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12:00 PM ET, December 17, 2006

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Lev Grossman / Time:
Person of the Year: You  —  Yes, you.  You control the Information Age.  Welcome to your world.  —  The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men."
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Larry McShane / Associated Press:
Time Magazine's Person of the Year: You  —  NEW YORK (AP) - Congratulations!  You are the Time magazine "Person of the Year."  —  The annual honor for 2006 went to each and every one of us, as Time cited the shift from institutions to individuals - citizens of the new digital democracy, as the magazine put it.
William Beutler / Blog P.I.:   The Time Machine
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Person Of The Year, Suck-Up Version (Updated And Bumped)
Discussion: TalkLeft and JustOneMinute
Michael Scherer / Salon:   Salon Person of the Year: S.R. Sidarth
Danny / Beltway Blogroll:   Time's Person Of The Year: You (And Me)
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Stubborn or Stalwart, Bush Is Loath to Budge  —  In the late 19th century, the queen of England sent the president of the United States a desk made from the timbers of a decommissioned ship, the HMS Resolute.  Almost every occupant of the White House since then has made the Resolute his desk.
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The Heretik:
Give Us Some Holiday Cheer  —  Gather around the Christmas punchbowl with Fred Barnes, everyone.  All the previous gloom on Iraq has been banished by holiday cheer.  Make mine a double, Fred.  Doubling down, adding as many as fifty thousand troops will be the order of the day.  Or the next day.
Mark Franchetti / Times of London:
Russia defies West and goes ahead with nuclear fuel sale to Iran  —  RUSSIA is to begin supplying Iran with nuclear fuel early next year despite mounting concern in the West that this could accelerate Tehran's plans to build a nuclear bomb.  —  Sergei Shmatko, head of Atomstroyexport …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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Pamela Geller Oshry / Atlas Shrugs:   RUSSIA NUKING UP ISLAMIC IRAN
Heather Stewart / Observer:
US accused of using aid to sway votes in UN security council  —  The US uses its aid budget to bribe those countries which have a vote in the United Nations security council, giving them 59 per cent more cash in years when they have a seat, according to research by economists.
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Episcopalians Are Reaching Point of Revolt  —  For about 30 years, the Episcopal Church has been one big unhappy family.  Under one roof there were female bishops and male bishops who would not ordain women.  There were parishes that celebrated gay weddings and parishes that denounced them …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Lynne Duke / Washington Post:
The President In the Room  —  Hillary Clinton's Biggest Issue?  A Certain Someone in Her Background.  —  NEW YORK He stood far behind, hiding in plain sight, though his glowing white hair and ruddy complexion rendered him as inconspicuous as a face on Mount Rushmore.  —  The spotlight was not Bill Clinton's.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
The Capital Awaits a Masterstroke on Iraq  —  SOMEONE in Vice President Dick Cheney's office has gotten everybody on this city's holiday party circuit talking, simply by floating an unlikely Iraq proposal that is worthy of a certain mid-19th century British naturalist with a fascination for natural selection.
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Prairie Weather
Bill Dwyre / Los Angeles Times:
Get a Grip, Guys  —  Even after Stern finally caved on the new NBA basketball, when Nader chimed in on safety issues, the tone of their comments quickly went from playful to playground  —  It was a match made in heaven.  They are now the Sunshine Boys of sport.
Telegraph:
Jews far more likely to be victims of faith hatred than Muslims  —  Jewish people are four times more likely to be attacked because of their religion than Muslims, according to figures compiled by the police.  —  One in 400 Jews compared to one in 1,700 Muslims are likely to be victims of "faith hate" attacks every year.
Discussion: Tim Blair and Hot Air
Michael Moss / New York Times:
Legal System in Iraq Staggers Beneath the Weight of War  —  In 2004, American troops detained Laith al-Ani, shown in a family photo.  He sent his family a letter, above, from his detention camp, but they say they do not know why he is still held.  More Photos >
Works and Days:
Things are coming to a head  —  Surging Troops?  —  If we add another 30,000 or so troops to Iraq, in a final effort to win the war, then we must change (widen) the rules of engagement.  Only that way can America ensure that it simply does not create more targets for the insurgents …
Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times:
New manual at odds with key Iraq tactics  —  The counterinsurgency doctrine warns about practices still in use, such as big bases that may signal occupation.  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. military's new counterinsurgency doctrine takes issue with some key strategies that American commanders …
Discussion: SOTUblog, Defense Tech and Needlenose
Dan / Riehl World View:
If Only The Democrats Meant It  —  Just an observation: One of the factors Dems cite for withdrawing troops from Iraq is the fear that the Iraqis will come to depend on America for police and military functions if we don't.  I, and I imagine many others probably agree.
Discussion: jules crittenden
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Leader Orders Early Elections for Palestinians  —  The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, on Saturday ordered early presidential and parliamentary elections in a direct challenge to the authority of Hamas, the Islamic movement that won elections less than a year ago.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Abbas calls for elections, pushing Palis towards civil war
Discussion: MSNBC
Washington Post:
A Mideast Counteroffensive  —  IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presided over a convention of Holocaust deniers in Tehran this week, rousing them with yet another speech predicting the extinction of Israel.  In Lebanon, the pro-Western government of Fouad Siniora hung by a thread …
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Abu Kais / Michael J. Totten:
Kerry: Syria has "needs"
Discussion: The Democratic Daily
Telegraph:
Ministers compared to Nazis over Islam stigma  —  A senior Muslim invoked Hitler's 1930s Nazi regime while attacking the Government over its treatment of British Muslims.  —  Muhammed Abdul Bari accused ministers of stigmatising Britain's Islamic community and fuelling xenophobia.
 
 
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