May 24, 2007 edition



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COVER STORY:

What’s up at Lincoln?

The arrest Friday morning of an 11th-grader who walked to the second floor of Abraham Lincoln High School with a loaded handgun was the second weapons-related incident involving a student there in the last month.
It also stoked the negative attention that Lincoln has received for its potential for violence and disruption. For years, residents and community leaders have been concerned about problems both inside and outside the school, at Ryan and Rowland avenues.

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EDITORIAL

Nice job, voters

OK, citizens. We’ve had more than a week in which to digest what happened to the City of Brotherly Love, and we should savor the good taste forever.
We just had an election for mayor that was about as close to colorblind as we’ve ever seen. Michael Nutter, a black man who, until he called his opponent Tom Knox a "scumbag" at the 11th hour, had run a clean, issues-oriented campaign, piled up impressive numbers in the Northeast, much of which remains for the most part lily white . . .

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