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  • Study Business School Grads Are Most Likely To Be Under-Employed

    website says college graduates with a bachelor’s in business are most likely to be under-employed. Two Philadelphia schools say they buck that ...

  • New Luxury Hotel Opens In Stone Harbor

    Ron Gorodesky (credit: David Madden) The Shelter Haven Hotel changed this town when it opened in 1912, and hopes are its' replacement, The Reeds at Shelter Haven, will do the same now. It offers 37 guest rooms and luxury suites, catering space for 200, and two top flight ...

  • Slim Whitman 90 country singer who struck a chord

    MIAMI - Country singer Slim Whitman, 90, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy Mars Attacks!, died Wednesday at a Florida hospital. Mr. Whitman died of heart failure at Orange Park Medical Center, his son-in-law, Roy Beagle, said. Mr. Whitman's tenor falsetto and ebony ...

  • Democrat Holts video contrasts him with Booker

    Senate candidate Newark Mayor Cory Booker addresses a gathering of supporters at an event in Deptford Township, N.J. Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Several lawmakers and local officials gathered Wednesday with Booker to announce their endorsements, saying he has the best chance of the four Democrats in the race of winning the seat. (AP Photo/Mel ...

  • After struggles Brookfield grad looks to future

    Chrystal Montgomery, valedictorian of her graduating class, gets rhe red carpet treatment and a limo ride to her graduation at Brookfield Academy in Cherry Hill, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Because her mother does not drive, they were picked up for a free ride courtesy of a local limo company. MICHAEL S. WIRTZ / Staff ...


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Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) [DVD]

Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) [DVD]

Wings of Desire, which marked director Wim Wenders return to his native Germany after more than a decade making films in other countries, is dedicated to all the old angels, especially Yasujiro [Ozu], Franois [Truffaut], and Andrei [Tarkovsky]--all of whom are cinematic mast ... ...

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  • City pauses the ban on afternoon carriage rides

    Abraham Chappelle, a carriage driver of 13 years, waits for customers on the corner of 5th and Chestnut, on June 17, 2013. Chappelle said the new hours have been very profitible so far. Budget cuts forced many tourist destinations, like Independence Hall, to close early, prompting Councilman Squilla to propose carriages be permitted to run during rush hour so visitors have more options for ...

  • Daniel C. Morgan 69 business administrator

    Daniel C. Morgan, 69, a former management training executive, died of complications of diabetes on Monday, June 17, at his home in Barnegat. He had been a 31-year resident of Medford. A 1961 graduate of what is now Sts. Neumann Goretti High School in South Philadelphia, Mr. Morgan earned a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1968 at what is now the College of New Jersey. ...

  • Mary V. Babin 82 keyboard player

    Mary V. Babin, 82, whose gift for organ and piano playing launched a career that spanned close to 70 years, died Saturday, June 15, at her home in Springfield, Delaware County. The former Mary Volkert grew up in Yeadon but spent most of her adult life as a resident of Havertown. Her grandmother taught her to play piano at a young age, and by the time she was 11, she was the full-time organist ...

  • States pay companies big bucks to create jobs

    What's the price tag for a job? State and local governments spent an average of $456,000 per job, or $64 billion, to create and retain jobs and businesses in "megadeals" worth $75 million or more, a Washington-based advocacy group said Wednesday. "That's a long payback period before the state would get that much revenue," said Good Jobs First president Greg ...

  • Defense motions suggest approach in Montco double killing

    Three motions filed this week in Montgomery County Court suggest some of the arguments defense attorneys will make in the case of a man charged with killing a baby and her grandmother last year at the King of Prussia apartment complex where they all lived. The charges against Raghunandan Yandamuri, 27, include two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder, and kidnapping ...

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