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While historians ponder this question, it is enough to say that Khomeini presided brilliantly over the overthrow of a wounded regime. He was merciless and cunning. His well-advertised piety complemented a prodigious skill in grasping and shaping Iran's complex politics. Most important, he knew how to exploit the feelings of nationalist resentment that characterized his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...that he'll step down in mid-1999 to run for President, the party's rising star, BILL PAXON, announced that he was quitting electoral politics entirely. The move came as a shock both to his admirers and detractors, of which there were many, because of his efforts to overthrow Gingrich last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington: Paxon, Once Ambitious, Decides No Mas | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...step down in mid-1999 to run for president, the party's rising star, Bill Paxon, announced that he was quitting electoral politics entirely. The move came as a shock to both his admirers and his detractors, of which there were many, because of his efforts to overthrow Gingrich last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Out of Washington | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...better hope Saddam Hussein missed Monday?s New York Times, or else he?ll know all about the CIA?s proposed covert operation to overthrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dumbing of Intelligence | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

Kenneth Starr may be the man who can overthrow Bill Clinton, but he is also proof positive that not every baby boomer started out as a little rebel. The son of a Church of Christ minister, the future independent counsel was raised not to drink or smoke. At George Washington University in the 1960s, when the academic dress code was being cracked at every turn, he would show up in class in a jacket and tie. And even as a teenager, when the freedom to be a slob is supposed to seem like one of life's essential liberties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Starr and His Operation | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

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