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Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is the mild, happily married Philadelphian who's forced to watch his family's atrocity up close. The two killers are arrested, but assistant DA Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), who's wary of trying a case he might lose, cuts a deal, letting one perp testify against the other. One is condemned to death; the other gets a light sentence. Outraged and embittered, Shelton lies low for 10 years, then activates a revenge scheme that is both madly complex and simply mad. He executes the killers in approved mad-scientist fashion - one by remote control...
...government major from Eliot House. As a coxswain for the men’s varsity lightweight crew team, and a native Philadelphian, he has developed a highly tuned sense of observation, and hopes to bring this to bear on the international issues of the day in “On the Lookout.” His column will appear on alternate Thursdays...
Brutally Beaten. Though the FBI declined to admit it, the break apparently came after agents offered to pay $25,000 for inside information. And "somebody," as one bitter Philadelphian put it, "finally went and opened up." The informant, whoever it was, knew what he was talking about. The federal men had to dig only one hole to find the bodies. Schwerner and Goodman had each been shot through the heart with a single .38-caliber bullet. Chaney had three slugs in his body and, according to an unofficial autopsy, had been brutally beaten. "In my 25 years as a pathologist...
...were blessed with the Red Sox. Philadelphia has had nothing. It is time for Philadelphia to stop losing. It is time for Philadelphia to claim the championship that has eluded its grasp over the past two decades, and on Sunday night it will be time for every true-blooded Philadelphian to scream at the top of his or her lungs, “Fly, Eagles, Fly!” as the Birds finally bring home a victory to the streets of Philadelphia...
...plaintiffs, Philadelphian Gary Rodwell, who uses I-95 once a week to take his seven-year-old son in Baltimore to Cub Scout meetings, told TIME he was enraged at being stopped: "In spite of everything I've done to live on the right side of the law, someone has made a decision that I'm not worthy of freely traveling...