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July 5, 2000
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Business Week, July 3, 2000Asian Cover Story -- Managers
It's tough to make a living as a Hong Kong middleman. Just ask William Fung, the 51-year-old group managing director of trading company Li & Fung. Back in the 1970s, he recalls, his family-run company supplied blue jeans to Gap Inc. for $ 28 a pair. Today, with customers constantly demanding that Fung keep his costs down, that same pair of blue jeans is going to the Gap for -- you guessed it -- $ 28…
The brothers can thank their grandfather for picking the right market when he started nearly a century ago. ''Our tendency has always been to work with the Yankee traders,'' says Fung, who graduated from Princeton University in 1970; at the ceremony, he wore an armband to protest the killings at Kent State.
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Business Week, July 3, 2000Asian Cover Story -- Financiers
Although he is the scion of one of Thailand's oldest, most conservative banking families, Banthoon Lamsam's management style is downright iconoclastic…
The 47-year-old graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School is the first in Thailand to engineer a turnaround at an ailing bank.
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Chicago Tribune, July 2, 2000'TOMB ROBBERS' ALIVE AND GETTING VERY RICH IN ITALY
AS MUSEUMS, AUCTION HOUSES AND PRIVATE COLLECTORS TURN A BLIND EYE, THE TRADE IN STOLEN ANTIQUITIES FLOURISHES, WITH NEW YORK AS A MAJOR CENTER FOR BUYING THE TREASURES.
MORGANTINA, Italy
Valerio Salerno, a stocky, sunburned man, has lived amid the ruins for all of his 60-odd years. As a semiofficial tour guide, he knows every square inch of this 2,700-year-old Greek city set in the rolling hills of eastern Sicily.
These days, Morgantina is the focal point of a bitter cultural war that pits archeologists and the governments of Italy and the U.S. against an odd alliance of prestigious museums, wealthy collectors, international auction houses and the Mafia…
The items in question are a 15-piece silver service in the antiquities collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a set of marble heads….
Malcolm Bell III, a University of Virginia archeologist who has been director of archeological activities at the Morgantina site since 1980, says there is "no doubt" that the acroliths were taken from the sanctuary at Morgantina.
Bell, who first began digging at Morgantina as an undergraduate at Princeton University in 1968, has built an even stronger case for the return of the silver service.
The New York Times, July 2, 2000POSTINGS: NAMED FOR THE BROADWAY PRODUCER ROGER S. BERLIND
For Princeton's McCarter, A New 350-Seat Theater
To the Gothic tower and arches of the McCarter Theater at Princeton University, a new, more intimate playhouse -- the Berlind Theater -- is to be added, with construction starting early next year.
Named in honor of the Broadway producer Roger S. Berlind, a 1952 Princeton graduate, the 29,000-square-foot building with its 350-seat theater is intended as a contemporary complement to the 71-year-old, 1,100-seat McCarter.
The Toronto Star, July 2, 2000AMERICAN GOTHIC
JOYCE CAROL Oates was recently at a glittering late-night party at a Manhattan restaurant, with Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise in attendance. What she remembers about the occasion, however, was not the glitter or the celebrities. What she remembers is the legion of lost souls who waited for hours outside the restaurant with their autograph books…
''And I was watching these people, and I felt such sorrow and sympathy for them. I thought, 'Who are they?' I mean, once they were 5-year-olds, and their parents loved them. What were they going to be in their lives before they turned out to be who they are - people waiting until one or two in the morning, trying to get an autograph from somebody who doesn't even look at them. What were they looking for?…
After high school, Oates studied literature at Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin, where she married a fellow student named Raymond Smith…
In 1977 the couple left for Princeton University, where Oates became writer- in-residence.
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, July 1, 2000GRAVES' HOME PRODUCTS ON TARGET
Prominent architect Michael Graves recently went to a Target store where watches he designed were on sale. As Graves stood at the counter, a customer pointed at the case and asked the salesclerk: "Are these Michael Graves watches?"
