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Time Magazine\u2019<\/em>s Person of the Year for 2011 is, once again, not a person but the personification of a category:\u00a0 The Protester.\u00a0\u00a0 By which is meant the protesters in Egypt, the Middle East, Europe, Russia, and America.\u00a0 That is to say, Occupy Wall Street.\u00a0 Strangely, the Tea Party protesters do not count.<\/p>\n

See TIME\u2019s Person of the Year 2011 \u2013 TIME<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A fitting choice, or not?<\/p>\n

Who would YOU nominate for person of the year?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"