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...Year is not an accolade, however, or our version of the Nobel Peace Prize. It is a judgment about news, and specifically about who, for better or worse, had the most impact on the course of history in a given year. The list includes people with indisputable credentials for goodness, like Mahatma Gandhi and the American G.I., but also some of the century's worst despots, like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin...
...issued what some are calling the Ted Commandments, a list of 10 voluntary initiatives that would make the world a better place. (It includes "I promise to have no more than two children" -- a belated pledge, since he has five.) He has told intimates he hopes to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. "Ted is the great 'I am,' and anybody he comes in contact with is a means to an end -- his end," says Wussler, who remains on good terms with his former boss. Others are convinced Turner's latest ambition is the purest expression so far of the hero...
...just a discount store anymore. Sam Walton's brainchild surpassed Sears in 1991 as the largest U.S. retailer . . . Nirvana found its place in alternative-rock heaven. The hit single Smells Like Teen Spirit has become an anthem for apathetic kids . . . Aung San Suu Kyi couldn't pick up her Nobel Peace Prize this year because the regime in Burma (also known as Myanmar) holds her under house arrest, but she provides a beacon of democratic hope to people caught in one of the world's worst remaining tyrannies . . . Luke Perry and Jason Priestly are the lucky residents of Beverly Hills...
Despite more than two years of house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi casts a bigger shadow than ever over the repressive rulers of Burma. The official presentation of her Nobel Peace Prize to her son last week triggered demonstrations and renewed calls abroad for the generals to hand over power to the parliament that was elected last year...
Optimists, in which the state traditionally abounds, brush off the gloomy predictions. They point to unique underlying strengths such as the nine- campus, Nobel-rich University of California, which some educators think may be the best public university in the world; the unsung incorruptibility of most of the state's civil servants; the magic copper light that descends on mile-wide beaches at sunset; even the savage majesty of streaming headlights on the freeways on a clear night. Finally, they single out what Mark Davis, an aide to Governor Pete Wilson, extols as "a new pioneer spirit" among the waves...