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After TERRELL OWENS got sidelined for the rest of the season for talking smack about his team, he sent fellow Philadelphia Eagles birthday invites shaped like penalty flags that said, "No. 81 is at it again...
...filings Friday.A lawyer for the plaintiffs, David J. Strachman of Providence, R.I., declined to comment on the litigation. University spokesman Joe Wrinn also declined to comment.The plaintiffs are eyeing antiquities at other institutions, as well, including The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the University of Pennsylvania Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago. FOREIGN AFFAIRSThe closest match to the plaintiffs’ tactics is a suit called Flatow v. Alvi Foundation, according to Keith Sealing, associate dean for student services at Syracuse University College...
...Franklin's birth, the famed inventor-diplomat's sole surviving home will open to the public. Franklin arrived in London in 1757 as the Pennsylvania Assembly's agent, and spent five years sharing the house with his widowed landlady, Margaret Stevenson, and her daughter, Polly. He returned from Philadelphia and resumed residence there from 1765 to 1775, to present the Assembly's case for making Pennsylvania a Crown colony. During his residence, the house functioned as a de facto U.S. embassy and the center of the American polymath's intellectual and social activities. There he invented the glass armonica...
...Franklin arrived in London in 1757 as the Pennsylvania Assembly's agent, and apart from a two year gap (during which he returned to Philadelphia) lived there until 1775. During his residence, the house functioned as a de facto U.S. embassy and the center of the American polymath's intellectual and social activities. He entertained Enlightenment thinkers in the sitting room, and in 1775 held negotiations there with William Pitt the Elder. When those failed, he fled London under threat of arrest...
...speech next to a big diagram showing the event layout. And the President?s young trip director, Steven Atkiss, was shown pulling back the stage curtain as the President entered to cheers. Williams was given three separate interviews-in the Oval Office, on Air Force One and again in Philadelphia-with total time together, including non-camera time, of slightly over an hour. There was at least one Bushism, when Williams asked the President about one-time administration claims that Iraqis would welcome Americans as liberators. "I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome," the President...