Time magazine a sorti hier sa liste annuelle des 100 personnalités les plus influentes au monde, et oh surprise -en tout cas aux
États-Unis- pour la première fois le locataire de la Maison Blanche n'y figure pas. Expulsé comme un vulgaire acteur sur le déclin, déchéance d’un cow-boy en fin de carrière. "Nous pensons que Bush, à ce moment précis de son mandat, n'a plus autant d'influence que ce que sa charge de président des
États-Unis lui confère automatiquement", s'est contenté de lâcher un journaliste du prestigieux hebdomadaire. Lequel, il faut le préciser aussi, n'établit pas un classement parmi les cent "élus" ni justifie toujours ses choix. Ce qui guide sa démarche serait le désir de distinguer
"des hommes et femmes dont le pouvoir, le talent ou l'exemple moral sont en train de transformer notre
monde". Dont acte, et une question. Alors que la chancelière allemande Angela Merkel est la seule et unique leader politique européen admis à ce club très fermé, qui, à votre avis, a plus de chance de figurer l'année prochaine parmi les 100 personnalités les plus influentes au monde: Nicolas Sarkozy ou Ségolène Royal? Bon vote.
La liste complète:
Artists and Entertainers
Tina Fey - television writer, producer and actress
Youssou N'Dour - musician
Anna Netrebko - soprano opera singer
Justin Timberlake - pop singer
Sacha Baron Cohen - comic actor and writer
Leonardo DiCaprio - actor
Nora Roberts - romance writer
Rick Rubin - music producer
Martin Scorsese - film director
Cate Blanchett - actress
Alber Elbaz - fashion designer
America Ferrera - actress
Simon Fuller - music manager and television presenter
Brian Grazer - producer
John Mayer - musician
David Mitchell - writer
Kate Moss - model
Rosie O'Donnell - actress
Brad Pitt - actor
Shonda Rhimes - screenwriter
Kara Walker - artist
Brian Williams - news anchor
Leaders and Revolutionaries
Queen Elizabeth II
Tzipi Livni - foreign minister and vice president Israel
Peter Akinola - Nigerian archbishop
Liu Qi - Beijing Communist Party secretary
Condoleezza Rice - US Secretary of State
Omar Hassan al-Bashir - leader of Sudan
John Roberts - US chief justice
Sonia Gandhi - leader of Indian Congress party
Raul Castro - defence minister of Cuba
Arnold Schwarzenegger - California governor
David Petraeus - US general
Hillary Clinton - 2008 US presidential candidate
Hu Jintao - President of China
Nancy Pelosi - US speaker of the house
King Abdullah - King of Saudi Arabia
Barack Obama - 2008 US presidential candidate
Michael Bloomburg - businessman
Ayutollah Ali Khamenei - supreme leader of Iran
Pope Benedict XVI - leader of the Catholic Church
Angela Merkel - German chancellor
Osama bin Laden - Saudi terrorist
Heroes and Pioneers
Oprah Winfrey - television presenter
Elizabeth Edwards - attorney and wife of US 2008 presidential candidate
Warren Buffett - businessman
Drew Gilpin Faust - Harvard president
Wesley Autrey - subway hero
Tony Dungy - American football coach
Roger Federer - tennis player
Tyra Banks - model and television presenter
Youk Chhang - director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia
George Clooney - actor
Michael J Fox - actor
Timothy Gittins - army officer
Judith Mackay - doctor
Chien-Ming Wang - baseball player
Maher Arar - software engineer (wrongly accused of terrorism)
Thierry Henry - soccer player
Zeng Jinyan - blogger
Garry Kasparov - chess player and politician
Amr Khaled - accountant and website owner
Scientists and Thinkers
Al Gore - former US vice president and climate change champion
Neil deGrasse Tyson - astrophysicist and author
J Craig Venter - geneticist
Lisa Randall - theoretical physicist
John Mather - astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner
Elizabeth Blackburn - biologist
Alan Stern - director of Nasa Science Mission Directorate
Tullis Onstott - geophysicist
Svante Pääbo - evolutionary geneticist
Steven Nissen - heart specialist
Richard Dawkins - evolutionary biologist
Chris Anderson - physicist
Paul Allen - co-founder of Microsoft
Monty Jones - developmental plant breeder
Klaus Schwab - founder of World Economic Forum in Davos
Nora Volkow - director of US National Institute of Drug Abuse
Frans de Waal - psychologist, primatologist and ethologist
Douglas Melton - stem cell researcher
Kari Stefansson - neurologist
Builders and Titans
Richard Branson - entrepreneur
Cyril Ramaphosa - union leader
Erik Lie - business analyst
Pony Ma - internet guru
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen - founders of YouTube
Katsuaki Watanabe - environmental car designer
Bernard Arnault - chairman of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton
Clara Furse - CEO of London Stock Exchange
Ken Lewis - CEO of Bank of America
Lakshmi Mittal - CEO of Arcelor Mittal
Shigeru Miyam - video game designer
Rhonda Byrne - author of self-help books
Steven Cohen - businessman
Steve Jobs - director of Apple
Philip Rosedale - creator of Second Life
Ho Ching - CEO of Temasek
Indra Nooyi - CEO of PepsiCo
Stephen Schwarzman - CEO Blackstone Group
Michael Moritz - internet entrepreneur