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  • Latin Fiesta promotes immigration reform

    Charity event sponored by Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund raises close to $3,000. By: Rachel Silverman    The dances were spirited, the buffet sizzling and the donations flowing at Friday night’s Latin Fiesta, held at Trinity Church.    The charity event — sponsored by the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund — raised close…

  • Institute math scholar wins national award

    Robert P. Langlands receives American Mathematical Society Steele Prize. By: David Campbell    Institute for Advanced Study mathematician Robert P. Langlands has been awarded the American Mathematical Society’s 2005 Leroy P. Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research, the institute has announced.    The Steele Prize is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics, according to…

  • Stuart preschoolers exhibit at Princeton Public Library

    By: Rachel Silverman    Pablo Picasso once said that every child is an artist. An ongoing exhibit at the Princeton Public Library, featuring the artistic talents of preschool children, clearly supports the master’s adage.    The exhibit illustrates the work of Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart preschoolers who, with some help from their eighth-grade…

  • Montgomery wants new assessment of bypass

    Much has changed since original environmental study of Route 206 bypass was completed, officials say. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — The Township Committee has called on the Federal Highway Administration to require a new environmental assessment of the Route 206 bypass through portions of Hillsborough and Montgomery — known informally as the Hillsborough Bypass —…

  • Loathed or loved, the deer hunter keeps doing his job

    White Buffalo’s Tony DeNicola is too busy to worry much about the hate mail. By: Rachel Silverman    Tony DeNicola isn’t sleeping much these days. When he isn’t busy designing firearms or opening hate mail, Mr. DeNicola spends his days — and his nights — suspended from tree trunks, waiting for the elusive white-tailed deer.    The…

  • Mickens an emerging peg for PDS hoops

    Panthers using new style for success By: Bob Nuse    Ahmed El-Nokali wasn’t going to keep trying to fit a round peg into a square hole.    After watching his Princeton Day School boys’ basketball team struggle to play a half-court style long enough, El-Nokali decided it was time to make a change to better fit his…

  • This gimmick could really take its toll

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Jan. 25 By: Packet Editorial    Just when you thought New Jersey was pretty close to running out of gimmicks to plug billion-dollar holes in its perennially precarious state budgets, here comes another whopper.    Remember when then-Gov. Jim Florio "sold" a 4.2-mile stretch of I-95 in Bergen County to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority…

  • Princeton’s black history

    Historian Jack Washington’s new book punctures a number of widely accepted myths. By: Michael Redmond    Jack Washington of Trenton was savoring the irony of being physically present at The Princeton Packet, a newspaper without which, he said, he "could not have written" his new book. "Were it not for The Packet, the history of Princeton…

  • EXECUTIVE SNAPSHOT

    Arkadiy Dobkin EPAM Systems RESIDENCE: Newtown, Pa. FAMILY: wife, two daughters. EDUCATION: graduate Belarussian National Technical University, earned master’s degree in electrical engineering. FIRST JOB: software engineer THUMBNAIL SKETCH: Born in the Soviet Union, Mr. Dobkin immigrated to the United States in 1991, where he started as a software engineer at Prudential Insurance in Newark…