Thursday, February 16, 2012

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  • Point guard who has several impressive performances lately to become the darling of New York fans still contributes with 13 assists in the team's 100-85 victory over Sacramento.

    tags: chinois

  • When the city of Pontiac, Michigan, shut down its fire department last Christmas Eve, city councilman Kermit Williams learned about it in the morning paper. "Nobody reports to me anymore," Williams says. "It just gets reported in the press." This was just the latest in a series of radical changes in the city, where elected officials such as Williams have been replaced by a single person with unprecedented control over the city's operation and budget.

    tags: news

  • Over the last two weeks, as Susan G. Komen for the Curerevoked funding for Planned Parenthood, then reversed itself, I watched through the scrim of something that, while less newsworthy, was, to me, no less significant: the death of Rachel Cheetham Morro, the 42-year-old writer of the blog Cancer Culture Chronicles.

    tags: news

  • Retired Philadelphia Police Capt. Ray Lewis, who gained national attention with his defiant, in-uniform protest and subsequent arrest at Occupy Wall Street, made his first appearance with Occupy Philly on Monday afternoon.

    Lewis, 60, had been chastised in letters fro

    tags: news

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