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...world's largest software company is faced with doing whatever it can to make Windows 7 a success, even if it has to open a store in every mall in America...
That, Iranians may be. But such gentleness should not lead Western visitors to think support for the values of the Islamic revolution has run its course. Every day the Mahestan shopping mall just off Revolution Street fills with students from the nearby universities. The mall is popular with Basijis--the young volunteers who fill the ranks of government-sponsored demonstrations. When they grow up, they join the government and the Revolutionary Guards corps. The Mahestan mall sells mostly religious paraphernalia--Koranic software, recordings of religious chants, speeches from modern Islamic heroes like Khomeini, Ahmadinejad and Lebanese Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah...
...portrait in the packed lobby of the National Portrait Gallery. We glimpsed Bush’s helicopter fly over the crowd as he departed from the District. We glimpsed the greatest political leaders in America over the tops of people’s hats on a screen at the Mall. But the most exciting glimpse of all happened the night before the inauguration, when Mariah and I ran down G Street...
...National Mall, near the Washington Monument. I didn’t really have to piss, I just went with Nick because I thought it would be a good idea to get it out of the way before the crowds really hit, before it would be impossible to get there. And I didn’t want him to go alone. At 10:00, it wasn’t that crowded on the hill in front of the Washington Monument—we had enough space to sit down—but all the same, there were a lot of people...
...over the country, heading towards the Capitol in one direction and stretching back towards the White House in the other. For over two hours we had maneuvered our way through throngs of people fighting to get a spot along the parade route or amidst the chaos of the Mall. It was bitterly cold outside, and security consisted of four officers attempting to hand-check the bags of thousands of people. But the excitement was palpable. The pushing and shoving and complaining all suddenly ceased when a camera crew arrived on scene, and, within seconds, everyone in the crowd began...