Word: philadelphia
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...Ryan G. Schaffer '00 traveled with his mother, Jan, from their home in Cleveland to Philadelphia to see a specialist who might be able to treat his mom's rare form of cancer. Jan Schaffer had first been diagnosed in 1982, and after a brief period of radiation treatment, a doctor declared her cured. She returned to normal life for a while--if you can call being the single mother of three energetic sons normal. But eight years later the cancer returned. When Ryan and his mother spoke with the Philadelphia doctor, he told her she had six months...
...December of 1995, Ryan came home from school one day to find the "good envelope" from Harvard. Jan was back in Philadelphia for several weeks of radiation treatment. She knew that the letter was going to come that day, and when she called that evening she tried to mask anticipation by starting a casual conversation about school. "I said, `Mom, I got into Harvard,' and then I heard the phone drop and she just started screaming. My aunt said that she went around the hotel and told everyone in the lobby that her son was going to Harvard...
...emotional contest at Lavietes Pavilion, the Big Green (18-8, 11-3 Ivy) beat Harvard (10-15, 7-7) 73-68, to move within a half game of the first-place Princeton Tigers. Princeton plays Penn in the Ivy League season finale tonight at the Palestra in Philadelphia. DARTMOUTH 73 HARVARD...
...emotional contest at Lavietes Pavilion, the Big Green (18-8, 11-3 Ivy) beat Harvard (10-15, 7-7), 73-68, to move within a half game of the first-place Princeton Tigers. Princeton plays Penn in the Ivy League season finale tonight at the Palestra in Philadelphia...
...compelling. (Present-day presidential candidate General Lee Aliar (Jason Mills) threatens to ban Rock 'n Roll in exchange for campaign funding from disco-freak Hal Elujah; in order to save Rock 'n Roll, Elvis impersonator Al Shookup (Seth Fenton) travels back in time from the year 2099 to Philadelphia in 1787, where he elicits the help of Founding Father sidekick Brook Worm (Adam "Waka" Green...