Thursday, Mar. 19, 2009

Robert Mugabe

AGE: 85
OCCUPATION: President of Zimbabwe
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0

PRO: After winning a suspicious electoral runoff, Mugabe must guide an increasingly on-the-brink country that's facing a cholera epidemic, a moribund economy and a shortage of public services.

CON: Mugabe's astonishing history of corruption doesn't bode well for change Zimbabweans can believe in.