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For Philadelphia, playing host to the Republican National Convention is a high-stakes venture, and last week's videotaped arrest of a suspected carjacker has intensified the national spotlight on the City of Brotherly Love. No one wants to see a repeat of the mass arrests, property destruction and wanton...
Protesters fear that the ambiguously worded law is so likely to be misunderstood that any attempt to enforce it will erupt in violence. Perhaps this is why, even before last week's police beating, Police Commissioner John Timoney decided that only he and his two deputy commissioners will have the...
Gee, thanks. To be fair, mystery is essential to the show. And some of Carter's questioners had Sci-Fi-Convention Syndrome, expecting the creator to spit out, like a creative jukebox, the answers to all manner of ephemera and hypotheticals. How will Mulder feel if it turns out Scully...
Several weeks ago, at dinner with friends who have lived in Philadelphia for decades, I asked if there were visible signs of spit-and-polish as the city prepared for the GOP convention. Oh, yes, they replied. In fact, driving from the airport into the city, one notices immediately how...
We're coming up on the week Philadelphia's garbage collectors, road painters, window washers, police and park crews have been dreading since 1998, when then-mayor Ed Rendell won his bid to bring the GOP convention - and the attendant media frenzy - to his beloved city. The decision was a...