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...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 --Unknown Tiananmen Square rebel --Lech Walesa, Polish union organizer...
...endeavor. Madame Tussaud's, the most popular tourist attraction in London, has created a special TIME 100 exhibit featuring the likenesses of figures such as Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Beatles, Pablo Picasso, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa and Oprah Winfrey, all of whom have been named in our TIME 100 issues: Leaders and Revolutionaries (April 13, 1998), Artists and Entertainers (June 8, 1998) and Builders and Titans (Dec. 7, 1998). The museum will incorporate wax figures from upcoming issues on Scientists and Thinkers (March) and Heroes and Inspirations (June...
...poor-man's Lech Walesa. He's the essence of what a Democrat should be," said John J. Curran, a longterm Watertown resident who proclaimed himself as a "blue-collar Democrat...
...Without Walesa, the occupation strike in the Lenin Shipyard might never have taken off. Without him, Solidarity might never have been born. Without him, it might not have survived martial law and come back triumphantly to negotiate the transition from communism to democracy. And without the Polish icebreaking, Eastern Europe might still be frozen in a Soviet sphere of influence, and the world would be a very different place. With all Walesa's personal faults, his legacy is a huge gain in freedom, not just for the Poles. His services were, as an old Polish slogan...
...then there's Lech Walesa. Those who wonder why there aren't more women on the list should consider the fate of Hanna Suchocka, the first female Prime Minister of Poland--or of any postcommunist state. It was Walesa who derailed her political career, stating, "I can't see a woman above me"--then adding, to the appreciative laughter of the press corps, "Sometimes, maybe...