Word: gandhi
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...should be prepared for a very specialized achievers list: the Top Chrome Domes of the Century. Although we would not be very comfortable flatly asserting that the following Men of the Year were bald, it would be safe to say they were balding or, better yet, follicularly challenged: Gandhi, Churchill, Eisenhower, Truman, Mossadegh, Khrushchev, Pope John XXIII, Sadat, Gorbachev, De Klerk and Pope John Paul...
...that the person who had the most profound impact on the events of the 20th century was also the century's most evil person: Adolf Hitler. The century was filled with inspirational leaders who advanced its most powerful idea, freedom of the individual--people like the two Roosevelts, Churchill, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. But the poison unleashed by Hitler and his terrible contemporary Joseph Stalin survives. Not only must we still mourn, at century's end, the tens of millions who died as a result of their actions, but we can still see in many parts...
...MOHANDAS GANDHI is my choice for Person of the Century because he showed us a way out of the destructive side of our human nature. He demonstrated that we can force change and justice through moral acts of aggression instead of physical acts of aggression. Never has our species needed this wisdom more. --Steve Jobs, co-founder, Apple Computer...
Every week it's something new but never useful. If the section were about Ancient Greece, he might bring up Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha, but if it's about modern India, Plato is the man of the hour...
Harvard students have generally accepted theFaculty's determination that Mill and Plato arecentral to their education--but there's no reasonwhy Gandhi or Malcolm X shouldn't be as well...