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...energy bills, showing that congressional Democrats are as susceptible to the influence of money as Republicans. The President now understands. After the Massachusetts election, he went over the heads of the system to ask for help in getting action on banking reform. Now it's us vs. Wall Street in a fight to win over our Representatives. Ray Richardson, GREENFIELD...
...Chilly Night in Isfahan, Iran, 1971 As my parents unload the bags from the taxi, they tell me to sit in the hotel lobby and watch over my 2-year-old brother. I don't, not closely enough, and he waddles into the street, where he is knocked down by a truck. He's fine, if stunned. My parents assure the police that any fault lies not with the truck driver but with them, for leaving a toddler with a 5-year-old. It doesn't matter. The driver is still hauled off to prison. He is held because...
Your report on Haiti was shocking, but for the wrong reason: the double-page image of a dead Haitian man who had been shot in the street. I wonder, was it really necessary, after all the heartache and destruction in Haiti, to add to the pain of this man's family and friends by publishing such a clearly identifiable picture? Phil Jackson, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND...
...patrols the garden with an ax and a plastic baseball bat. The next day, the radio proclaims the birth of the People's Republic of Afghanistan. Tanks are wreathed in flowers, "doubtless following the prescription of some revolutionary handbook," my father writes home. The portrait painter down the street begins churning out likenesses of Afghanistan's new President, Marxist-Leninist Nur Mohammed Taraki. (See pictures of hidden Afghanistan...
...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...