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Headline: PAYDAY BUSINESSES JUMP TO FILL A NEED ABANDONED BY BANKS
Date: Monday, November 29, 1999 ; Page: 6F
Edition: METRO FINAL ; Section: BIZ; BUSINESS
By LORENE YUE, FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
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Payday loan businesses are proliferating across the nation, including in Michigan, as consumers find themselves in a cash crunch. The businesses make small, short-term loans of $100 to $300 to consumers for a fee of $12 to $25, usually to tide them over until their next paycheck.
The typical payday loan customer has an annual income of $30,000 to $40,000, no savings and bad credit, said John Caskey, a professor of economics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania who studies the alternative financial sector. "It's not what you think of as hard-core poor," he said. "They have a moderate income, but don't have savings to draw up from, or they are maxed out on their credit."
HEADLINE: Seattle showdown; Overstated worries about the WTO
November 28, 1999, Sunday, Metro Edition
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 30A
LENGTH: 592 words
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When diplomats arrive in Seattle this week for a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO), they will find the most extraordinary welcoming committee ever to assemble at an economic summit. Farmers, students, environmentalists in bird costumes -- all will gather in spirited demonstrations to argue that free trade is bad for workers and bad for the earth. These protesters extend a noble tradition of civil disobedience, and they argue rightly that environmental and economic justice deserve space on the agenda as trade ministers map the next few years of WTO trade talks. But in elbowing their way to the table, the antitrade activists have overdrawn their case and exploited three misconceptions that thoughtful Americans should reject. Those misconceptions include:
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- A belief that American workers can't compete with low wage Third World labor. This argument is so intuitive that it nearly defeated NAFTA in 1994. But five years later, the "giant sucking sound" of jobs going to Mexico has never materialized, and the U.S. job market is healthier than ever. The fact is that workers in Europe and the United States are so productive that, on balance, they actually come out ahead when they trade with low-wage nations. As Swarthmore College economist Stephen Golub points out, high-wage nations such as Germany, France and the United States usually run trade surpluses with low-wage nations, meaning that they successfully export more goods than they import.
HEADLINE: Few who few know WTO's history would argue with its purpose
December 2, 1999, Thursday
SECTION: DOMESTIC NEWS
LENGTH: 1236 words
BYLINE: By Andrea Knox
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Protesters may revile the World Trade Organization and member nations may complain that it shortchanges them on some issues, but few who know its history would argue with its purpose. The WTO is the outgrowth of a plan crafted after World War II to help spare the world from ever again being plunged into the morass of depression and war that had overwhelmed it for more than a decade.
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"To paint the WTO as a monolithic bloc representing the interests of western corporations," as some of the Seattle protesters have done, "is off base," says Steve Golub, professor of economics at Swarthmore College. "It's just a bargaining place."
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While it's impossible to quantify how much the world's robust economy owes to GATT and WTO, "there is a consensus among economists that they have played a significant part in the basic prosperity of the postwar period," says Golub. While some U.S. critics blame freer markets for the loss of manufacturing jobs to Asia, many economists believe the country's surge of new jobs, in industries such as telecommunications and software, would not have been as strong in the absence of ready export markets.
HEADLINE: Childhood should not be a college prep course
November 21, 1999, Sunday, ALL EDITIONS
SECTION: TEMPO, Pg. F03
LENGTH: 590 words
BYLINE: PAUL DAUGHERTY
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A recent article in Smart Money magazine described a New Jersey mom who studied college guides and learned that some elite schools coveted rowers and fencers. She immediately enrolled her 7-year-old in a fencing class.
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The goal then, as now, was to be well-rounded. Only now, well-rounded has become slump-shouldered, as the high achievers are whacked by the pressures of high-achieving. Getting into the college of your choice seems no less an ordeal than making the Olympic gymnastics team.
I suppose being a crack violinist beats hanging out with friends on weekends. But here are questions you won't find on anyone's admissions application: What happened to allowing kids the freedom to develop a sense of wonder, and a full and clear curiosity? What they discover on their own is often what they learn best. But it won't get them into Swarthmore. . . .
