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HIS ROYAL Highness the prince of Wales listened attentively to his fellow panelist, a well-spoken Drexel University student, as she discussed economics and globalization.
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- THE WOMAN is drunk. She comes out of the house holding a huge knife. She has already slashed her boyfriend in the neck and now she's waving it at me.
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- A posh Queen Village rowhouse was reduced to a bombed-out, smoldering shell yesterday in a matter of seconds. An explosion rocked through the house on 6th Street near Bainbridge just before 4 p.m., raining chunks of bricks and insulation on the pavement below.
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- I AM SICK and tired of being called the "N" word by political pundits in their lame analyses of the Democratic primary campaign.
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- A SUPER TUESDAY photo of Michelle Obama prompted us to wonder: What's with the 1960s hair style? We asked our fashion consultant, Jenice Armstrong. She gave us a knowing look.
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- It’s a national crisis: Could you be at risk of losing your home?Millions of mortgages written in the last few years have ended in foreclosure. The first wave hit about a year ago, and in the next few months we’ll see many more. Find out if you’re at risk, and where to find help.
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- Safety, academics improved, but still work to do"BEEP, BEEP" went the metal detector as students streamed through the doors of West Philadelphia High School yesterday morning. They passed through a phalanx of security officers, including a massive man dressed in black who patted down those who "beeped" and who rummaged through their pockets before allowing them into the school.
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- Finally, a judge has been found who has never played golf with the three funeral-home operators charged with selling diseased tissue - without consent - in a national scam of body parts for sale.
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- through cemetery in FeltonvilleKisha Carthon apparently has never heard of the famous real-estate motto: "Location, location, location." Because if she had, she probably would have chosen a different location for her alleged crime: A drunken drive through a Feltonville cemetery that adjoins Philadelphia's Major Crimes Auto Squad, leaving at least 15 smashed and toppled headstones in her wake.
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- Jury hears of bounced checks, no-show jobs and moreWhen T. Milton Street was hired as a $30,000-a-month consultant for Philadelphia Airport Services in 2002, he told Gregory Taylor, an executive with PAS, that he had only a "short window of opportunity" to earn big bucks, Taylor testified yesterday at Street's federal tax and fraud trial.
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- The following are Jocelyn Kirsch's words, spoken during a panel discussion with Prince Charles, at International House Philadelphia 13 months ago.
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- There's an African proverb that says, "When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled." Its latest application is in Philadelphia politics, where the primary contest between state Sen. Vincent Fumo and union leader John Dougherty seems to be sending tremors through the political turf of South Philadelphia and Center City.
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