The 25 Smartest People of the Decade
Who are the greatest minds of the past 10 years? The Daily Beast convened a panel of moguls, academics—and more than 40 credentialed geniuses—to settle the matter once and for all.
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#25 Roger Ailes
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#24, David Chase
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#23, Ayman al-Zawahiri
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#22, Michael Bloomberg
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#21, Karl Rove
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#20, Will Wright
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#19, Lawrence Lessig
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#18, General David Petraeus
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#17, Nouriel Roubini
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#16, Malcolm Gladwell
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#15, Manmohan Singh
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#14, Arianna Huffington
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#13, Kwame Anthony Appiah
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#12, Jeff Bezos
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#11, Jimmy Wales
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#10, Elizabeth Warren
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#9, Jacqueline Novogratz
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#8, David Plouffe
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#7, Elizabeth Blackburn
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#6, Harold Varmus
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#5, Muhammad Yunus
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#4, Hillary Clinton
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#3, Steven Chu
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#2, Steve Jobs
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