HEADLINE: TRIVIA PURSUIT ISN'T TRIVIAL
November 19, 1999 Friday MORNING EDITION
SECTION: ACCENT; Pg. E01
LENGTH: 1442 words
BYLINE: KEVIN YAMAMURA, Scripps-McClatchy Western Service
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The Desmond Hall freshmen begin to rustle shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday evenings at California State University, Sacramento. It's party night in a party dorm, a time when eyeliners and thrashing rock CDs come out of their cases. But so intent is Jeff Kolko on watching his new-found favorite game show, "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire," he ignores for now the Greek party maze into which his well-maintained classmates will venture. . . . All because he's stuck on trivia. So are millions of other Americans -- nearly 26 million, in fact. That many viewers watched "Millionaire" on Nov. 7, the initial episode in its current 15-day run.
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"Trivia is the classic example of defining a subculture," says Timothy Burke, a Swarthmore College cultural historian. "Sports trivia is like this, music trivia is like this. They're being used to define membership in a group. We look in awe when someone gets all the way to a million dollars, we think it's incredible. But we don't look in awe when someone in a sports bar knows all the top curlers over the past 30 years. There it's only a gesture to say, 'I'm in with these people and you're not. ' "
HEADLINE: 'Floyd,' 'Lebensraum' Top Barrymores
October 22, 1999
LENGTH: 428 words
BYLINE: Cofta, Mark
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Only one theatre company won awards for more than one production. The young Pig Iron Theatre Company, created by recent graduates of Swarthmore College, won the Barrymore Award for Choreography for its wordless play "Cafeteria" (performers Quinn Bauriedel, Solveig Holum, and Dito van Reigersberg and director Dan Rothenberg shared the credit), and the Sound Design Barrymore for James Sugg's work on "Gentlemen Volunteers."
Sunday, November 21, 1999
Page: BC07
Edition: C
Zone: NORTH
Section: NEIGHBORS BUCKS
By Valerie Reed, INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
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Swarthmore College
The college has established the Gilmore and Mary Stott Concert Fund to encourage up-and-coming composers. The fund will provide a $5,000 commission each year for an original work by a promising composer.
The first commissioned work is Double by Nicholas Brooke, a doctoral candidate in composition at Princeton University. Orchestra 2001, a contemporary music ensemble in residence at Swarthmore, will perform the work at 7:30 this evening at the Trinity Center for Urban Life on Spruce Street in Philadelphia. For ticket information, call 215-922-2190.
The concert fund was established by Eugene Lang, who graduated from Swarthmore in 1938. It was named in honor of Gilmore Stott and his late wife, Mary. Gilmore Stott is professor emeritus of philosophy and associate dean emeritus at Swarthmore. He and his wife were members of the college orchestra.
Headline: MAKE YOUR WREATH, WITH HELP
Friday, November 26, 1999
Page: E16
Edition: SF
Section: FEATURES MAGAZINE / HOME & DESIGN
By Denise Cowie
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If the blossoming of workshops is anything to go by, there's something about creating our own holiday decorations that is very appealing. And it's not too late to learn how to make your own wreaths from fresh greens for this season.
Starting Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is sponsoring several demonstrations and workshops on floral decorations and how to make wreaths and holiday centerpieces. And from Thursday through Dec. 4, the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College will sponsor four workshops on creating holiday wreaths. . . .
Headline: Upward Bound students observe process
November 15, 1999
Section: Dateline Delco
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Chester High School Academy students and active members of TRIO/Upward Bound at Swarthmore College got to meet President Clinton during his Oct. 29 visit to LaSalle University on behalf of Philadelphia Mayor-elect John Street. The field trip gave the students an opportunity to observe how representatives from the executive branch and city government work together to influence voters at a political rally.
Headline: PENN, PRINCETON PRESIDENTS ARE LOCAL LEADERS IN SALARY
Sunday, November 21, 1999
Page: A02
Edition: D
Section: NATIONAL
By James M. O'Neill, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
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An Ivy League presidency comes with an Ivy League-caliber salary. Among private universities in the region, University of Pennsylvania president Judith Rodin and Princeton University president Harold Shapiro ranked one and two in the size of their salary during the 1997-98 academic year. The next highest paid president was nearly $100,000 behind, an Inquirer review of university tax forms shows.
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At Swarthmore College, Robert Pasternack, a chemistry professor, earned $127,158. Haverford professor Bruce Partridge, chair of the physics and astronomy department, earned $117,400.
