The vandals and loudmouths will have access to more community lawyers.

FORBES: Dave Shrugged

Those who watch would-be terrorists say that radicalisation often begins with a chat with a charismatic agitator, although the sort of loudmouths who give interviews to newspapers are much less dangerous than the covert kind.

ECONOMIST: Terrorism

Indeed, except for a few tv loudmouths and self-help salesmen, there's nobody on the list whose day job is to interpret real events. (We dropped a category for public speakers this year--that's why you don't see Bill Clinton--because it's such a static roster.) No matter: Click here to enjoy the names and faces as useful data points of a personality-obsessed era.

FORBES: Sidelines