slavery and the Civil War changed before the war, during the war and every decade since the war," said Ed Ayers, a University of Virginia historian. "The trick is to realize that slavery was absolutely fundamental to the war." …
A 1997 book, For Cause & Comrades by Pulitzer Prize winner James M. McPherson of Princeton University, is based on 25,000 letters and 249 diaries of Civil War soldiers from both sides.
A far higher percentage of Northern soldiers cited in the book debated slavery in their writings than their Southern foes. Only 20 percent of 429 Rebels mentioned slavery, while more than twice that percentage of Yankees did.
Although slavery and emancipation were contentious issues in the North, the South just didn't have a need to rehash the arguments, McPherson said.
Confederate enlisted men and officers, he found, "took slavery for granted as one of the Southern 'rights' and institutions for which they fought and did not feel compelled to discuss it." …
The Gazette (Montreal)
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March 14, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Royal boost for peace: Jordan's Queen Noor aids McGill's Mideast program, which aims to empower poor people in the region
BYLINE: MARK ABLEYThe voice at the far end of the phone line is an American voice - the tone of a serious, well-educated baby-boomer.
She is discussing ''the greatest challenges that are facing our region and its people right now - challenges that will continue to define my life and work in our country in the future.''
But by ''our region,'' she means the Middle East. By ''our country,'' she means the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan.
The American voice belongs to a woman who happens to be an Arab queen. In 1978, a mere four years after graduating from Princeton University in urban planning and architecture, Lisa Halaby became Queen Noor, the fourth wife of King Hussein.
For the past year, she has been a widow. But instead of returning to live in the United States, she insists that her commitment to Jordan remains unwavering. …
PR Newswire
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March 14, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: Heidi Miller, CFO of Priceline.com, Joins Enterprise Risk Solutions' Board of Directors; Former CFO of Citigroup Latest Member of Esteemed Board -
DATELINE: NEW YORK, March 14Enterprise Risk Solutions (ERS), an e-venture from the leading financial services consulting firm Oliver, Wyman & Company, proudly announces the appointment of Heidi Miller to its Board of Directors. As a Board member, Ms. Miller, Senior Executive Vice President and CFO of Priceline.com, will work with the rest of the Board in setting the strategic direction of ERS. ERS is a full-service risk management company that provides B2B Internet services and management consulting. Its online business unit, eRisks.com is the leading portal addressing the risk measurement and management needs for risk professionals. Since its launch on October 19, 1999, over 6,500 risk professionals in 76 countries have signed on as registered users. …
Ms. Miller also serves on the Boards of General Mills, Mead Packaging, and The Children's Defense Fund, and is a trustee of Princeton University and NYU's Medical School. Ms. Miller received her BA from Princeton University and holds a PhD in History from Yale University. She resides in New York City.
The Recorder
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March 14, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: LAWYERS TAKE A DETOUR ALONG CAMPAIGN TRAIL
BYLINE: Vanessa BlumDATELINE: WASHINGTON
The six o'clock news is up, and the commentator is blasting your candidate. Phones are ringing off the hook. People are shouting, whizzing through the room. A dozen reporters are waiting for answers to their questions. And you haven't slept in two days.
It's no wonder people bring up battle metaphors to describe life on the presidential campaign trail. The road to the White House is the most brutal contest of American politics -- an 18-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week, exhilarating, exhausting adventure.
For the past nine months, two young Washington, D.C., lawyers who left the security and six-figure salaries of law firm jobs worked on opposite sides of the bitter Republican fight between Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Arizona Sen. John McCain.
The two men have similar profiles. Both are 29 years old. Both are recent graduates of Harvard Law School. And both are feverishly devoted to their candidates.
But last week their paths diverged.
Ted Cruz, who last summer walked away from a position at the small but prestigious Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, is domestic policy adviser to the Bush campaign. But for Craig Turk, who left Wiley, Rein & Fielding to be chief inside counsel to the McCain campaign, it is time to come home. …
While studying public policy at Princeton University, Cruz earned two national debate championships and was elected chairman of the university council. At Harvard, he edited three separate legal journals.
After graduating from Harvard in 1995, Cruz started building his resume among the conservative legal elite. …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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March 14, 2000, TUESDAYHEADLINE: STATE HISTORIC SITES LISTED AS ENDANGERED; LANDSHORTAGE, DEVELOPMENT POSE A THREAT
BYLINE: The Associated Press
DATELINE: NEWARKTwo steel-paneled homes in Bergen County, a 19th century grist mill in Maplewood, and a road lined by 75-year-old elm trees near Princeton University are among historic sites in the state fighting for their lives, a preservation group says.
Preservation New Jersey's sixth annual list of the state's"most endangered historic sites," released Monday, includes two Lustron Homes, steel-paneled residences built by the government to alleviate a post-World War II housing shortage. …
A New Jersey Department of Transportation proposal to realign part of state Route 571 and remove three traffic lights on Route 1 would destroy 15 of the 76 elm trees that line Washington Road in West Windsor Township, the preservation group said.
Washington Road Elm Allee, which leads into the Princeton University campus, is nearly three-quarters of a mile long. The 60-foot-high Princeton elms were planted in 1925, and the roadway is on the state and National Registers of Historic Places. …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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March 14, 2000, TUESDAYHEADLINE: PRINCETON REMAINS LOW IN BLACK FACULTY NUMBERS
BYLINE: The Associated Press
DATELINE: PRINCETONDespite Princeton University's promise last year to recruit moreminority professors, a recent survey placed the school 24th on a list of the nation's 27 highest-ranked universities in percentage of black faculty members.