Graves just smiled as the salesclerk bit her lip. She knew that this famous designer was standing there.
The encounter showed the extent of Graves' name recognition with the public.
Graves said he would love to be hired to design a college campus. He has been a professor of architecture at Princeton University for 38 years.
The Washington Times, July 01, 2000Tales of Monroe, Mrs. Lincoln told onstage at Shepherdstown
Classical music fizzles out to a few pop concerts during the summer. Opera is mostly a one-shot deal, when you can find it. Theater - well, most area theater seasons are essentially over by June. That's not true in Shepherdstown, W.Va., where the acclaimed Contemporary American Theater Festival kicks off its 10th-anniversary season Friday…
Headlining the new season is Joyce Carol Oates' play cycle titled "Miss Golden Dreams." Based on her new Marilyn Monroe novel, "Blonde," Miss Oates' series of five discrete playlets performed as one focuses on the life and loves of Hollywood's most famous - and tragic - blond bombshell.
Miss Oates, a professor at Princeton University and a prolific novelist, makes a clear distinction between her novel and her play cycle.
Business Wire, June 30, 2000Lucent Honors Minority High School Students in New Jersey and New York for Science Research Projects
Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today honored seven high school students who completed science research projects under the guidance of scientists from Bell Labs, Lucent's research and development arm. The students participated in this year's Bell Labs Science Grant Program, which awarded grants to 38 African-American, Hispanic, and Native-American high school students in New Jersey and New York…
Other speakers at the award ceremony included Karen Onyeije, legal advisor to the Federal Communications Commission, and Andrew Appel, professor of computer science at Princeton University.
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CBS News Transcripts/CBS EVENING NEWS, June 30, 2000The Confederate flag has flown for the final full day atop the Statehouse in South Carolina. Workers today put up a new pole for the flag at a somewhat less prominent site on the Capitol grounds. This satisfies neither opponents of the flag, who brand it a symbol of racism, nor supporters, who see it as part of their Southern heritage. But for others, it's a more complex issue than that, as CBS' Richard Schlesinger explains in tonight's Eye on America…
RICHARD SCHLESINGER: It's hard to believe, but historians agree, at least several hundred blacks did join Confederate soldiers during the war. But what did those black Confederates actually do? Did they fight or merely act as servants or laborers?
Mr. JAMES McPHERSON (Princeton University): There is some evidence that in the heat of battle occasionally they would take up arms, especially if their owner--their master--happened to be killed or wounded.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 30, 2000Nader labels Democrats, Republicans as corporate captives
Washington -- Calling Al Gore "a plastic person" and George W. Bush "beyond satire," presidential candidate Ralph Nader is crusading against two parties he regards.
-- Education: B.A., magna cum laude, Princeton U., 1955; LLB with distinction, Harvard U., 1958
PR Newswire, June 30, 2000IGEN's Board Appoints New Directors
IGEN International, Inc. (Nasdaq: IGEN) announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed two new members: Richard W. Cass, Esq., and Anthony Rees, D.Phil.
Mr. Cass, 54, has been a partner with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering since 1979. He is a member of his firm's Management Committee and co-chairman of its Corporate Practice Group. He specializes in corporate and securities law and represents companies and entrepreneurs in acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, and public securities offerings. Mr. Cass received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University and his law degree from Yale University.
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The Washington Post, June 30, 2000Online and Unidentifiable?
AT&T Labs' 'Publius' System Aims to Return Anonymity to Posters
Everyone knows two things about the Internet. First, it's impossible to censor. Second, the Internet is anonymous.
As it happens, neither is true: But that hasn't stopped people from trying to help the Net live up to its reputation. Today researchers at AT&T Labs will announce the creation of Publius, a new system that could go a long way toward eliminating online censorship...
Internet experts who have learned about Publius say they are impressed. "This is a unique approach and it is well executed," said Edward Felten, an associate professor of computer science at Princeton University.
