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...popular eatery has reopened its doors, in part because of funding from a handful of the store's loyal customers...
...technocratic elite who keep the country running," says TIME correspondent William Dowell, who covered the 1979 revolution from Tehran. "Attacking them could deepen the crisis and even unite the population against Khameini. And if the protest movement expands, it can?t be assumed that the military would necessarily remain loyal to Khameini, in which case you could potentially see another revolution." For Khameini and Khatami, both veterans of the movement that overthrew the shah 20 years ago, the rapid spread of the protest movement from Tehran to at least 12 other Iranian towns and cities in recent days...
...Court House Museum in Vicksburg, Miss., a visitor is hard pressed to find evidence that the Civil War is over--or the War Between the States, as it's called in Vicksburg. Exhibit cases contain Confederate uniforms and still-polished Confederate weapons. Photographs of "loyal slaves" who, the captions approvingly note, refused to leave their masters even after the war. A white hood from the original Ku Klux Klan, described as a "fraternal organization" protecting the South from the ravages of Federal troops. A shrine to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, his portrait lovingly protected in its own special room...
...West's favorite Kosovar politician has substantially dimmed. Ibrahim Rugova, the pacifist leader, was posing for pictures with Milosevic while Thaci and his forces were struggling in the hills. Although most everyone agrees that the Milosevic meetings were conducted under duress, the images hurt Rugova. He still has many loyal followers in the camps of Albania and Macedonia, but he also has no shortage of political enemies...
...None of us seem to understand why secrecy was essential," said Cecily C. Selby '46, who was a member of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees in the late 1970s. "I'll be loyal forever, but it'll be easier to be loyal now that there are no secrets...