Category: archives
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The World’s Fastest Indian
Roger Donaldson’s simple, feel-good movie has a light touch, but its humor keeps it from going off the rails into pure treacle. By:Bob Brown Filmmakers these days are searching the attics of history for inspiring stories that once were headliners. Whether it’s Jimmy Braddock’s Depression-era struggles in the ring, or Secretariat’s flukish string of victories,…
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Kidnapping added to charges against bodybuilders
Police allege the couple killed a former Lambertville woman who worked for them. By: Linda Seida A former Lambertville woman was immobilized with a stun gun, drugged and suffocated before her body was found in the trunk of a burning Jaguar near Las Vegas, and now the husband-and-wife bodybuilders accused of her murder could both…
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Princeton forum to focus on achievement gap
By: David Campbell The Princeton Human Services Commission and the Princeton Regional Board of Education’s Minority Education Committee will host a community forum on "The Educational Achievement Gap in Princeton" on Feb. 15. The forum will take place from 7 to 8:45 p.m. at the Suzanne Patterson Center at 45 Stockton St. Township Committeeman Lance…
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Princeton University applications set record
17,487 seek admission to Class of 2010 By: David Campbell Princeton University has received 17,478 applications for admission to the Class of 2010, topping the record set by applicants last year. The number of students seeking admission to the Ivy League school increased 6 percent over last year’s record of 16,510 applicants, the university announced.…
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An analysis: Tyco restructures
What does it mean? Will there be layoffs? How much will it hurt? By: Mike Mathis WEST WINDSOR Don’t expect much to change at Tyco International Inc.’s headquarters here at least not right away. Although the manufacturing conglomerate recently announced its intention to split into three separate, publicly traded firms last month, company…
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Princeton High mourns death of student in airplane crash
Junior Graciela Ramirez was accompanying Ewing family as a baby sitter By: David Campbell Princeton High School junior Graciela Ramirez was among six people who died Friday night when the private airplane in which they were flying crashed near a South Carolina airport, school officials confirmed Monday. The twin-engine Beech King Air 200 crashed just…
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‘God and War’ topic for visiting professor’s lectures
Professor Mark Juergensmeyer, director of global and international studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will deliver a series of three Stafford Little lectures at 8 p.m. on Feb. 21, 22 and 23 in McCosh Hall 50 on the Princeton University campus. Professor Juergensmeyer, a professor of sociology and religious studies, will lecture on…
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South trio doubles up at MCT
Park breaks 50 free record as Pirate boys swim to top By: Justin Feil LAWRENCE The West Windsor-Plainsboro South boys’ swim team came to the Mercer County Championships in search of records. Only Jay Park was able to break one, the 50-meter freestyle mark, which he lowered to 23.42 seconds, but the Pirates more…
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Milestones
Issue of Feb. 7, 2005 By: Sara Carpenter LAW Bankruptcy attorney Eric W. Sleeper has joined the West Windsor office of Herrick, Feinstein LLP. He will concentrate on business and real estate workouts, restructurings and reorganizations, insolvency counseling, advising institutional investors and investment funds, and counseling in bankruptcy-related litigation. *** William J. Thompson of Archer…
