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...Russ & Me,” he displays an affectionate humor in a collection of personal memoirs about his relationship with his father, Russert has already stated that the wit in his Class Day speech this year “won’t quite be Ali...
...says, “I understand the legacy that precedes me...[and] I’m the first to acknowledge that I’m not Ali G. or Mother Teresa...
While some in the audience were laughing when last year’s Class Day speaker Sacha Baron Cohen—known by his stage name Ali G.—joked about marijuana and sex in his speech, Harvard’s administrator listened unamused...
...spent nearly a decade out of the spotlight, Ayatullah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani still knows how to make an entrance. Arriving for an interview with TIME inside a domed marble Tehran palace, Rafsanjani, 70, strides in with the bounce of a man half his age. He's even accompanied by his film crew. It's all part of a slick campaign aimed at selling one of the Islamic republic's old founding fathers as a hip reformer in tune with restless young Iranians, in hopes of returning the former President to the job he left in 1997. As he settles...
...revolutionary credentials give him the clout to push through reforms--like greater press freedom, fewer dress-code and social restrictions, and better relations with the West--that are opposed by hard-line conservatives, who control the judiciary and security forces and are backed by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. In recent years, the mullahs have responded to the rising clamor for change by blocking reform initiatives of the elected leadership. Khatami was so intimidated by Khamenei that in 2000 he wouldn't shake President Bill Clinton's hand at the U.N. without calling the Supreme Leader back home...