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TOP 1997-98 SALARIES FOR AREA COLLEGE PRESIDENTS COLLEGE PRESIDENT SALARY
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University of the Arts Peter Solmssen $240,161
Swarthmore College Alfred Bloom $237,113
Headline: ENCOURAGING YOUTH TO VISIT THE HOLY LAND
Sunday, November 21, 1999
Page: B01
Edition: C
Zone: NEW JERSEY
Section: SOUTH JERSEY
By Martin Z. Braun and Chani Katzen, INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
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Instead of spending their winter break in Cancun or Costa Rica, more than 150 local college students will tour Israel for 10 days with thousands of peers, courtesy of Jewish philanthropists, Jewish federations and the Israeli government. With headquarters in New York City, the project, called Birthright Israel, aims to send every Jewish 15-to-26-year-old to Israel because it is their birthright, organizers say. The students traveling to Israel this winter will be the first to stake their claim, in an effort expected to cost $210 million over five years.
Altogether, 10,000 college students from approximately 100 campuses across the United States are expected to touch down at Ben-Gurion Airport in 2000, 10 times the number who ordinarily visit in a year.
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Jordan Brackett, a junior at Swarthmore College in Delaware County, said he was going because he missed a high school trip to Israel and has regretted it since. "I feel you almost can't be completed, at least for me, in your Jewish identity without actually having gone there," said Brackett, adding that his Jewish involvement had slowed in college. "And, the best thing about it is the chance to go with other Jewish students."
Headline: VOLUNTEERS CLEAN LOTS, STYMIE DRUG DEALERS
Sunday, November 21, 1999
Page: B02
Edition: D
Zone: CITY
Section: CITY & REGION
By Walter F. Naedele, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
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The high school senior from Albuquerque, N.M., had flown in for the weekend to visit Swarthmore College and get a sense of the campus atmosphere before applying. But he was staying with his brother, Jordon, 27, who works for Americorps, the federal agency that is the domestic version of the Peace Corps. And so yesterday, Dane Roberts, 18, found himself cleaning up a trash-strewn vacant lot at 20th and Carpenter Streets in South Philadelphia.
Roberts has done a bit of such volunteer work back home. But in Albuquerque, he said, "I had a hard time filling up two trash bags. Here, you can fill up 8 trash bags in one lot."
The Robertses were among an estimated 200 volunteers walking the streets in bright yellow T-shirts and attacking trashy lots and sidewalks from Christian to Moore Streets, 15th to 34th Streets. It was the second such neighborhood cleanup since September directed from St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church at 20th and Christian Streets. . . .
Headline: BERMAN EXHIBIT SHOWCASES A FOUR-SIDED COLLABORATION
Sunday, November 21, 1999
Page: MC06
Edition: C
Zone: NORTH
Section: NEIGHBORS MONTGOMERY
By Victoria Donohoe, INQUIRER ART CRITIC
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One of the Berman Museum's best shows ever, "Four Artists, Four Objects, Ten Years" in the main gallery features a rich harvest of large works by nationally known still-life painters. There's a remarkable visual richness in this work. Often these paintings have an effortless, almost naive dimension even while reflecting a fairly complicated sense of the world and the artist in it.
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Harriet Shorr, who has been attracted largely to surfaces, has been able to turn them into refreshing color fields of great beauty and appeal. That her work in oil has an admirable consistency (compare these paintings with earlier ones Shorr did while a member of the Swarthmore College faculty, and now on permanent display at the college's McCabe Library), suggests that Shorr is quite serious about it. Her color, pristine yet intensely vibrant, sounds the show's highest lyrical note.
Ursinus College's Berman Museum of Art, Main Street, Collegeville. To Jan. 23, with public reception today, 3 to 5 p.m.; Tuesdays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, noon to 4:30 p.m. (610-409-3500).
Headline: WEEKEND YO! ON THE GO
Friday, November 19, 1999
Page: 74
Edition: Late Sports
Section: FEATURES YO!
Graphics: PHOTO
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The acclaimed contemporary ensemble Orchestra 2001, conducted by James Freeman, stays on the cutting edge with Gerald Levinson's "Time and the Bell," plus a newly commissioned work by Nicholas Brooke.
But they're also willing to take a look back at the past, as violinist Erez Ofer solos in the A-Major Violin Concerto by Mozart. Performances are at 3 p.m. SATURDAY at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, and 7:30 p.m. SUNDAY at Trinity Center for Urban Life, 2212 Spruce St. Tickets cost $20.
