The Rittenhouse Review

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


Wednesday, July 30, 2003  

FRONT-PAGE NEWS
It’s About Time

How strange. The lead article in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer is about a soldier killed in Iraq Monday, the 50th American casualty since May 1. And the Inquirer not only provides readers with the name of the soldier (William J. Maher III), the paper also reports a bit about who he was, where he grew up, and how his family is grieving.

Yes, he’s a local, but still, it’s been a long time since the death of a U.S. serviceman in Iraq was considered front-page news, hasn’t it?

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