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Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini
V.I. Lenin
Nelson Mandela
Pope John Paul II
Ronald Reagan
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
Margaret Thatcher
Unknown Rebel
Margaret Sanger
Lech Walesa
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Our Century ... and the Next One
Freedom triumphed, science amazed, capitalism saved itself and American culture reigned. Now what?

The Shape of the Future
A new century awaits, and with it new conflicts. Environmentalism will press against globalization, and the world will have to confront the power of tribalism and the challenge of fundamentalism

The Debate
TIME invited six individuals of diverse backgrounds and accomplishments to a February 1, 1998 symposium to debate who should be among the 20th century's most influential people

THE DREAMER
Martin Luther King
TIME's 1963 Man of the Year led a mass struggle for racial equality that doomed segregation and changed America forever
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From the Dec. 8, 1998 issue of TIME magazine.

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