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Despite the bleak outlook for public schools, civic spirit is running high in Philadelphia if you measure it another way. Thanks to a $160 million package of public financing approved by the state legislature in February, the Eagles and Phillies will soon get new stadiums. Across the state in Pittsburgh, where the public schools anticipate a $30 million shortfall in the next budget, the Pirates and Steelers will also get new homes, with the state kicking in $160 million toward the cost...
...Crawford, spokesperson for Pittsburgh public schools, doesn't want the issue framed as stadiums vs. schools. "The state has enough to do both," she says. In Philadelphia, 80% of students are poor enough to have something in common with the team owners: they, too, qualify for a free lunch. Unfortunately, they don't have a lunchroom to eat it in at Willard. Maybe they can use the new sky boxes on nongame days...
...taking us over segregation's threshold into a new land whose scenery made every black person stop and stare in reverence. We were all with Jackie. We slid into every base that he swiped, ducked at every fastball that hurtled toward his head. The circulation of the Pittsburgh Courier, the leading black newspaper, increased by 100,000 when it began reporting on him regularly. All over the country, black preachers would call together their congregations just to pray for Jackie and urge them to demonstrate the same forbearance that...
Anaheim (Belcher 3-5) at San Francisco (Brock 5-4), 3:35 p.m. Milwaukee (Abbott 1-5) at Cleveland (Wright 4-3), 7:05 p.m. Pittsburgh (Cordova 1-2) at Detroit (Moehler 5-5), 7:05 p.m. Boston (P. Martinez 11-1) at Montreal (Thurman 1-3), 7:05 p.m. Baltimore (Erickson 1-8) at Florida (Springer 2-6), 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Cone 5-2) at Philadelphia (Ogea 3-3), 7:35 p.m. Toronto (Wells 6-5) at N.Y. Mets (Reed 3-3), 7:40 p.m. Tampa Bay (Rupe 1-3) at Atlanta (Glavine...
...York City's largest Reform synagogue, says that in elevating ritual to parity with ethics, the guidelines constitute "a distortion of the uniqueness of Reform Judaism." Since the principles are not compulsory, they will continue to be debated by Reform Jews everywhere. But after the measure passed in Pittsburgh, the "for" voters linked arms with the "against" voters, and all joined in the traditional prayer song Shehechiyanu. The words are Hebrew. Everybody knew them...