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To: Neocon who wrote (322)	10/18/1999 2:26:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Well, why don't you consider the nomination of Hayek controversial, for example? Or of Margaret Thatcher, etc.? I repeat, my feeling is that once you get into personal political evaluations of one nominee or another you lose sight of your main goal: to make a list of the MOST INFLUENTIAL people of the last 100 years, with only the most obvious bad guys (e.g., Hitler) excluded. We are talking about people whose lives, and/or works, and/or inventions, and/or discoveries, have had the widest and most demonstrable public impact. Henry Ford was a vicious and delusional anti-Semite, for example, but should one exclude the Father of the Automobile Industry from the list for that reason?