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...Bartley's 38 years at the restaurant, the large 7 by 10 foot glass window has been broken about 4 times. The other, smaller glass window has been broken several times as well. "It is the nature of operating in a college town," Bartley said...
...Glammed up in sequined duds that would make a showgirl or Liberace envious, he pleased his aging audience, singing his early hits that once had the musk of sexual revolt but by then were golden oldies. And while he redefined Sin City's notion of a headliner show, the town changed Presley as well. At the end, the kid from Tupelo, Miss., may have been more Vegas than Elvis...
...Russians." The kind of man who would bring his then girlfriend, a former Miss World USA, on a fact-finding trip to Pakistan. The kind of man, his House colleagues used to say, who could strut while sitting down. Still, he was elected 12 times from Lufkin, Texas--a town so conservative that it didn't vote to allow alcohol sales until 2006. Even those who disagreed with Wilson couldn't help but like him: the liberal columnist Molly Ivins wrote admiringly that he hadn't "an ounce of hypocrisy." Charlie Wilson's War, the 2007 movie about his work...
Over the past two years, he has targeted India's smaller cities and towns, where the explosion of satellite television, with its constant diet of ads and Bollywood, has fueled the hairstyling market. "In Delhi, people will just come to my salon asking for a cut that suits them," he says. "In Aligarh, they'll come asking to look like [Bollywood superstar] Shah Rukh Khan." The approach chimes with the findings of The Dhoni Effect, a 2008 report from consultants Ernst & Young. Named after Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, a small-town boy made great, the report found that...
...allegedly assaulting two of their servants in Geneva. Libyan and European officials are working frantically to resolve the conflict, but the European visa ban meant the U.S. execs arrived to a nearly empty hotel. (Among the few other hotel guests this weekend was Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, in town to meet Gaddafi in advance of next month's Arab League summit in Tripoli...