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In The News...
Fighting for the dream
Jerry Mondesire has integrated big city newsrooms,
walked with Washington elite and reestablished the NAACP voice.
No, he is fighting to save the city's children before the civil
rights dream dies.
First of two parts
by MICHAEL J. MISHAK
Tilting back in his leather chair, Jerome Whyatt Mondesire
answers one of more than a dozen phone calls, all flooding in before
9 a.m. His newspaper staffers are still asleep. He pushes speakerphone.
"Sunday Sun."
"Hello. Jerry?" the voice says.
"This is Jerry."
"It's Dwight. Are you going to be at the meeting today?"
It's the voice of State Rep. Dwight Evans.
"You know it baby. Alright."
He hangs up.
It's two days before the March to Save the Children,
an anti-violence demonstration that will draw more than 8,000 protestors
through the streets of North Philadelphia, and Mondesire's phone
lines are blowing up.
As cosponsor of the march and president of the local
NAACP, he's got his hands...
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In Sports...
Episcopal humbles Lion lax'ers
by TOM UTESCHER
Once again, Episcopal Academy proved to be the hump Springside
School's lacrosse team just can't get over. Runner-up in the Girls Inter-Ac
last year, the Lions suffered their lone league loss of 2003 at the hands
of EA's Churchwomen, who went on to claim their fourth straight championship.
Last Tuesday, high hopes amongst the visiting Lions dissipated
as a flurry of goals late in the first period netted Episcopal a 6-2 halftime
lead. Paced by four goals from senior Jen Robinson, the Churchwomen went
on to win 12-5, improving to 5-1 overall and 2-0 in the league, while
Springside, which got a hat-trick from junior Bunny O'Reilly, slipped
to 7-4, 1-1. On a busy afternoon in the...
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In LocalLife...
Angelo DiPinto
far from cutting edge
Mane man on Chestnut
Hill
for 50 years
by PETE MAZZACCARO
One of man's great struggles in this
universe is the one with his hair. (This is not to say
women don't have trouble, but this is a story about a
barber, not a hairstylist. Women and hair is a subject
worthy of books.) Many people stumble through life for
years looking for a genius in hair sculpture, someone
who can with scissors and comb manipulate and caress hair
into the perfect shape. Or for the less ambitious, at
least make it manageable.
When I first came to Philly six years ago,
I wasn't sure I could replace my Connecticut barber Roger
Michelle (who, oddly, was also my state legislator; I
guess he was well qualified because he was an expert at
splitting hairs). In my search, I tried everything. I
went to trendy hair salons...
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