Word: vanguardism
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...read about the TIME 100, please visit TIME.com As you can see from encounters like the one between Chinese actress Ziyi Zhang and Vanguard founder John Bogle (the names in red are influentials), folks enjoyed meeting one another...
Some critics within CBS detect a subtler failing, a vague sense that their division no longer represents the vanguard of broadcast journalism. "We don't have a Nightline, we don't have a morning news show that goes to Moscow [as NBC's Today did last year]," says a CBS correspondent. Few changes gall staffers as much as the fate of the CBS Morning News, the perennial also-ran among the three network breakfast programs but the one that presented the most substantive news. To boost ratings, Sauter approved the hiring of Phyllis George, the former Miss America whose flubs...
...addition to recognizing their fellow students, ABHW also presented the Vanguard Award to BET broadcaster Ed Gordon, an Emmy Award-winning journalist who has interviewed many high-profile politicians and entertainers...
...sewage-treatment plants, and then voted (through a second, identical questionnaire) on which 10 to build. Usually, such decisions are reserved for Communist Party officials conferring behind closed doors. But cadres in Zeguo and its parent city, Wenling, have pioneered a more participatory approach, putting them at the vanguard of China's experiments in political reform. President Hu Jintao has vowed never to adopt "Western-style" democracy. "But events like Zeguo's referendum, though isolated, may someday form the basis for China's gradual political liberalization," says He Baogang, an expert on Chinese grassroots democracy at the University of Tasmania...
...youngest member of the clerical vanguard is the Rev. Allan Boesak, 38, who achieved prominence in 1982, when he was elected president of the Geneva-based World Alliance of Reformed Churches, which has 50 million members. The following year Boesak helped establish the United Democratic Front to protest the government's plans for a new constitution. An emotional orator, Boesak has called on Christians to pray for the downfall of a government that he says is run by "the spiritual children of Hitler." Boesak, a married man, was harassed by allegations, reportedly planted by security police, that he was having...