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...Churchill, British Prime Minister --Mohandas Gandhi, father of modern India --Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet reformer --Adolf Hitler, German dictator --Ho Chi Minh, first President of North Vietnam --Pope John Paul II, religious leader --Ayatullah R. Khomeini, leader of Iran's revolution --Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader --Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union --Nelson Mandela, South African President --Mao Zedong, leader of communist China --Ronald Reagan, U.S. President --Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. First Lady --Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. President and New Deal architect --Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President and environmentalist --Margaret Sanger, birth-control crusader --Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 100 Persons Of The Century | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...young man--his father first, and his mother a decade later. Despite his father's interest in religion, Milosevic never embraced the church. At 18 he turned himself into a Communist Party zealot, assuming so thoroughly the image of a dedicated functionary that admiring colleagues dubbed him "Little Lenin." While still a student, he fell in love with and married Mirjana Markovic, daughter of a distinguished partisan and party family, and together they climbed her connections up through party ranks. Educated in the law, he filled high posts at Tehnogas and Beobank, but he was not really a lawyer, technician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ethnic Cleanser | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Define reading room. That seems obvious enough, you say. A reading room is nothing more than a room set aside for reading in. Ha, I laugh. Things are never so simple. Sure a reading room can be such a place, but it could just as easily be Lenin's tomb. How do I know this? They kicked me out--they kicked me out of a book-lined room because I sat down to read...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: Endpaper: Frozen Out of Widener | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

Define reading room. That seems obvious enough, you say. A reading room is nothing more than a room set aside for reading in. Ha, I laugh. Things are never so simple. Sure a reading room can be such a place, but it could just as easily be Lenin's tomb. How do I know this? They kicked me out--they kicked me out of a book-lined room because I sat down to read...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: FROZEN OUT OF WIDENER | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...1930s listening to "Dutch" Reagan the sportscaster on radio station WHO, Des Moines. More than 50 years later, I watched President Reagan with his newfound friend Mikhail Gorbachev, stroll through Red Square talking and laughing with the Moscow citizens lining up to see the embalmed body of Lenin, the communist godfather. It was mind boggling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME & The Presidency | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

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