The reformer Ida Tarbell went to Highland Park planning to expose the oppressive Ford system.
Arguably, Mr Chirac, at 68, is a bit old to play the reformer convincingly.
In the meantime, Palin the reformer had been caught up in her own scandal, known as Troopergate.
He's a professor at the College of Mexico and a political and social analyst for the Reformer newspaper.
"What you have is a war and a history that the younger Iranians do not know about or remember, so they know less about him and see him as the reformer he says that he is, " Hunter said.
Last week he proclaimed without warning a quite different, and much tougher, agenda urged on him by Anatoly Chubais, the leading reformer in the government.
The question is whether that opportunity can be seized or whether the humbling of Mr Chubais, whom many see as the only reformer capable of meeting the challenge, will delay Russia's deliverance, possibly for years.
This was the lot of the famous reformer, Count Istvan Szecheny, after the suppression of Lajos Kossuth's revolution in 1848, just as it was the lot of Janos Kadar after the Soviet Union crushed the Hungarian uprising in 1956.
The most prominent reformer in the previous Russian government, Anatoly Chubais, has been made chief executive of the country's electricity monopoly, Unified Energy Systems.
Denmark, the most consistent reformer in the region, is more circumspect.
The one pedigreed reformer in the senior leadership, Russian Finance Minister Fyodorov , was in Washington at the time and was apparently taken completely by surprise.
Another of Sellers's shows championed Constance Spry, the social reformer, author and florist who educated millions of British people on the art of beautifying their homes in the mid-20th century.
Worn down by the difficulties of office, the great reformer has become a cautious man, surrounded by an insular group of advisers.
By contrast, the former New Jersey senator compared himself to insurgent GOP candidate John McCain, saying that between himself and Gore, he is the true reformer.
The most hopeful candidate would be Boris Nemtsov, still only 38, the government reformer most likely to impress voters (though his appeal has diminished with power).
Now the pattern is for the ayatollah to give a directive, usually in a public speech, and then leave it to conservatives in the judiciary to arrest the offending reformer.
In the dying months of the Soviet era, as Mr Yeltsin and Mr Gorbachev were competing for the role of chief reformer of the communist economy, neither really understood how markets worked.
The board of visitors is reconvening Tuesday in a bid to quell the furor and reconsider Ms. Sullivan's dismissal and the ex-president says she'll return on the condition that the board instead fires Ms. Dragas, the leading reformer.
Because hydrogen can clean the exhaust right from a cold engine start, the plasma reformer method is 20% to 50% more efficient at reducing NOx than other clean-diesel technologies, allowing less unburned fuel to pass through in the process.
Both claim the mantle of reformer, one from within government and the other a former deputy prime minister.
The plasmatron, whose official name is the plasma fuel reformer, is an aluminum canister about the size of a Big Gulp drink.
But his career would finally be crowned with success if he were to be the Christian Democratic reformer who helped a Social Democratic one to reshape the country.
But Wirahadikusumah won points with the public by styling himself as a reformer advocating the armed forces' retreat from politics.
He then paid tribute to the 19th-Century educational reformer Jules Ferry and the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Marie Curie.
On the positive side, Mr Bush can claim to be a genuine reformer in the vital matter of education.
Working with scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ArvinMeritor researchers found an answer: the plasma fuel reformer, or plasmatron.
Mr. Murdoch subsequently formalized Mr. Klein's role at the center of the response to the crisis, announcing that he had selected the former education reformer to "provide important oversight and guidance" and that Mr. Klein, along with News Corp. board member Viet Dinh, would keep the board apprised.
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