Oprah Drops 15 Spots On Forbes Power List
Media titan OPRAH WINFREY has been named the 36th most powerful woman in the world in a new Forbes magazine list.
Winfrey was 21st on the list in 2007.
Other celebrities to make it onto the top 100 include U.S. broadcasters Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer, at numbers 63 and 65 respectively.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel tops the new list, which is published on Friday (29Aug08).
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Define Power
it's impossible to say who the most powerful woman in the world is because power is such a vaguely defined elusive concept. Power means nothing unless you can turn it into influence and Oprah is clearly the most influential woman in the world, indeed Time magazine ranks her as the most influential PERSON in the world. She holds the world record for most appearances on Time magazine's list of global influence:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733756_1...
But Oprah not only has influence, but she has stratospheric wealth to go with it. Very few people achieve both.
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