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Bernard Fernandez: It takes a longtime Saints fan to appreciate this victory - 2:17am: DURING THE lead-up to Super Bowl XLIV, sports writers and columnists from around the world offered their thoughts as to what it meant for the New Orleans Saints, the NFL's poster boys for ineptitude since the franchise's birth in 1967 - and literal orphans of the storm during the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged 2005 season - to defy their sorry history and finally make it to the Big Game.
Elmer Smith: Terror trials and Miranda warnings: Rights and wrongs - 2:17am: SOMEWHERE in a secluded cave on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, an al Qaeda brain trust is revising its target list.
Bill Conlin: A 'snownik's' lousy luck at Winter Games - 2:17am: SO IT'S THE last day of ski jumping at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and I'm walking around town in a light sweater. Office workers are eating lunch on park benches and sunning themselves. The only snow in the Alberta cow town has been trucked more than 50 miles from the foothills of the Canadian Rockies and packed onto the ski jump.
John Smallwood: Stefanski should stick with his plans for Sixers - 2:17am: IF I'M Ed Stefanski, I stay the course. It's not the popular decision, and it ultimately could cost Stefanski his job – sooner rather than later.
Harry Gross: Questions about 'longevity insurance' - 2:17am: Dear Harry: I have never believed that "there's nothing new under the sun." Our insurance broker has come to us with what he described as a new concept in insurance called "longevity insurance." Since my wife and I have parents and aun
Jenice Armstrong: Two to tango: These couples find dance is important to relationship success - 2:17am: DO YOU EVER wonder what it is that keeps some couples together when so many relationships collapse? Commitment aside, having a shared passion can be a plus, as evidenced by the three couples I met recently who are dance partners as well as life partners. You won't see any of these folks on "Dancing with the Stars." They hold down real jobs as researchers, accountants, and lawyers - but they also grab their partners and leave all that behind to tango.
Tattle: MJ's doc faces manslaughter charge - 2:17am: Conrad Murray, a cardiologist, was charged yesterday with involuntary manslaughter, for pretending to be an anesthesiologist.
Dan Gross: Bar appearances a 'Shore' thing - 2:17am: MIKE "The Situation" Sorrentino and his abs are coming Friday to the Buckhead Saloon (461 N. 3rd), where the "Jersey Shore" star will host a party. Buckhead's is on the site of the old Tiki Bob's.
Dick Jerardi: College Basketball Wrap - 02/08/2010: AROUND THE CITY Lost Saturday The two ranked teams went into the blizzard and got buried. Villanova and Temple were down by a combined 37 points at halftime, recovered a bit, but were never a threat to win.
Phil Jasner: Trade deadline rumblings for Sixers - 02/08/2010: HERE'S WHAT YOU REALLY need to know about the NBA trade deadline: It's Feb. 18 at 3 p.m. Between now and then, you will read and hear dozens of rumors involving the 76ers. Some will have validity, others will not. Remember, there are Web sites devoted to having something different every day. I'd be more inclined to pay attention to ones in which people actually sign their names and take responsibility.
Stu Bykofsky: Change we can believe in ... not - 02/08/2010: BETWEEN THE negligible interest they pay us and the bonanza bonuses they pay themselves, we have reason to hate big banks.
Rich Hofmann: For Saints coach Payton, risky plays yield Super result - 02/08/2010: MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - Sean Payton coaches a football team that for decades personified the stubbornness of futility. He coaches in a city that in recent years has come to represent the struggle over adversity. That is what the leader of the New Orleans Saints carries with him, from training camp to
John Baer: Ed's last budget: Don't expect a lot - 02/08/2010: GOV. ED'S known for offering progressive budgets that go nowhere, that never make the annual deadline and that only pass like kidney stones - slowly and with pain - once his ideas are stripped out by the Legislature.
Paul Domowitch: Patience of Saints pays off for defense in Super Bowl win - 02/08/2010: MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams got a call yesterday morning from one of his former bosses, Tennessee Titans coach Jeff Fisher.
Frank Seravalli: Streaky Flyers having traffic problems - 02/08/2010: IT WAS not profound, or deep. But it was honest. And Chris Pronger hit it right on the head. Through their winning and losing streaks - and the ups and downs of this sidewinder of a season - the Flyers' problems have not changed.
Harry Gross: Executor of will should be a trusted friend - 02/08/2010: Dear Harry: I am writing a will for the first time. My lawyer recommends that I name at least two executors, one of which is a bank. He has two reasons: to prevent dishonesty, and to make sure that one would always be left in case of a death. He suggests that the second executor be one of my children. I remember you saying years ago that you did not like either banks or children as executors or trustees. Is my memory right? Why?
Tattle: Gaga bio: Monkey on her back, aunt in her soul - 02/08/2010: ACCORDING TO Britain's News of the World, a new bio of Lady Gaga reveals a fondness for cocaine and her belief that she's inhabited by the spirit of her dead aunt.
Dan Gross: Cigars held in fundraising Jaws - 02/08/2010: DONOVAN McNabb joined Ron Jaworski at Jaws' South Beach Cigar Party at the Hotel Victor in Miami over Super Bowl weekend. ESPN's Suzy Kolber, Merril Hoge, Mike Tirico and Sal Paolantonio, along with Desmond Howard, Jon Gruden and Mike Ditka were among the boldface names to attend the cigar and Johnny Walker Scotch pairing party to raise money for the United Way Jaws Youth Fund of Camden County and the United Way of Miami-Dade.
Solomon Jones: To tell you the tooth, we don't have the fairy thing down - 02/06/2010: THIS WEEK, 5-year-old Little Solomon and 8-year-old Eve lost teeth on the same day, and LaVeta and I learned that we can't handle the tooth.
Dan Gross: Wing Bowl champ Squibb eager to face Chestnut in 2011 - 02/06/2010: JUST MOMENTS after chomping his way to another victory at 610-WIP's Wing Bowl 18 yesterday, returning champion Jonathan "Super" Squibb was already looking forward to next year's contest.