The 1999 survey by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, published in its winter issue, showed that of 734 professors at Princeton, 15 , or 2 percent, are black. …
Princeton came in eighth in a comparison of the percentage oftenured black professors at the surveyed universities, with 13, or 2.6 percent, of a total of 507.
Princeton spokesman Justin Harmon said the school has continued to recruit minorities, but he emphasized that the effort would take time.
He said most faculty appointments take one to two years to complete.
"The efforts that we make to address problems such as the underrepresentation of minorities in the faculty are very long-term processes, and we would not expect, even with our best efforts, to see substantial differences in a 12-month period of time," Harmon told The Times of Trenton. …
The Village Voice
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March 14, 2000, TuesdayHEADLINE: LETTERS - Napoleon the Pig at Princeton
I appreciated Nat Hentoff's column on Professor Peter Singer "Doctor Death," March 7 and think Hentoff was, if anything, too soft on him. It seems to me that the president of Princeton University is running around intellectually naked while the tailor he hired to make him a fabric of ethics is sewing stale air.
In addition to echoing the Nazis, Singer apes George Orwell's Animal Farm maintaining that "All animals are equal" and soon progressing to "But some animals are more equal than others." Do we really need a real-life version of this fairy tale with Peter Singer playing the role of Napoleon the pig?
Perhaps the most frightening thing about Singer is that his mild manner masks a totalitarian ambition. Truly, Singer's utilitarianism is in Singer's totalitarianism, since he feels he has the wisdom to decide who should live and who should die, and he will decide for us what we can do with our money and what activities will be eliminated because he perceives them to be bourgeois wastefulness.
In time I am sure Singer will be viewed with the same disdain we hold for the Joe McCarthys and Billy Sundays of the world. That time cannot come too soon.
Robert C. Speth, Professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience
College of Veterinary Medicine
Washington State University
Pullman, Washington
The American Prospect
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March 13, 2000HEADLINE: FATHERHOOD MATTERS
BYLINE: BY ERIC BRYANT RHODESOn the campaign trail, Vice President Al Gore recently gave a speech with the following central claim: "Promoting responsible fatherhood is the critical next phase of welfare reform and one of the most important things we can do to reduce child poverty." Five years ago, the question of how important fathers are to the well-being of their children was scarcely on the public agenda. That's changed. The fact that a leading candidate for the presidency delivered a policy speech on the issue is one indication of how much momentum the fatherhood movement has gained. …
Interest in fatherhood issues has been bipartisan and wide-ranging. The emergence of the Promise Keepers, an evangelical Christian men's group that draws thousands of men to its rallies in stadiums and sports arenas, is one expression of the religious right's recent emphasis on encouraging men to be better husbands and fathers. Within the social policy research community, the publication in 1994 of Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's book Growing up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps provoked scholars to re-examine the benefit a child receives from having a father present. McLanahan and Sandefur argued persuasively that "growing up with only one biological parent frequently deprives children of important economic, parental, and community resources, and that these deprivations ultimately undermine their chances of future success." …
Many of the tensions created by competing agendas within the fatherhood movement were evident at the Morehouse Conference on African-American Fathers, held at Morehouse College in November of 1998. Although father absence is a cause for concern for society as a whole, the fact that approximately 70 percent of black children are born to unmarried mothers makes it particularly urgent in the African-American community. The statement released by the conference -- whose signatories include David Blankenhorn, Glenn C. Loury, Sara McLanahan, Lawrence Mead, and William Julius Wilson -- indicates that participants were divided on whether the principal cause of father absence among African Americans was lack of economic opportunities for black men or changing patterns in cultural norms that have reduced the social sanctions against out-of-wedlock childbearing and divorce. …
Until recently, fathers were virtually ignored in research on children and families, and government statistics reflected this bias. To overcome the scarcity of reliable data, President Clinton issued a 1995 memorandum to all federal agencies, directing them to make a concerted effort to include information on fathers in their research programs where appropriate. Several grant-making foundations are contributing to the development of a database that tracks fathers and families by supporting the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Project. Co-directed by Irwin Garfinkel and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn of Columbia University and Sara McLanahan of Princeton University, the $12-million study's sponsors include the Ford, Robert Wood Johnson, David and Lucille Packard, and William T. Grant foundations. …
Business Week
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March 13, 2000HEADLINE: Playing the Early Decision Game
BYLINE: BY BETH BROPHYHIGHLIGHT: Rules vary from school to school -- and it may not be right for you
Applying for early acceptance to college used to be simple. If you were a top-notch candidate and willing to commit to a specific school by the fall of your senior year, you could often win admission to one of your leading choices and spare yourself months of angst.
It's not that simple anymore. Today, college applicants and their parents must sift through a confusing array of early-decision choices with varying deadlines, rules, and such bizarre terminology as Early Decision I and Early Decision II, nonbinding early action, early open, and rolling admissions. Laments Carol Halstead, president of New York public relations firm Halstead Communications, whose daughter is a senior at Brearley School: ''I'm a bewildered mother -- and I've worked with colleges and universities for 20 years.''
According to the College Board's latest Annual Survey of Colleges, a quarter, or 460, of the nation's 1,789 four-year colleges and universities offer some form of early-decision program. But that number includes virtually all of the most sought-after colleges.
