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John Street came into office in 2000 with an ambitious agenda to improve Philadelphia's worst neighborhoods, and even his critics agree he has made considerable progress. But, says Otis White, of the public-policy consulting firm Civic Strategies, "whatever his grand visions have been, he will not be remembered for them. He will be remembered for the corruption [around...
Mariachi Veritas has taken me to around Cambridge, East Boston, Billerica, and Lawrence, Mass., and we’re taking a trip to the Philadelphia area for a series of benefit concerts in early May. On April 15th at 8 p.m. in Sanders, I’ll play my last HRO Concert, and Mariachi Veritas will have its spring concert on April 16th at 7:30 in Fong Auditorium. I’m also part of a quintet which will perform the Brahms clarinet quintet in the Music 93r concert in the second week...
Selling bowties and launching Christian lifestyle magazines might be a step up for used car salesmen, but professional athletes? From Philadelphia Eagles leftback Dhani Jones’ budding bowtie company to former New England Patriots defensive back Je’rod Cherry’s vision for the world of magazine publishing, National Football League (NFL) players exercised their entrepreneurial smarts last week...
Perhaps no group has done more to dramatize the African anguish than Live Aid, which raised an estimated $70 million during rock extravaganzas in London and Philadelphia on July 13 that were broadcast to more than 1 billion television viewers. Live Aid plans to channel its funds into irrigation and other long-term projects. "Our concerts were trying to keep the starving alive," said Bob Geldof, the Irish rock singer who organized the events. "Now let us give them life." --By John Greenwald. Reported by Edward W. Desmond/New York and James Wilde/Addis Ababa
...year in his prime, would be stunned by what baseball players earn today. Since 1976 the average salary in the major leagues has jumped from $44,000 to $360,000 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED estimates that at least 36 players will make $1 million or more this year. Mike Schmidt, the Philadelphia Phillies' slugging first baseman, tops the list with $2.13 million. Salaries in other sports are also reaching the stratosphere. Doug Flutie, the quarterback for the New Jersey Generals of the U.S.F.L., has a five-year contract reported to be worth $7 million. Basketball experts expect that the New York Knicks...