Category: archives
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Levinson gives PDS familiarity at helm
Hoops stays in-house for coach By: Bob Nuse Matt Levinson is hoping familiarity helps bring some stability to the Princeton Day School boys’ basketball program. Levinson is the Panthers’ new head coach, the fourth to lead the program in the last five years. But one thing Levinson has over the three coaches that have come…
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The Year In Images – Archived
Celebrating the best and most improtant photographs from 2006 — in a way you’ve never seen them.
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Embracing the Illness
A photographer and medical student gives voice to marginalized people in ‘Unacceptable Losses.’ By: Susan Van Dongen In the text to the documentary project Unacceptable Losses: Drugs and Addiction in the United States, photographer Arthur Robinson Williams reflects that throughout history, almost every society has used drugs in some way, shape or form. A medical…
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OBITUARIES, Dec. 1, 2006
Nancy D.C. Knox, John W. Drake, Mildred Scudder, Catherine M. Weldon Nancy D.C. Knox Former Princeton resident SANTA FE, N.M. Nancy Dunbar Corbusier Knox died Tuesday in Santa Fe. She was 93. Born in Plainfield, Mrs. Knox attended The Hartridge School and Smith College. In 1934, while studying archeology and Native American ethnology…
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‘Starter ideas’ merit thought before opinion
PACKET EDITORIAL, Dec. 1 By: Packet Editorial, Dec. 1 Like the farmer trying to close the barn door after the horse has bolted, public officials often find themselves struggling to rein in the rumors, the hastily formed opinions and the premature conclusions some of their constituents reach about any new, innovative proposal put forward in…
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New Hightstown judge sees importance of ‘first level’
By: Dick Brinster HIGHTSTOWN To Judge James Newman, the importance of justice at the municipal-court level should not be overlooked. "It’s the first level," said the judge, who begins sitting on the bench in the borough Dec. 20. "But sometimes, it’s the only court where the public ever seeks justice." Certified as a matrimonial…
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Three cheers
Spirit squads to compete in Florida By: Stephanie Brown MONROE Township cheerleaders will head to Florida this weekend to compete in the Pop Warner Little Scholar’s National Cheer Championship, and they’re looking to come back with more than a nice tan. "I want to win the trophy," said 9-year-old Krystle Danza. "I want to…
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Streep outlines mysterious art of acting in university address
Popular and respected actress delivers Belknap Lecture before a spellbound audience. By: Jake Uitti "I stand before you as an exemplar of the art of acting," said Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep on Thursday at Princeton University. "An art that I find in its deepest essence to be mysterious." Ms. Streep, a 13-time Academy Award…
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Column: Justin Time
Freshman makes a splash By: Justin Feil As much as Princeton University head women’s swim coach Susan Teeter believes that every year athletes pass up scholarship offers to big schools to come for an Ivy League education, few that do so are at the level of Alicia Aemisegger. It is why she is drawing some…
