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Among Time Magazine's '100 Most Influential People'

(AP)  They range from the Dalai Lama to the inventors of the Blackberry, from terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela.

Time Magazine's eclectic list of the world's 100 most influential people includes rappers, designers, world leaders and a tsunami survivor. The movers-and-shakers hail from 31 different countries and have done the most to shape our world, according to the magazine's editors.

The issue hits newsstands Monday.

"It really shows the breadth of human endeavor," said Time's managing editor Jim Kelly. "Influence can be defined in a myriad of ways."

The honorees are profiled by people who have themselves been on their share of magazine lists, and the pairings are often provocative.

Democratic strategist James Carville discusses Karl Rove, architect of George Bush's re-election campaign; director Oliver Stone praises Academy Award-winner Jamie Foxx; celebrity CEO Donald Trump weighs in on celebrity CEO Martha Stewart.

Henry Kissinger, writing about U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, says she is handling her job "with panache and conviction."

Sean Penn calls Clint Eastwood "cinema's Mount Rushmore."

Other honorees include North Korean leader Kim Jong Il; U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; actress Hilary Swank; fashion designer Miuccia Prada; rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z; News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch; basketball prodigy LeBron James; Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko; "The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown; and United Nations adviser Jeffrey Sachs.

The magazine first compiled the list in 1999 when it selected the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, culminating with Albert Einstein as Person of the Century.

The magazine made a list last year and will make it an annual project, editors said.