STARS ON STARS.(The Talk of the Town)(parties)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 22-MAY-06

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Jimmy Wales, the creator of Wikipedia, was honored by Time last week at a gala dinner for him and ninety-nine other of the world's "most influential" people. The Time 100, as they were called, had been divided into categories that brought to mind a game of Trivial--or, in some cases, Serious--Pursuit: "Artists & Entertainers," "Builders & Titans," "Leaders & Revolutionaries." Wales, according to Time, "is celebrated as a champion of Internet-enabled egalitarianism. He describes himself not as anti-elitist...

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