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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Named Time 'Person of Year'
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Dec. 15) -- Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2010. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke received the honor last year. The 2008 winner was then President-elect Barack Obama. The 2007 winner was Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Other previous winners have included Bono, President George W. Bush and Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos. ...
Who Will Claim Time's 2010 'Person of the Year'?
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(Nov. 15) -- Debate is already heating up over who will claim the 2010 Time "Person of the Year," the annual distinction recognizing the "person or persons who most affected the news and our lives." Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is currently sitting atop the online user poll, but don't expect to find him on the cover (more on why later). Other top contenders include "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" tag team Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, President Barack Obama, singer Lady Gaga and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. After "You" won in 2006, the possibility of a group ...
Barack Obama Named Time's 'Person of the Year'
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWhat a year it has been for Barack Obama. First, he squeaks by establishment candidate Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic nomination for president, then he starts turning out record crowds across the country, holds a fabulous convention Denver, and ends up trouncing John McCain in the general election. How do you top that off? Well, in an announcement sure to surprise absolutely nobody, Obama has been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year."What does this award actually mean? Well, consider past winners:1998: Bill Clinton/Kenneth Starr2000: George W. Bush2001: Rudy Giuliani2003: The ...
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