Time Person Of The Year

Time Person Of The Year Information

Mahalo's Guide to Vladimir Putin
TIME: "A Tsar Is Born - Person of the Year 2007" (December 19, 2007)
- "...he praises his predecessors Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev for destroying a system that had lost the people's support. "I'm not sure I could have had the guts to do that myself," he tells us. Putin is, above all, a pragmatist, and has cobbled together a system—not unlike China's—that embraces the free market (albeit with a heavy dose of corruption) but relies on a strong state hand to keep order."
Video: TIME's Interview with Vladimir Putin (December 19, 2007)

Mahalo's Guide to Al Gore
TIME: Al Gore - Runner Up, Person of the Year 2007 (December 19, 2007)
- "...Al is at work repositioning his country from the inside out as a leader in clean energy; and along the way restoring faith in the U.S. as a moral powerhouse that can lead a great, global spiritual revival as the temperature rises."

Mahalo's Guide to J.K. Rowling
TIME: J.K. Rowling - Person of the Year 2007 - TIME (December 19, 2007)
- "Now translated into 65 languages, the books have joined a canon that stretches from Cinderella to Star Wars, giving people a way to discuss culture and commerce, politics and values...."

Google News: Time Person Of The Year
TIME: "Choosing Order Before Freedom" (December 19, 2007)
- "...Putin has put his country back on the map. And he intends to redraw it himself. Though he will step down as Russia's President in March, he will continue to lead his country as its Prime Minister and attempt to transform it into a new kind of nation, beholden to neither East nor West."
Reuters: Putin Is Time Magazine's Person of the Year (December 19, 2007)
Associated Press: "Putin Named Time "Person of the Year"" (December 19, 2007)