Word: ayatullah
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...beating the Great Satan II. Says Khodadad Azizi, one of Iran's top players: "The U.S.A. mistreated our country. In the war they supported our enemy, Iraq. That's why a victory against the U.S.A. will be a special victory." Iran's team prayed at the tomb of Ayatullah Khomeini before flying off to France. The U.S. sees Iran as a must-win--not for a political victory, but because the Iranians are the weakest team in the group. Each victory is worth three points; four points is the likely minimum to advance...
Perhaps a President's life after the White House is the real manifestation of his character. Consider the interesting case of Jimmy Carter. Buried, after one term, in the Ronald Reagan landslide of 1980, widely scorned as the micromanager of malaise held hostage by the Ayatullah, Carter in his post-White House incarnation performed a cunning reversal. An engineer by training, he did not so much reinvent himself as reconstruct, in another dimension, the job from which the American people had fired...
Khomeini was then the disciple of Iran's pre-eminent cleric, Ayatullah Mohammed Boroujerdi, a defender of the tradition of clerical deference to established power. But in 1962, after Boroujerdi's death, Khomeini revealed his long-hidden wrath and acquired a substantial following as a sharp-tongued antagonist of the Shah...
...Shah of Iran is overthrown, and the Ayatullah Khomeini takes charge...
...among the movers and shakers, it isn't just because they've been too shy, too un-self-esteeming or too busy changing diapers. Part of the problem lies with the movers and shakers. For example, some of the job titles held by the males--such as Pope and Ayatullah--have never been open to women. We like to imagine, in the U.S., that guys who occupy corner offices and wear pinstripe suits are more woman-friendly than the ones whose names are stitched on their shirts. So it is depressing to realize that the Vatican and the Pentagon, Wall...