But we ran the list of the powerful inside anyway, pruning it of Suharto, of course, and other Indonesians whose future looked precarious in those tense days. Needless to say, we did all this just before deadline. Another year, another ranking. This time news from Yugoslavia threatened to change things at the last minute. Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji.
Reformers can enhance their clout in the face of setbacks, if their commitment is strong.
Guiding these discussions was Assistant Managing Editor Zoher F. Abdoolcarim, who was in charge of the Power issue for the second year in a row. So the list is both reflective and immediate. While those immediate considerations were being debated, CNN was anxiously waiting for our final ranking. Last year, as Suharto teetered, we pushed their production schedules to the absolute limit. Not exactly, but again, the timing was close.