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10 of TIME's 100 'most influential'

What does it mean to be influential today? TIME Magazine may not have a scientific answer, but they identified scores of people in their 2012 鈥�100 Most Influential People in the World鈥� list, released this week. Here is a sampling of 10 people from around the world who made the cut.

Fatou Bensouda, chief prosecutor of the ICC (starting June 16)

  • By Whitney Eulich Staff Writer

Stepping up as the second Chief Prosecutor in the history of the International Criminal Court, Gambian lawyer Fatou Bensouda will become the public face of a tribunal that tries the world鈥檚 most serious crimes. Ms. Bensouda will serve a 9-year term, and many hope the court鈥檚 new leadership can temper some of its strongest critics, most of whom are in Africa. 

鈥淗er mission is to prosecute those responsible for the most serious crimes 鈥� genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity 鈥� when domestic courts and prosecutors fail,鈥� said Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch, who . 鈥淎mong those accused by the court are Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif and Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony.鈥�

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