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Discontent boiled over last summer when local election returns gave an improbable 98.85% of the vote to the Communist Party. That anger found an outlet at the Nikolai Church, downtown, where a small band of peace activists had been meeting. Almost overnight their number grew into a mass movement for political freedom. "We didn't start this," says Pastor Christian Fuhrer, "but we protected it. We were the catalysts...
Carried by the young, the old and the in-between, the signs were perhaps the one truly creative outlet in what was otherwise a made-for- media series of speeches and visuals...
...Tattered Cover (110,000; Denver). Owner Joyce Meskis says, "We wanted to maintain an ambiance of an old, comfortable slipper." Some slipper. All the books, along with 190 employees and inviting armchairs, are packed into this former department store, making the Tattered perhaps the largest and best independent book outlet in the U.S. But success has brought an unexpected plot twist. Meskis has received offers from several people who want to franchise the operation. So far, she has resisted the temptation...
...restaurant would be the world's largest McDonald's outlet, with 900 seats. But the Moscow Mac's development has been a long slog, in part because of logistic and bureaucratic hassles. McDonald's may prove to be a hard sell to Muscovites, most of whom have never heard of a hamburger or couldn't afford one. Even so, last week's graduates were bullish. Says Khamzat Khazbulatov, 33: "We will bring back all the skills that result in excellent profits and sales...
Ever since 1960, when Tom Monaghan opened his first pizza outlet in Ypsilanti, Mich., the eccentric tycoon has been expanding his empire like a spinning wheel of pizza dough. But now that his Domino's chain has 5,100 stores and sales of $2.3 billion, Monaghan is suddenly ready to move on. In a letter to employees and franchise owners, the pizza king disclosed that he is looking for ways to sell Domino...