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...approximately 10:40 a.m. on Saturday, a fire broke out in the kitchen of Mr. Bartley’s Burger Cottage, the famed Harvard Square hamburger joint...
...approximately 10:40 a.m. on Saturday, a fire broke out in the cooking area of Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage, the famed Harvard Square burger joint...
...entertainment honchos. Nightwatch, a popular radio serial in the early 1950s, followed a group of Culver City, Calif. police officers on patrol (and became the ancestor of another reality giant, Cops). In 1973 An American Family, a 12-part series that brought us the Santa Barbara, Calif. Loud clan, broke new ground with its artful, excruciatingly real portrayal of a family in transition. With its unabashed invasion into the private lives of the Louds, and exploration of taboo subjects like the divorce of parents Pat and Bill and the open homosexuality of eldest son Lance, the seminal broadcast drew more...
...Sept. 16 a money fund marked its net asset value below $1 - sacrilege for an investment meant to be the same as cash. After the Reserve Primary Fund "broke the buck" because of debt it held that was issued by the now-bust investment bank Lehman Brothers, institutional investors scrambled to withdraw their money. Sept. 18 brought additional worries: Putnam Investments said it would be shutting down one of its money market funds, and the ratings agency Moody's warned it might downgrade 13 of Lehman's funds. (Lehman's asset management subsidiary was not part of the bankruptcy...
...hurdle. Despite signing a power-sharing agreement on Monday, President Robert Mugabe and his arch-rival and new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have failed to agree on who will control which portfolios in a new cabinet. A meeting between the two men on Thursday aimed at resolving the issue broke up without agreement, as reports began to trickle in of violence breaking out in different parts of the country between supporters of Mugabe's Zanu-PF and the opposition MDC. While most of the violence of recent months has been directed against opposition supporters - thugs controlled by Zanu-PF killed...