HEADLINE: HEAD OF PRIVATE N.J. COLLEGE TOPS HARVARD'S IN PAY
November 23, 1999, TUESDAY; ALL EDITIONS
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A3
LENGTH: 756 words
BYLINE: BRIAN KLADKO, Staff Writer
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Monmouth University, it's safe to say, may never be able to match Harvard's fame. But it has bested the nation's oldest, most prestigious institution in a quintessentially 1990s, boom-time way. The trustees of the private New Jersey school paid their president $ 364,820 in 1997-98, 26 percent more than her Harvard counterpart.
Rebecca Stafford's salary made her the 20th highest paid president at a private college, according to a study released Monday by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Her pay also exceeded presidents salaries at other famous schools, such as Brown, Dartmouth, Emory, and Swarthmore.
HEADLINE: IN THE GARDEN; Try holiday shopping in garden setting
November 20, 1999, Saturday 2 STAR EDITION
SECTION: HOUSTON; Pg. 1
LENGTH: 723 words
BYLINE: BRENDA BEUST SMITH
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Thanksgiving cometh and then, folks, it's time to start thinking about Christmas gifts. Wouldn't it be nice, this year, to get all your holiday shopping done surrounded by beautiful fall foliage and winter-color-filled gardens?
Add to this the assurance that the money you spend will be recycled into community beautification and environmental protection projects and that's about as good as shopping can get. This is what you will find when you do your holiday shopping at the annual yule markets sponsored by area public gardens and nature centers.
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Among the more commonly available roses that seem to be thriving during the drought are 'Double Delight' (red and white blend), ' Swarthmore' (deep pink) and 'Queen Elizabeth' (medium pink). A little harder to find is 'Elizabeth Taylor,' the favorite of Tommy Hebert, vice president of the Golden Triangle Rose Society, which maintains the garden.
HEADLINE: NEW MOVIE DIGEST CAPSULE REVIEWS OF CURRENT RELEASES
November 19, 1999, Friday
SECTION: New York Now; Pg. 86
LENGTH: 689 words
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HOME PAGE. Running Time: 102 minutes. Unrated: profanity, nudity. At the Cinema Village. 1 1/2 STARS
The message I take from Doug Block's "Home Page," a personal journey to the chaotic world of the Internet, is that we have less to fear from free spirits in cyberspace than from voyeurs with videocameras. Block's stated goal is to try to understand people who post their most intimate secrets on the web, but it's soon clear that his real objective is to find the inspiration to loosen himself up. To that end, he connects with a flamboyant young Web junkie at Swarthmore College and clings to him and his inner circle like a dog with a virtual bone. . . .
HEADLINE: FILM REVIEW; In This Version of Cyberutopia, Show and Tell Lasts All Day
November 19, 1999, Friday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section E; Part 1; Page 22; Column 1; Movies, Performing Arts/Weekend
Desk
LENGTH: 714 words
BYLINE: By STEPHEN HOLDEN
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Amid the hue and cry about how the Internet is destroying personal privacy, few have pointed out that for certain cyberfanatics that erosion is cause for rejoicing. Computer gurus like Justin Hall, the bratty, motor-mouthed exhibitionist who is the focus of Doug Block's intriguing but disorganized documentary, "Home Page," see no need for personal privacy once the utopian electronic community of their dreams is established. The world Mr. Hall imagines is a kind of virtual commune that recalls the headiest collective fantasies of the hippie counterculture but is situated in cyberspace instead of the real world.
When first glimpsed, Mr. Hall is an undergraduate at Swarthmore College in 1996, where he is a cybercelebrity who operates a home page visited daily by 7,000 people. Dressed in psychedelic finery, his blond hair teased into a pointed tower, he is the very model of latter-day hippie proselytizer. . . .
HEADLINE: FILMMAKER HOMES IN ON WEB OF CONFUSION
November 19, 1999, Friday
SECTION: All Editions; Pg. 058
LENGTH: 232 words
BYLINE: Jonathan Foreman Post Movie Critic
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MOVIE REVIEW
'HOME Page" is a strange, disorganized, self-involved film about cyberexhibitionists and Internet gurus, circa 1996. Documentarist Doug Block had a vague idea of making a film about the
Internet. He heard from his son at Swarthmore College about Justin Hall, a student there who had achieved fame as one of those people who put their whole lives on the Web.
So Hall became the subject of the documentary and Block followed him to San Francisco, where Hall started working with Internet guru Howard Rheingold. . . .
