The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Friday, December 27, 2002  

QUICK TAKES
A Little of This, A Little of That

What the hell is happening to this country?

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The Camden (N.J.) Courier-Post has to be the most depressing newspaper in America. Even the editors must know it: At the paper’s home page on the web, local stories, many dealing with grinding poverty, shocking criminality, and brazen graft, are buried behind a link innocuously labeled “More South Jersey stories.”

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What kind of congressman calls a sitting congresswoman “a bitch”? The kind like Rep. Cass Ballenger (R-N.C.), apparently.

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Herb Ritts: 1952-2002.

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Today’s column from Peggy Noonan, “Faces of Love,” has the schmaltz-o-meter going haywire.

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As if the 20 to 30 inches of snow that hit Upstate New York on Christmas Day weren’t enough, there was also a mild earthquake in the northernmost region of New York State that afternoon.

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Doesn’t it seem just a little unfair that a man who already is a millionaire was the sole winner in this week’s $315 million Powerball drawing?

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The annual Philadelphia Mummers New Year’s Day Parade is less than a week away, for those who care about that kind of thing.

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