The Herald, June 29, 2000Artist who breaks the mould
LIKE a good deed in a naughty world, the sculptor Alexander Stoddart made like a beacon for the town of Paisley on Monday night's Scottish Television Artery programme. While others mumbled half-apologetically, half in jest, in defence of their hometown (doubtless cognisant that it had lost its status as fifth metrop of the nation some years back - and to East Kilbride at that), Sandy Stoddart was there to praise Paisley, not bury it…
The big deal for Paisley - and Princeton, New Jersey - has Stoddart working quite directly. This week the vice-president of Princeton University, Bob Durkee, was in Paisley to see Stoddart's completed figure of John Witherspoon, an eighteenth -century Paisley clergyman who became president of Princeton and one of the founding fathers of the United States itself…
Two copies of the statue will be cast, one for the Paisley University campus to be erected next year, the other for Princeton, due to land at Philadelphia (as Witherspoon himself did) early in 2002. Durkee, who explains that Witherspoon is a true hero to Princeton alumni, the first significant president of the college, and the only academic and clergyman to sign the Declaration if Independence, is fulsome in his praise of Stoddart.
Central News Agency, June 28, 2000WORLD SINOLOGY CONFERENCE TO OPEN IN TAIPEI FRIDAY
The Third World Sinology Conference is scheduled to kick off Friday at the Academia Sinica with the participation of more than 250 scholars of sinology from around the world, sources from the Academia Sinica said on Wednesday.
Prof. Yu Ying-sheh from Princeton University and Prof. William Skinner from the University of California will each give a keynote speech to the conference on Friday and Saturday respectively.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, June 28, 2000News: 'Flaming Ferrari' trader awarded $2m for sacking
DAVID Crisanti, the sacked head of the infamous "Flaming Ferraris" band of equity traders, which included Lord Archer's son James, has received an award of $2 million ( pounds 1.25 million) from his former employer, Credit Suisse First Boston.
The economics graduate and former wrestler from Princeton University was sacked in March last year with Mr Archer and their colleague, Adrian Ezra, following an internal inquiry into alleged stock manipulation.
Newsday, June 28, 2000JUMPING INTO THE NEW GENOMIC AGE
When it comes to participating in the new genomic age, it is never too early to start. So said genetics pioneer James Watson at a Long Island seminar following Monday morning's announcement of a first draft of the human genome.
At the lecture, recent high school graduate Viviana Risca of Port Washington presented work from her Intel Science project on using DNA to encode secret messages. And Princeton University assistant professor Laura Landweber showed how genetic molecules could be used as mini-computers.
Viviana is 17; Landweber, 32.
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, June 27, 2000Interest brewing in teakettle designer Graves
Michael Graves may be internationally renowned in design circles, but the architect has hardly been a household name.
A whimsical little teakettle he designed for Target, however, may bring fame to a boil.
The Princeton University architecture professor created a tempest in a teakettle of sorts when the Target line debuted in February 1999. Graves' sleek $ 34.95 kettle had a striking resemblance to one he'd designed in the '80s for Alessi, the European housewares giant, which sells for $ 115.
THE BALTIMORE SUN, June 27, 2000Huge surplus spurs political horse-trading
$1.87 trillion forecast
WASHINGTON - The federal budget surplus is projected to balloon to a staggering $1.87 trillion over the next decade, more than double the 10- year surplus projected by White House budget forecasters four months ago, President Clinton said yesterday…
Economists of all political stripes agreed that the surplus projections appear to be plausible, at least economically. If anything, the White House budget office's estimates on economic growth and worker productivity might be too conservative…
"We know these projections are going to be wrong," said Alan Blinder, a Princeton University economist and adviser to Gore's Democratic presidential campaign. "But since they are not based on rosy scenarios, we have no reason to believe they'll be wrong on the high side.
The Boston Globe, June 27, 2000DECODING OF GENOME DECLARED
WASHINGTON - In an achievement so profound that no metaphor seemed able to capture it, scientists yesterday said they have pieced together a "rough draft" of the human genome - the entire set of DNA scripts in our cells that strongly influence health and illness, behavior, special abilities, and how long we live…
With just the DNA sequence, "We have the encyclopedia, but we don't have Hamlet," said Shirley Tilghman, a Princeton University geneticist who worked on the genome project.