HEADLINE: WEB WORLD VS. REAL WORLD
November 19, 1999, Friday ALL EDITIONS
SECTION: PART II/WEEKEND; Page B10
LENGTH: 457 words
BYLINE: By John Anderson. STAFF WRITER
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IT'S A PARADOXICAL sign of the times that "Home Page," begun by Doug Block as a cutting-edge documentary in 1996, now seems like a time capsule. Although its take on the World Wide Web has necessarily become a timepiece -because life online moves so quickly-it's also a testament to rumination, cogitation and reflection, if only because those qualities are so glaringly absent among the young and/or desperate to achieve some kind of temporal online celebrity.
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Justin Hall, his main object of attention, a wild-haired Swarthmore College Webster with a proclivity for clashing ties, Hawaiian shirts, Fijian skirts and revealing the most intimate details of his life (sex included) online. . . .
HEADLINE: Spy movies help draw them in
November 18, 1999, Thursday
SECTION: Business; Pg. C2
LENGTH: 147 words
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- National Security Agency recruiter Ken Acosta offers NSA pens, pads and glossy-black recruiting brochures labeled "For Your Eyes Only" to a steady stream of students from Princeton, Yale, Columbia and other top schools.
Acosta explains that NSA technicians operate ground stations that help intercept foreign communication and NSA mathematicians then decode the encrypted signals. Oh, and by the way, Acosta adds, everyone is required to pass a polygraph exam and psychological tests and to obtain top-secret clearance.
Vincent Salcedo, a 21-year-old engineering major at Swarthmore College, is intrigued. "They do 'Mission Impossible'-type stuff," he says enthusiastically. Then he pauses and adds: "I guess if they say I'll be punching numbers all day, it's less exciting." Acosta says applications flood in when hot spy films are released.
HEADLINE: Land trust acquires parcel from Quakers
November 18, 1999, Thursday, South County EDITION
SECTION: NEWS, Pg. 1D
LENGTH: 520 words
BYLINE: ANDREW GOLDSMITH; Journal Staff Writer
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WESTERLY - The Westerly Land Trust Tuesday acquired a little piece of land that represents a big piece of New England history. The Westerly Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends - whose members are more commonly known as Quakers - gave the trust less than an acre that, 200 years ago, held the town's first meeting house, the Quaker place of worship.
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The Quaker schism had its roots in a dispute between a local Quaker, John Wilbur, and Joseph John Gurney. Wilbur, a Hopkinton member of the local meeting that once included the Route 1 land, became a religious activist after Gurney, an English Quaker, arrived in the United States in 1838. According to Mary Ellen Chijioke, curator of the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Gurney advocated an evangelical brand of Quakerism that - to Wilbur - looked more like other Christian sects than the simplicity-oriented faith he knew.
ALUMNI
HEADLINE: AT THE ATLANTIC'S HELM, TWO CONTRASTING SKIPPERS
November 14, 1999, Sunday ,THIRD EDITION
SECTION: NATIONAL/FOREIGN; Pg. A1
LENGTH: 1741 words
BYLINE: By Mark Jurkowitz, Globe Staff
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The two men who recently took over the helm of The Atlantic Monthly, Boston's 142-year-old literary landmark that was once home to Emerson and Thoreau, could not seem more different. David Bradley, 46, is a disarmingly soft-spoken and idealistic entrepreneur. Michael Kelly, 42, is a high-profile Beltway columnist best known for his searing criticism of the Clinton White House.
Odds were that the first meeting between Kelly and Bradley would be the last. It was 1997, and Bradley had abandoned his thoughts of public office and was turning his attention to publishing. Having just purchased the National Journal, he was looking for a name journalist to bring some buzz to the little-known Washington insider magazine.
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Something clicked. The two men talked for almost 12 hours over two days, and Kelly signed on to become David Bradley's new star columnist. It is an unlikely team, the modest multimillionaire with the Swarthmore and Harvard pedigree, and the combative career journalist with a degree from the University of New Hampshire.
