Word: philadelphia
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NEARLY A YEAR after the Philadelphia inferno, the smoke shrouding the actions of Mayor W. Wilson Goode and his overlings has begun to clear. Or so we might be led to believe by the report released last month by Goode's self-appointed investigation committee on the Move disaster...
With no magic bullet to shoot them through the heart, the city burned the modern heretics at the stake. The water washed the city's hands. As Ramona said to the judge at her trial, "The whole city of Philadelphia is trying to wash the blood of Move people off their hands and they're using you as the water...
Eric Davis and Dave Parker rocked Steve Carlton with home runs yesterday to catapult the Cincinnati Reds to a 7-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League's traditional season opener...
...There was some confusion on this question. We meant major league players with the same last name; obviously no one named Lisa Anderson has ever played professional baseball. Sorry about the confusion. Anyway, among the namesakes are Mike Anderson (Philadelphia outfielder in the early '70s), Cliff Brady (Boston second baseman in 1920), Alta Cohen (Giant infielder in the 1920s), Mel and Albert Hall, Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, Rich Nye (Cub pitcher in the 1960s), Pat Putnam, Jim Price (Tiger catcher in the late '60s), and Earl Wilson. Glenn Hoffman spells his name with only...
...educators save their special scorn for such programs as Suzuki, a music-teaching method that sets two- and three-year-olds to performing on the violin and other instruments, or the Better Baby Institute in Philadelphia, which offers parents a weeklong course called How to Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence so that the toddler can achieve "encyclopedic knowledge." A & common upshot of such regimens, say critics, is robot virtuosity with little understanding and no lasting gain. The most reliable head start parents can provide, asserts T. Berry Brazelton, professor of pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School, in his 1985 book...