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Loco Parentis: Creature From the Third-Floor Bedroom

My son Jake’s sneakers are ratty, so we’re at the mall, in Schuylkill Valley Sports, which I like because we get 10 percent off if […]

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Passions

Vince Fumo “I build LEGOS during long and protracted budget negotiations, to give me relief from the tensions and B.S.,” State Senator Vince Fumo says. […]

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A Different Drummer

But the student in Ahmir could never trade his acoustic set for a drum machine, and that devotion paid off in the early ’90s, when […]

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The Jock and the Madman

Bruckner recentered his investigation on Girard. “I was a month into this thing,” Bruckner said. “I was sick, and I always had a headache because […]

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Feature: Abner Comes Home

Pyfer believes in telling the truth. In his office he keeps a foot-tall statue of himself in Boy Scout regalia, and the first tenet of […]

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Soapbox: Does Black Philadelphia Need a White Mayor?

Attorney Carl Singley is hardly an unbiased source on all matters John Street since his public falling-out with his old friend in 2000, but he […]

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Contrarian: Flood the Courts!

The terms of this debate, however, may be about to change. Researchers at Temple University are wrapping up a study of Northeast Philadelphia’s Pennypack Creek […]

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Is Wharton Ruining American Business?

Not that knowing better always helps, as Wharton MBA blogger explained in a recent post about a flight he’d just taken: Everyone’s baggage [emerges] soaked […]

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Girl Power

Competition among established publicists is subtle but fierce. Because there are a limited number of high-profile, monied accounts to go around, there’s a fair amount […]

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My Philadelphia Story: Larry Kane

I am eligible for Social Security now, which is a weird feeling. There was a time when I regretted not going to the network level, […]