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Zimmer reclaims seat he once held in close election

Zimmer reclaims seat he once held in close election

After four years out of public office, it appears Dick Zimmer will move back to Washington as residents of New Jersey's 12th Congressional District elected him to a fourth term in the House in a dead-heat race won by a margin of fewer than 800 votes.Zimmer ? a former lecturer at the Wilson School ? narrowly defeated the Democratic incumbent freshman representative Rush Holt by 731 votes in a race where nearly 280,000 residents went to the polls, according to preliminary counts.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Florida flip-flops and a nation is left guessing

It was nothing if not a nail-biter.In the closest presidential race in years, Election Day stretched into an appropriately long election night, and threatened to stretch even further as Vice President Al Gore at 3:50 a.m.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Corzine squeaks by Franks in bitterly contested Senate race

New Jersey's U.S. Senate race ended last night with a photo finish. Jon Corzine, propelled by more than $60 million in campaign spending, squeaked by Bob Franks in a 51- to 48-percent victory, despite a last-minute surge from Franks.Corzine spoke confidently at his acceptance speech, cheered on by an ebullient crowd.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Princeton students and residents turn out in force

In towns and cities across the country, Americans went to the polls in force yesterday. Princeton residents were no exception.The aura of the polling rooms in both the Trinity Church on Mercer Street and Jadwin Hall ? two locations where area residents gathered to vote ? was calm, quiet, focused and serious.The voting locations in the area were far from luxurious.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Princeton's Nader supporters gather to cheer on alumnus

In a room on the second floor of Terrace Club, Joe Conley GS and David Tannenbaum '01 sat at a table covered with green and white pins, posters and signs.Avid Green Party supporters, Conley and Tannenbaum may have appeared relaxed in their temporary Campus Greens Headquarters, but they are far from apathetic.They and the other leaders of the Campus Greens' campaign for Ralph Nader '55 spent much of yesterday orchestrating the group's final push to encourage students to get out to vote.And the work is not easy or glamorous.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Democrat Godfrey retains Township committee seat

Princeton Township Committee incumbent Leonard Godfrey seized the committee's one open seat in last night's election with a Democratic landslide victory over Republican Jack Marrero and Libertarian Thomas Abrams.Township Clerk Linda McDermott said Godfrey won by earning twice as many votes as the other two candidates put together.Godfrey said he expected the race to be closer than it actually was.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Incumbent Democrats successfully defend both contested Borough seats

The two Democratic incumbents held a firm grasp on their seats last night in the Princeton Borough Council election as 3,668 voters ? 62.9 percent of those registered ? turned out to the polls.Wendy Benchley and Margaret Karcher scored a Democratic sweep, each gaining more than twice as many votes as their most formidable challenger, Republican Rodney Fisk.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

A nation on edge, as race remains in limbo

Early Wednesday morning the presidential race, plagued all night by close calls and missed calls, stood at a stand still.The race came down to Florida, where a margin of just more than 500 voters appeared to turn the Sunshine State to Bush.Pundits were reexamining calls they had made earlier in the night, discussing the possibility of a recount and analyzing the slim margins that divided the candidates and decided the election.Reports surfaced that Gore had called Bush and recanted his earlier concession of the race.And there was no sign of either of the candidates.There were more than a few hiccups throughout the night.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Sturges Win Expected in Mayoralty Struggle

November 8, 1955 ? The absence of nation and statewide contests on the ballot is expected to hold participation in today's election to a minimum in most of the country's polling places.But in Princeton, the most openly fought mayoralty campaign in years should ? barring foul weather ? produce a large turnout.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

Return of the Mac?

Stephanie Biederman '04 misses her Mac.A lifelong Apple computer user before arriving at the University, Biederman never thought she would make the switch to PCs, even though she knew there was more software available for Windows-based machines.Coming from a family of "Mac people," she said, "it would have been a sacrilege to even suggest that my family purchase an IBM."She said, however, "After some investigation I discovered that Princeton tends to go the IBM route," adding, "Princeton had a prejudice against Macs."She pointed to the Forbes cluster as an example.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

At least one Clinton disciple is a winner: Hillary defeats Lazio

Just minutes after the precincts closed in New York, Democrat Hillary Clinton was announced the victor over Republican Congressman Rick Lazio in the race for the state's open U.S.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

The Princetonian: Nader fails to reach 5-percent threshold

Long discounted as a sideline spectator in a duel between Democratic Vice President Al Gore and Republican Texas Gov.

NEWS | 11/07/2000

N.J. Senate race remains tight for Corzine and Franks

As the polls open this morning, New Jersey voters will process information from countless television advertisements and political rallies and decide who should represent them as their next U.S.

NEWS | 11/06/2000

Clinton leads Lazio in race fraught with mud-slinging

As the chaotic campaign for New York's open U.S. Senate seat draws to a close, polls point to Hillary Clinton as the likely winner over her opponent, Rep.

NEWS | 11/06/2000

Campaign still deadlocked as candidates make final push before settling down to watch with the rest of the country

It may be the closest presidential election in 40 years, and it is the most expensive race ever. The campaign has fueled a cottage industry of pundits and consultants and saturated national and local news for weeks.

NEWS | 11/06/2000

Safety concerns prompt shrub removal at courts

Following a series of recent incidents including the robbery of a University student last month, maintenance personnel have removed bushes and trees near the tennis courts behind Dillon Gym.Public Safety and the student life office ordered that the bushes be removed to make the area more visible from Elm Drive.The actual landscaping work was conducted Oct.

NEWS | 11/06/2000

Democratic incumbents look to hold onto Borough Council seats

Republican Rodney Fisk and Independent Dorothy Koehn are looking to unseat the two Democratic incumbents Wendy Benchley and Margaret Karcher in today's Borough Council election.

NEWS | 11/06/2000

Nader polarizes liberal constituency

As Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader '55 implored voters yesterday to "vote entirely their conscience," those of the progressive persuasion were at odds over which left-leaning candidate ? Nader or Vice President Al Gore ? would better further their cause.Nader has acknowledged he has little or no chance of winning the presidency, but has stayed in the race to achieve his goal of garnering 5 percent of the popular vote in today's election.

NEWS | 11/06/2000

Nader scores 'primitive' concept of law violation in United States

On a day when Richard Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey in one of the closest elections in history, Ralph Nader '55 gave the University a glimpse of the platform that he would run on in this year's presidential race.November 7, 1968 - "We get excited about riots in the street because of the flames and press accentuation of them; but when a pipeline explodes, takes more lives than some 'riots' and costs almost as much, there's no excitement at all."So said Ralph Nader '55 last night in an example dramatizing the contention that American response to the law violation is as unsophisticated as its technology is advanced.In his talk before a capacity crowd in the Woodrow Wilson School auditorium, Nader maintained that such things as highway death and air pollution are the greatest sources of violence in America.Nader contended that social protests over crime in the streets rather than crime in the corporations indicates that "the whole concept of violence and crime in this society is still in the most primitive stages."Tracing the reasons for this "primitiveness" formed the core of Nader's talk.He pointed out that there are organizations currently gauging the social costs of corporate production.

NEWS | 11/06/2000

Grad student files complaint in court

Craig Stephen White and Ra'anan Shaul Abusch GS faced each other in Princeton Borough Court yesterday, each prepared to bring harassment charges against the other.White, better known as Brother Stephen, frequently voices his religious views from sidewalks near the Princeton campus.

NEWS | 11/06/2000

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