The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) articles from July 2000

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) archives from July 2000

Man Quits Job at New Jersey Bank, Returns to Head Bank in Native Philadelphia.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Joseph N. DiStefano Jul. 31--Benjamin F. Gilbert quit his job at the biggest bank in New Jersey last month to return to his old West Philadelphia neighborhood as president and chief executive of one of the city's smallest banks,...

The Philadelphia Inquirer Business People Column.
July 31, 2000... Jul. 31--HADDONFIELD NATIVE RETURNS AS COMMERCE UNIT'S CEO: It has been a sort of homecoming for Edward Kiessling, who has become president and chief operating officer of Commerce National Insurance Services Inc., a Cherry Hill brokerage...

The Philadelphia Inquirer Andrew Cassel Column.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Andrew Cassel Jul. 31--I learned a lot about the Grand Old Party's roots the other day at the Library Company, 1314 Locust St., where they've put together a swell show of campaign posters and other memorabilia from the 1850s and...

Philadelphia Retailers, Food Vendors Welcome Business from GOP Convention.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Gwen Florio Jul. 31--The theme song of the Republican National Convention sounded throughout Center City yesterday: Ka-ching! It echoed from the Francis Jerome cosmetics store off Rittenhouse Square, which welcomed...

The Philadelphia Inquirer Gambling Column.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Bill Ordine Jul. 31--Summer in Las Vegas means blistering hot days with average maximum temperatures above 100 degrees. But as temperatures rise in Vegas, room rates plummet. July, August and early September are typically one...

Pharmaceutical Companies Worry about Negative Political Climate.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Susan Warner Jul. 31--The President of the United States has accused it of running a "shameless, scorched-earth campaign" endangering the health of senior citizens. "The best medicines in the world will not help a person who...

Springfield, Pa., Native Sees Presidential Exhibit On Display at Convention.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Rosland Briggs-Gammon Jul. 31--When a South Jersey company created an exhibit from C-Span's cable-television series on the presidents in 1999, workers had no idea that the display would eventually travel across the river as part...

Pennsylvania Farmers, Agriculture Officials Seek a Higher Produce Profile.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Walter F. Naedele Jul. 31--Thanks to a marketing blitz that began in 1982, you probably already know about "Jersey Fresh" corn and tomatoes. But did you know that Pennsylvania's mushrooms and apples are, as the advertising says,...

It's time for Phillies to start anew.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Bill Lyon We are most assuredly "not rebuilding, the Philadelphia Phillies are insisting. And in that, they are correct, because to rebuild implies that you have built something in the first place. And with the one...

Brogna stuck with Phils.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Bob Brookover SAN DIEGO _ The digital clock in Rico Brogna's San Diego hotel room said it was exactly 1 p.m. when the telephone rang. The trade deadline for making non-waiver deals had expired. Brogna knew it was Phillies...

Contenders load up for stretch drive.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Jim Salisbury If you're a baseball junkie, July 31 can offer a level of excitement that ranks right up there with the first day of workouts for pitchers and catchers, opening day, and the entire month of October. It's the day...

Jones heads for Heat.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Stephen A. Smith Eddie Jones is heading to Miami, according to NBA sources in both Miami and Charlotte. That means that whatever four-team, multi-player deal the 76ers were working on has been rendered null and void. As of...

Have a great time, but don't forget why we're here.
July 31, 2000... Byline: David Boldt The New York delegation to the Republican convention will be dining at the City Tavern in Independence National Historical Park on Tuesday evening, and a good time will no doubt be had by all. But will the 300 or...

Author Peter Robinson, a Republican through and through.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Thomas J. Brady Being a Republican is a tribal thing for Peter Robinson. "I was born into a Republican family," the author of the newly published "It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair With the GOP" (Warner Books,...

`Campaign Talk' by Roderick P. Hart and `Politicians Don't Pander,' by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Carlin Romano "Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good For Us,'' by Roderick P. Hart; Princeton University Press (307 pages, $29.95) "Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness,''...

Personal briefing.
July 31, 2000... TV withdrawal: Forget "Survivor or "Big Brother or "The 1900 House. If you want a real test of your ability to cope with extreme conditions and deprivation, take the advice of media critic Donald F. Roberts: Get rid of all but one of...

A nonpartisan wish list for the candidates.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Jeff Brown In the columnist game, you know things are going well when everyone's mad at you. Well, not everyone _ it's nice to hear a note of praise once in a while. But if people are mad, it's best they span the spectrum....

When the paddle hits the podium, Dan Rather comes to play.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Gail Shister PHILADELPHIA _ At three months shy of 69, he's the oldest of the Big 3 anchors here. But as he likes to say, "mark this": When the paddle hits the podium, Dan Rather comes to play. "Politics "has been, is, and...

How would Bush govern?
July 31, 2000... Byline: Larry Eichel In the next few days, some questions about George W. Bush will be answered. Can he use this convention to expand his lead over Al Gore? Can he fire up the troops? Can he deliver a speech that will hold the...

Faith-based organizations: A promise still untested.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Jane Eisner Suddenly, Jim Wallis is a wanted man. The Republicans want him; the Democrats are calling. As head of the Christian advocacy group Call to Renewal, Wallis is a passionate promoter of a hot, new cause: giving...

Eagles starters give solid, brief appearance in loss.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Phil Sheridan CLEVELAND _ The first rule of thumb for watching preseason games is that they aren't really games at all. They are more like screen tests, opportunities for coaches to get videotape of their players in action. ...

Eagles sort out good, bad.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Phil Sheridan If the whole point of preseason games is for teams to learn about themselves, then Sunday night's 33-22 loss in Cleveland contained several lessons for the Eagles. There were good things and bad things,...

Miller in preseason form.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Phil Sheridan It's probably not fair to judge the new-look "Monday Night Football after one preseason broadcast. But ask yourself this: Would Dennis Miller _ comic, social commentator, actor _ worry about being fair or would...

Lindros expected to sign Flyers offer.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Tim Panaccio PHILADELPHIA _ Flyers center Eric Lindros was expected to sign his $8.5 million qualifying offer for the coming season Monday night. Assistant general manager Paul Holmgren said yesterday that he had spoken to...

Uncluttered elegance of the Asian aesthetic enters the mainstream.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Diane Goldsmith If you're looking for proof that the Asian aesthetic has hit the mainstream, look no further than Ethan Allen. A bedroom from the company's contemporary Horizons collection shows a cleanly designed dark-wood...

Heir to linoleum is a high-tech flooring.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Alan J. Heavens I sort of miss linoleum, even though I realize that it was unfairly bad-mouthed as a floor covering by Americans for most of the 111 years that it was produced. Linoleum flooring was cheap, versatile and...

For ailing Gulf War vets, anniversary brings no relief.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Mark Jaffe On a hot, bright afternoon near the end of Operation Desert Storm, Army Staff Sgt. Paul Lyon walked out of a tent and almost immediately found himself on his knees, weak and nearly blinded. It was, Lyons said,...

For GOP, sincere outreach may be the ultimate test.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Acel Moore George W. Bush, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, calls himself a compassionate conservative. As governor of Texas, he has reached out to Hispanics and African Americans. But his challenge _ to attract...

Charlton Heston on Rehab; Johnny Rotten to cover Democratic Convention.
July 31, 2000... The New York Post's Cindy Adams, here for the confab, in Monday's column headed "Phila-dull-phia's no match for New York," brands the city "definitely semi-nice" but still "a New York wannabe." The gossipteer calls Warmdaddy's "deafening,"...

Conflicts of interest make analysts relentlessly positive.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Miriam Hill TRIM) Wall Street executives aren't known for shying away from four-letter words, but there is one you almost never hear from securities analysts: sell. Almost no analysts recommend selling a stock. Less than...

Physicists seek evidence for dimensions beyond the three we live in.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Faye Flam PHILADELPHIA _ In his 1884 science-fiction classic, "Flatland," mathematician Edwin A. Abbott wrote of mythical 2-D shapes that slid around each other in a perfectly flat world, unaware of _ and unable to comprehend _...

Glaxo, SmithKline shareholders approve merger.
July 31, 2000... Byline: Susan Warner Shareholders meeting in London Monday approved the $75 billion merger of Glaxo Wellcome plc and SmithKline Beecham plc that would create the world's second-largest drug company. Overriding protests by...

The Philadelphia Inquirer Automotive Queries Column.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Al Haas Jul. 30--QUESTION: I have a 1974 Volkswagen Super Beetle that I had repainted a little over a month ago. The car had some very small rough spots on it when I picked it up. Those spots have since turned into bubbles,...

Souderton, Pa., Meat-Packing Company Delayed Consumer Notice of Beef Recall.
July 30, 2000... Jul. 30--A Montgomery County meat packer that voluntarily recalled nearly 350,000 pounds of E. coli-tainted ground beef waited four days before notifying consumers of the recall, a company spokeswoman said today. Federal food safety...

The Philadelphia Inquirer Business Travel Column.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Tom Belden Jul. 30--The airline business has been on a record-setting binge recently. And that's both good and bad if you happen to be one of the millions of people who travel by air. On the one hand, airline managers and...

Las Vegas Answers Companies' Call for Customer-Service Employees.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Bob Fernandez Jul. 30--LAS VEGAS--Facing a labor shortage in virtually every corner of the nation, companies have come to this gambling town looking for a payoff that won't be found pulling a one-armed bandit. Ford,...

The Philadelphia Inquirer Cars Column.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Al Haas Jul. 30--WASHINGTON--The automotive industrial look really started with the 1999 Audi TT sports car, which features polished metal pedals and dashboard braces, and a plethora of bright steel trim rings replete with little...

For Lancaster County, Pa., Amish Community, Computers Can Be Both Bane, Boon.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Larry Lewis Jul. 30--CHURCHTOWN, Pa.--There are those among Lancaster County's Old Order Amish who think the devil has gotten into Moses B. Smucker's harness shop. Not on the first floor, where his finely crafted tack covers...

The Philadelphia Inquirer Loose Change Column.
July 30, 2000... Jul. 30--FOR INVESTORS, MONEY LOSERS ARE LAST YEAR'S FAD: In the first half of 2000, it didn't pay Nasdaq companies to lose money -- unlike in 1999. Companies with losses in 1999 saw their stocks shoot up a median 29 percent during the year,...

The Philadelphia Inquirer Personal Finance Column.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Jeff Brown Jul. 30--Republicans, welcome to Philadelphia! Have fun. Spend lots of money. Okay, now that the niceties are out of the way, I have a request. While you're here, would someone make sense of Gov. George W. Bush's...

Italy's Slow City Movement Resists Culinary, Cultural Homogenization.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Jeffrey Fleishman Jul. 30--GREVE IN CHIANTI, Italy--There was no breeze, not even a riffle in the awnings, as Paolo Saturnini marched through the near-empty piazza smiling and breathing in the scents of curing boar meat, leather,...

Thousands Arrive in Philadelphia as GOP Convention Events Hit Stride.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Mark Bowden Jul. 30--All paths led to Philadelphia yesterday as tens of thousands of delegates, volunteers, journalists and protesters converged for the four-day Republican National Convention. With thousands of extra police...

The Philadelphia Inquirer Homenotes Column.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Alan J. Heavens Jul. 30--Planning to invite the Vermont delegation to the Republican National Convention to your house this week? Make sure you have plenty of air freshener on hand. According to a recent survey, the first...

Concorde Jetliner's Future Is Uncertain after Air Crash.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Andrea Gerlin Jul. 30--PARIS--When an Air France Concorde airplane crashed into a hotel just after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport on Tuesday, killing 114 people, a long-standing source of French national pride also went...

Phils put the heat on Dodgers.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Jim Salisbury PHILADELPHIA _ Eric Karros, the Los Angeles Dodgers' first baseman, couldn't believe it when he heard the game-time temperature was only 81 degrees Sunday at Veterans Stadium. With the infamous Philadelphia...

Gant packed off to Angels for Bottenfield.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Jim Salisbury PHILADELPHIA _ The Philadelphia Phillies solved part of their four-players-for-two-positions riddle Sunday by trading leftfielder Ron Gant to the Anaheim Angels for a veteran righthander, Kent Bottenfield. By...

Debate over curtailed TV coverage is as predictable as a convention.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Gail Shister PHILADELPHIA _ Today's immunity challenge: Why aren't political conventions as compelling as, say, CBS's "Survivor"? The hit "Survivor" has an element of suspense about the outcome and a rooting interest for the...

For McCain, a moment in the spotlight again.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Larry Eichel The week ahead will belong to George W. Bush. But at least until Dick Cheney arrived in Philadelphia, the weekend was the sole property of John McCain. Sunday, the leading also-ran of the year 2000 was...

Comedian at center stage as football season draws near.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Jerry Brewer RUNNEMEDE , N.J._ "Coming to the stage first, ladies and gentlemen, is a local comedian, hailing from Mount Holly, N.J. He, too, has an opinion on Dennis Miller's joining Monday Night Football. Please give it up for...

It's D-Day for Lindros, Flyers.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Tim Panaccio PHILADELPHIA _ Decision Day for Eric Lindros and the Philadelphia Flyers has arrived. The Flyers center has until 12:01 a.m. Tuesday to sign the club's $8.5 million offer sheet for the 2000-01 season. ...

A chance to do right Down Under.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Bob Ford Both Australia and the Olympics themselves will be coming out of a long, deep winter when the Summer Games begin in Sydney. This is just the second time an Olympiad has been held in the Southern Hemisphere. The 1956...

There are two ways of discussing politics: The way of the pundits and the way of the people.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Chris Satullo It's a grand old notion: Convene a gaudy summertime festival of talk to remind the nation that it's time to take up the serious business of electing a leader. This convention week in Philadelphia will feature...

Philadelphia Bars, Restaurants Receive Increases in Cable Bills.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Benjamin Y. Lowe Jul. 29--Now that Comcast Corp. runs the show, it is more expensive for Rembrandt's Restaurant & Bar and 507 other Philadelphia other businesses to turn on the television. Commercial cable customers, mostly...

Economic Boom Worries Wall Street.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Ken Moritsugu Jul. 29--WASHINGTON--The U.S. economy roared ahead through the spring, confounding economists who had expected a slowdown, and raising the odds that the Federal Reserve Board will raise interest rates next month....

Pennsylvania Health System to Pay $1.2 Million to Settle Medicare Claims Case.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Joseph A. Slobodzian Jul. 29--The U.S. Attorney's Office announced a $1.2 million civil settlement yesterday with Mercy Health System of Southeastern Pennsylvania involving undocumented claims to the federal Medicare program for...

New Jersey-Based Identification Technology Firms Join to Create New Identity.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Leslie J. Nicholson Jul. 29--IriScan Inc. and Sensar Inc., two South Jersey leaders in identification technology, merged yesterday, company officials announced. The merger, a buyout of Sensar by Marlton-based IriScan, had...

Philadelphia Hosts Launch Party for Technology Firm.
July 29, 2000... Jul. 29--Just about every night in Silicon Valley and New York, dot-commers can be found sipping fine wines, trading business cards and, in these less heady days, lamenting the layoffs that have replaced overnight riches as Topic A. But...

With Fine Wine, Fancy Munchies, Philadelphia-Area Internet Firm Is Launched.
July 29, 2000... Jul. 29--Just about every night in Silicon Valley and New York, dot-commers can be found sipping fine wines, trading business cards, and, in these less heady days, lamenting the layoffs that have replaced overnight riches as Topic A. But...

Pennsylvania-Based Online Music Retailer Cuts Loses in Second Quarter.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Bob Fernandez Jul. 29--CDNow Inc., the dot-com that is down to its last $10 million in cash, cut its losses in the second quarter but saw sales growth all but disappear as it curtailed discounting and coupons to move music discs....

Schilling does his thing as Diamondbacks defeat Marlins.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Jim Salisbury MIAMI _ Sitting in front of his locker 3 hours before the first game of the rest of his baseball career, Curt Schilling was oblivious to the action around him. As his new teammates arrived in the clubhouse and...

Calas a/k/a/ The Voice endures in broadcasting.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Bill Lyon PHILADELPHIA _ The Voice is rich and resonant and restrained, mellow and modulated, and it is made for a soft summer night, as soothing as a water ice on a row-house stoop, as familiar as the lightning bugs winking at...

Phillies fall to Dodgers.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Bob Ford PHILADELPHIA _ The Ghosts of Pitchers Past visited manager Terry Francona before last night's game, rattling their chains and bringing memories of what might have been. Francona received a phone message from Andy...

Giants not on Schilling bandwagon.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Jim Salisbury PHILADELPHIA _ Who's afraid of big, bad Curt Schilling? Not the San Francisco Giants, that's for sure. "Frankly, I don't (care)," Barry Bonds said after hearing that the Arizona Diamondbacks had landed the...

Republicans converge at Philadelphia on eve of convention.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Mark Bowden PHILADELPHIA _ All paths led to Philadelphia Saturday as tens of thousands of delegates, volunteers, journalists and protesters converged for the four-day Republican National Convention. With thousands of extra...

McCain revives Straight Talk Express for his ride to Philadelphia.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Karen Heller Sen. John McCain, reviving his Straight Talk Express bus, crossed the bridge from Virginia on his way north to Philadelphia on Saturday. He could view the Capitol where he works and, if he strained, glimpse the White...

Members of new media mix with traditional press corps at convention.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Jonathan Storm PHILADELPHIA _ Talk about a media event. About 15,000 people are descending on Philadelphia to get the Republican National Convention word _ and pictures _ out to the world. That's more folks than live in...

Philadelphia rolls out the red carpet for journalists covering GOP convention.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Jennifer Weiner PHILADELPHIA _ Pity the media. The eternal outsiders, with their noses pressed up against life's glass window. Cynics at the pep rally. The rain on the Republicans' parade. Underpaid, underappreciated and,...

Protester-turned medic passes on first-aid knowledge in case things turn ugly.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Stacey Burling PHILADELPHIA _ The aging revolutionary took his place in the circle of hard plastic chairs, a slightly rumpled man who pulls what's left of his hair into a ponytail and wears a Che Guevara T-shirt that proclaims,...

In shadow of GOP convention, Nader accuses both parties of ignoring poor.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Shashank Bengali PHILADELPHIA _ In three high-spirited appearances Saturday, Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader tried to rain on the Republicans' upcoming party in Philadelphia by upbraiding them and the Democrats for...

Bush wins fight to keep education policies on GOP platform.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Ken Dilanian PHILADELPHIA _ Texas Gov. George W. Bush successfully lobbied to get his education plan back in the Republican platform Saturday, underscoring his desire to soften a document that Republicans acknowledged had been...

First GOP convention protests are emotional but orderly.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Thomas Ginsberg, Angela Couloumbis and Melanie Burney PHILADELPHIA _ About 1,500 activists welcomed Republican conventioneers Saturday with isolated protests and colorful civil disobedience around Philadelphia's Center City. ...

Cable, broadcast shows about GOP convention.
July 29, 2000... This year for the first time, the most extensive television coverage of the Republican National Convention will be presented by cable channels rather than by the broadcast networks. X X X SUNDAY Cable News Network 6:30-7...

Montana, Lott lead Hall of Fame inductees.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Jerry Brewer CANTON, Ohio _ In perhaps the coolest moment of his life, Joe Cool was not as poised as the football world had become accustomed to. He rambled. His words, his emotions, were overwhelmed by the splendor of being...

Against all odds: Gari Scott rises above the turbulence in his life.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Jerry Brewer BETHLEHEM, Pa. _ Gari Scott grew up on Martin Luther King Avenue, one of the roughest stretches in his hometown. "Man, it always seems like Martin Luther King streets are the baddest streets," the Eagles receiver...

Olympic investigation needs to go further.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Bob Ford PHILADELPHIA _ There is no future in criticizing the U.S. Justice Department, but the recent criminal indictments against the two main organizers of Salt Lake City's bid for the 2002 Winter Games bring a few questions to...

Technology running wild in raqcetrack gambling industry.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Frank Fitzpatrick PHILADELPHIA _ Watche A. Manoukian, a secretive London-based financier who seldom sets foot in the United States, has become one of the principal beneficiaries of a legal twilight zone enveloping horse-race...

Rumors of demise of Concorde slightly exaggerated.
July 28, 2000... Byline: Andrea Gerlin PARIS _ When an Air France Concorde airplane crashed into a hotel just after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport on Tuesday, killing 114 people, a long-standing source of French national pride also went down in...

Napster's huge, almost instant success will have lasting effects well beyond recording industry.
July 28, 2000... Byline: Reid Kanaley Napster, the free online music-sharing service that narrowly avoided being shut down last week, has been adored by its 20 million users and loathed by musicians and others up and down the recording industry food...

Convention designed to overhaul GOP image.
July 28, 2000... Byline: Dick Polman PHILADELPHIA _ George W. Bush and the Republicans are poised to unleash four days of scripted stagecraft, a telethon of minimal spontaneity that is designed to overhaul the party's image and promote conservatism with...

Maverick McCain rises to top with role of featured speaker at convention.
July 28, 2000... Byline: Karen Heller PHILADELPHIA _ Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the bad boy of the Republican Party, promised to behave at the Republican National Convention. He's set to arrive here on July 29, however, in a four-bus press caravan...

Demonstrators plan protests during convention to campaign for Mumia.
July 28, 2000... Byline: Craig R. McCoy PHILADELPHIA _ With thousands of journalists and Republican delegates in town, demonstrators are expected to pour into the streets next week to argue again to the world that Mumia Abu-Jamal was wrongly convicted....

Philadelphia has played large role in nation's history.
July 28, 2000... Byline: Michael D. Schaffer More than a century before the Founding Fathers gave Americans a constitution, William Penn gave them a vision. And as the new nation emerged, that greatest of all Philadelphians, Benjamin Franklin _...

Who should bear cost of DNA testing for Death Row inmates?
July 28, 2000... Byline: William R. Macklin Mike Fisher is running for re-election as Pennsylvania's attorney general, and, as might be expected, he has disagreements with his Democratic rival, Jim Eisenhower. But last week, the two found themselves...

To dye for: Young men are bleaching, tinting, toning their hair.
July 28, 2000... Byline: Annette John-Hall PHILADELPHIA _ For further proof of our ever-changing roles in society, we need look no farther than South Street, where an 18-year-old male sporting orange-fluorescent pants and sunflower-blond hair is holding...