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...Rating: [One Khomeini] You'd think the network that brought you the Gulf War could do better. Investigating is too mild a verb; it suggests a medical checkup. The gray border is monochromatic and nondescript, like something stamped on an official document or government-approved meat...
AYATULLAH KHOMEINI 1979 Ousting Iran's Shah--and taking hostages along...
Getting married is always an act of faith, but a recent pair of nuptials displayed a particularly vibrant brand of optimism. SALMAN RUSHDIE, who is still under the fatwa placed upon him on Valentine's Day 1989 by the late Ayatullah Khomeini (unromantic chap), wed his girlfriend of three years in a private ceremony in the Hamptons, New York City's summer playground. Most media outlets, in recognition of the danger in which her marital state places the new MRS. RUSHDIE, are simply calling her Elizabeth. It's The Satanic Verses author's third stab at marriage, which puts...
...rally and using a technicality to close down Khatami's election headquarters in the last week of campaigning. Nateq-Noori was the candidate of a militant Islamic front combining the conservative mullahs of the holy city of Qum and the middle-class traders of the Tehran bazaar. A former Khomeini bodyguard, he had become a top police official, then head of the conservative-controlled National Assembly. His campaign slogan was an oath of absolute loyalty to the mullahs' supreme rule...
Like his opponent, Khatami attended the seminary in Qum. Yet he also studied Western philosophy. He wrote some speeches for Khomeini but is otherwise the first President who lacks revolutionary credentials. His own campaign speeches promised more freedom and tolerance. "Our country has a long way to go," he said in his last speech. "The government doesn't give people the opportunity to grow...