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Yale, which was prepared to take on the Quakers at Philadelphia??s Franklin Field that day, had lost one non-conference game at that point—to current powerhouse No. 6 Colgate—but overall looked strong, averaging 41 points per game...
...privatization was dismissed outright, without analysis of stock market performance or potential safeguards against “vagaries.” Additionally, Begala and Carville lambasted Bush’s right-wing “judicial nominees” (left-wing Clinton nominee Judge Frederica Massiah-Jackson, opposed by Philadelphia??s district attorney for “deeply ingrained and pervasive bias against prosecutors and law enforcement officers,” apparently demonstrated the impartiality characteristic of a more praiseworthy judicial pick...
...TACONY, PHILADELPHIA??On my first day in the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia, the murder of a local man caused a stir, but it wasn’t the violence that had people upset. In a city where 288 murders last year marked a 17-year low, people don’t get too upset about one more. Rather, the outrage was directed at the press for misreporting the crime’s location as Tacony, when everyone knew that it happened in Mayfair, the next neighborhood over...
...city with rich history like Philadelphia??s, the remnants of Tacony’s past hardly seem worth preserving. People laughed at the Historical Society of Tacony when it first opened in 1990. Its collection, which consists of matchbooks from the 1920s, saw blades from the 1890s, and photographs of the factories productively belching smoke, does not draw giant crowds to the one-room museum. But the treatment of history in this industrial neighborhood is more passionate than anything in Philadelphia??s Old City...
Jonathan P. Abel ’05, a Crimson editor, is a history concentrator in Quincy House. Join him as he visits all 63 of Philadelphia??s exotic neighborhoods...