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Hi I am 12 and I read TIME once in a while. I think J.K. Rowling should be person of the year she made me love reading. She takes you to another world, she is inspiration.
Katherine
Gloucester, Mass.
I'm gonna have to go with the ever-faithful J.K. Rowling. She has brought this generation through yet another trying year by writing her books. These kids have something to relate to, not only personally, but with world affairs also. There are very relevant topics touched in these stories that keep kids wanting to read, while educating them at the same time.
Chanel
Seattle, Wash.
Ibrahim al-Jafari, the first prime minister of the new Republic of Iraq. The leader of many who risk their lives daily to create a government for a free Iraq.
Michael Giandrea
Gaithersburg, Md.
Without question in my mind, the thousand-plus men and women of our armed forces that died this year. Their families are nominated also. To consider naming a hurricane is both disgraceful and foolish. TIME needs to do a reality check.
Tim Creedon
Hollis, N.M.
I know he hasn't a snowball's chance of winning, but my nominee for Person of the Year is filmmaker George Lucas. His Star Wars saga is not merely one of the greatest epics in the history of the cinema, but sets forth in parabolic terms some great truths we in America would do well to heed. Originally conceived during the Watergate era, the story's parallels to the current Bush Administration -- unintentional though they may well have been -- are so obvious that one would have to be blind to not recognize them. Interesting that a science fiction fantasy should shed such illumination upon events in the real world.
John Allen Small
Tishomingo, Okla.
Bono Vox (a.k.a. Paul Hewson). No doubt about it, he has reshaped the focus on humanity. Love and peace pour out from his very existence. Jesus sent Bono to lighten the dark paths of our societies. Can't you feel the powerful force of love and grace through him and his band of brotherly love?
Teresa Mannke
Eastland, Texas
In case any of us had forgotten who's really in charge, 2005 reminded us over and over that the "person" of the year has to be Mother Nature!
Cynthia Green
Morganville, N.J.
Karl Rove.
Jack
Los Angeles, Calif.
Tony Blair, the British prime minister. If only becuase it is long overdue that a non-American be selected as POY. And also for being the first British Labour PM to secure three consecutive election victories and remaining resolute in the face of unrelenting criticism.
John Zic
Sydney, Australia
The suicide bomber.
John
Maryland
Bono -- He is passionate about his appeal to end poverty. He is the perfect example of how all people should live their lives. He is willing to give credit where credit is due, even if it is sometimes politically incorrect (i.e President Bush, Jesse Helms). Bono is a great example for young and old alike.
Kaye Haskell
Oak Park, Calif.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I heard on the radio this morning that Mother Nature was in the running for person of the year. Nature is not a person. What's next: a Congressional Medal of Honor for the Energizer Bunny for keeping National Guard flashlights going? What about all of those brave, hard-working women and men who helped out in time of need? Isn't it better to honor them than to honor a non-tangible concept?
Brenda Christians
High River, Alberta, Canada
Chinese President Hu Jintao is now playing the pivotal role both in domestic and world affairs! He will not only change China's but the whole world's future!
Song Xiaowen
Zhongli City, Taiwan
Patrick Fitzgerald -- it's an obvious pick. He, not Congress, has been the biggest check on executive authority this year.
Matthew Struhar
Oxford, Ohio
The long-suffering citizens of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region are the People of the Year. Their hideous travails underscored the sorry link of poverty with race in our nation. The failure of President Bush's loggy administration to move swiftly to help them was the turning point for the effective demise of the G.O.P. stranglehold on our politics.
Carol
East Windsor, N.J.
Rafik Hariri. It is very rare that a man from the Middle East is recognized as man of the year, and a man who even in his death bed, God rest his soul, has incited such passion not just nationally but internationally. When one man dies and over 70% of the world shuts down, mourns, that person has more respect, influence and popularity especially for someone who less than 15% of the world knew his name before his death.
Zerriny
Princeton, N.J.
Dr. Paul Farmer - not only is he successfully and single-handedly treating and curing infectious disease in some of the poorest nations in the world, (Haiti, Cuba, and Russia, to name a few...,) but he is also making fabulously influential strides here. Case in point - look into the influence behind Bush's decision to step up monetary support for the AIDS campaign in Africa.
Melissa
Philadelphia, Pa.
Lt. General Russell Honore, the hero of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
R. Paul Adams
Baton Rouge, La.
He's a greedy bum, but who better personifies our 21st century American gluttony (and has gotten more attention for it) than the man, the mouth, Terrell Owens?
Ben
Columbia, S.C.
Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush. As elder statesmen, working together to help humanity after natural disasters in the past year, they are mentoring the nation on how we could and should behave.
Debby Newman
St. Paul, Minn.
The fallen American soldier.
Frank
Washington, D.C.
Patrick Fitzgerald.
Kathleen
Stamford, Conn.