Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Dec 2005 16:15 UTC, submitted by BCM
"For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are Time's Persons of the Year." Here is an article dedicated to Bill and Melinda Gates, while an interview with all three can be found here.
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Member since:1997-10-01
This comes up every year, but it's important to remember that the "man of the year" isn't only for people who do good. Hitler won it for being bad. It's for people who make a big impact on the world, good or bad. I think we can all agree that Bill Gates deserves to be man of the year, when you think of it like that.
Edited 2005-12-19 15:31
Member since:And Gates got it for be pure evil with a phony-charity sugar-coating.
Time blew it, again. They could have picked Cindy Sheehan-- the woman who scares the c**p out of Bush, or Steve Jobs, a guy who really IS making the world a better place. Or Bono alone; another man with great talent.
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2005-07-06
No Sir, what you call the Times awards, in fact The man of the Year, then The Person of the Year is an "award" for the role they play, or have played, in the world. It isn't even reserved for a human being, and can be an association, a thing, etc. Do you think Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Staline (1939 and 1942), Deng Xiaoping (1978 and 1985), Ayatollah Khomeini (1979), the computer (1982), the Earth (1988) have received that "award" for their goodwill, their motivations ? Or Dubya, who got it two times, in 2000 and 2004 ?