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The world couldn't possibly make sense of a leaderless revolution. So in the early days of Egypt's iconic 18-day uprising, an unflagging press corps tried on Mohamed ElBaradei, a bald and bespectacled Nobel laureate. When ElBaradei flopped, they turned to 30-year old Google executive Wael Ghonim, who as Wendell Steavenson wrote, would become the face, but never the leader of the revolution. Before the media gave up on the idea of leadership altogether, Time published one of the most recognizable images of the Egyptian uprising -- its Feb. 28, 2011, cover featuring seven Egyptian activists as the "generation changing the world."