Rappers, Actors, Presidents On Time's Most Influential List

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Rappers, Actors, Presidents On Time's Most Influential List
Bush, Foxx, Brown Make List

UPDATED: 6:35 am EDT April 11, 2005

NEW YORK -- President George W. Bush, Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx, and domestic arts mogul Martha Stewart have all made Time Magazine's new list of the world's 100 most influential people.

The list, which hits newsstands Monday, ranges from the Dalai Lama to the inventors of the Blackberry, and from terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela.

Hailing from 31 different countries, and including rappers, designers, world leaders and a tsunami survivor, the listed newsmakers have shaped the world in some way, according to the magazine's editors.

"It really shows the breadth of human endeavor," said Time's managing editor Jim Kelly. "Influence can be defined in a myriad of ways."

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[Voltaire99]

1. Liposuction for the brain.

I've only glanced at Time a few times in the past decade--mainly at the dentist's, where it's Time, People or fashion rags--and always just long enough to take the pulse of the house hacks, those mythographers and lickspittles who crawl and scrape and curry favor much like their predecessors did in Luce's era.

Is the tongue-tied Roger Rosenblatt still washing dishes there?