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14 Nov 2005 06:43:59 PM |
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Mother Nature tops Time person of the year list |
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2005-11-14T234107Z_01_MCC483356_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-TIME.xml&archived=False
Mother Nature tops Time person of the year list
Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:41 PM ET
By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time magazine's annual "Person of the Year" for
2005 may not be a person at all.
Mother Nature topped the unofficial list of nominees at a panel
discussion held on Monday by the weekly magazine to debate who will
grace the cover of the issue that hits newsstands on December 19.
Time does not prepare or publish a formal list of nominees; instead,
its editors make the selection privately after reporting by the staff.
The choice is supposed to remain a secret until December 18, when it
will be disclosed on the magazine's Web site, but it does become a
parlor game in America to ponder who fits the criteria as "the person
or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for
ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for
worse."
Mother Nature -- encompassing natural disasters from the Asian tsunami
to Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan earthquake -- evokes issues
ranging from presidential politics to race to oil to infrastructure
and leadership, said NBC news anchor Brian Williams, one of the
panelists gathered to debate the annual selection.
"It has laid bare so many cracks and fissures in our system," he said.
Other suggestions included so-called first responders to emergencies;
Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, commander of military relief operations after
Katrina; Jordanian-born Abu Musab al Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in
Iraq; U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Microsoft Corp.
founder Bill Gates for the money he has donated to fight malaria; Pope
Benedict; and J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books.
The person of the year is not always a person. Time selected "The
American Soldier" in 2003, the "Endangered Earth" in 1988 and "The 25
and Under Generation" in 1966.
The tradition grew out of an editorial embarrassment in 1927 when Time
failed to put pilot Charles Lindbergh on its cover after his historic
solo transatlantic flight. At the end of that year, the editors
decided to make him man of the year to remedy the oversight, Time
said.
Some selections have been notoriously unpopular with Time readers,
such as Adolf Hitler in 1938, Joseph Stalin in 1939 and 1942 and
Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979.
Time's 2004 Person of the Year was U.S. President George W. Bush.
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17 Nov 2005 01:21:58 PM |
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On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:43:59 -0500, edonline
<edonlineSPAMOUT!@comcast.net> wrote:
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2005-11-14T234107Z_01_MCC483356_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-TIME.xml&archived=False
Mother Nature tops Time person of the year list
Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:41 PM ET
By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time magazine's annual "Person of the Year" for
2005 may not be a person at all.
Mother Nature topped the unofficial list of nominees at a panel
discussion held on Monday by the weekly magazine to debate who will
grace the cover of the issue that hits newsstands on December 19.
Time does not prepare or publish a formal list of nominees; instead,
its editors make the selection privately after reporting by the staff.
The choice is supposed to remain a secret until December 18, when it
will be disclosed on the magazine's Web site, but it does become a
parlor game in America to ponder who fits the criteria as "the person
or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for
ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for
worse."
Mother Nature -- encompassing natural disasters from the Asian tsunami
to Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan earthquake -- evokes issues
ranging from presidential politics to race to oil to infrastructure
and leadership, said NBC news anchor Brian Williams, one of the
panelists gathered to debate the annual selection.
"It has laid bare so many cracks and fissures in our system," he said.
Other suggestions included so-called first responders to emergencies;
Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, commander of military relief operations after
Katrina; Jordanian-born Abu Musab al Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in
Iraq; U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Microsoft Corp.
founder Bill Gates for the money he has donated to fight malaria; Pope
Benedict; and J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books.
The person of the year is not always a person. Time selected "The
American Soldier" in 2003, the "Endangered Earth" in 1988 and "The 25
and Under Generation" in 1966.
The tradition grew out of an editorial embarrassment in 1927 when Time
failed to put pilot Charles Lindbergh on its cover after his historic
solo transatlantic flight. At the end of that year, the editors
decided to make him man of the year to remedy the oversight, Time
said.
Some selections have been notoriously unpopular with Time readers,
such as Adolf Hitler in 1938, Joseph Stalin in 1939 and 1942 and
Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979.
Time's 2004 Person of the Year was U.S. President George W. Bush.
This really pisses me off maximumly. I remember seeing a show
years ago that had something to do with Earth day, etc. They had this
skit which was obviously designed for kids which showed mother nature
as an injured, nice, grandmotherly type. Any kid watching it would
feel guilty about mother nature being "sick", despite the fact that
they have as much to do with industry as they have to do with control
of the educational system - OR LESS. This is a lot of crap.
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