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...Global Forum in Kyoto, Mikhail Gorbachev talked with TIME senior writer Eugene Linden...
...years ago, answering phones and taking lunch orders as the Saturday secretary for the Nation section. Last week, for the first time, he was acting editor of the Nation section and someone else took his calls. In between, he has written stories on everything from pets to Raisa Gorbachev, from the history of World War II to the Tiananmen Square massacre. Two years ago, our sister publication People magazine spirited him and his menagerie away. But life at TIME seemed so unfulfilling without our eclectic materialist that we enticed Howard back to the fold as Society editor last spring. Since...
...whose careers are brilliantly synergistic. Here's a list of some of the others, ranked by their GorbScore, a rating from 1 to 10 derived from a formula that measures the couple's influence and charm, using as a benchmark the models of modern power partnership, Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev...
...leadership. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were 20th century archetypes of the crisis leader. Mortal peril and powerful enemies can force leadership on ordinary men -- Harry Truman, for example. So can wrenching historic changes, like the dramatic endgame of the cold war, which cast players such as Reagan, Thatcher, Gorbachev and Walesa in historic roles...
...young Marxists are advocating economic change before political change -- the path the Chinese insist they are taking, in contrast to the approach favored by Mikhail Gorbachev when he ran the Soviet Union. "Communist parties around the world have faced our same dilemma, the sequence of reform," says Monreal. "In Cuba's case, the choice was to promote economic reform first. That will transform the state." The yummies admit that major alterations in the political system are unlikely anytime soon. "How can you open up political reform while the economy is a mess? It's suicidal," argues political scientist Santiago Perez...