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...shoulder like a proud father, Alito dropped an unsubtle hint that he will be tough to mess with. "I argued my first case before the Supreme Court in 1982, and I still vividly recall that day," said Alito, who was put on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, in Philadelphia, by Bush's father. Underscore "first"; this is a lawyer who's been in the end zone before...
Across the U.S., retirement plans in big cities and small ones are underwater. In Philadelphia, the city's three big pension funds were short $2.6 billion at the end of 2003. The police plan had enough assets to cover only 59% of promised retirement checks. That was after the city had sold $1.2 billion in pension-obligation bonds in 1999, the equivalent of paying your mortgage with a credit card. At the other end of the state, Pittsburgh was in even worse shape. In 2003, the police pension plan had enough assets to cover just 33% of promised retirement...
WANTED: POLO SHIRTS, SIZE XXL Big-and-tall stores should brace themselves for some wealthy new customers with an urgent need for sport coats. When the NBA's new dress code goes into effect Nov. 1, Philadelphia 76ers guard ALLEN IVERSON is one player who will have to retire his throwback jerseys, do-rags and chunky gold chains to comply with the new "business casual" rule for games and league events. To tackle a perception problem, NBA commissioner David Stern has banned all headgear, shorts, T shirts and necklaces visible outside clothing. "Everybody has their own style," says Iverson. "That...
...Tucci, a teammate of Ambrogi’s at St. Joseph’s Preparatory School in Philadelphia, said that Ambrogi was the type of person who everyone loved to be around...
DIED. EDMUND BACON, 95, irascible urban planner (and father of actor Kevin Bacon) whose revitalization of Philadelphia landed him in 1964 on the cover of TIME, which lauded his work as the "most skillfully coordinated of all big-city programs in the U.S."; in Philadelphia. Among his contributions: the conception of Penn Center, a collection of high-rises, shops and restaurants credited with sparking the city's rebirth. Bacon's 1967 book, Design of Cities, remains a staple of many architecture classes...