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Laura Bennett's "Didn't I Feed You Yesterday?'
Note to supermom: Your hemline is showing
In Didn't I Feed You Yesterday, Laura Bennett sends a sassy, irreverent look at motherhood down the runway. If that sounds familiar, it should: Most of her material is recycled from somewhere else.
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Fear and integration in Wynnefield, c. 1970
You've got to be carefully taught: Wynnefield before the whites fled
To a kid growing up there, Wynnefield was a far more interesting, vital neighborhood in the years after integration and before our parents' panic ended that all too brief era.
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On saving the U.S.S. 'Olympia'
Almost gone, and already forgotten
The U.S. Olympia, Admiral Dewey's flagship and long a prime Philadelphia attraction, seems headed for the scrap heap. But it was saved from that heap at least once before, as I can attest from firsthand experience.
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SEPTA: The tragedy and the prevarication
Slouching toward Albania: SEPTA confronts an emergency
SEPTA had a tragedy when a woman was killed on the tracks at the Bryn Mawr station. It compounded it by leaving stranded passengers to fend for themselves, and then lying about the mess it left them in.
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On not pitying Palestinians
Anti-Semitism turned inside out: On not pitying Palestinians
Nothing on earth seems more politically correct than pitying Palestinians. I have done my own share of it, but no more. Among stateless or secessionist peoples, they are the least deserving of sympathy, and if we actually want to do them good, we should tell them so.
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Martha Nussbaum's ivory tower
Do as I say, not as I do: Martha Nussbaum defends the humanities
Professor Martha Nussbaum deplores the decline of liberal arts education, which she sees as the engine of democracy. And she champions Socratic dialogue as the stimulant for the liberal arts. So why was her recent Free Library appearance more monologue than dialogue?
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Coach John Wooden: A remembrance
A coach's tone of voice
UCLA's legendary basketball coach John Wooden won ten championships and hundreds of games. But one of his lowly substitutes remembers Wooden for a small gesture of acknowledgment.
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Canoeing through the Meadowlands
Up shit's creek (with nothing but a paddle)
Searching for the ultimate battleground in the endless war between Man and Nature, an obsessed artist finds himself paddling in a canoe through the notorious New Jersey Meadowlands, whose ground is literally constructed of garbage.
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Double jeopardy: A Philadelphia scandal
‘Vengeance is mine,' saith the DA
The recent double jeopardy prosecution of William J. Barnes for a crime he'd already served his sentence for shows that the vengeful spirit of Lynne Abraham is still alive and well in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office. Although Barnes was acquitted this time, the story, alas, doesn't end there.
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High Diver: A Wildwood memory, 1954
Tricks of the diving trade: 'Supermen' at Wildwood, summer of ‘54
High Diver had been a water bug all of his relatively short life. Then at age 15 he joined the Aqua Follies at Wildwood and was introduced, for the first time, to the highest of high dives.
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