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The pursuit of perfection paradoxically requires a career spent obsessing over one's faults. Unusually for tennis players, Federer has spent most of his career without a coach, analyzing his own game and making changes himself, such as adding a deft drop volley at the French Open that was designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greatest Hitter: Roger Federer | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

Observers with a working knowledge of Iranian politics have largely been able to shrug off President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's bluster and bullying, knowing the diminutive President must still answer to a far more powerful figure: Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Since 1989, the shadowy cleric - a former president himself - has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayatullah Ali Khamenei: Iran's Supreme Leader | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

"Khamenei would always come and say, 'Shut up; what I say goes.' Everyone would say, 'O.K., it is the word of the leader.' Now the myth that there is a leader up there whose power is unquestionable is broken." -Azar Nafisi, the author of two memoirs about life in Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayatullah Ali Khamenei: Iran's Supreme Leader | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

According to Maloney, the election controversy provided considerable new insight into the cleric believed to hold absolute power, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Everyone expected voting irregularities, she said, but not "this degree of blatant, in-your-face fraud." That Khamenei almost instantly certified the victory of his candidate, incumbent President Mahmoud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Still Struggling to Understand Iran | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

Iranian state media said the government organized the rally to demand punishment for those who protested violently after a larger demonstration Monday by hundreds of thousands of Mousavi supporters. Mousavi has said he won Friday's balloting and has demanded the government annul Ahmadinejad's victory and conduct a new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thousands Rally Again in Streets of Iran's Capital | 6/16/2009 | See Source »

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