Early acceptance is not an unqualified boon for students, who often must commit to a specific college before they can evaluate other schools that might fit them better. And early-decision programs can be skewed to favor rich kids who don't need financial aid. …
Savvy students, like warring generals, use early decision as a tactical strategy. Says Rachel Bernard, 17, a senior at Maryland's Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, who has been accepted early to Princeton University: ''I thought my chances would be better early because no one else at my high school was applying there.'' …
Business Wire
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March 13, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Quorex Funding Accelerates Novel Antibiotic Discovery Targeting Drug Resistant Bacteria;
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DATELINE: CARLSBAD, Calif., March 13, 2000Quorex Pharmaceuticals Inc., an emerging biopharmaceutical company, today announced completion of a $2.2 million seed financing.
The seed funding, including last October's $1.1 million financing, enables the company to accelerate discovery and development of a new class of antibiotics for the treatment of serious bacterial infections, including those resistant to existing drugs. Investors include: Johnson & Johnson Development Corp., the venture capital subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson; Tullis-Dickerson & Co. Inc., one of the nation's largest health care-focused venture capital firms; Inglewood Ventures; and Michael Grantham, a private investor. …
The company is using its proprietary high-throughput screening technology to identify compounds that inhibit the signaling ("quorum sensing") pathway, thus accelerating the design and development of novel, broad spectrum, anti-infective drugs. It is anticipated that bacteria would be much less prone to resist a Quorex drug due to the drug's "indirect" attack on the target bacteria. Quorex has termed this new class of drugs as "Neutrabiotics" in that they could neutralize bacteria and render them harmless through the disablement of pathogenic mechanisms.
The discovery of this system was made after many years of basic scientific research by Dr. Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University and Dr. Michael Surette of the University of Calgary.
Business Wire
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March 13, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: experience magazine Creates New Publishing Niche; Attracts Top Advertisers and One Million Readers in First Year of Publication
DATELINE: BOSTON, March 13, 2000experience magazine, (http://www.experience.com), the only publication targeting college students and young professionals with information and insight about the new world of work, today announced that with the release of the Spring 2000 issue it has officially closed its first year of publication. The quarterly magazine features timely and insightful articles about successful role models, relevant business trends and emerging opportunities in traditional and non-traditional industries. With an audited circulation of more than one million students and young professionals, top quality editorial and production standards and an unrivaled base of loyal advertisers, experience magazine has emerged as one of the new economy's most exciting publishing success stories. …
In addition to the magazine, experience inc. provides a variety of products and services that ease the transition from school to work for 21st century college graduates and young professionals. The company also provides eRecruiting, the leading Web-based recruiting management system, which automates many functions of the campus recruiting system through proven and flexible technology and world class service. eRecruiting is currently installed at over 125 universities nationwide, including Brown, Princeton and the University of Notre Dame and has active accounts for more than 500,000 students. In addition, experience inc. will launch a new Web site in the spring that will be the first and only resource for helping students and young professionals find the best opportunities in today's economy. …
The Salt Lake Tribune
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March 13, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Italy Bestows Math Award on U. Professor ; Medal representing country's highest honor for a foreign mathematician is presented at weekend banquet
BYLINE: LEE SIEGEL, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNEItaly's highest honor for a foreign mathematician has been awarded to University of Utah professor Herb Clemens, who taught many Italian mathematicians, helped colleagues escape Chile's 1970s dictatorship and founded Utah's Amnesty International chapter.
"I am deeply humbled, honored, flattered," Clemens said during a Saturday night banquet at the University Park Hotel in Salt Lake City. "For a poor plumber's son from Dayton, Ohio, I am incredibly overwhelmed by the outpouring of friendship." …
Clemens studies the geometry of three-dimensional shapes defined by algebraic equations. Conte said that while at Columbia University in 1971, Clemens and Phil Griffiths of Princeton University proved a theorem that was first posed by Italian mathematicians in the 1880s. Griffiths now directs the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. …
The Seattle Times
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March 13, 2000, MondayHEADLINE: Ranks of uninsured are rising
BYLINE: Paul Heldman; Bloomberg NewsDATELINE: WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON - Small-business owner Richard Gallo and former welfare mother Carolyn Parks live in very different worlds, but share one trait: Both lost health insurance in the greatest period of prosperity in the nation's history.
The number of Americans who lack health-insurance coverage rose 25 percent from 1991, when the economic expansion began, through 1998, even as the economy created 19 million jobs.
Two reasons stand out, analysts say. Many small businesses, whose hiring powered U.S. job creation during the 1990s, concluded they couldn't afford to offer health coverage as costs rose. And as thousands left welfare rolls, they found themselves in jobs without insurance.
As insurance costs rise after a four-year lull, the insurance gap may widen.
"Premiums are going up anywhere from 12 to 15 percent (for small businesses)," said Uwe Reinhardt, professor of economics and a health expert at Princeton University. "A lot of small businesses are saying we better not get hooked into that." …
Chicago Daily Herald
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March 12, 2000, Sunday, DuPageHEADLINE: Prison population distorts stats on unemployment
BYLINE: Katherine Hunt Medill News ServiceThe United States' record high prison population is helping to keep unemployment numbers low because the U.S. Labor Department doesn't include those figures in its unemployment calculations.
As the prison population continues to rise, unemployment numbers will become even more distorted, experts say.
The prison population has tripled nationwide to more than 1.8 million since the early 1980s.
In Illinois, the prison population has increased 65 percent to 44,903 from 27,295 this decade, said Nic Howell, chief public information officer at the Department of Corrections.
"There is a massive unacknowledged social cost to rising incarceration. The assessment of the economy is way too optimistic," said Bruce Western, a professor at Princeton University. …
THE JAKARTA POST
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March 12, 2000HEADLINE: Maria Ressa struggles with life choice
JAKARTA (JP): CNN without Maria Ressa? This could happen if Ressa, 37, makes a certain choice.
