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  • Presidential scholar gives Bush high marks

    Political scientist Fred Greenstein says the president has come a long way from his frat boy days. By: Jeff Milgram    President George W. Bush has come a long way from his frat boy days at Yale, presidential scholar Fred Greenstein told a Princeton University audience Thursday.    While he didn’t show much promise in his youth,…

  • Cougars welcome Morrison aboard

    Junior newcomers breaks records in first two meets By: Justin Feil    Katie Morrison didn’t really know how her first year with the Montgomery High girls’ swimming team would go.    By the end of preseason, the Cougar junior had already found it rewarding after establishing some unlikely friendships. By the end of her first regular-season week,…

  • Legislators refine the art of avoidance

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Dec. 9 By: Packet Editorial    Did you ever notice how often an entire body of politicians — like, oh, say, the Legislature — readily agrees that something needs to be done about a severe problem — like, oh, say, ethics, or, oh, say, the Transportation Trust Fund — yet somehow manages to construct…

  • Taxpayers foot the bill for pay-to-play

    GUEST OPINION, Dec. 9 By: Harry Pozycki    Fueled by pay-to-play, the practice in which large campaign contributions are traded for lucrative government contracts, nearly $50 million were raised for the recently concluded legislative races. This is an astonishing amount even by New Jersey standards.    Unfortunately, the people who really pay are not the contractors who…

  • Hats off to Pintchouk

    Stuart senior will continue gymnastics career at Stanford By: Mike Newman    After throwing their caps in the air and saying good-bye to their respective high schools, many graduating seniors will begin to look towards life after graduation with a sense of nervous anticipation.    While that moment is still months away for this year’s graduating class,…

  • Letters to the Editor, Dec. 9

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Dec. 9 By: Arts Council issue is all about size To the editor:     This is a shortened version of a letter I plan to send to the Princeton Regional Planning Board and copy to the Princeton Borough Council regarding The Arts Council application.    I have difficulty understanding why the concerns…

  • Voters support school plan

    BREAKING NEWS: Overwhelming support despite small turnout. By: Rebecca Tokarz    South Brunswick voters overwhelmingly approved a plan to renovate and expand five elementary schools and the district’s two middle schools tonight.    The $46.42 million plan was OK’d by a 1,488-809 vote. The plan carries an estimated tax rate increase of 4.8 cents per $100 of…

  • ‘Shakespeare’s Kitchen’

    Fie on the snow! Princeton Rep supporters dine on the Bard’s bill of fare. By: Pat Tanner    About 75 intrepid supporters of the Princeton Rep Shakespeare Festival, which performs the Bard’s works each summer in Princeton’s Pettoranello Gardens Amphitheater, braved last weekend’s snows to gather for an evening of Elizabethan delights, the centerpiece of which…

  • University VP Charles Kalmbach to leave post

       Charles F. Kalmbach, the first person to hold the position of senior vice president for administration at Princeton University, has announced his intention to leave in January.    "This has been a wonderful opportunity for me to serve a university I love, to help strengthen its staff and administration and to initiate change in many of…