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...before, TIME had widened the sphere of the POY--in 1949, when it designated Winston Churchill Man of the Half-Century, and in 1989, when it named Mikhail Gorbachev Man of the Decade. Now, at the millennium, it was time to pick the figure who towered over the entire 20th century and laid the groundwork for the 21st. The choice: "the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe," whose work transformed all the key fields in our age of science and technology. Einstein's "humanity and extraordinary brilliance made ... his name a synonym for genius...
Just as Cheney believes bad things happen when the U.S. acts meekly, he believes the converse as well. "The reason that the 20th century ended with the forces of communism and fascism defeated and with capitalism and democracy increasing as the political and economic models people aspire to is due in no small part to U.S. leadership, backed by U.S. military force," Cheney recently told Mary Matalin, a top aide. "Our leadership and our might shaped the events of the last century...
Sargent, a prominent Boston artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, designed the entirety of Sargent Hall...
...study of political philosophy from one of logic and science to one concerned primarily with social and moral justice; in Lexington, Mass. The longtime Harvard professor's 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, revived the idea--promoted by Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau but abandoned for much of the 20th century--of the social contract: the idea that society should be built on a mutually beneficial agreement among its members. His views on ethics and the rights of individuals have influenced the debate on affirmative action, welfare and assisted suicide...
Once the story gets to 20th-century America, the characters undergo some radical revisions. In 1943, the animator Tex Avery turned Little Red into “Red Hot Riding Hood,” a Hollywood stripper, and the wolf into a lusty club-goer who springs into a “full-body erection.” Throughout the 1970s, the story became a regular feminist tool for calling attention to female victimization, and women repeatedly rewrote the story to cast Red as a triumphant heroine (stabbing the wolf with a sewing knife and wearing his fur), the wolf...