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Vladimir Putin, the Russian President/Tsar/Dear Leader was named TIME magazine’s “man of the year” of 2007 this week, in a recognition of Russia’s re-rise to global powerdom under his rule.
TIME magazine always says that being named person of the year is not an honor, but almost everyone always ignores this, and assumes that it is. I congratulate TIME for finally, after years of cop-out choices, to actually name a controversial figure as POTY, and return the feature to its original tradition of acknowledging important world leaders, rather than trite American celebrities. List of Past Persons of the Year