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE, June 27, 2000Religious institutions can define the health of a community's youth
Enlightened public policy, a growing economy, good schools and services all play important roles in helping communities solve their social problems.
A community's first line of defense against drugs, violence and other social maladies, however, is something it may take for granted: its infrastructure of religious institutions and ministries.
Sociologist John DiUlio argues from the standpoint of pure public policy analysis'' that churches do a great deal of good with fewer resources than other programs because they are able to address both material and spiritual elements of social problems. DiUlio has given up a tenured position at Princeton University in order to raise money for religious programs.
Business Wire, June 26, 2000ORINCON's CEO Receives "Outstanding Alumnus" Award From the University of California, San Diego
Daniel Alspach, Ph.D., president and CEO of ORINCON Corp., was awarded last month the "Outstanding Alumnus Award" by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Jacobs School of Engineering in recognition of his lifelong career achievements and contributions to scientific innovation….
Other recipients of the "Outstanding Alumnus Award" include Brian Kenner, former Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of INTERVU Inc., which was recently acquired by Akamai Technologies, and Chung K. Law, who holds the Robert H. Goddard-endowed chair at Princeton University.
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International Herald Tribune, June 26, 2000In Brazil, a Banker's Dream Job
There are the investment bankers who talk of deficit figures and inflation targets when discussing Brazil, Latin America's largest economy. Then there are the bankers, like Francisco Gros, who talk of Piggy. As a high-ranking executive at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., Mr. Gros wrote in an online newsletter late last year that ''we Brazilians suffer from what could be called 'Piggy' syndrome - we believe ourselves to be wonderful, while others, unfortunately, do not see us quite that way.''
The son of a French diplomat, Mr. Gros grew up in France, Brazil and the United States. Educated at Princeton and Columbia, he returned to Brazil for a career in finance. Soon, like many leading figures in the private sector, he began shuttling back and forth to high-profile jobs in government.
Legal Times, June 26, 2000Two Paths to the Top
For the chairman of a major D.C. firm, Shaw Pittman's Paul Mickey Jr. keeps a rather humble office.
Just across town, R. Bruce McLean is sitting at the head of a long conference table in his elegant 12th floor corner office, just off Dupont Circle.
The dramatically different styles of the two chairmen go well beyond dress: McLean is an idea man, while Mickey is more of a hands-on leader. And they come from different backgrounds: McLean is a Long Island transplant to the American Midwest; Mickey, a St. Albans-bred and Princeton-educated Washingtonian since birth.
The Boston Globe, June 25, 2000THAT FRUGALITY MENTALITY
He's affluent enough to live in a Weston neighborhood where the houses cost at least $1 million, but Dennis Saylor couldn't bear to fork over $30 to hire someone to haul his old refrigerator to the basement…
While puritanical America used to regard frugality as a good trait, it turned into a negative one beginning in the 1950s, said Sheldon Garon, a Princeton University historian who is writing a book about frugality.
It was in the '50s that this country began economic policies encouraging consumer spending, with cheap imports, easy credit, and loans, Garon said. The spendthrift was portrayed as more glamorous.
Los Angeles Times, June 25, 2000WINDOWS INTO SHATTERED PSYCHES
Princeton University art historian Hal Foster's essay on the Prinzhorn Collection goes to great lengths to deny the visionary or transgressive aspects of the art of the insane. Those suffering from schizophrenia and other mental illness, he writes, are frantically attempting to establish order and predictability in their world, not generate chaos. The intentions of the insane artists are exactly opposite of the interpretation of their work by so-called sane artists.
The New York Times, June 25, 2000,Footlights
Design for New Theater Unveiled
The McCarter Theater and Princeton University unveiled the design for the exterior of the Berlind Theater last week.
