This week's contributor is Spencer Willig, student reporter at The Daily Pennsylvanian, the University of Pennsylvania student newspaper.

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With that in mind, Obama and Romney would be smart to court Pennsylvanian women over New Yorkers, Floridians over Oklahomans.

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Dr. Benjamin Rush, a Pennsylvanian who signed the Declaration of Independence, wrote that the war was only the first step in the Revolution's destiny to transform America and the world.

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The next day, that remark -- which was made innocently, according to the lawyer for the girl's family, who related the story -- landed the young central Pennsylvanian child in the principal's office.

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Investors' willingness to pay these fees is being further put to the test by the biggest single threat to the rest of the fund industry: the success of Vanguard, a Pennsylvanian company that sells funds linked to stockmarket indices.

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