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| by kenn on 4/10/2005 08:47:00 PM |
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Jigga Top 100
Source: Herald Sun
 FILMMAKER Michael Moore, hip-hop artist Jay-Z, and US President George W Bush are among the world's most influential people on Time magazine's second annual "Time 100" list.
Bush has influence that is as "unexpected as it is ubiquitous," writes Time magazine.
"Bush may not get everything he wants, but he'll get a lot of it."
"Last year's list was more about political power," the magazine's managing editor Jim Kelly said.
"This year's is more about moral influence." Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, who survived dioxin poisoning, and conservative German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who presided over Pope John Paul II's funeral on Friday and lifestyle trendsetter Martha Stewart made the list along with hip-hop artist Jay-Z.
The rapper, who recently said he was retiring from recording, was named in December by Universal Music Group to head its Def Jam label.
Martha Stewart, who spent five months in a federal prison for lying to investigators about a personal stock trade, has agreed to do a version of the reality TV show, The Apprentice, starring Donald Trump.
"Her influence on American culture is still enormous," wrote Trump, who will co-produce Stewart's spinoff.
Comedian and The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, who satirizes politicians and the media on television and in the best-selling America (The Book), also landed on the list.
Stewart has "a voice for democratic ideals and the noble place of citizenship, helped along by the sound of laughter," former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw wrote.
Filmmaker Michael Moore, whose 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 takes on the Bush administration, appears in the "Artists and Entertainers" category.
The success of the iPod portable digital music player helped put Apple Computer Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs on the list of "Builders and Titans."
New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who has probed for frauds in the US financial industry, is among the "Heroes and Icons," while Harvard University President Larry Summers is one of the "Scientists and Thinkers."
Summers stirred controversy when he said that inherent differences between the sexes may explain why so few women work in academic sciences
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