The next issue of Time Magazine does its annual 100 Most Influential People. The first section is "Leaders and Revolutionaries". They are (in order of the listing):
- Edward Kennedy ("Uncle Teddy" has his biography written by Arnold Schwarzenegger);
- Gordon Brown (biography by his "friend", J.K.Rowling);
- Christine Lagarde;
- Hillary Clinton;
- President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (of Indonesia, since you had to ask);
- Nicolas Sarkozy;
- Angela Merkel;
- Wang Qishan;
- Sheriff Thomas Dart of Cook County (who is redefining the terms for house repossession);
- Avigdor Lieberman;
- Joaquí Guzmán;
- Nouri al-Maliki;
- Boris Johnson (biography by ... Conrad Black. Oh dear!);
- Norah al-Faiz ("the first woman minister in Saudi history");
- Elizabeth Warren (who is Overseer of the US TARP program);
- President Paul Kagame of Rwanda;
- Vice-President Xi Jinping;
- General David McKiernan, who is making sure the US and its allies don't lose in Afghanistan;
- Army General Ashfaq Kayani, the Pakistan Chief of Staff;
- Barack Obama (the biography by ... Gordon Brown).
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