"I am now at an age when I have to think about it. The biological clock is ticking away. I have to ask myself if I want children. I can see that I must make that choice soon," she said. For if and when she does decide to become a mother, then raising that child will be her very first priority. That is something that could end up engaging her forever and she does not see how she can have a family and do this job with the same kind of zeal and commitment. …
Chosen as the keynote speaker at the International Women's Day celebratory luncheon hosted here on March 8 by the International Community Activity Center (ICAC), Ressa talked about the joys and jitters that go into making a choice before an audience of more than 200 women.
Born in the Philippines, Ressa grew up in New York after her family fled the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. After graduating from Princeton University in 1986, she was faced with several options. Her mother, who had put so much effort into realizing the American dream for her family, wanted Ressa to go to law school.
Instead, Ressa accepted a Fullbright Fellowship to return to the Philippines to study political theater. Once back in her country of birth she found it frustrating to be there but also extremely exciting. …
In 1988 when CNN was known for doling out just chicken noodle news, she became the organization's chief correspondent in Manila and covered all six coup attempts against the democratically elected government of Aquino. She became head of the CNN office in Jakarta in late 1995 in the thick and thin of media censorship from where she continues to cover not only the Philippines but also Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam. …
The Morning Call (Allentown)
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March 12, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: JOHNSON GAINS ELUSIVE GOLD METAL AT STATE MEET; EMMAUS CIERSKI ALSO REALIZES HIS GOLDEN DREAM IN THE 100-YARD BACKSTROKE
BYLINE: ANDRE WILLIAMS; The Morning Call
DATELINE: UNIVERSITY PARKFor two straight years, Parkland's Chris Johnson had poured every ounce of energy he had into trying to win a state title in the 100-yard freestyle.
He did the same again, only this time his dream came true.
Johnson, a senior who has become one of Parkland's most successful male swimmers, stroked into an early lead and never let up in coasting to the PIAA Swimming and Diving Class 3A title in the 100 free in 45.63 seconds Saturday night at Penn State University's McCoy Natatorium. …
Johnson had placed second and fourth in the 100 free in his previous two attempts. This time, he not only had speed and will, but the opening kick and finish to accomplish his long awaited goal.
After winning, Johnson looked up at the Parkland cheering section in the stands and laid back in the water before pumping his fist. No moment had ever been sweeter for the Princeton University-bound Johnson. …
The Morning Call (Allentown)
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March 12, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: COLGATE'S WOMEN'S CAGER COACH RETURNS TO HOMETOWN
BYLINE: JACK LOGIC; (A free-lance story for The Morning Call).The first weekend of March was on Ron Rohn's calendar for more than a year.The Colgate University head women's basketball coach had marked the Patriot League Tournament and its site at Lafayette College.
What's the big deal? Every coach has their tournament dates on his or her calendar. The big deal for Rohn is the site - Easton, where Rohn was raised and attended school.
A 1978 Easton Area High School graduate, Rphn is in his fifth year as the Red Raiders head women's coach, succeeding Liz Feeley, who he assisted for a season. Feeley had left the Hamilton, N.Y., school in the summer of 1995 to take over the reins of head coach at Princeton University. The departure of Feeley left Rohn with a dilemma. He had been offered the position of the Tigers number one assistant coach or the position of interim head coach by Colgate Director of Athletics Mark Murphy. …
The New York Times
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March 12, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: DANCE; The Steps and Songs Of Eastern Europe
BYLINE: By MARGO NASHDANCING with a bottle on her head is not hard for 21-year-old Erica Tabi of Wayne. Dressed in a peasant costume, with five starched petticoats underneath, and red slippers that go clop-clop when she dances, Ms. Tabi has performed the Hungarian bottle dance many times in the 1999-2000 season.
She is a member of the Tamburitzans, a folk music ensemble of undergraduates from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh who perform the songs and dances of Eastern Europe. Their name comes from the ubiquitous stringed instrument that emerged from the Balkans. Next weekend the Tamburitzans will be coming to Bergen Technical High School in Hackensack.
The students, who are mostly of Eastern European descent, travel around the country during the academic year performing on breaks and weekends, keeping their heritage alive and carrying on the legacy of one of the nation's oldest folk ensembles.
Their pageant is an inherently democratic art form, said Simon Morrison, assistant professor of music at Princeton University. "There's a kind of utopian quality to the fact that all of these national styles from this very complex geographic region blend together very effortlessly. I think this music is also very appealing and accessible with a slightly exotic tinge, which suggests to our ears that it has these secret filaments which lead us back in time." …
The New York Times
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March 12, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: BRIEFING: EDUCATION;PRINCETON PROTEST
BYLINE: By RICHARD BRANDFollowing a protest and a series of complaints by minority students, Princeton University's Department of Public Safety said it regretted posting flyers containing a description of a black male with "short, black woolly hair" in response to a report of a man waving a gun in a campus dining area. Officers had searched the room of Damon Nabrit, a freshman. The gun they found turned out to be a toy, which was not illegal, but they found two marijuana pipes and arrested him for possession of drug paraphernalia. He was released on his own recognizance. The protest last week drew 40 people, who complained that the university's security division has a history of mistreating minorities. RICHARD BRAND
Newsday (New York, NY)
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March 12, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: THE BRONX BOY WAS ALWAYS GOOD FOR A STORY
BYLINE: Bill ReelAFTER THE Bronx boy's funeral the other day, I dredged up some old columns we collaborated on. There were dozens of them. The Bronx boy was your scribe's best source during the '70s and '80s.
