Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness: the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come.  As Albert Einstein once said, “Life for the American is always becoming, never being.”
White Star Liner Titanic
The saga of the White Star Liner Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, carrying more than 1,500 passangers to their death, has been celebrated in print and on film, in poetry and song.
Views of the railings where doomed passengers and crew members stood evoked images of moonless night 74 years ago when the great ship slipped beneath the waves.
They were released at a Washington press conference conducted by Marine Geologist Robert Ballard, 44, who led the teams from the Woods Hole Ocanographic Institution that found the Titanic last Setember and revisited it this July.
Punishment
The only arguable plea for capital punishment is the right of society to retribution in this world with the prospect of life in another, but since what used to seem to the great majority of civilized humanity the assurance of another life beyond the grave has come to seem to more and more people less certain, a feeling for the value of human life has become deeper and more widespread.
Person of the Year
Sept. 11 delivered both a shock and a surprise—the attack, and our response to it—and we can argue forever over which mattered more. There has been so much talk of the goodness that erupted that day that we forget how unprepared we were for it. We did not expect much from a generation that had spent its middle age examining all the ways it failed to measure up to the one that had come before—all fat, no muscle, less a beacon to the world than a bully, drunk on blessings taken for granted.
It was tempting to say that Sept. 11 changed all that, just as it is tempting to say that every hero needs a villain, and goodness needs evil as its grinding stone. But try looking a widow in the eye and talking about all the good that has come of this. It may not be a coincidence, but neither it is a partnership: good does not need evil, we owe no debt to demons, and the attack did not make us better. It was an occasion to discover what we already were. “ Maybe the purpose of all this,” New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said at a funeral for a friend, “ is to find out if America today is as strong as when we fought for our independence or when we fought for ourselves as a Union to end slavery or as strong as our fathers and grandfathers who fought to rid the world of Nazism”. The terrorists, he argues, were counting on our cowardice. They’ve learned a lot about us since then. And so have we.
For leading that lesson, for having more faith in us than we had in ourselves, for being brave when required and rude where appropriate and tender without being trite, for not sleeping and not quitting and not shrinking from the pain all around him, Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of the World, is TIME’s 2001 Person of the Year. 
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Newt Gingrich
Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich* belongs in the category of the exceptional. All year--- ruthlessly, brilliantly, obnoxiously*---he worked at hammering together inevitabilities— a balanced U.S government budget, for one. Not long ago, the idea of eliminating the deficit was a marginal; we’ll get-to-it-someday priority. Today, because of Newt Gingrich, the question is not whether a balanced budget plan will come to pass, but when.
A sometimes unlovely blur of headlong energy and pinwheeling*, roughhouse creativity, the Speaker has transformed both the House of Representatives and the speakership into an unprecedented instrument of personal and political power. It has been an amazing performance and a display of discipline that is either impressive or scary, depending on one’s sympathies.
Millionaire
The millionaire class, a small but growing one into which any of us may be flung tomorrow by the accidents of commerce, is perhaps the most neglected in the community.
Whilst the poorest have their Rag Fair, a duly organized and busy market in Houndsditch, where you can buy a boot for a penny, you may search the world in vain for the market where the £50 boot, the special dear line of hats at forty guineas, the cloth of gold bicycling suit, and the Cleopatra claret, four pearls to the bottle, can be purchased wholesale.

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