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  • Munich

    A thriller in the classic mold, this film upsets complacencies and offers no easy answers. By:Bob Brown    Steven Spielberg’s powerful action film is a collaborative effort with script writers Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and Eric Roth. It is based on Canadian journalist George Jonas’ 2005 book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist…

  • Surprise end for wrestler

    North’s Webb wins tourney By: Justin Feil    Chris Webb didn’t wrestle as well as he had hoped at the start of last season.    The West Windsor-Plainsboro North senior is certainly making up for it quickly this season. Thursday, he won the 215-pound weight class at the Bears Invitational at East Brunswick High.    "It was a…

  • Resolved: Let’s become better people

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Jan. 3 By: Packet Editorial    New Year’s resolutions, as everyone knows, are made to be broken.    Here we are, three days into 2006, and most of us have probably already eaten more than we swore we would eat once we started that diet — the one we were so sure we would stick…

  • In Plainsboro, a new landscape will greet familiar faces

    Village Center construction and hospital announcement among major developments of 2005 By: Emily Craighead    PLAINSBORO — The faces have stayed the same in Plainsboro through 2005, but the landscape is beginning to change.    Mayor Peter Cantu was re-elected to his 11th three-year term on the Township Committee, receiving 68 percent of the vote. Mayor Cantu,…

  • In Plainsboro, a new landscape will greet familiar faces

    Village Center construction and hospital announcement among major developments of 2005 By: Emily Craighead    PLAINSBORO — The faces have stayed the same in Plainsboro through 2005, but the landscape is beginning to change.    Mayor Peter Cantu was re-elected to his 11th three-year term on the Township Committee, receiving 68 percent of the vote. Mayor Cantu,…

  • PHS boys just miss thrilling tourney win

    Other hoop squads split games By: Bob Nuse    NEW HOPE, Pa. — The Princeton High boys’ basketball team was certainly in a position to win — several times. But in the end, the Little Tigers came up just a bit short, falling to host New Hope-Solebury, 45-44, in double overtime in the championship game of…

  • Princeton Township to collect Christmas trees

    By: Rachel Silverman    Princeton Township will be conducting a number of Christmas tree pickups over the next few weeks.    In the area bounded by Route 206, Princeton Borough line and Route 27, the collections are slated for today, Jan. 9, 17 and 23.    The area bounded by Alexander Street to the west and the borough…

  • Princeton anthropologist wins book awards

    By: David Campbell    Princeton University anthropology Professor Joao Biehl has won two awards for his book, "Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment," the university said.    He received the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology and an honorable mention for the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing from the Society…

  • Big names joined big projects at university in 2005

    Movers and shakers behind the dais and plenty of activity behind the construction fences By: David Campbell    The year 2005 for Princeton University was one that saw some big-name visitors to campus, as well as changes to the campus itself — both planned and on the ground.    To name some of the bigger names, Microsoft…