Rereading a pile of our joint ventures, I noted that exactly 20 years ago he was telling me about his late friend Dolan, who tended bar in Mannion's saloon on 164th Street and Ogden Avenue in the Bronx boy's old neighborhood, High Bridge, just up the hill from Yankee Stadium.
When the Bronx boy came home from World War II, in which he was a B-17 captain in the Army Air Corps and flew 27 bombing missions over Germany, he used to hang around Mannion's and gab with Dolan.
Dolan liked to reminisce about his fomer career as a bootlegger on the East Side of Manhattan during Prohibition. Dolan's story of why he came to relocate to High Bridge made such a lasting impression on the Bronx boy that he never tired of repeating it. …
The Bronx boy bailed me out many a time when I was stuck for a column. His name, by the way, was John Deignan. Late in life, he and his dear wife, Ruth, moved to New Jersey to be near their daughter Kathleen, a dean at Princeton University. Her husband, Andrew Hamlin, delivered a moving eulogy at the funeral mass:
"Now that he's gone from us, we have our memories of him. The Bronx boy, the war stories, Yankees' fan to the end, the easy smile, his devotion to Ruth and the children and grandchildren, the gentle wisdom with which he presided over his family. These memories and many others will stay with us forever." …
Press Journal (Vero Beach, FL)
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March 12, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: NEW COMPUTERS GETTING BETTER AT JUDGING INTENSITY OF HURRICANES
BYLINE: LEE BOWMAN Scripps Howard News ServiceMIAMI - A new computer simulation of ocean temperatures is expected to boost forecasters' ability to tell how damaging and deadly a hurricane's winds and tides will be as it makes landfall.
In the past decade, forecasters have become pretty good at predicting where any particular hurricane will make landfall, within 50 miles or so, and the margin of error continues to fall by about 1 percent each year.
But the science of calculating the power of hurricanes has lagged, with forecasts of peak winds frequently missing the mark by 20 to 30 mph, often the difference between an average and an intense storm.
"We've known for some time that we really need to do better with forecasting intensity, and adding this new element to our existing main forecast model seems really promising," said Max Mayfield, acting director of the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables. He said he hopes to have the new simulation up and running on a new weather service supercomputer in time for the June 1 start of the hurricane season. …
Hurricanes run on heat, specifically warm water on the sea surface. But the storms rob themselves of their energy by churning up the water and bringing to the surface water 5 to 8 degrees cooler. Thermal satellite images clearly demonstrate that hurricanes leave wakes of colder water.
"Until now, none of the forecast models used by the weather service was able to link this effect into the other things happening with a hurricane," said Rhode Island oceanographer Isaac Ginis, who led the research on the new model.
"The predictions assumed that the temperature stayed fixed. This new model takes into account much more of the hurricane's environment and can give forecasters information that can help save lives and property." …
Ginis and his colleagues at Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fluid Dynamics Laboratory first tested the new model on several historic storms, particularly Hurricane Opal, which caused $3 billion in damage to the Gulf Coast in October 1995. …
San Antonio Express-News
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March 12, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Monroe latest topic for Oates
BYLINE: Judyth RiglerThere are writers who are prolific. There are writers whochoose widely diverse subjects as framework for their books. Andthere are writers whose books consistently challenge readers.
But there aren't many writers who can be all three - prolific,versatile and challenging. Count Joyce Carol Oates among the gifted few.
Oates turns out an average of two books a year on subjects rangingfrom boxing to girl gangs to the most famous blonde actress of alltime. And she doesn't make it easy on her readers, either, drawingon heavy research and an impressive literary gift to create meatyvolumes that demand close attention from the reader.
In a phone interview from her home in Princeton, N.J., Oates talked about her writing and about her visit to San Antonio this week toteach at Trinity University and do a public reading, "An Encore Evening with Joyce Carol Oates." …
Certainly one factor in keeping Oatesinterested in all manner of subjects is her continuing commitmentto teaching, both at Princeton University, where she teaches a fullload, and as a visiting professor at Trinity and otheruniversities.
"I enjoy visiting universities," she says, "and meeting Coleen Grissom on my last visit (in 1988) certainly has a lot to do with my coming back. I was also so impressed with the students. …
The Star-Ledger
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March 12, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Moorestown, N.J., Stockholders Try to Stop Executive Bonuses at Coke
BYLINE: By David RessBob and Mary Morse like to play cards -- but Bob doesn't like the way the executives of the companies in which the couple owns shares seem to hold all the cards.
For about a dozen years, he has been on a campaign to rein in the multimillion-dollar bonuses and stock options corporate boards have been awarding senior management.
The latest salvo: asking Coca-Cola Co. stockholders to kill bonuses, options and stock grants to executives as well as the kind of multimillion-dollar golden handshakes Coke just gave its retiring chief executive officer, M. Douglas Ivester.
"The big problem is the public doesn't realize the plundering that is going on," said Bob Morse, who lives with his wife in the Burlington County community of Moorestown. "They've got their hands in our pockets... . They keep increasing the extras on top of their base salary." …
In their proposal, the Morses said the argument that options and grants of restricted stock make managers think like stockholders "is a repeated ploy or 'line' to lull us as to continually increasing their take of our assets."
"I'm not sure I see that paying only a salary is going to give the same incentive to boost performance" as a stock-linked benefit such as an option, said Thomas Williams, an economics and finance professor at William Paterson University.
But Marianne Bertrand, who teaches at Princeton University's Bendheim Center for Finance, is skeptical about such benefits.
"In theory, what they are doing is aligning the interests of CEOs with stockholders," she said of directors who give executives restricted stock or options, which are the right to buy stock at a pre-determined price.
