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...Bartley's Gourmet Burgers is celebrating its 50th year of serving up some of Harvard Square's best burgers and frappes. Over the last half-century, well-deserved praise for the delicious burgers from publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Esquire Magazine has transformed a simple burger joint into a Harvard Square icon. To commemorate Mr. Bartley's Golden Jubilee, we sat down with Joseph Bartley, the restaurant's founder and namesake, to find out what it's been like to spend 50 years in Harvard Square...
...recent weeks, critics have been joined by some of the government's key allies, including members of Calderón's conservative National Action Party, regional business lobbies and the Roman Catholic Church. Such pressure could affect how the President sees through the drug war during the second half of his term, which ends in 2012. (See the siege of Ciudad Juarez...
...survey by Buendía & Laredo found that 50% of respondents thought the government offensive against drug traffickers has made the country more dangerous, while only 21% thought it had made it safer. Another 20% said it had had no effect and 9% gave no comment. Half of respondents also said they personally felt threatened by criminal violence, up from 35% who said they felt threatened in a 2008 survey...
...last lap to make his move. Running third once again, he floated to the outside, then zipped inside past another skater. How he didn't scrape the blocks and get disqualified was a miracle. And in the finals, he was ensconced in second place with two and a half laps to go. "In my head I thought the race was mine," he says. Then he slipped and fell from second to fifth but summoned the strength and speed to recover from this seemingly disastrous error, and finished third to win the bronze...
...annual Conservative Political Action Conference has always had a large youth contingent, but this year's 10,000-person gathering is more than half students. "Road trip!" is a common explanation for what brought them to CPAC. But more and more young attendees - who pay just $25 for a three-day pass, vs. $175 for adults - are highly articulate conservatives running their school or state Young Republican chapters. "We've seen a huge uptick in membership in the last year," says Zach Howell, national chairman of the College Republicans. Just because they're conservative, though, doesn't mean they...