http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin RSS Feed for Inq Col Daniel Rubin en-us Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:15:07 GMT http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20091119_Daniel_Rubin__Leading_city_kids_to_classical_awareness.html At Penn Wynne Elementary, everybody got to pick out an instrument in fourth grade. Ben Raper chose the trumpet. 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. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20091116_Daniel_Rubin__Pitched_into_the_shark_tank.html Joe Volpe's 10-year cliff dive into the American dream began one summer night in 1999 while he and his wife, Tracey, watched television. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20091112_Daniel_Rubin__Saying_goodbye_is_such_a_mouthful.html Rosemarie Fuges walked out of her dentist's office Monday morning in tears. It wasn't something her dentist had done. It was something he had said. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20091109_Daniel_Rubin__No_one_to_save_the_savior.html 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. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20091105_Daniel_Rubin__Espousing_the_joy_of_just-wakened_love.html It was a terrible marriage, says Jerry Samuels. Loveless, passionless. For 13 years, he and Bobbie were partners only on paper. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20091102_Daniel_Rubin__Dan_Rubin__Drivers__you_ve_been_warned.html Pssst. Can I ask where you're reading this? If you're behind the wheel and stuck in traffic, I applaud your technological mastery. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20091029_Daniel_Rubin__Near_Fenway__a_kindred_spirit.html 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? http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/Differences_yet_a_bond_in_reserve.html http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/One_catastrophe_at_a_time_please.html http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/Shot_down_survivor_ever_dutiful_to_crew.html