"But most of the time, the options are already in the money ... there is definitely a gift aspect to options," she said. "In the money" is the jargon term for an option that lets a holder buy shares for less than the current market price of the stock. …
Sunday Times (London)
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March 12, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Maximum density - An American chemist has cast doubt on the theory that a random collection of particles will always settle to a maximum density.
It has previously been thought that if marbles, for example, were poured into a box they would always, after some shaking and stirring, settle in such a way that the box was 64% marbles and 36% air. Now Professor Sal Torquato, of Princeton University, who conducted computer simulations, says that the density could be anything up to 74% marbles, depending on how they are shaken and stirred.
The way particles settle has important implications for materials scientists, as it could affect the way light and electricity behave in the materials.
The Tampa Tribune
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March 12, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: Educators fight over who gets to teach adults;
BYLINE: MARILYN BROWNTAMPA - There's a turf war raging statewide that could change who will train much of the future work force in Florida.
At stake is more than $400 million that now helps school districts prepare older teens and adults for careers from nursing to carpentry, from auto mechanics to computer science.
The money also funds outreach classes in English and daylong or weeklong training sessions for businesses. Business interests, some say, are the ones pushing for the change.
The change is proposed in legislation to shift funding and control of all adult education to the state's community colleges.
"It's getting very nasty," said Ashley Carl, director of community and government relations for Hillsborough Community College.
HCC and other colleges support the plan "because we think we could and do provide better service to adult students," Carl said last week. "We believe adults would prefer to learn in a college atmosphere."
School districts, on the other hand, see a threat to employees and facilities. Hillsborough County alone has more than 200 full-time and hundreds more part-time instructors of adults at 152 sites, said RoseAnne Bowers, assistant superintendent for technical, career and adult education. …
Change "is just not necessary," said Michael Donohue, principal of Hillsborough's Erwin Technical Center.
He recalled the day in 1996 when his son graduated from Princeton University with a $100,000, four-year education. That same day, an operating room technician graduated from Erwin after just a year of study that cost him $1,000. Their annual starting pay was about the same: $26,000.
"I watch students come in here scared to death and nine months, a year later, graduate," Donohue said. "Their confidence builds up. …
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON)
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March 11, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Oxford is condemned by woman professor over 'sexual slur' Novelist said written apology was not acceptable, reports Sally Pook
BYLINE: By Sally PookA SCIENTIST who was allegedly falsely accused of gaining a senior academic post at Oxford by sleeping with a fellow professor condemned the university yesterday for failing to restore her damaged reputation.
Sunetra Gupta, a reader in epidemiology, said the written apology she received from Prof Roy Anderson, who made the allegation, was not acceptable and did not remove the sexual slur against her.
Dr Gupta, also an award-winning novelist, is demanding a published apology from Prof Anderson, one of Britain's most distinguished scientists, making clear that the original allegations made against her were without foundation.
Prof Anderson, who has advised the Government on BSE and Aids, was reinstated as professor of zoology at Oxford this week following an internal disciplinary inquiry. He apologised in writing to those concerned. …
Dr Gupta, 35, who was born in Calcutta, graduated in biology from Princeton University and gained her PhD from London University.
She grew up in Ethiopia, Ghana and Liberia, before settling in London in 1987. In 1996 she received the Sahitya Akademi award for the first of her three novels, Memories of Rain. Her two other novels, Glassblower's Breath and Moonlight into Marzipan, have also won her considerable acclaim.
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March 11, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: UK; Aust biologist nominated to prestigious science post
By Louise RobsonLONDON, March 10 AAP - Australian biologist Sir Robert May has been nominated to one of the most prestigious posts in science, the presidency of Britain's Royal Society.
Sir Robert, currently chief scientific adviser to the UK government, will follow an illustrious roll-call of former presidents of the national academy of science including Charles Darwin, Joseph Banks, Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys. …
He was professor of biology at Princeton University in the US before moving to Britain in 1988 to take up a research professorship in zoology at Oxford University and Imperial College London. …
The Boston Globe
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March 11, 2000HEADLINE: CAMPAIGN 2000; WITH CONTESTS DECIDED, LATE PRIMARIES LOSE STEAM
BYLINE: By Lynda Gorov, GLOBE STAFFDENVER - Fire Station No. 4, doubling as a polling place, was quiet yesterday. No clanging alarms. No revving engines. No sense of urgency at all.
Even the election workers looked bored. As lunch time neared, barely two dozen of the 1,200 or so Denver residents eligible to cast ballots at the station had bothered to stop by. One local newspaper, the Rocky Mountain News, had predicted as much in its morning editions. "Meaningless or not, it's Colorado's turn to vote," read a front-page headline. Inside, another put it more succinctly: "State's primary makes no difference."
With three months of primaries to go, and with just under half the electorate yet to vote, the race to be the Republican or Democratic nominee is over. Super Tuesday ended it, and the withdrawals of John McCain and Bill Bradley sealed it. That means the people living in only 24 of the 50 states got to help choose the two major presidential candidates. Everyone else was shut out of the process.
"It's a subversion of the process," said Democratic consultant Bill Bradley, no relation to the former presidential candidate. "There's no chance for a candidate to gain a second wind, which a candidate can often do. There's just this big rush to judgment. Then we end up with eight months or so of these two guys boring us to death." …
"There's no precedent where it's all just over by March," said Fred Greenstein, a professor of politics and specialist on the presidency at Princeton University. "What are they even going to do at the conventions? What are they going to do until the conventions? People were already barely tuning in." …
Mainichi Daily News
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March 11, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: Candidates neglect Asia
The state of California has played an important role in U.S. presidential elections because it sends the largest number of delegates to party conventions and constitutes the largest single bloc of electoral votes. California also happens to be the state with the largest population of Asian-Americans.
