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http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080806_Becky_Hammon__Russia_s_American_hoops_star.html

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:59:22 -0700

Becky Hammon has been called a money-grubbing traitor, and that she should leave America and move to Russia, the nation for which she is playing basketball.

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080806_Is_there_a_burglary_tutor_in_the_house_.html

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:56:49 -0700

A local high school student returning from a tutoring lesson broke into a home but made an unsuccessful escape when he left a textbook with his name behind, police said.

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080803_Daniel_Rubin__In_death_a_news_blurb__but_in_life__a_quiet_giant_.html

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:29:50 -0700

From the page: "You may not have seen the news about a 25-year-old woman who died last Sunday after jumping from the second floor of her burning house in Olney.

We didn't identify her. TV got her name wrong. We just wrote that her fiance had tossed their 3-month-old daughter to neighbors, and that the father and baby had been hurt but were expected to survive.

So this is what you missed - a young woman bursting with talent, passion and quiet rebellion."

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080803_HACKER_CAMP.html

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:41:39 -0700

From the page: "Oh, it's so much fun to be at camp.

You get to play games and pranks, kind of like the ones newscaster Larry Mendte is accused of playing on co-anchor Alycia Lane.

Remember? Where he allegedly tapped into her e-mails 537 times in four months, leaking some juicy bits to gossip columnists?

Hah, that's nothing.

Welcome to Hacking Camp in the Poconos, where the pros learn to do real damage."

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080801_For_large_gambler__it_s_the_Borgata_that_stinks.html

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:35:26 -0700

From the page: "Michael Wax thinks he was the butt of a fat joke, and he doesn't think it's funny at all.

Wax, 54, of Brooklyn, who weighs 440 pounds, already was annoyed that employees at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City had asked him to leave a poker table Tuesday because of his pungent body odor."

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080727_Manny_to_Philly_.html

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:07:43 -0700

From the page: "Every year, there is talk of the Boston Red Sox' wanting to trade Manny Ramirez.

The latest rumors involve the Phillies.

One baseball source said the Red Sox could have floated the Phillies' name to help drum up interest in Ramirez, whom they want to trade because they have tired of his "Manny being Manny" shenanigans."

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20080727_Head_Strong__The_perils_of_e-mailPonderthen_click.html

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:07:47 -0700

From the page: "Plans for Saturday?

That was the subject line of an e-mail I recently received. Someone else with a modem was interested in knowing if we should meet for lunch before catching a train to a Shakespeare matinee in Washington. It sounded enjoyable. For a split second, I gave some thought to going.

The only problem is that I was not the intended recipient."

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/homepage/20080725_Help_from_any_new_mortgage_law_could_be_slow_in_coming_.html

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:37:37 -0700

From the page: "Marcellus Harris has a nasty mortgage.

The 62-year-old resident of Philadelphia's Wissinoming neighborhood said yesterday that he had not missed a $316.91 monthly payment on his adjustable-rate loan, but he is still falling behind.

That's because payments cover taxes and insurance but only part of the interest, which means his original $52,000 principal is growing.

"I'm hoping to get a fixed rate," said Harris, who fears losing the house he bought 13 years ago if payments go any higher.

Harris is among millions across the country who could be helped by a new Federal Housing Administration loan program in a grab-bag housing bill debated in the Senate yesterday."

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080725_Phila__more_tolerant_of_homeless_than_other_cities.html

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:37:03 -0700

From the page: "With Center City parks like Rittenhouse Square filling up with homeless people this summer, other cities, too, are struggling with similar situations.

And many of those cities are taking a considerably harder line than Philadelphia.

Increasingly, the response elsewhere has been to make loitering, sleeping in parks, and panhandling crimes, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington."

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080725_New_Starr_shines_on_the_square.html

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:35:12 -0700

From the page: "Talk about a deluge.

In an instant - the time it took Donovan Preddy, 30, and his micro-goateed pal to gulp down their old-fashioneds at the back of the zinc bar at Parc - the scene at Philadelphia's newest and most buzzed-about restaurant was transformed from a cafe on the square to a cafe on the banks of the Seine.

With five inches of water coursing southward down 18th Street - drenched greeters huddled beneath the front awning, sidewalk diners fleeing inside, guarding their half-finished plates of duck confit - it was, perhaps, time to reflect.

Where did this come from?"