HEADLINE: CURATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE HAD COMMON TOUCH
November 10, 1999
SECTION: Pg. 21 ; ISSN: 1041-1119
IAC-ACC-NO: 57517112
LENGTH: 1065 words
BYLINE: Wilson, Eric; Dodd, Annmarie; Ozzard, Janet
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NEW YORK -- Nothing in fashion was beyond Richard Martin's interest: Century 21 sales racks, the white T-shirt, boudoir-wear, and all weaves of plaid. The curator of the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art was a indefatigable workaholic and pop culturist with an unwavering eye for style and a truly wicked wit to match. Through him, the world -- or at least those who
visited his exhibits -- learned to see fashion not only as an art form, but as fine art.
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Martin was born in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and moved to New York after graduation from Swarthmore College in 1967 to pursue a doctorate in art history from Columbia University. He, instead, fell in love with the fashion world when he took a job teaching art history to FIT students. He gradually worked his way up to the executive director's position.
HEADLINE: Losing It
November, 1999
SECTION: Rivlin, pg. 96
LENGTH: 4916 words
BYLINE: Alison Frankel
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In the hallway outside the courtroom of Washington, D.C., federal district court judge Royce Lamberth on the morning of August 6, everyone was debating the question: Would Lewis Rivlin show up for the 9:30 hearing? Rivlin, a man with a glittering past and a very uncertain future, had lately been comparing himself to Job, complaining bitterly in court filings about the demands placed upon him by the covey of lawyers chasing after him for one thing or another. Now some of those very lawyers, including a pair from the Securities and Exchange Commission, were in Judge Lamberth's hallway, trading stories of Rivlin's apparent indifference to deposition schedules and court- imposed deadlines. Even in the enormous trouble that swamped him, sued by the SEC for fraud, under investigation by the Washington, D.C., bar association, on the hook for almost $20 million in judgments, Rivlin was continuing to operate as if the rules that everyone else lives by simply didn't apply to him.
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The son of a New York City teacher and a chemist-cum-businessman, Rivlin excelled at Swarthmore College, in the U.S. Naval Reserve, and at Harvard Law School
HEADLINE: Fashion expert Richard Martin dies
November 17, 1999, Wednesday THIRD EDITION
SECTION: FASHION!DALLAS; Pg. 3E; RETROSPECTIVE
LENGTH: 1201 words
BYLINE: Eric Wilson
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Richard Martin, curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and one of the fashion industry's most prolific chroniclers, died last week at his home in New York. He was 52.
The cause of death was skin cancer, said his companion, Richard Slusarczyk.
Mr. Martin, who could retell history by showing the mutations of a lapel over time, helped create an argument for fashion as an art form, one not inferior to the fine arts. He was one of fashion's most colorful figures, a wicked satirist with a superb knowledge of design history, able to describe in exact detail the collections of designers long faded from the fashion landscape.
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Richard Harrison Martin was born in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and after graduating from Swarthmore College in 1967 moved to New York to pursue a doctorate in art history at Columbia University. But he fell in love with the fashion world when he joined the teaching staff at F.I.T.
HEADLINE: Phoebe Snetsinger, 68, Dies; Held Record for Bird Sightings
December 2, 1999, Thursday, Late Edition - Final
NAME: Phoebe Snetsinger
SECTION: Section B; Page 15; Column 1; National Desk
LENGTH: 979 words
BYLINE: By DOUGLAS MARTIN
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Phoebe Snetsinger, who saw and recorded more birds than anybody else, died on Nov. 23 in a van accident on a birding expedition to Madagascar, shortly after viewing an exceptionally rare Helmet vanga. She was 68 and lived in Webster Groves, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis.
Birding went from a hobby to a passion for Mrs. Snetsinger on the day in 1981 that a doctor told her she had an incurable cancer, with less than a year to live. Rejecting therapy, she took off to Alaska on a scheduled trip, her first long-distance journey simply to see birds.
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She graduated from Swarthmore College as a German major, and then taught science at the Baldwin School, a private girls school in Bryn Mawr, Pa. When Mr. Snetsinger returned from service in Korea, they both attended graduate school and she earned a master's degree in German literature.
HEADLINE: Father's drive, child's dreams made Esrey the...man behind Sprint
November 21, 1999 Sunday METROPOLITAN EDITION
SECTION: NATIONAL/WORLD; Pg. A1
LENGTH: 2996 words
BYLINE: TED SICKINGER, The Kansas City Star
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Some kids play house. Others dream of becoming sports heroes, musicians or astronauts. At age 8, Bill Esrey wanted to be a businessman, and invented an appropriately buttoned-down alter ego to play the part. . . . With Bill Esrey, however, it was no childish fantasy but a precocious master plan in the making. The arc of his resulting career has been a near vertical line through the ranks of telecommunications and investment banking, with few detours to his ultimate goal: "To run the place."
