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A public in a parochial world

The earliest memories I have of church as a little boy is of the smell of incense. Religion became something imponderable and mysterious the moment I smelled the burning incense and heard the priest...

The things they carried

The boys of my generation grew up during the draft. It was a given that we were going to have to serve. And so we grew up wondering if we had the courage to serve...

February notebook

A couple of thoughts on the John Chaney incident: I will take the word of people who know Chaney and who have played for him that he is a wonderful human being, but his...

Saints in the city

We lived in an area of South Philadelphia that was considered the Jewish section, but there were also pockets of Irish Catholics and, just a block or two away, there were blacks too. You could...

Scam

The president sounds like a carnival barker these days as he hawks his scheme to fix Social Security. He'll say anything to get you on his side, just as the barker will promise you...

Super Sunday: A personal history

There were super Sundays long before there ever was a Super Bowl for this columnist. In fact, the first such Sunday in my memory that deserved to be called "super" didn't even involve the...

Snow job

It is the weekend after the inauguration and the snow is piling up on my sidewalk, making it look more like Hibbings, Minn., than South Philadelphia outside my window. This snow looks as if it...

Enjoy the inauguration

There has been some controversy over whether $40M or more should have been spent on the president's inauguration what with the tsunami disaster and the war in Iraq going on. Laura Bush defended the...

The other Reggie White

Reggie White was a great football player; there is no denying it. There is also no denying that he attempted good works off the field. But in the rush to praise White's conduct off the...

The shape of things to come

With Jeanne Dixon no longer around to predict what will happen in the new year, I feel compelled to fill the considerable void. In that respect, if you think of Dixon as the Dick...
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