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...20th century will be most remembered, like the 17th, for its earthshaking advances in science and technology. In his massive history of the 20th century, Paul Johnson declares: "The scientific genius impinges on humanity, for good or ill, far more than any statesman or warlord." Albert Einstein was more pithy: "Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity...
Nevertheless, Franklin Roosevelt stands out among the century's political leaders. With his first-class temperament, wily manipulations and passion for experimentation, he's the jaunty face of democratic values. Thus we pick him as the foremost statesman and one of three finalists for Person of the Century. That may seem, to non-Americans, parochial. True, but this was, as our magazine's founder Henry Luce dubbed it in 1941, the American Century--politically, militarily, economically and ideologically...
Together these triumphs of science and technology advanced the cause of freedom, in some ways more than any statesman or soldier did. In 1989 workers in Warsaw used faxes to spread the word of Solidarity, and schoolkids in Prague slipped into tourist hotels to watch CNN reports on the upheavals in Berlin. A decade later, dissidents in China set up e-mail chains, and Web-surfing students evaded clueless censors to break the government's monopoly on information. Just as the flow of ideas wrought by Gutenberg led to the rise of individual rights, so too did the unfetterable flow...
Bush's supporters brushed off the report, arguing that his academic track record is hardly a good indication of presidential potential. What we should focus on is not how well Bush did in random assortment of classes some 30 years ago, but how he performs in the role of statesman...
...important, Moscow was cut out of the all-important discussions in Oslo on the Middle East peace process. So while Chechnya has boosted his claims as a tough disciplinarian who can do the job at home, Russians are starting to doubt whether he can cut it as an international statesman." And that's a fact that hasn't escaped Boris Yeltsin, who returned home early from a vacation Wednesday, raising expectations that he's about to make some kind of gesture to show he's in charge. The smart money isn't making any predictions...