Word: philadelphia
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...Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode was the picture of control last May after a police confrontation with the radical black group Move left eleven cult members and children dead and ignited a fire that swept through 61 houses. Under his leadership, Philadelphians rallied to assist the 250 homeless residents of the Osage Avenue neighborhood; the city pledged to rebuild their destroyed houses and repair all damage caused by the fire, at a cost of some $12 million. The mayor also accepted full responsibility for what had happened. As he explained then: "People like a decisive leader (who) does...
Goode refused to comment on the discrepancies in the testimony given last week, except to say, "I told the truth as I know it. If there are differences, it is up to the commission to resolve them." The investigation is to be followed by four others, by the Philadelphia district attorney, the Pennsylvania senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Justice Department...
Susan Berner, a business major from Strongsville, Ohio, knew when she entered Philadelphia's Drexel University that computers would play an important role in her college education. Like other entering freshmen, she had been informed that in addition to the first-year fees of about $9,000 for tuition, room and board, she would have to shell out $1,020 for an Apple Macintosh computer and a bundle of software. Indeed, when she arrived on the urban campus last month, dormitories, classrooms, offices and labs were already teeming with some 6,000 Macs...
...recommended at more than a dozen schools, including Carnegie-Mellon, Colby, Dartmouth, Drew, Franklin and Marshall, Lehigh, LeTourneau and Sweet Briar. But none of these schools has integrated the machines into its curriculum as thoroughly as Drexel has. And none has been as dramatically transformed by computers as the Philadelphia school...
...Pavarotti easily sustained the ringing high notes, the plaintive appoggiaturas, the hummingbird runs and trills. Not his own, but those of 150 hopeful young singers. Bespectacled and wrapped in a colorful shawl, the celebrated tenor spent the past two weeks judging the finals of the second Opera Company of Philadelphia/ Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition. "If you win this competition," said Pavarotti at the outset, "it promises you an opportunity. But more important, if you do not win, it doesn't mean you will not have a career." Still, the expansive Italian could not designate many losers...