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Instant Icons:I mM M f 1 JLl* ELIAN GONZALEZ!k| IV T ^*m| ILV 71 IV 7 drowned while fleeing Cuba,^^!!!^^ ! Bi^^B VI ! B^^ the 5-year-old found floating

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Ll^^^k JM 1^41 ^"^4*^ focus of an international cus-^1f/l| !!"""^fe tody debate. U.S. agents took! IWllMHI IWW him from the home of Floridami i r i r relatives in 2000 and returned

They became famous overnight not for him to his father in Cuba.glamOUr Or nCiieS Or Simply being famOUS bUt inmilitaryschool.madearare

for the explosive public Issues they represented. fSSSI^SCaught up in forces larger than themselves, anniversary celebration of wsi i - r ,. return. "Here I feel good, andthey gave a human face to confounding thanks to m^k^m,ysituations like Iraq, Katrina and Cuba. Whereare they now, after the spotlight has moved on?REPORTED BY ERIC DODDS AND DAN FASTENBERG

said, "today I'm almost a man."

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MIAMI, 2000

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ICHAEL BROWN CINDY SHEEHANN: President George W. THEN: After her son Casey wash's appraisal of his perfor- killed in action in Iraq, herce in 2005 as head of the 26-day vigil outside Presidentergency response to Hur- Bush's ranch in Texas in 2005cane Katrina"Brownie, made her the face of the anti-u're doing a heckuva job" war movement,came a catchphrase for fed- NOW: She ran unsuccessfullyal incompetence. in 2008 for Nancy Pelosi's seatW: Brown hosts a talk-radio in Congress and has kept upow on Denver's KOA and her appearances at antiwarwriting a book on crisis protests. In his book Decisionnagement. His take on the Points, Bush says he feelsst-Katrina mess: "The chain "sympathy" for her, which shecommand began to break dismisses as condescending,

wn... And I had to go around Sheehan never set out to beat to get to the White House a celebrity, she told Time. "Ittry to get things done." wasn't a conscious choice. Butafter George Bush wouldn't

meet with me [at CampCasey], I think that's about thetime I became a public figure."

ILE, ALA., 2005

CRAWFORD, TEXAS, 2005

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PAUL BREMER JESSICA LYNCHN: As head of the Coali- THEN: As an Army privaten Provisional Authority, he ambushed and held captive byersaw Iraq in 2003-04. Iraqis, she was a victim of theW: He shouldered much of propaganda machine at the

e blame for Iraq's chaos but Pentagon, which exaggeratedinkshistorywillbekinder: her heroics.he most important thing NOW: After many operations todid was encourage them repair leg injuries she sufferedwrite a modern, progres- in the crash of her humvee, sheve constitution." Today he is still endures pain and under-O of World TEAM. Sports, goes physical therapy but isich stages athletic events "thankful to be alive." Lynch,r the disabled, including a 27, has a 3-year-old daughtercent 64-day, 4,000-mile cross- and has nearly completed herountry bike ride aboutwhich studies at West Virginia Uni-e'swritingabook.'Ttwasreal- versity to become a teacher,y a huge undertaking," he said. "I'm one of those people thatwhere life takes me, I will follow. You never know what opportunities may come to you."

AGHDAD, 2004

IRAQ,2003

Portraits by Peter Hapak for TIME

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