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Profile: Where in the World Is Sean Agnew?

He looked every bit the unassuming tourist, discreetly dressed in a blue oxford and sporting a brimming vacation beard. He was trying to explain to […]

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Profile: Kyle Scott of Crossing Broad

Kyle Scott is showing me Terrell Owens’s penis. We’re sitting in the upstairs office of the two-bedroom twin Scott shares with his fiancée, on the […]

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One of Us: Charlie Manuel

My name is … Charles Fuqua Manuel. The “Fuqua” comes from my grandmother’s doctor. It was my father’s name, and back where I grew up […]

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Ajay Raju Profile: The Big Raju

Might as well start with the hair. “My life,” he says, “is driven by my obsession with my stupid hair.” “My wife,” he says, “hates […]

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Dominic Pileggi: The Grown-Up

At the Court Diner in Media, the rest of the table orders chipped beef, pancakes and omelets. Then the waitress asks Senate Majority Leader Dominic […]

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Suburbanista: Food Fight in the Wegmans Parking Lot

At 3 p.m, on Saturday, the day before Winter Storm Titan was due to bury the entire Delaware Valley in a foot of snow, my […]

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Rape Happens Here

In the early 1980s, staff members in one of Swarthmore’s libraries began hanging reams of white computer paper in the bathroom stalls, which students would […]

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The Most Powerful Man in Philadelphia

The last time we ranked the most powerful people in Philadelphia, in November 2009, Brian Roberts came in at a solid but not spectacular number […]

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My Crowdsourced Life

It was, you have to admit, a pretty smart publicity grab. Back in January, Mark Zuckerberg snapped a picture, posted it online, and posed a […]

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Without a Trace

To most anyone watching, they were just another couple, out on a Saturday night at Abilene’s on South Street, drinking a few beers and watching […]