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  • Let’s Make a Deal

    Kelsey Theater stages ‘The Merchant of Venice.’ By: Stuart Duncan Stephen Kazakoff is Shylock and Elizabeth Hults plays his daughter, Jessica, in the Shakespeare ’70 production of The Merchant of Venice.    The Merchant of Venice has always been a bit of a puzzlement to scholars. Is it a comedy as many have agreed? Is it…

  • Wet West is best

    Captures Sunshine all-star game with second-half rally By: Justin Feil    EWING — With rain and Sunshine, the only thing missing was the rainbow at Thursday’s Sunshine Classic.    Despite lightning and soggy conditions that thankfully made the second quarter of play its only victim, there were plenty bright spots on both sides of the West’s 14-6…

  • A fresh start for redevelopment in West Windsor

    GUEST OPINIONSteven E. Goldin    The charrette process, directed by Hillier Architecture, offered some new ideas and stirred some good discussion about our community and the future of the redevelopment area. But, with so much proposed and so little time to digest it, public discussion digressed into a confusing process that left us where we are…

  • Her specialty is all things Italian

    AT WORKWendy Paladini, managerTuscan HillsNassau Street, Princeton By: Nick Norlen    How did you get into this business?     I had a small Internet business. It started in 1999. For three or four years, I did that on my own, importing Italian ceramics. My husband is from Italy, so I lived over there and that is…

  • iPhone lust spans the globe — in West Windsor

    An international crowd lines up at AT&T store in Nassau Park shopping center to be among the first to buy trend-setting device By: Greg Forester    WEST WINDSOR — Max and Jack Kelleher had been casing the Nassau Park AT&T store for days, ready to camp outside at the first sign that a line was forming…

  • ‘Live Free or Die Hard’

    The picture becomes a duel of laptops and fists; computers seem to be necessary to propel action films these days, in the story and behind the scenes. By: Bob Brown Bruce Willis gets back to action in Live Free or Die Hard.    It seems like only yesterday that a young Bruce Willis blew apart the…

  • Letters to the Editor, July 3

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, July 3 Veggie burgers on The Fourth To the editor:     Whatever happened to the good old days when the worst things we had to fear on the Fourth of July was traffic jams and wayward fireworks?    According to the government’s Meat & Poultry Hotline, this year’s top fear is food…

  • Managing diabetes in women

    The goal of all diabetes treatment plans is to obtain near-normal blood sugar control with the ultimate benefits of improving overall quality of life and lowering risk of complications and death By: Geralyn Karpiscak, MSN, RN    Diabetes is a chronic disease that can lead to serious complications, including heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, blindness and…

  • Unbought and Unbossed

    Shirley Chisholm ran as the first black female presidential candidate in the U.S. in 1972. By: Anthony Stoeckert Shirley Chisholm, a New York City teacher, served as the nation’s first female African-American member of Congress from 1968 to 1983.    Watch Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed and you can’t help but wonder if Shola Lynch, the…