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To Our Readers: Dec. 5, 1994

NOW THAT THIS WEEK'S ISSUE ON leadership is in your hands, special-projects editor Barrett Seaman can get a good night's sleep. Ever since he started work on the package last summer, Seaman says, he has been waking up regularly at 4 a.m. "I worried about whether we had chosen the right people," he recalls. "I worried about how much we would miss the people we had to leave out."

Hundreds of nominations poured in from TIME's domestic bureaus. The first cut produced 137 names. The second, and most excruciating, yielded 50. "It was like selecting the person who is Most Likely...

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