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...Henry Luce, the founder of this magazine, is to me a towering figure of this century because he understood these two strands: the value of a citizenry that shared a common ground of information, but also the individual empowerment that comes from new ways of disseminating ideas. That is one reason we wrestled (trying to ignore our own conflict of interest) with putting him on this list. Though he didn't get on in the end, his spirit permeates this issue and the entire TIME 100 series, which is guided by another of his principles: telling the history...
...Make money, be proud of it; make more money, be prouder of it." --Henry R. Luce...
...does include Sony's Akio Morita, and it arguably could include a handful of other leaders from abroad, notably Japan's Soichiro Honda and Eiji Toyoda (Toyota), Italy's Giovanni Agnelli (Fiat) and Australia's Rupert Murdoch (now a U.S. citizen). But if the 20th century was, as Luce also said, the American Century, it was largely because our system, espousing freedom of markets and freedom of the individual, rewarding talent instead of class and pedigree, bred a group of leaders whose single-minded fixation on getting rich--and creating great products in the process--led to unheard-of levels...
...past few years the law of diminishing returns has certainly applied to NASA. But not to worry. To rejuvenate a failing mission, the agency is granting larks to aging Senators in hope of securing future budget approvals. The Glenn trip is much ado about politics. ROBERT LUCE North Muskegon, Mich...
...founder, Henry Luce, urged us through his life and in his will to practice journalism "in the public interest as well as in the interest of [our] shareholders." In recent weeks we have printed two special reports, one about a week in the life of a hospital and another on how to educate your child, that were specially crafted to help fulfill Luce's pledge. Neither has anything in common with the "Gotcha!" journalism so prevalent today, but both will endure as important investigative reports...