During this presidential campaign, California has also attracted extra attention because several individuals with affiliations with Stanford University, which is located just outside of San Francisco, have played an active role in advising candidates: Vice Provost Professor Condoleeza Rice and former Secretary of State George Schultz have been assisting Republican candidate George W. Bush. And Professor Daniel Okimoto, a renowned expert in Japan-U.S. relations, advised Bill Bradley on international relations and Asian issues.
Okimoto and former Sen. Bradley were roommates while undergraduates at Princeton University, and have been friends for 35 years. If Bradley had garnered the Democratic Party nomination, he would likely have been a presidential candidate with a deep understanding of Asia and Japan. But Bradley failed to win any of the primaries up for grabs on March 7 and has conceded defeat.
While disappointed with the outcome of Bradley's campaign, Okimoto stresses that Bradley's campaign is historically significant because it is the first time that Japanese-Americans have attempted to produce a presidential candidate representing their own interests. …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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March 11, 2000, SATURDAYHEADLINE: PRICE VS. PRIDE ; STUDENTS WEIGH COSTS OF BLACK COLLEGES
BYLINE: TERESA M. McALEAVY, Staff WriterJennifer Hines-Cunningham is paying close attention to the mail that's delivered to her Teaneck home these days.
Any word from Drew, Syracuse, or Boston universities today? A letter from Douglass College should arrive no later than March 19.
If she has her druthers, the 17-year-old Teaneck High School senior will be attending Howard University in Washington, D.C., this fall. She has already been accepted by Howard and by Norfolk State University and Virginia State University, three of about 105 historically black colleges in the country.
Still, she waits.
It all hinges on money. Even though her solid grade-point average and combined SAT score of 1,000 will likely earn her scholarship money from Howard, Hines-Cunningham's ultimate decision will come down to the best financial package the schools offer. …
At Norfolk State University, on the other hand, full scholarships tend to go to students with the strongest academic records; about 100 high achievers get them, spokesman Gerald D. Tyler said. The annual bill for an out-of-state student carrying 24 credits is about $12,300, compared with $35,000 for Princeton University and $17,200 for Rutgers. …
The Stuart News/Port St. Lucie News (Stuart,FL)
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March 11, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: ETHICIST SINGER ELICITS STRONG REACTIONS FROM EVERYONE
BYLINE: Kathi Wolfe Religion News ServicePRINCETON, N.J. - Ethicists aren't rock stars or politicians. Outside academia, they rarely arouse much passion. This decidedly isn't the case, however, with Peter Singer, the 53-year-old DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Singer, best known as an animal rights advocate, questions the conventional wisdom - especially in religious communities - that human life is sacred.
His views outrage some religious leaders. Demonstrators in wheelchairs protested his appointment to Princeton, where he began teaching last fall. Editorial writers have said he's Nazi-like.
Yet Singer is a natural hero to followers of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an animal rights group, and many ethicists - even those who disagree with him - say he is a moral man.
Singer reaches a popular audience through the books he has written on such topics as Animal Liberation and Rethinking Life and Death. …
Western Daily Press
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March 11, 2000HEADLINE: The race is on to be new BA flag-carrier
BYLINE: Peter WoodmanAN America-born mother-of-two could be in line to replace Bob Ayling as British Airways' chief executive.
The now-vacant post may go to Barbara Cassani, 39, who is currently boss of BA's low-cost carrier, Go.
Among other names being mentioned in connection with the new job is Carl Michel, who is BA's commercial director.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Ms Cassani joined BA in 1987 after working as a management consultant with Coopers & Lybrand in Washington DC.
In 1992, BA appointed her general manager of sales and marketing and she also worked as BA's general manager at Gatwick airport before being put in charge of Project Blue Sky in early 1997.
This project was a study to decide if BA could successfully run a low-cost bargain airline to take on the likes of Easyjet and Ryanair. …
She is married to an Englishman, 40-year-old investment banker Guy Davis. The couple met at Princeton University in America.
Morning Star (Wilmington, NC)
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March 10, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: Art for the mind's eye
BYLINE: SCOTT IRWIN, Staff WriterOn display
Wilmington artists Rowan LeCompte and Donald Furst are displaying their first exhibitions at St. John's Museum of Art, 114 Orange St. Mr. LeCompte's "60 Years of Color and Light" includes stained glass and drawings of stained glass, much of which has been installed in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Mr. Furst's "Quintet: Five Print Suites" explores his current work in media such as mezzotint, intaglio and lithography. …
The works of Rowan LeCompte and Donald Furst offer a striking visual contrast. Mr. LeCompte's stained glass, and his designs and drawings of stained glass, reveal rich colors and complex designs. Mr. Furst's computer-aided prints and mezzotints are often black and white or gray depictions of such linear objects as staircases and ladders. The pieces often draw comparison to the drawings of M.C. Escher. …
Mr. LeCompte has been making art for more than half a century. His works illuminate more than 50 American churches and public buildings, including the New Hanover County Regional Medical Center, the chapels of Trinity College and Princeton University and the New York State Capitol in Albany.
University Wire
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March 10, 2000EDITORIAL - HEADLINE Online notes threaten integrity
BYLINE: Staff Editorial, Columbia Daily Spectator
DATELINE: New YorkIn a move to protect the intellectual property of its faculty, Columbia has now joined a growing group of universities objecting to the free lecture notes provided by commercial websites such as Versity.com. The emergence of Versity.com and the controversy it has stirred are the latest example of e-commerce entering academia with questionable results.