Hugh Hardy of the architectural firm Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates designed the 350-seat theater, named in honor of the Broadway producer Roger S. Berlind. Mr. Berlind, who donated $3.5 million for the $10.5 million project, was a member of Princeton's Class of 1952.
The New York Times, June 25, 2000The Nation: Head Games
WHEN Al Gore's college transcript found its way into the press recently, it seemed destined to ignite a firestorm. Now the world knew: the prep school boy who applied only to Harvard, the wonky vice president, the learned president-in-waiting, had actually been a C student for a time at Harvard. He even got a D in biology.
But nobody in Mr. Gore's camp acted terribly agitated by the revelations...
"We now expect a much more personable person in the White House," said Fred Greenstein, a professor of history at Princeton University. "We are much more open to a normal, laid-back, colloquial style. George Washington was a figure who never smiled, and by modern standards would make Al Gore look like the life of the party."
Scotland on Sunday, June 25, 2000CORPORATE RAIDER CAME, SAW AND USUALLY CONQUERS
LIKE a symbol of the merging of old money and new, 64-year-old New Yorker Carl Icahn has a reputation as a ruthless shark. A lanky man, known widely for his parsimony in one of the most ostentatious cities in the world, he is also an outsider who appears to take pleasure in the discomfiture of corporate America…
His battle for Nabisco follows the classic model which he developed as an options trader after he left Princeton University. With a mixture of outrage and a sense of injustice, the slightly scruffy-looking Icahn examined the company's books and saw a gap between the book value in assets and the market price of the stock. Shares in his target companies tend to soar just on the rumour of his interest.
The Washington Post, June 25, 2000The Road to Certification
A decade ago, education researchers began warning of a teacher shortage. To avert a crisis, the number of teachers would need to increase by 16 percent in elementary schools, by 29 percent in middle and high schools, and by 53 percent in special education between 1994 and 2005, according to the Educational Resources Information Center, a national clearinghouse on teaching and teaching education.
There are also several teacher recruitment programs. Both the District and Baltimore participate in Teach for America, which was launched in 1989 by a senior at Princeton University. Each year, following an intensive five-week training program, it places about 1,000 recent college graduates and others with bachelor's degrees in two-year positions in 15 urban and rural regions.
Calgary Herald, June 24, 2000Exploring the link between exercise, depression
The crushing burden of depression affects as many as one in seven people at some time during their life. It can strike without apparent reason and can disappear just as mysteriously. Newer antidepressants, which increase serotonin levels in the brain, are the most effective drug treatments available. But the precise cause and course of episodes of depression remain a puzzle.
Now American scientists have suggested it may be linked to a startling new discovery in brain science. For decades, it was assumed the adult brain was incapable of regenerating itself by creating new cells. But the outcome of experiments first published in 1998 has shown this is false…
Could variations in the rate of cell production be linked to depression? That is the thesis advanced in the latest issue of American Scientist by Barry Jacobs, of Princeton University, and Henriette van Praag and Fred Gage, from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif.
The Ottawa Citizen, June 24, 2000Ralph Nader goes for the presidency
WASHINGTON - Ralph Nader is on his familiar roll, taking shots at big corporations, lamenting how the interests of average American workers have been largely forgotten in the presidential race, when he is abruptly asked to shift gears. Tell us about your folks, Ralph, one reporter asks.
Born in Winstead, Connecticut, he attended Princeton University and received his law degree from Harvard University before becoming a full-fledged activist and author. He's the founder of such organizations as the Public Interest Research Group and the Centre for Auto Safety.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 24, 2000CONNOLLY TO STEP DOWN AS CHAIRMAN OF PITT'S BOARD OF TRUSTEES NEXT YEAR
J. Wray Connolly plans to step down as chairman of the University of Pittsburgh's board of trustees in June 2001, and a committee of board members yesterday nominated a successor.
The full board of trustees is expected to vote later this month on a recommendation that William Dietrich II, an industrialist and president of the Mallard Fund investment company, serve as chairman-designate while Connolly serves his final year as chairman.
Dietrich, 62, has served on Pitt's trustee board since 1991. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1960.
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