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Solomon Jones

For one day, America embraces 'Thank you'

Karen Heller

A false promise of help

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Amy Dickinson

Change relationship - or end it

Rob Watson

A half-billion reasons to marvel at MW2

Joe Sixpack

A beer a day for 10,000 days

Gary Thompson

'Star Trek' DVD features trial video game, gag reel

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Killing Bambi, coddling Bambi

Annette John-Hall: In places like Valley Forge and Lower Merion, where too many deer have destroyed the vegetation of private residences, wrecked vehicles, and carry ticks that can cause Lyme disease, the scene is far less "Fantasia" and much more "Bambi."

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Eagles' red-zone woes are a joke

Sam Donnellon: His angst came and went Sunday, but for a quarterback known for saying nothing, Donovan MacNabb's actions spoke a thousand words.

Why do the Birds pass? Because they can't run

Bob Ford: Even though Andy Reid and Marty Mornhinweg rarely stand together on the sideline, they are closely linked by both the headphones over their ears and the spaces between their ears.

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FEATURES

A false promise of help

Karen Heller: Pennsylvania appeared primed to become a leader in the treatment of autism, offering parents of autistic children up to $36,000 in annual health insurance benefits. It didn't turn out that way.

'Project Runway' is a New York kind of show

I thought about this during a pilgrimage earlier this week to Manhattan's Mood Fabrics, where I'd gone to try to get in, well, the mood for tonight's Season 6 finale of "Runway."

Coming home to November

When it was all ready one afternoon last week - the dry-brined turkey a rosy chestnut brown, the Sister Frances' Potatoes (named for one of the last of the famously celibate Shakers), the brothy, purposefully not creamy blue-pumpkin soup (with a sour jolt of preserved lemon), Melissa Hamilton beamed at what she had wrought.

When Sarah meets Hillary

WOULDN'T YOU love to be close enough to eavesdrop if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ever agrees to have a cup of coffee with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin? One can only imagine that their java summit might go something like this: