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The Philadelphia Inquirer has a disturbingly effective visual aide that brings together the homicide data from last year - data we are quickly on our way to surpassing in 2007.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

This week's quote comes from actor Harvey Keitel, who said of performing: “I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance.” Now, on with the listings!

NBC News tells the truth about the Iraq violence

As a female, Elite -ist doesnt' like to admit that sometimes, she sweats. But there's no hiding it these days, with today's high temperature pushing 100° and a heat index that'll make it feel like more. Much more. Fortunately, visiting our sister sites doesn't require any sweating, at all. Well, unless your office isn't air conditioned. In that case, good luck!

This afternoon the Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue will be the site of a conference hosted by the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia and entitled Islam and the West. It's being held in honor of the 90th birthday of Professor Bernard Lewis, a noted scholar of the Middle East and currently Princeton's Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies. Showing up for the birthday party/deep political discussion will be plenty of other experts on the Middle East and Islam, not to mention celebrities like former host of CNN's "Inside Politics" Judy Woodruff, and such luminaries of Western politics as Senator Joseph Biden, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and Mr. Darth Vader himself, Vice President Dick Cheney. Mr. Cheney isn't exactly going to be hanging around having drinks with everybody afterwards, though; according to his schedule, he's arriving at the Philadelphia International Airport at 11:15AM, speaking at the Hyatt at 12:10PM, and leaving from the airport again at 12:50PM. Wow. He may actually have to fold time or something to pull that off. Well, either that, or deliver a speech that's only three words long. Which we hear he's been known to do in the past...

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