Category: archives
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Entrepreneurial skills on display
Princeton grad students author business plan. By: Ryan James Kim This year’s Business Plan Contest at Princeton University showed off entrepreneurial ideas ranging from new fuel cells designed to replace batteries to a more profitable payment system geared toward the adult entertainment industry. Participants of the contest, which ended Feb. 26, went through an intense…
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March 14, 4:30 p.m.: Remembergin Hunter
Some thoughts on the bard of gonzo. By: Hank Kalet Rolling Stone magazine offered a truly special send off to the great Hunter S. Thompson. Read it here. Also, Warren Hinckle offers this in The Nation and here is my own tribute.
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March 14, 4:33 p.m.: Another battle in the gay marriage war
San Francisco judge rules against California and for civil rights. By: Hank Kalet Does this represent another chink in the armor of those who see gays and lesbians as something less than human? One can hope. The key line, from my perspective, is this once from San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer: "The…
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OBITUARIES, March 15, 2005
Frederick Mote, Elinor C. Lamont, Betty M. Golden, Lenore Scorsone, Cynthia Parr-Delaney, Rosemary Fishman. Frederick Mote Chinese scholar at Princeton AURORA, Colo. Princeton University Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies Frederick Mote, a leading scholar of Chinese history and culture, died Feb. 10 after a long illness. He was 82. Professor Mote was…
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Gloria Ubry South
Gloria Ubry South, 74, died Saturday at her residence. Born in Lawrenceville, Ms. South was a lifelong area resident. A retired private secretary for Gen. George I. Bach at the Pentagon for the Department of Defense, Ms. South also was a longtime business partner with her husband in the family business, Stenzel & South Oil…
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Lucy Murray Briggs
Lucy Murray Briggs, 92, died Sunday at the University Medical Center at Princeton. Born and raised in Hopewell, she had been a resident of Hamilton for 60 years. Ms. Briggs retired from the State of New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles in Trenton. She was an active member of the Pilgrim Presbyterian Church, Hamilton, and…
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March 14, 4:32 p.m.: All the news
Local news stations show a lazy streak and let the president get away with public relations. By: Hank Kalet The New York Times on Sunday offered a good outline of how the Bush administration has used lazy local news (and sometimes national news) stations to manage the way its initiatives would be viewed. Using techniques…
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Out of the Crucible
Rider University Art Gallery exhibits the work of Isaac Witkin. Sculptor Isaac Witkin at work in his Pemberton studio. "From his student days at St. Martin’s School of Art in England to working as an assistant to Henry Moore, Isaac Witkin has been recognized as an important artist, sculptor and teacher," writes Harry Naar, professor…
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Beyond Celtic
Hoboken-based Icewagon Flu will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a show at Triumph Brewing Co. By: Susan Van Dongen Hoboken-based Icewagon Flu will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a show atTriumph Brewing Co. March 17. This is how certain guys talk among themselves. First of all, they give each other profane sobriquets or titles. They…
