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Power: The Next Howard Dean?

 Knox will be lucky if he has a chance to prove his critics wrong. Almost no one expects that he can get elected. He lacks […]

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Couplings: The Angelina Problem

 Despite our Puritan roots, our culture applauds a certain amount of sexual liberalism. Or at least the appearance thereof. For instance: We love it when […]

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Exit Interview: Andrea Mitchell

We tried. We honestly tried to uphold a more intellectually refined discourse in honor of NBC News correspondent and former KYW reporter Andrea Mitchell, whose […]

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Contrarian: Boys ‘R Us, Inc.

Say what you will about sleaze and self-dealing in corporate America, I doubt there was ever a company like the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, where the […]

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Poker Prodigy

Jordan started hustling card games that same year, not poker but Magic: The Gathering, a Dungeons & Dragons-style duel where players use monsters and spells […]

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Features: Sweet City: Our Favorite Cookie

To find our favorite cookie, we asked more than 350 pastry chefs and bakers to send us samples of their favorites. We were in search […]

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Sweet City: Best Bakeries

A hazelnut gâteau, Chantilly cream puffs — or even straightforward from-scratch brownies — can intimidate the most accomplished home cook. But the region’s ever-expanding assortment […]

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Sweet City: Classic Confections

Doughnuts   These heartier versions of hole-less doughnuts get their sweetness from butterscotch sauce and creamy gelato. “I added cold ice cream to warm doughnuts, because […]

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All the Vince That’s Fit to Print

ON A FRIDAY in late September, Vince Fumo held one of the more surreal press conferences of his career. Three days before, the Inquirer and […]

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The Passion of T. O.

After visiting Terrell’s mother for the last time, in late October, I boarded a flight back to Philadelphia, and stepping onto the plane, I felt […]