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After joyously toppling a dictator, protesters trusted the army to hold power until elections—but a vicious show of force this week has soured their faith. Ursula Lindsey reports from Cairo. The warm relations between Egyptians protesters and their army are over. Military police and, reportedly, masked special forces violently broke up protests in downtown Cairo late Friday night. The attack—and ongoing reports of "disappearances" and abuse—has soured the once hopeful relations between the military and pro-democracy forces here. The film director Ahmad Abdalla was in a group of several hundred protesters standing and chanting in front of the Egyptian parliament...

Instead of rocking with Bono and The Edge, hundreds of U2 fans were forced to ``walk away, walk away'' from the sold-out FleetCenter show Tuesday night when their scalped tickets proved bogus. Some heartbroken fans broke down in tears as they were turned away clutching worthless pieces of paper they shelled out as much as $2,000 for. ``There was a number of people that were just crying,'' recalled Matt Whelan, the FleetCenter's director of ticket operations. ``There were people that didn't know what to do. They were stunned. They had come from all over the world.'' It took Whelan and...