Now, just over half a century later, Esrey, the chief executive of Sprint Corp., sits astride a global telephone company, arguably the most influential businessman in Kansas City, attempting the biggest merger in business history.
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He briefly attended his father's alma matter, Swarthmore College, but found the atmosphere overly academic. After one semester he transferred to Denison University in Ohio, where brother Bob was enrolled. Esrey graduated in 1961, a Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in economics. His senior year, he was president of his fraternity and vice president of the Interfraternity Council.
HEADLINE: space.com Executive Joins Goalnetwork Team
November 30, 1999, Tuesday
DISTRIBUTION: Business Editors
LENGTH: 517 words
DATELINE: NEW YORK, November 30, 1999
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Goal Media Group co-founder and CEO Craig Stoehr today announced that Meredith Halpern, former Director of Communications for space.com, has joined the global Internet soccer company as Vice President of Communications.
www.goalnetwork.com, the definitive online network for the world's billions of soccer fans, was launched by Goal Media Group on November 10, 1999. www.goalnetwork.com offers match results, news, exclusive stories and feature coverage from a worldwide network of top international soccer journalists. In the coming months, www.goalnetwork.com will also feature the world's largest online store for soccer merchandise, online auctions of soccer memorabilia, and community services, including message boards, chat, free home pages and free email accounts.
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Ms. Halpern also worked in broadcast journalism for many years in Washington, D.C. She was the Washington producer for The Nightly Business Report on PBS and for Today's Business. She graduated from Swarthmore College and received her M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business.
Headline: The Iceman Cometh
January 2000
By: Gay Jervey
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Inheriting the job of his legendary mentor, Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker tries to shred his reserve and keep his magazine relevant in an intensely competitive media world.
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Whitaker’s independence and imperturbability were instilled at an early age, the result of a broken home and constant relocations. His mother, who is white, met his African-American father when he was a student of hers at Swarthmore College, where she taught French in the mid-fifties. But Whitaker’s parents split up when he was 5, and he spent much of his youth moving from campus to campus – a "faculty brat," as he puts it. Just after his 16th birthday, Whitaker decided that he was bored with high school; he arranged on his own to take the SAT’s so he could fast-forward into college. Whitaker entered Swarthmore without a high school diploma. He left after one semester. "For one thing, I kept running into people who would say, ‘Oh, Mark, I remember when you were 2 years old.’ That kind of thing. . . .
SPORTS
HEADLINE: Tuesday's Women's Basketball Scores
State & Local Wire
November 24, 1999, Wednesday, BC cycle
SECTION: Sports News
LENGTH: 1105 words
BYLINE: By The Associated Press
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Suffolk 56, Curry 45
Swarthmore 77, W. Maryland 73, OT
Tufts 75, Johnson & Wales, R.I. 63
HEADLINE: Tuesday's College Basketball Scores
November 24, 1999, Wednesday, BC cycle
SECTION: Sports News
LENGTH: 1320 words
BYLINE: By The Associated Press
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Goucher 78, Johns Hopkins 65
Gwynedd Mercy 77, Swarthmore 75
Harvard 80, Holy Cross 69
Headline: KUTZTOWN LB WINS DEFENSIVE HONORS
Thursday, December 2, 1999
Page: 91
Edition: Late Sports - Section: SPORTS
by Bill Fleischman, Daily News Sports Writer
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GARNET RUNNER TOPS
Swarthmore junior Joko Agunloye is the Centennial Conference Female Runner of the Year, the first Garnet athlete so honored. Agunloye, from Jamaica, N.Y., won the conference 5K championship in a school-record time of 18m minutes, 41.67 seconds.
Swarthmore's women finished sixth in the conference championships; the men were third.
HEADLINE: RPI remains undefeated
November 29, 1999, Monday, ONE STAR EDITION
SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. D2
LENGTH: 175 words
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Union 92, Swarthmore 59: In a game played at Memorial Field House in Schenectady, Union connected on 21 of 41 second-half shots. Union (2-0) led 38-32 at intermission, but outscored Swarthmore (1-4), 54-27, in the second half. Union also was 7-for-10 from 3-point range in the second half. . . .
