Since joining The Inquirer as a staff writer in 1988, Daniel Rubin has reported from 27 countries, but most of them were small. He's been the European Correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspapers, based in Berlin, and a metro reporter and feature writer for the paper. He started the Inquirer's first daily blog, Blinq, which he still maintains. Dan began newspaper work in Norfolk and Louisville, Ky., after getting his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Northwestern University. He has lived in all four commonwealths, most recently in Pennsylvania, with his wife, twin 20-year-old sons and a large, slobbering cowherd.
His column appears Sundays and Thursdays in Local & Region.
His column appears Sundays and Thursdays in Local & Region.
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Lower Merion paid for the rentals back then, so the boy's horn came free, as did the lessons, once a week, held in his school.
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To Patti Carbone, serving a life sentence for murder, the reporter's pitch seemed almost too good to be true. Fourteen years before, she'd rejected a plea agreement, believing that when she stabbed a Somerset County man who abducted her outside a tavern, she had acted in self-defense.
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It was a terrible marriage, says Jerry Samuels. Loveless, passionless. For 13 years, he and Bobbie were partners only on paper.
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Daniel Rubin: Drivers, you've been warned
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Pssst. Can I ask where you're reading this? If you're behind the wheel and stuck in traffic, I applaud your technological mastery.
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BOSTON - When you haven't played a meaningful game against a team since 1950, it's easy to forget how much pleasure can come from hating it. And where better than Boston could I go for a few lessons in loathing the New York Yankees?
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The Montgomery County commissioners agree, which is almost news in itself. The Cheltenham Township commissioners concur as well. A question pitched for next week's ballot should not be put to vote.
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I'm sitting with the savages in Section 205. The woman behind me keeps knocking me in the head as she tries to plant her foot on my shoulder and clamber onto the back of my seat for a better view.
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The glow of the night before, when her peers named her the city's top concierge, still showed on Gale Feinstein as she settled into a Windsor chair in the Omni's lounge Friday morning and shared a few trade secrets.
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The nation thinks we're ugly. This is not news. For the third straight year, the readers of Travel & Leisure have rated Philadelphians to be the least attractive people in any of America's 30 biggest cities. They also found us to be surly and sedentary.
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For the first time in its 171-year history, Central High School will induct several distinguished but dead Philadelphians into its Hall of Fame on Thursday, and the names are luminous:
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