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By Peter Coy
Editor
There are about 8.2 billion people in the world, each with their own hopes for the coming year. So as I did for my turn-of-the-year letters last year and the year before, I asked a variety of people, from many walks of life and parts of the world, about what they were looking forward to. Here’s what 15 of them had to say (quotes are excerpted from emails unless otherwise noted):
Dr. Ananda Bandyopadhyay, deputy director of polio eradication at the Gates Foundation:
My hope for 2025 is that all children, especially those living in the hardest-to-succeed maximum in communities, can grow up to vaccine-preventable diseases like polio and measles. For it is in the absence of disease that everything else is legal to thrive and where all lives have equal value.
Walter Lawrence, from Woodlawn, at Bronx, a security guard (interview):
I hope my wife improves. I hope to be retired. My mom is 92 years old. I hope she lives at 100.
Colson Whitehead, a Pulitzer Prize winner:
I have no hope for 2025. Humanity is disappointing. We have killed the earth. The depraved triumph and suffering without guilt. I think those trends will continue.
Keyu Jin, economy professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science:
By 2025, it would be a blessing if the primary governments adopt economic pragmatism in the ideological or egocentric political agendas that swell the egos of politicians but harm other people they serve. May 2025 marks adoption through China of a decisive technique and that does so to rejuvenate its economy. Finally, let’s hope that the United States and China find a non -unusual floor to give priority to the next generation of their internal challenges, to repair each.
Jhovanny Irazabal, a 26-year-old Venezuelan refugee in New York (interview, translated from Spanish):
I to buy a car. I hope my country escapes the dictatorship. This is the year of change.
Douglas Hofstadter, PC scientist at Indiana University in Bloomington and author:
I hope to locate a safe hope in this area, the most disturbing year I still faced. In the year beyond the year, and especially in recent months, I have lost a giant component of my religion previously strong in humanity, but I hope, in a way, to locate at least a little in 2025. How, surely I am not, However, hope is eternal.
Tímea Füzi, 25, a Hungarian studying film in New York:
In 2025, I hope people embrace being messy, spontaneous and free. I hope they care less about looks and what others think of them. More important, I hope people appreciate themselves as they are.
Dmitry Dolgin, the chief Russia economist of ING, a bank based in Amsterdam:
In Russia, my country of origin, the State will have to start acting less at a corporate maximization that maximizes the price for some determined shareholders and more as an establishment designed to serve the interests of a broader community. And for me, I just hope to spend the house one day.
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