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John "Jordan" Lewis will have to wait through the weekend to learn if he is to live or be sentenced to death for murdering a Philadelphia police officer.
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IT WAS after midnight in mid-April, and Greg Harlen would not stop screaming in his room at the Cardinal Krol Center. Harlen, 52, a resident of the Philadelphia Archdiocese-run home for mentally handicapped men, was lying in his bed, writhing in pain.
Both of his hips had been shattered.
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SEVEN YEARS AGO, the Phillies publicly pursued free-agent slugger Jim Thome. At the stroke of midnight on the deadline that teams could make formal offers, then-general manager Ed Wade fired off an e-mail and followed it up with a long, from-the-heart letter.
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PROJECT RUNWAY. 10 tonight, Lifetime. I'VE BEEN trying to figure out what's gone wrong between me and "Project Runway," which lately has me wondering if I want to be in or out.
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KATE MOSS IS on the hot seat again, but to her mind, at least it's a small seat. Eating-disorder experts criticized the waifish Moss yesterday after the superdupermodel cited as her motto a phrase used on Web sites that encourage girls to avoid eating.
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ACTOR JOHNNY DEPP has been named People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive 2009. It's his second nod, putting him in a rarefied category with those other stubbled studs Brad Pitt and George Clooney.
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HAVE YOU noticed? The holiday bargain hunting has already begun for electronics gizmos. Major retailers like Wal-Mart, Sears and Best Buy are already into the "Black Friday" (day after Thanksgiving) sales frame of mind, in recent weeks offering crazy come-ons like name-brand Windows 7 portable computers for as low as $249, 10 megapixel digital still cameras under $100 and GPS trail blazers as low as $69.
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WITH APOLOGIES to Sacha Baron Cohen and "Bruno," it's "Star Trek" week on DVD, with two versions of the early summer hit available.
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Until recently, if you had a hankering for Portuguese cuisine - and it's hard not to - you had to trek to the Northeast or New Jersey. With the opening of Koo Zee Doo BYOB on Second Street in Northern Liberties, it is easier for Philadelphians to say, "Bom Apetite!"
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IS IT TIME for you to shake up your old fitness routine? To step away from your step class? End that boring treadmill trip to nowhere? Do you need some new motivation to get moving? Do you need to get your groove back?
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