HEADLINE: Galletta leads Union
November 28, 1999, Sunday, THREE STAR EDITION
SECTION: SPORTS, Pg. C13
LENGTH: 78 words
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RPI 70, Swarthmore 53: Alex Dowlin scored 32 points to led the Red Hawks (2-0). Teammates Jamie Sangouthai added 11 points, and Doug Ullrich had 10 rebounds.
Headline: Main Line/Delco Girls' Volleyball Player of the Year
Tuesday, November 23, 1999
Page: B08
Edition: C
Zone: WEST
Section: SPORTS
By Ira Josephs, INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
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Jen Constantino is fascinated by the Civil War and thrilled by the sport of volleyball. The Ridley senior and straight A student doesn't compare her two interests. Volleyball matches aren't battles in Constantino's book. Combat is not something she considers when looking back at the accomplishments of the Ridley volleyball team over the last three years. ``Every single person on the team was so vital,'' she said. ``Every person on the team contributed to every point we earned.''
Constantino, The Inquirer's Main Line/Delaware County volleyball player of the year, was integral to the team's success. Ridley has won the last two Central League titles outright after sharing the crown with Haverford High in 1997, and Constantino has been a first-team Central League selection all three years.
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Constantino is choosing from a list of schools that includes Swarthmore, Haverford, Franklin and Marshall, Gettysburg, Marymount and St. John Fisher. While she excels and enjoys all subjects, her favorite is history.
Headline: College Notebook
Friday, November 19, 1999
Page: B11
Edition: C
Zone: WEST
Section: SPORTS
By Chris Morkides, INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
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Two Swarthmore runners - senior Liam O'Neill and junior Joko Agunloye - also will compete at nationals. O'Neill, who missed his junior season because of a knee injury, finished second in the men's competition in regionals. Agunloye placed second in the women's competition.
Friday, November 19, 1999
Page: 170
Edition: Late Sports
Section: SPORTS
By John Smallwood
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Other area small colleges (last season's record and coach's record at school in parentheses):
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Swarthmore (4-20; coach, Lee Wimberly, 108-191): 6-7 sophomore David Gammill averaged 10.4 ppg and 7.1 rpg for the Garnet Tide. Co-captain Joe Culley (5.0 ppg, 3.7 rpg), a 6-2 senior from Interboro, hopes for a healthy season for a change. Greg Holtmeier, a 6-1 senior co-captain, averaged 7.7 ppg.
HEADLINE: Saturday's College Basketball
November 22, 1999; Monday 07:48 Eastern Time
SECTION: Sports
LENGTH: 1853 words
BYLINE: The Associated Press
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Suffolk 72, Albertus Magnus 65
Swarthmore 76, Heidelberg 61
Thiel 81, Baldwin-Wallace 73
HEADLINE: Sunday's Women's College Basketball Scores
November 22, 1999, Monday, BC cycle
SECTION: Sports News
LENGTH: 630 words
BYLINE: By The Associated Press
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Swarthmore Tipoff Tournament Championship
Swarthmore 56, Wesleyan, Conn. 54
November 22, 1999 Monday, STATEWIDE
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. C8
LENGTH: 735 words
BYLINE: Staff And Wire Reports
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Swarthmore 56, Wesleyan 54: Heather Kile (19) and Sarah Tufano combined for 36 points to lead Swarthmore (1-1) over Wesleyan (0- 2) in the consolation game of the Swarthmore Classic in Swarthmore, Pa.
HEADLINE: CENTRAL WINS SUN CLASSIC
November 21, 1999 Sunday, STATEWIDE
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. E4
LENGTH: 550 words
BYLINE: WOODY ANDERSON; Courant Staff Writer
Staff reports included
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Heidelberg 61, Wesleyan 53: Rachel Poland scored 26 points to lead Heidelberg (1-0) over Wesleyan (0-1) in the Swarthmore Tip-Off Tournament in Swarthmore, Pa.
HEADLINE: WIDENER IS LEAGUE'S TOP VOLLEYBALLER AGAIN
November 18, 1999 Thursday, FINAL / ALL
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. 7D
LENGTH: 1244 words
BYLINE: By BOB FORTUNA; PLAIN DEALER REPORTER
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Western Reserve Academy product Kim Cariello, a sophomore forward at Swarthmore College scored career highs of six goals and four assists en route to being given honorable mention recognition on the All-Centennial Conference Field Hockey Team.