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; 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 trans-Atlantic flight. At the end of that year, the editors decided to make him man of the year to remedy the oversight.
Some selections have been notoriously unpopular with Time readers, such as Adolf Hitler in 1938. Time's 2004 Person of the Year was U.S. President George W. Bush.
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