person of the year

Obama of the Year

Dec 17, 2008
Joining the ranks of you, Kenneth Starr and the computer, Barack Obama has, not surprisingly, achieved the most prestigious superlative in history's magazine of choice: Time's "Person of the Year."

Putin Is Time’s ‘Person of the Year’

Dec 20, 2007
Time magazine has decided to celebrate "order before freedom," as the newsweekly put it, with its "person of the year" selection, because "if Russia succeeds as a nation-state in the family of nations, it will owe much of that success to one man, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin."
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Congratulations, You Won

Dec 18, 2006
Time announced its "person of the year" on Saturday, dissing everyone from Ahmadinejad to Pelosi in order to declare "you" the winner. Don't you feel special? Specifically, the magazine highlighted websites including YouTube, Wikipedia and MySpace for "bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter."