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  • Oct. 13, 1:04 p.m.: Monday Music, some recommendations

    Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Delbert McClinton and Elvis Costello. By: Hank Kalet    Music notes for a Monday: Some thoughts on what I’m listening to.    1. Steve Earle, "Just an American Boy." There are two things you need to know about Mr. Earle’s latest, a two-disc live companionto a documentary on his most recent tour. First,…

  • Hospice and palliative care: II

    "It’s helpful to think about palliative and hospice care as ways of keeping you honest by encouraging you to weigh your values and quality of life when you are making difficult treatment decisions." By: Kathy L. Ales, M.D., Medical Director, Hospice at Princeton, HomeCare Services, University Medical Center at Princeton,    Over the past year, interested…

  • Seeing Within

    Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick uses photographs to tell the stories of the blind. By: Susan Van Dongen "Blind Boys in Zimbabwe."    Because her eyes are such an important part of her life, documentary photographer Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick could never imagine being without sight. That’s one reason she has such great respect for the blind.    "I wondered what life…

  • Oct. 13, 1 p.m.: The download quandary

    On-line music and the recording industry. By: Hank Kalet    The New York Times presented a great a overview of the issues facing the recording industry as more and more people take advantage of free music on the Web and the new pay-for-music services.

  • Pontiac’s sporty sedan is ready to run with a leaner, meaner look and new features

    By:Malcolm Gunn    Less is truly more when it comes to Pontiac’s all-new 2004 Grand Prix.    The exterior is completely devoid of every piece of tacked-on cladding, molding and superfluous body-colored trim that was indigenous to its predecessors. The result is lean, clean and inviting.    The new model harkens back to the first-generation sports-luxury Grand Prix…

  • Oct. 13, 12:55 p.m.: The candidate from Disney

    The Disney-fication of American politics. By: Hank Kalet    The always-perceptive Frank Rich ponders the Disney-fication of politics, exemplified by the Arnold Schwarzenegger candidacy in California.    "A side effect of Mr. Schwarzenegger’s campaign was that it so successfully wiped out distinctions between reality and its theme-park simulation that few, including the news media, could delineate one…

  • Bisio is new North front-runner

    Junior leads Knight boys’ cross country to unbeaten start By: Justin Feil    Mike Page has some company this year at the front of the West Windsor-Plainsboro High North boys’ cross country team.    Roland Bisio, consistently the Knights’ No. 3 or 4 last fall, has challenged, and in several races, overtaken Page in a healthy competitive…

  • Haute or not, ‘stately’ recipes for the table

    "The Clinton Presidential Center Cookbook" offers a range of recipes from Clinton administration supporters, including the former president’s own Favorite Chicken Enchiladas and Barbra Streisand’s Southern Lemon Ice Box Pie. By: Pat Tanner    I treasure community, church and charity cookbooks because they often contain priceless family recipes handed down through generations. But even more, I…

  • Have Berimbau, Will Travel

    Guy Mendilow brings a globetrotting collection of folk music for an afternoon show at Ten Thousand Villages. By: Daniel Shearer Guy Mendilow brings a globetrotting collection of folk music for an afternoon show at Ten Thousand Villages. function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,’location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10′); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close();    The berimbau, a bow-shaped instrument with a round gourd attached…