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N.Y. Federal Reserve president: financial world can learn from economic crisis

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home


PRINCETON -- The president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Friday that the financial world can learn from the economic crunch...

Eric Schmidt: Princeton Receives $25M From Google CEO For Tech Fund

Posted 10.14.2009 | Technology


Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, have donated $25 million to Princeton University to create an endowment fund supporting technology resear...

Cornel West Comments On Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: Hard To Be War President With Peace Prize

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics


Dr. Cornel West spoke at the Central Library in Los Angeles Friday, Oct. 9, and weighed in on what winning the Nobel Peace Prize will mean for Preside...

Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"

Anis Shivani | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics


Anis Shivani

Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.

Harvard, Princeton Top U.S. News & World Report's College Rankings Again

AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living


Perennial contenders Harvard and Princeton share the top spot in the latest edition of the influential U.S. News & World Report university rankings. W...

Scanning the Latest Blog Posts, 233 Years Ago

Louise Mirrer | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media


Louise Mirrer

The American Revolution had its own bloggers. They were called pamphleteers and their opinions were pointed, their language was colorful, and their sense of urgency was compelling.

Sam Stein

Sotomayor: Champion Of The Oppressed, Outcasts And Nerds

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics


From her days as a student at Princeton to the weeks after she was contacted about a possibility of serving on the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayo...

My Speech To Princeton's Class of 2009

Katie Couric | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media


Katie Couric

When Princeton called to invite me I was thrilled. I've been called a cougar lately, but today I'm very happy to be an honorary tiger! Coming here was a real no-brainer -- after all, I can see New Jersey from my house!

Who is Wise?

David M. Abromowitz | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics


David M. Abromowitz

When Sonia Sotomayor entered Princeton in 1972, the percentage of women undergraduates was roughly equivalent to the percentage of women there will be on the Supreme Court when she takes her seat.

Friday Talking Points [79] -- Judicial Activism And Bias

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

"Judicial activism" (or, alternatively, "legislating from the bench") is defined -- no matter what your political beliefs -- as "judges not ruling the...

Benevolent Sexism: Men Can't Help Themselves, Study Shows

Rick Smith | Posted 03.26.2009 | Style


Rick Smith

Fiske suggested that "if there are sexualized pictures of women in the workplace, there may be a spillover effect, perhaps influencing the way people perceive female colleagues."

Katie Couric To Be Princeton's First Female Class Day Speaker

The Daily Princetonian | Posted 03.05.2009 | Media


CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric will speak at Class Day this year, senior class president Grant Bermann '09 announced this morning in an e-mail t...

Princeton Scores Lower Bond Rate Than Harvard, Times Debt Market Perfectly

Bloomberg | Bryan Keogh | Posted 02.14.2009 | Business


Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Princeton University raised $1 billion in its first taxable bond sale since 1994 at lower rates than Harvard University paid a...

"Transplant" Automakers Get Over $3.6 Billion in Subsidies; More Unions, Ralph Nader Comment

Steve Parker | Posted 01.13.2009 | Business


Steve Parker

This post has the latest news on the billions in subsidies which off-shore transplant carmakers have received from state and local governments.

Send This to Your Republican In-laws!

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 10.04.2008 | Business


Frances Moore Lappe

Over the last six decades, whether rich or poor, everyone has done better with Democrats in the White House.

List Of Best Colleges In The US, from US News And World Report

AP | Posted 09.22.2008 | Living


Harvard University is the country's oldest, wealthiest and most selective university. Now it's back on top of the U.S. News & World Report college ran...

Video Chat With Diebold Expert Threatened By Voting Machine Company

Jacob Soboroff | Posted 04.09.2008 | Home


Jacob Soboroff

I video chatted yesterday with Princeton professor Edward Felten. After he was alerted to strange vote tallies by Sequoia voting machines on Super Tuesday, Sequoia wrote to tell Felton that if he investigated the malfunction, even at the request of county clerks, it may be grounds for a lawsuit against him.

Conservative Pollster Frank Luntz: "This Is Not Going To Be A Good Year" For The GOP

Isabel Wilkinson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Isabel Wilkinson

Fox News pollster and conservative political consultant Frank Luntz spoke to Princeton University students this afternoon in a talk sponsored by the C...

Ivy Funds Caught Up In Loan Shark Accusations

Bloomberg | Brian Kladko | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Harvard, Yale and Princeton universities' endowments are being accused of backing a loan with 42 percent interest, twice the legal limit, according to...