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Point site born of mishandled purchase

In its first 10 hours online, the USG's new website point.princeton.edu ? which contains information ranging from Dinky times to campus events ? received about 2,600 individual user log-ons and 8,800 hits, USG President Matt Margolin '05 said.But along the road to its launch, Point has encountered some financial bumps, dating back to its formative phases.The site's forerunner, find.princeton.edu site, was created by Matt Stack '04 and only provided information about eating club events.Last year, the USG purchased Find from Stack for $3,000 to "keep it going so that students could still use all the great features it offered," Margolin said.

NEWS | 11/29/2004

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Coll: U.S. lost initiative in Afghanistan

Steve Coll, managing editor of The Washington Post, discussed the developments in Central Asia that led to the 2001 terrorist attacks in Dodds Auditorium on Monday.In a lecture titled "The Roots of September 11: America and Afghanistan," Coll dissected two decades of American involvement in the region, the roots of Islamic fundamentalism and the rise of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.Coll, author of "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001," began his talk with a description of the complications involved in covert operations in the region, particularly with bin Laden.In February of 1999, he noted, CIA-trained tribal leaders had located bin Laden in eastern Afghanistan.Though alerted and ready to strike, U.S.

NEWS | 11/29/2004

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Callaghan, Joseph top USG ticket

The campaigning for next year's USG offices officially kicks off this afternoon, with juniors Shaun Callaghan and Leslie-Bernard Joseph vying for the post of USG president.Overall, 32 candidates will compete for 12 positions, with only one position unopposed.

NEWS | 11/28/2004

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Alumnus admits smuggling Iraqi artifacts

A Middle Eastern expert and Princeton graduate alumnus was sentenced Monday for attempting to smuggle 4,000-year-old artifacts looted from the Iraqi National Museum after the fall of Baghdad into the United States.Joseph Braude was sentenced to six months under house arrest and two years probation after pleading guilty to smuggling and making false statements before U.S.

NEWS | 11/23/2004

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Students from afar stay on campus for Thanksgiving

As a majority of students rush home to families and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, international students find themselves in a unique situation.While the International Students at Princeton organizes activities for foreign students during Fall, Christmas and Spring breaks, they don't plan activities for Thanksgiving because the vacation is so brief.Without planned activities, international students are typically on their own for the four days the University is closed.Jonathan Cheng '05, a Toronto native, will spend his fourth Thanksgiving on campus this year.

NEWS | 11/23/2004

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Two win Marshall Scholarship

University seniors Joshua Geltzer and Patrick Cunningham have won Marshall Scholarships, which provide funding for American college graduates to study at a British university for two years in any subject.Cunningham, an English major on the creative writing track, will study comedic writers from the late Victorian period at Oxford University.Geltzer, a Wilson School major, will likely study trans-Atlantic relations at either King's College London or Oxford University."It will be very useful to study that dialogue [between Britain and America] from the other perspective and to get to know British culture," Geltzer said.Geltzer said he learned he won the scholarship after receiving a phone call on Nov.

NEWS | 11/22/2004

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Tea with royalty: Students meet princes

The University played host to royalty Friday as Hereditary Prince Alois and Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein attended an advisory council meeting for the Liechtenstein Institute On Self-Determination.Along with the meeting, the princes attended tea at Forbes College and high tea ? a late afternoon tea ? at Prospect House.At the high tea, Prince Alois explained some of small states' policy concerns."As a small country you have to be quick and flexible," he said.

NEWS | 11/22/2004