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...York Times last week declaring, "Boycott Israeli Universities? Boycott Ours, Too!" The petition, organized by the American Jewish Committee, featured a statement by Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, a noted free speech scholar, and was signed by numerous others including the presidents of MIT and Princeton University...
...poll tabbed Penn to finish second in the league, while the Crimson is picked third. The Quakers and Harvard each earned one of the two first-place votes not garnered by the Bulldogs, while 2006 co-champ Princeton ranks fourth in the preseason poll. Cornell is fifth and Columbia sixth, while Brown, just two years removed from an Ivy title, is the media’s pick to finish seventh. Dartmouth rounds out the picks in last place...
...mother of a college-age girl, how do you balance family and career? Raj C. Sinha, PRINCETON...
...Petraeus is not your old-fashioned, gung-ho, blood-and-guts sort of commander. He's an intellectual, a West Point graduate with a Ph.D. in international relations from Princeton. His record in Iraq has been mixed. He succeeded, for a time, in applying his counterinsurgency tactics in Mosul during the first year of the war, but his highly publicized effort to train the new Iraqi army in 2004 can only be considered a failure. He has successfully led soldiers in combat. And he does have his macho moments, famously challenging his soldiers to push-up contests. But he made...
...Army is a far cry from the barbarian mercenaries that Rome eventually used to fill out its legions, there is a dangerous chasm growing between the U.S. military-a subculture with a bracing value system emphasizing service, discipline and common purpose-and the slovenly culture at large. "In my Princeton class of '56, 450 of the 750 graduates served in the military," says Charles Moskos of Northwestern University, a military historian. "Elvis Presley was drafted the same year I was. In last year's Princeton class, only 9 out of 1,100 graduates served in the military...