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[{"sender": "Boris Nikolic <j>", "recipients": ["Jeffrey Epstein (jeevacation@gmail.com) <jeevacation@gmail.com>"], "timestamp": "Monday, January 13 2014 08:14 PM", "subject": "mission acomplished for some", "body": "Philanthropy — Full text articles\n\nRevealed: the world’s most admired people\nStephan Shakespeare — Times\n\nBill Gates is the most admired person in the world, according to a global survey for The Times by YouGov. The man who many\nsee as oe for the democratisation of computing and who is the biggest activist philanthropist across the globe is\n\nIn his home, America, he ranks only 5th, behind Pope Francis, President Obama, Billy Graham, and George W. Bush. Mr\nObama and the Pope have a strong lead in Western nations but Mr Gates is highly regarded in every country polled, from\nBrazil to Egypt, Nigeria to Indonesia, Britain to Russia to Australia. ee as respondents there said: “He\ngot into a good university, but gave up studying to start his business. He has become a rich man despite dropping out of school\n... He has a successful career and a caring heart — he is ordinary, but great.”\n\nThe Queen came highest in Britain and second in Australia, but didn’t make the Indian top ten. Nevertheless she is the most\nadmired woman in the world, in 17th place, closely followed by Angelina Jolie and Oprah Winfrey.\n\nHalf of the top ten admired in Russia are women, including the pop singer Alla Pugacheva and the Queen. That is the highest\nfigure in all countries surveyed — women are strikingly under-represented.\n\nSome light is shed on this by comparing our results with a recent Gallup poll in America, which asked for most admired man\nand woman in separate questions. In that poll, Bill Clinton scored 2 per cent and Hillary Clinton 15. YouGov asked a single\nquestion, not differentiating men and women, and the two Clintons rated about the same. The two polls also show the power of\nthe media to direct public attention: Gallup polled early in December, and Pope Francis was “most admired” by only 4 per cent.\nBy the time of the YouGov survey, Time magazine had made him its Person of the Year, and he shot up to 21 per cent.\n\nBusiness leaders did well in general. YouGov puts Sir Richard Branson 4th in Britain, the Hong Kong billionaire Sir Li Kashing\nwas sixth in China; the Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote was third in his home country; Silvio Santos, a media billionaire,\nwas 4th in Brazil; Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the tycoon recently freed by Vladimir Putin, was 8th in Russia; while Warren Buffett,\nwho is admired in India, Pakistan and China, was 8th in the world.\n\nActors and musicians do less well. With the exception of the Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, Ms Jolie and Stephen\nFry, who confirms his enormous Twitter following by making 7th in Britain, just below Desmond Tutu. Johnny Depp and Brad\nPitt get close to the top in a couple of countries and Justin Bieber did well in Indonesia, but the rock star and anti-poverty\ncampaigner Bono is notable by his absence.\n\nSportsmen were more highly regarded, with the Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar 5th in the world — but only because he is so\nadored in the world’s second-most populous country. The footballer Lionel Messi had broader support, reaching 15th in the\nworld. In Britain, David Beckham squeaked into 10th place.\n\nIn only two countries of the 13 surveyed did no local politician make it into the top ten — Australia and the UK. The omission\nwas most striking in Britain where Nigel Farage, the top politician, was in 16th place. David Cameron received the “most\nadmired” accolade from only two people in a thousand. In Germany, Angela Merkel scored 65 times higher at 13 per cent,\nsecond only to the Pope. Vladimir Putin topped the Russian poll with a whopping 24 per cent, Nicolas Sarkozy was third in\nFrance and Goodluck Jonathan 8th in Nigeria. Edward Snowden, responsible for leaking classified documents that revealed\nthe extent of surveillance by America’s National Security Agency, was 10th most admired in the country that granted him\nasylum, Russia. He also showed strongly in Germany. We also asked who was the most famous person in the world. The"}]