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...Stephen Hawking, a brilliant mind explaining secrets of the universe while fighting a debilitating illness, and Bill Gates, who is using the world's largest private fortune to solve some of the world's most pressing problems, are among the most influential people of not only our time but all time. Rosie O'Donnell, however, is an opinionated egomaniac. Such errors of omission and commission could put TIME in line to be ranked among the 100 least influential publications. Stephen Landman, Louisville, kentucky...
...offended when Christians eat pork," says Jacob Neusner. At least not usually. The brilliant--and none too patient--Jewish scholar does recall a religion conference where so much of the other white meat was served that he was reduced to a diet of hard-boiled eggs. One day on the food line something snapped, and he rhymed aloud, "I hope you all get trichinosis/And come to believe in the God of Moses." A fellow conferee instantly replied, "And if we don't get such diseases/Will you believe in the God of Jesus?" Neusner cackles. "That's an example...
...nothing wrong with the camera falling in love with its subject. Star quality is an essential factor in movie mystique. Directors are also free to show a lovely face in slow motion, as you do endlessly with Nevins'. The Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai has built a brilliant career on that technique. You selected Wong's longtime cinematographer, Christopher Doyle, in part because he would know how to work a similarly glorious magic...
...then there's the libertarian Congressman Ron Paul who seems like your uncle the bartender who has a Big Theory about everything: some of his ideas are brilliant, others weird. He rates a mention because his singular moment of weirdness--proposing that al-Qaeda attacked on Sept. 11 because the U.S. had been messing around in the Middle East, bombing Iraq--offered Giuliani a historic slam dunk. "That's an extraordinary statement," he jumped in when Paul finished, "... that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq. I don't think I've ever heard that before...
Stephen Hawking, a brilliant mind explaining secrets of the universe while fighting a debilitating illness, and Bill Gates, who is using the world's largest private fortune to solve some of the world's most pressing problems, are among the most influential people of not only our time but all time. Rosie O'Donnell, however, has left her mark by simply parading as television's opinionated egomaniac. Unfortunately, such errors of omission and commission could put TIME in line to be ranked among the 100 least influential publications...