May 31, 2004
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Time 100
On the magazine’s list of the 100 most powerful and influential people of 2004 are 23 women. The photo is of Samantha Power who won the Pulitzer Prize for her book A Problem of Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. If you want you can read an interview with her here. These are the remaining 22:
1. Wu Yi – Vice Premier and Health Minister of China
2. Condoleezza Rice – National Security Advisor
3. Luisa Diogo – Prime Minister Mozambique
4. Hillary Clinton
5. Carly Fiorina – CEO Hewlett-Packard
6. Meg Whitman – CEO eBay
7. Belinda Stronach – CEO Magna International – running for Parliament in Canada
8. Abigail Johnson – CEO Fidelity Management & Research
9. Nicole Kidman
10. Norah Jones
11. J.K. Rowling – author
12. Aishwarya Rai – Bollywood star
13. Katie Couric
14. Julie Gerberding – Director CDC
15. Sandra Day O’Connor
17. Louise Arbour – Canadian judge – chief prosecutor of war crimes before International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia
18. Jill Tarter – Director of Research at SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence)
19. Shirin Ebadi – Nobel Peace Prize 2003 – judge Iran
20. Oprah Winfrey
21. Paula Radcliffe – British marathon runner – world best
22. Queen Rania – Jordan
23. Aung San Suu Kyi – moral leader Burma
I’ve heard of half of these women. Doesn’t it make you wonder if they figure influential women are 25% of the population in general? And why don’t we ever see these women being interviewed on their opinions of world affairs instead of the endless list of retired military men? Why aren’t they all household names? Hmmmm…………
Deep Thought: You might think that the favorite plant of the porcupine is the cactus, but it’s thinking like that that has almost ruined this country.
Today I am grateful for: National Public Radio
Comments (6)
I don’t get what Bollywood is. I hear about it a lot and I know it has to do withe the film industry in India but I don’t get the name.
Hope you are havng a great day!
Um.. there are a few women in the world who could replace a few women on that list, I think. Katie Couric? Really!
Interesting list. Funny that women make up 50% of the population….yet only 23% of this list.
Hey, where do you get the “deep thoughts” from? Do you make them up or are they excerpts from somewhere else? They are always so off the wall and funny and never remotely related to your posts. Just wondering, I really enjoy them.
The Deep Thoughts are from Jack Handey, Saturday Night Live. I try to explain that from time to time. In my sidebar is a link to Random Quotes from Jack Handey if you want to check it out.
Thanks for the list; it was food for thought.
I like your site especially Deep Thoughts and Today I Am Grateful For…