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...might in a Western democracy. "Political power in Iran is divided up among a number of different institutions and power centers," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. The country's highest political office is that of supreme spiritual leader, originally created for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after the revolution of 1979 - although conservatives and reformers differ sharply on how much direct political control he should exercise. Ayatollah Khameini leads the country's conservative faction, whose control of the Council of Guardians - a non-elected body of clerics that has the power to vet candidates and veto legislation - as well as over...
...remains loyal to the ideas of Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution." And this is no mere subterfuge: Khatami himself is a veteran of 1979, while the reform movement's most important ideological figure may be Ayatollah Ali Montezeir, the imprisoned liberal theologian who had once been Khomeini's handpicked successor. "Although the elections are likely to give Khatami a stronger hand to push his reform agenda," says Dowell, "the real struggle for a new Iran may be going on behind the walls of the seminaries where more and more clerics are challenging the conservatives' view of the extent of the clergy...
...Harper's views on New York City's federal bench translate to Harvard, the University could be looking at some changes, although Harper says he will have to familiarize himself with the University before deciding how he stands on specific issues...
...although change seems to be coming, it is arriving slowly...
...guilty plea by Ms. Edwards also raises potential problems for her former employers at the Bank of New York, although these may not necessarily be of a legal nature. "When a senior bank official admits to such activity, the bank faces the danger of being stigmatized as an institution that has failed to properly scrutinize its employees," says Baumohl. "Still, it's likely to be more of an embarrassment than a legal problem...