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CNN’s Jake Tapper on Growing Up in Philadelphia

LIZ: You and I first met as students at the Philadelphia School in second grade, in 1975. That was the third year of the school’s […]

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Eagles Offensive Linemen Evan Mathis and Todd Herremans

Interview by Sheil Kapadia and Tim McManus PM: At what point in your lives did you realize that you had a chance to play football […]

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Stephen Starr and Pierre Robert on Music in Philadelphia

STEPHEN: You know, growing up, my goal was to be a disc jockey. PIERRE: Really? Wow. STEPHEN: I got my FCC license when I was […]

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Helen Gym and Bill Green Try to Find Common Ground (or Not) on Education in Philadelphia

He’s chairman of the School Reform Commission. She’s co-founder of Parents United for Public Education. They have very different ideas about how to run the […]

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Why Does Neil Theobald Think Football Will Save Temple?

It was a date that would live in infamy. The news hit the scholar-athletes gathered in Temple University’s Student Pavilion on December 6th of last […]

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One of Us: Yannick Nézet-Séguin

My name is … Yannick Nézet-Séguin, since I was 16. I was born Yannick Séguin, but I decided to legally add my mother’s last name, […]

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Philadelphia + a Pipeline (or Two) = America’s Next Energy Hub

About 1,400 miles from Philadelphia, at the northern edge of the Louisiana bayou, lies a spaghetti junction of steel tubing called Henry Hub, where 13 […]

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Terrell Owens: 10 Years After the Eagles

The wide receiver explodes off the line of scrimmage, shakes his defender, and curls hard to the right sideline. He’s a step ahead of his […]

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Jim Brady Profile: The Billy Pulpit

There exists an unwritten rule in many of America’s newsrooms. It stipulates that when a journalist of sufficient stature departs his job, he is sent […]

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How the Penn Working Dog Center Turns Puppies Into Saviors

There’s a golden retriever in the ladies’ room. It’s my first visit to the Penn Vet Working Dog Center, and traffic was tied up on […]