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Dining Out 2005: Revisiting the Classics

Restaurants that stay in business for a decade or more must be doing something right. The best ones measure up to our memories while striving […]

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Society: The Power Nun

Billions of dollars were sitting in the ballroom of the Philadelphia Marriott on the eve of the presidential election last fall. Philanthropists Lynne and Harold […]

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Film: The Un-Shyamalan

There’s a party going on inside Bryn Mawr’s most extravagant home, courtesy of its owner, Dawn Lenfest, wife of Brook, heir to the Lenfest cable-television […]

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Contrarian: The Evil Emperor

I just got a peek at a new biography about the local Roberts family, of Comcast fame. It’s called COMCASTed: How Ralph and Brian Roberts […]

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Lord of the Wings

All he wanted was to retire. With some dignity. With a little bit of grace. A year ago, Bill "El Wingador" Simmons wanted to retire […]

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How — and Why — I Told My Teenage Daughter About My Abortion

Author’s note, June 29th, 2022: When I heard that the U.S. Supreme Court had overruled Roe v. Wade last week, I was swamped with emotion […]

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What if Bill Cosby Is Right?

Last January, some two dozen angry black residents jammed a school board meeting in Lower Merion High School's library. They were members of Concerned Black […]

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David Brooks: Boo-Boos in Paradise

A few years ago, journalist David Brooks wrote a celebrated article for the Atlantic Monthly, “One Nation, Slightly Divisible,” in which he examined the country’s […]

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Who is the Boy in the Box?

An old man sits on an aqua couch in a pink room. Soon he will visit a little boy’s grave. But first he leafs through […]

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Child-Killer’s Sentence Proves to Be Incomplete

When Marie Noe was sentenced nearly two years ago, in the largest maternal infanticide case in recorded medical history, there was national outrage that the […]

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Veterans’ Day

As Bill Guarnere and Edward “Babe” Heffron walk onto the set in Hatfield, England, where Tom Hanks is directing the miniseries Band of Brothers, production […]

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The Good Life: Travel: The In-Laws Are Coming!

When the Center City hotel standbys fill up, these B&Bs are perfect for holiday guests Hamanassett Bed & Breakfast Innkeeper Ashley Mon has spent the […]

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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: Nonfiction: Last Team Standing

Last Team Standing By Matthew Algeo (Da Capo Press; $26) In 1943, the National Football League faced a serious problem: Most of its best players […]

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The Good Life: The Mix: Q&A: Gavin McKay

Fusion’s workout plan will get you off the couch It’s cold — really cold — and you don’t need to be beach-ready for at least […]

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Taste: Feast of the Seven Fishes

"Are you gonna do the fishes?" one of Joe Palombo’s customers demanded more than 15 years ago. "You gotta do the fishes." So this Italian […]