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TIME ONLINE EDITION YOUR PICKS? Visit TIME Online and tell us whom you would select as the most influential people in the world today. Also, review the editors' selections for the first TIME 100 list, which showcased the leading lights of the 20th century. Click on time.com/100...
...most popular series of the past few years was the TIME 100, our list of the most influential people of the 20th century, culminating in Albert Einstein as Person of the Century. I oversaw the first installment, Leaders and Revolutionaries, and I still remember the heated debates about whether we should pick Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan (the Gipper won out) and whether Joseph Stalin should join the list with Adolf Hitler (he didn't make...
...August 1945, Harry Truman made the weightiest presidential decision of the 20th century. He later said he never lost a night's sleep over dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima. For that, some critics to this day condemn him for lack of reflectiveness--and worse. I'd call it decisiveness. And in wartime, decisiveness counts for more...
...steps that led toward the historic collapse of communism in Poland and everywhere else behind the Iron Curtain. His belief in God did not diminish his sense of duty toward the worldly well-being of God's creatures. In other words, without the Pope, without his political interventions, the 20th century could have ended differently. That is a measure of his influence on today's world...
...exhibition in celebration of the centenary of the most influential choreographer of the 20th century, drawn from the Balanchine Archive and other dance collections in the Harvard Theatre Collection. Through May 28. Hours are Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Pusey Library...