I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.
First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.
| Adele, Musician (1988) |
| Henry Cavill, Actor (1983) |
| Geoffrey Fisher, Clergyman (1887) |
| Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman (1909) |
| Vincent Kartheiser, Actor (1979) |
| Soren Kierkegaard, Philosopher (1813) |
| James Branch Cabell, Novelist (1958) |
| Ludwig Erhard, Politician (1977) |
| Murray Kempton, Journalist (1997) |
| Henri Laurens, Sculptor (1954) |
| Arthur Laurents, Playwright (2011) |

