WASHINGTON, April 11: Vatican power-broker Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Iraq terrorist leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, and a little-known Indonesian school teacher joined US President George Bush and 96 others on Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, the weekly announced on Sunday.
The grab-bag of politicians, activists, artists and sports figures mixes heroes with the notorious, and mutual rivals like Chinese leader Hu Jintao and his Taiwanese adversary Chen Shuibian, in the edition of the magazine set to hit newsstands on Monday.
While heavy on American political and cultural figures, Times extended its recognition to Iranian human rights champion Shirin Ebadi, Swiss Islamic theoretician Tariq Ramadan, and Seoul National University scientists Woo Suk Hwang and Dr Shin Yong Moon, who in February cloned human embryos for the first time.—AFP
