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FEATURED COLUMNS

Jenice Armstrong

Michelle's family tree is multi-hued

Karen Heller

The lesson from the streets: Big money is not the answer

Ronnie Polaneczky

Dozens pray for change in schools' fate

Dan Gross

A bachelor party in A.C. for Victorino?

Les Bowen

Bottom line: Spot decisions still baffling

Phil Jasner

Iverson might be out of excuses

Sam Donnellon

Eagles always taking 'the next step' but going in circles

Harry Gross

An alert about 'free seminars'

NEWS

Fox News strangles open debate by firing a liberal Philly voice

I'm sure Fox News, cash cow that it is, doesn't need little ol' me to bolster its already fat ratings.

John Baer
Stu Bykofsky
Clout
Dave Davies
Annette John-Hall

Monica Yant Kinney
Ronnie Polaneczky
Jill Porter
Daniel Rubin
Karen Heller

SPORTS

Bottom line: Spot decisions still baffling

Les Bowen: If you're still looking for a good explanation for that fourth-down spot that turned Sunday night's game around, an explanation beyond the silly stuff like official blindness, bias or some sort of massive conspiracy involving Freemasonry and Tom Hanks, I got nothing for ya.

These Cowboys may be (gulp) for real

When this season is all said and done, it's quite possible that the Dallas Cowboys will look back on Sunday night's 20-16 win over the Eagles as the turning point of their season.

Ed Barkowitz
Les Bowen
Sam Carchidi
Bill Conlin
Paul Domowitch
Sam Donnellon
Bernard Fernandez
Frank Fitzpatrick
Bob Ford
Ashley Fox
Mel Greenberg
Paul Hagen

Rich Hofmann
Phil Jasner
Dick Jerardi
Mike Kern
Joe Logan
Don McKee
Ed Moran
Tim Panaccio
Jim Salisbury
John Smallwood
Phil Sheridan
Ted Silary
Stan Hochman

FEATURES

The lesson from the streets: Big money is not the answer

Friends, what have we learned this past week? Plenty. Pundits will tell you that Chris Christie won New Jersey's gubernatorial race and Jon Corzine lost it because there's a backlash against President Obama's agenda.

'Mad Men's' finale went just fine

Ellen Gray: I'm still thinking about the season finale of AMC's "Mad Men," which defied my expectations, at least, by turning out to be much more than the anticlimax to last week's Kennedy assassination episode.

Beefing up the hot dog

The possibilities of the classic American burger having been if not exhausted, certainly exhaustively explored (I give you the excessive foie gras-laden Whiskey King eight-ouncer, adorned with maple bourbon glazed cipollini, Rogue bleu cheese, and applewo

Michelle's family tree is multi-hued

Jenice Armstrong: First lady Michelle Obama' has white cousins? Oh, my gosh! Can you believe it? Well, yeah. Just about every black American I know has white relatives.

Karla Klein Albertson
Jenice Armstrong
Sandy Bauers
Jim Coleman
Dan DeLuca
Tirdad Derakhshani
Peter Dobrin
Kimberly Garrison
Kellie Patrick Gates
Howard Gensler
Dan Gottlieb
Ellen Gray
Dan Gross
David Hiltbrand
Al Heavens
Mitchell Hecht
Karen Heller
Michael Klein
Craig LaBan

Alfred Lubrano
Dennis McCauley
Rick Nichols
Steven Rea
Carrie Rickey
Carlin Romano
Inga Saffron
Lisa Scottoline
Howard Shapiro
Joe Sixpack
Edward J. Sozanski
David Patrick Stearns
Steve and Mia
Jonathan Storm
Jonathan Takiff
Gary Thompson
Elizabeth Wellington
Toby Zinman

OPINION

A Phils Pitch-a-palooza!

CLIFF OR COLE? Hamels or Happ? The Phillies haven't even forced a Game 7 yet, but already the debate around town about who should start a final game has begun.