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  • The Libertine

    This film finds Johnny Depp playing John Wilmot as a man living on a knife’s edge between heaven and hell to his last breath. By:Bob Brown    He was a Restoration poet and a courtier, a confidant and gadfly to King Charles II, and a libertine in the original sense of the word. Shamefully debauched in…

  • Letters tp the Editor, March 14

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, March 14 Coordinator needed in case of emergency To the editor:     I am concerned about the issue raised in the recent letter from the Princeton Regional Health Commission regarding the need for a joint emergency management coordinator to be in charge should a community-wide emergency occur, such as avian influenza…

  • Tsotsi

    This is the kind of film that crooks its finger at us from an art-directed limbo somewhere between social conscience and voyeurism. By:Elise Nakhnikian    Based on South African playwright Athol Fugard’s only novel, Tsotsi is a tale of redemption whose liberal-humanist good intentions are stamped on its sleeve in capital letters. With its gorgeously photographed…

  • Montgomery High custodians charged with locker-room spying

    Two allegedly entered female coaches’ office and watched girls changing clothes By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — Two high school custodians were charged Wednesday with committing a fourth-degree invasion-of-privacy crime at Montgomery High School for allegedly spying on girls while they were changing clothes in a locker room.    Police said Krzysztof Ospelt, 31, of Bridgewater and…

  • Former slave bringing ‘Freedom Walk’ to Princeton

    To raise awareness of the tragedies in the Sudan, Simon Deng is walking from New York to Washington By: Hilary Parker    Few people in the area will ever know what it is like to walk a mile in former Sudanese slave Simon Deng’s shoes, but they can walk with Mr. Deng as part of the…

  • West Windsor teen killed in one-car accident

    Students mourn loss of West Windsor-Plainsboro North High School classmate By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — Students at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North were in shock Monday morning after learning that their classmate, senior Stephanie Au-Yeung, died in an automobile accident Sunday afternoon.    "They’re just heartbroken," guidance counselor Theresa Donanno said. "They’re just trying to…

  • Keyboards soar for laptop musicians

    University students to present concert April 4 By: Hilary Parker    When Daniel Trueman, associate professor of music at Princeton University, sits down to compose music for the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (aka PLOrk, rhymes with "quark"), a questions awaits: If he builds them, will they play?    "Them" are the electronic instruments he creates — and "they"…

  • High-flying Cougars

    MHS hockey rolls on to Meadowlands By: Justin Feil    MORRISTOWN — Disney World can wait.    Rob Sparno and his Montgomery High classmates skipped the senior trip to Florida’s amusement park this week for a chance at ice hockey history. It was a good decision, as the Cougars reached the first Final Four in MHS program…

  • Expert: ‘Nosy moms’ keep their kids alive

    Youth gang problem in Princeton focus of talk before full house at Township Hall By: Marjorie Censer    The presence of gangs may not be as strong in Princeton as in other places, but parents should still be aware of the warning signs, Lt. Edwin Torres of the state Juvenile Justice Commission’s Gang Management Unit told…