Harvard, Princeton, the University of California system, Yale, and now Columbia are responding to worries about the integrity of selling the ideas of the professor and universities. The schools are right to fight the e-commerce note services, which are blurring of the separation between education and consumerism.
Notes services like Versity.com defeat the free exchange of ideas that should take place in liberal arts education. In the classroom, students and professors engage in a dynamic discussion and questioning; online notes services are without such a reciprocal learning process.
Commercial notes services pay students for their notes from specific classes at an average rate of eight dollars a lecture. Versity.com offers the lecture notes at no charge to students who log on to the website, which, not coincidentally, is inundated with other advertisements aimed at college students.
Despite a few innocent claims that the notes are useful to students who miss a class due to illness, the advertisements for the services have a distinct sneakiness to them; they present the companies as a free way to get the fundamentals of a class at any time without having to contact the professor or another student. But they make no guarantees about the quality or the accuracy of the information, making reliance on the sold notes a bad idea. …
OBITUARIES
The New York Times
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March 15, 2000, WednesdayHEADLINE: ATWATER, CHARLES B.
ATWATER-Charles B., age 85, died at his home on Friday, March 10. He was born May 19, 1914 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the son of Edward S. Jr. and Jeannette S. (Brown) Atwater. Mr. Atwater was a 1931 graduate of Pingry School in New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton University in 1935, following graduation he served in the US Navy in WW II as Lt. JG. He received his Masters Degree in Education from Columbia University. …
The Boston Globe
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March 12, 2000, SundaySECTION: OBITUARY
HEADLINE: ROBERT W. MINTON, AT 81; WORKED AS HOLLYWOOD SCRIPTWRITER, AUTHORRobert W. Minton of Concord, an author and publicist, died Thursday in Emerson Hospital. He was 81.
He was born in Brookline and raised in New York. He graduated from Princeton University in 1940 and received master's degrees at Columbia and Northeastern universities. As a senior at Princeton, Mr. Minton won a scriptwriting contest sponsored by MGM and spent a year in Hollywood as a junior scriptwriter. …
The New York Times
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March 10, 2000, FridayHEADLINE: MINTON, ROBERT W.
MINTON-Robert W., graduate of Princeton University, class of 1940, died in Concord, Massachusetts, March 9, 2000. Husband of Lal Minton. Father of Helena and Cronan Minton. Brother of Polly Ryan. Also survived by three grandchildren. Memorial services in the First Parish in Concord, 20 Lexington Road, Concord Center, Monday, March 13 at 2:00 PM. In lieu of flowers, gifts in his memory may be sent to the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library, P.O. Box 644, Concord, MA 01742.
The Washington Post
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March 11, 2000, SaturdayHEADLINE: David Lightfoot Milbank, 70; CIA Officer, Author
David Lightfoot Milbank, 70, a CIA officer who retired from the agency in 1985, died of heart and kidney ailments March 2 at home in Sandy, Utah.
Mr. Milbank had served in the CIA since 1957.
His career included duty in the directorate of plans, the directorate of operations, the office of national estimates, the directorate of intelligence and the intelligence community staff. In the early 1960s, he was vice consul in Zagreb, Croatia. While working for the CIA and later for various private defense contractors, he published several articles on international terrorism.
He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, grew up in California, graduated from Princeton University and earned a master's degree in international relations at Johns Hopkins University. He graduated from the Army's Command and General Staff College and, in 1982, was the top civilian graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. …
The New York Times
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March 16, 2000, ThursdayHEADLINE: Joseph Sullivan, 63; Led Turnpike Unit
Joseph Sullivan, a New Jersey businessman who ran for governor and later served as chairman of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, died Monday at a hospital in Morristown, N.J. He was 63.
The cause was a stroke, said a son, Edward Sullivan.
Mr. Sullivan, who lived in New Vernon, N.J., spent $1 million of his own money and came in third in the Republican primary in 1981, behind Thomas Kean, who became governor, and former Paterson Mayor Lawrence Kramer. After the election, Governor Kean appointed Mr. Sullivan to head the turnpike authority. Mr. Sullivan was later also appointed finance chairman of the state's Republican Party and served as a co-chairman of President George Bush's campaign in New Jersey in 1988.
Known as Bo, Mr. Sullivan was born on Feb. 10, 1937, in Manhattan. He graduated from Princeton University and earned a law degree from Seton Hall University. …
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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March 15, 2000HEADLINE: JOSEPH 'BO SULLIVAN; RAN FOR GOVERNOR; FORMER NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE CHIEF WAS 63
BYLINE: DOUG MOST, Staff WriterJoseph "Bo" Sullivan, a former chairman of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and a popular Republican figure who lost a bid for governor in 1981, has died.
Sullivan, who was 63 and lived in New Vernon, died Monday at Morristown Memorial Hospital after a stroke. …
In high school, he was a star athlete and student, captain of thebaseball and football teams at Newark Academy in Livingston and student council president. He earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and a law degree from Seton Hall University Law School. …
The Washington Post
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March 12, 2000, SundayHEADLINE: John Warren Walker at 68; Ran Real Estate Brokerage
John Warren Walker, 68, an Alexandria real estate broker and investor, died of a brain tumor March 7 at the Potomac Center facility in Arlington.
For the last 32 years he lived in Alexandria, where he operated Walker Real Estate, a brokerage and investment firm. He also owned property in Warrenton.
Mr. Walker, who was born in Salina, Kan., graduated from Princeton University and received a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University. …
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