Apple CEO Tim Cook, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and six others are on Time magazine’s short list for the Person of the year award. Who are they, who will win?
Tim Cook, the man who runs the world’s largest and most-trusted company, and who recently acknowledged he is gay, may be Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Or, maybe Russian President Vladimir Putin will be. Or, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. The Ferguson protesters. The Ebola caregivers. Chinese Internet CEO Jack Ma. Masoud Barzani, the acting president of the Iraqi Kurdish Region. Or, maybe, Taylor Swift.
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As we’ve all learned, Time’s Person of the Year award isn’t always given to the “best” person, but the most-influential.Â
Putin won the award in 2012. Pope Francis won it last year. 2011’s award was given to “The Protester,” from the Arab Spring to the Tea Party, to the Occupy Movement.
Other winners throughout history have included Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Stalin (1939), Winston Churchill (1940), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941), John F. Kennedy (1961), and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963).
Who will win?Â
Wednesday morning the announcement will come, and The New Civil Rights Movement will make sure to let you know.
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