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TIME has always defined the Man of the Year as the person who most affected the news "for better or for worse." It did so when it named Adolf Hitler in 1938, and it did so when it selected Ayatullah Khomeini last week. In all our coverage of the hostage crisis, and in the Man of the Year cover story itself, TIME made amply clear how it regarded Khomeini. But the Man of the Year has never been restricted to a person TIME wished to praise. Khomeini obviously dominated the news more than anyone else-"for worse." The magazine...
...basic criterion has remained the same: the distinction goes to the person or group who, as it was stated on this page in 1943, "has done the most to change the news, for better or for worse." There have been designees very plainly in the latter category-Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Stalin (1939)-but selection has never necessarily connoted either the magazine's, or the world's, approval of the subject. Thus the editors had little difficulty naming Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, intransigent leader of the Iranian revolution, as TIME'S Man of the Year...
...find it incredible that you published an article in which you admitted that the Shah used torture and murder to sustain his regime, and then excused him for those deeds because he wasn't as bad as Hitler. Well, my God-who is? How inhuman does a despot have to be for his evil to outweigh his usefulness...
Khomeini's importance far transcends the nightmare of the embassy seizure, transcends indeed the overthrow of the Shah of Iran. The revolution that he led to triumph threatens to upset the world balance of power more than any political event since Hitler's conquest of Europe. It was unique in several respects: a successful, mostly nonviolent revolt against a seemingly entrenched dictator, it owed nothing to outside help or even to any Western ideology. The danger exists that
...extraordinarily intuitive portrayal of Horst, a man rounded up by the state for having signed a petition demanding rights for "queers." To put this in proper historical perspective, some of the earliest Nazi party stalwarts were distinctly "bent." On the "Night of the Long Knives," June 30, 1934, Hitler ordered Ernst Röhm, left-wing head of the SA and a notorious homosexual fanatically loyal to the Führer, murdered...