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Nov. 3, 2010

Vol. 111, No. 3

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THE WEEKLY BLOG

Cambanis *00 explores Hezbollah in campus talk
Thanassis Cambanis *00 first went to Lebanon in 2006 as the Middle East bureau chief for The Boston Globe. After three years in Baghdad reporting on the Iraq War, Cambanis had been assigned to cover the war between Israel and Hezbollah, the Islamist political party and paramilitary group based in Lebanon that the United States lists as a terrorist organization. He had seen the influence of Hezbollah on Iraqi Islamist insurgents, and he... READ MORE

The poet as politician

Rex Lee Jim ’86 believes Navajo pride and self-determination begin with language

By Mark F. Bernstein ’83

Politicians are politicians everywhere, it seems, and for the most part the Navajo Nation is no exception. The Navajos were electing a new president, and two days before the August primary, 200 people filed into a candidate forum at Monument Valley...

The Medal of Honor

Published in the Nov. 3, 2010, issue

Princetonians have fulfilled the motto “in the nation’s service” in many ways, but one of the most dramatic is through earning the nation’s highest decoration for valor in wartime, the Medal of Honor. A total of 3,448 Medals of Honor have been awarded — ...Read more

Doctoral programs earn high marks in new study

Published in the Nov. 3, 2010, issue

A national assessment of doctoral programs released Sept. 28 ranked Princeton as a leader in graduate education, but the complexity of the findings makes it difficult to say who is the best in a given field. The National Research Council gathered...Read more

No club hopeful left behind?

Published in the Nov. 3, 2010, issue

We’d like your reaction to the alternative selection process outlined by the Eating Club Task Force: Leave a comment below this story; e-mail PAW at paw@princeton.edu or write to PAW, 194 Nassau St., Suite 38, Princeton NJ 08542.Read more

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Web Bonus Links

'What I write about'
Rex Lee Jim '86 talks about his poetry, and explains a poem written for Princeton's 250th anniversary.

Pilgrimage to a distant shore
Clay Bonnyman Evans searches for signs of his grandfather, Alexander Bonnyman ’32, a hero of the battle of Tarawa in 1943.

Early Princeton images
Click here for photographic images of Princetonians from the 1840s and 1850s, and details of how they have been preserved by the University Archives.

Video: Covering foreign news
Watch Kira Kay *03’s report from Rwanda for her nonprofit Bureau for International Reporting.

Web Exclusives

Gregg Lange's 70's Rally 'Round the Cannon
The Prince archives go digital: Soon you'll be able to find all the things from your college years that you tried to forget.

Recent alumni deaths
A list of alumni whose deaths recently have been reported to the University.

Lend a hand
Add your group to PAW's list of nonprofits created or led by alumni.

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