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When it comes to violence, baseball league plays hardball

AS THE FIRST anniversary of his death approaches, the smiling teenager's faded photograph remains bound with yellow crime-scene tape to a tree behind the home-plate backstop on 33rd Street near Diamond.

Sports

Bill Conlin: Phillies GM Gillick deals with a Pat hand

THE 2008 PHILLIES are a Hollywood movie set of a baseball team. Cecil B. De Mille would have been proud of the facade they present. What the camera sees is the Roman Forum in all its marble-faced grandeur.

City's HelpMe site not so helpful?

Paul Hagen: Phillies' trade-deadline grade is a C

Barkley trying to lose weight in the boxing ring

How the Manny deal went down

When it comes to violence, baseball league plays hardball
Firefighters rescue residents from West Philadelphia blaze
A crystal-ball look at Philly's rising political stars
Here are 10 under 40 who are moving into position
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Ellen Gray: Larry Wilmore delivers political satire on Comedy Central
Tattle: Applegate in cancer fight
Dan Gross: Sir Charles gets his fat butt in the ring
Down the rabbit hole, with a twist
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IT'S THE DEMOCRACY, DUDES
DN Editorial: 'Oil futures' are a phony target
Nukes can't work, Sen. McCain
Letters: Mellencamp a melonhead?
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Myers passes much tougher test
Phillies Notebook: Phillies' Lidge knows closing is a tough way to earn a living
Eagles look to improve return business
U.S. midfielder from Delran eager to show her stuff at Olympics
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Scramble for open D.A. seat begins

Gray: The comedian's comeback

Down the rabbit hole, with a twist

Casinotes: Chuck Darrow blogs Atlantic City

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Ellen Gray: Larry Wilmore delivers political satire on Comedy Central: BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - You might say Larry Wilmore is finally in the right place at the right time. For years, the stand-up-turned-writer and producer had been making people laugh from behind the scenes. But as the creator of "The Bernie Mac Show" and co-creator - with Eddie Murphy - of "The PJs," he brought an unconventional take to

Tattle: Applegate in cancer fight: IT'S BEEN a crappy summer for Christina Applegate. At the start of July, her boyfriend, Lee Grivas, was found dead in his apartment of an apparent drug overdose.
Dan Gross: Sir Charles gets his fat butt in the ring: CHARLES BARKLEY needs to shed some pounds, so he's taken up boxing as his exercise of choice. The soon-to-be not-so-Round Mound of Rebound has been training at Joltin' Jabs (4313 Main) in Manayunk. Barkley told us that he'd read that "Joltin' " Joey DeMalavez had recently trained NBC 10's Vai Sikahema for what turned out to be his first-round knockout of Jose Canseco.

Jonathan Takiff: The latest on satellite radio & TV, and a 'free' Wii offer: THE GIZMO: What the Sirius-XM merger really means. Plus satellite TV ups its HD; and a "free" Wii offer. RADIO GA-GA: Are you one of the 9.7 million XM customers or 8.3 million Sirius radio advocates now wondering what the merged operation called Sirius-XM will mean for you? Here's what a careful read of the Federal Communications Commission's approval agreement reveals.

Digital graphics doom sequel: In the latest "Mummy" sequel, an evil Chinese emperor returns to loose his army of clay soldiers upon the world. He must be stopped, of course, because if this warlord were to conquer everything with his terra-cotta legions, the world will have gone to pot.

Breast in show: some cooking pointers: TRES LECHES CAKE 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon sea salt 6 eggs 1 cup sugar

Kimberly Garrison: Asthma facts that may take your breath away: 'NO ONE SHOULD die from asthma, especially in America." So says Dr. Michael Foggs, Chief of Allergy and Immunology for Advocate Health Care. Yet, Foggs said, 4,000 people die every year from this disease.