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Katrina May Be 'Person of the Year'
By DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press Write
Time magazine's 2005 Person of the Year may not be a person after all. A panel of notables made a strong case on Monday for awarding the distinction this year to Hurricane Katrina.
"Katrina gets you to Iraq. It gets you to petroleum. It gets you to presidential politics," NBC anchor Brian Williams said Monday. "It has laid bare so many cracks and fissures in our system."
Williams was part of a six-member panel invited to make suggestions to the magazine about who or what it should choose as its Person of the Year.
He was joined by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who with Williams traveled to the Gulf Coast to cover Katrina, which hit on Aug. 29. Other members included Time reporter Matthew Cooper, Democratic political consultant Donna Brazile, conservative activist Grover Norquist and Cynthia Cooper, named a Person of the Year by the magazine in 2002 for her role as a WorldCom whistleblower.
Monday's panel also suggested Bono , U2's lead singer and activist; the Iraqi people, or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, as possibilities.
Jim Kelly, Time's managing editor, said the magazine's staff was considering four or five possibilities. The magazine's Person of the Year issue will come out sometime next month.
By DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press Write
Time magazine's 2005 Person of the Year may not be a person after all. A panel of notables made a strong case on Monday for awarding the distinction this year to Hurricane Katrina.
"Katrina gets you to Iraq. It gets you to petroleum. It gets you to presidential politics," NBC anchor Brian Williams said Monday. "It has laid bare so many cracks and fissures in our system."
Williams was part of a six-member panel invited to make suggestions to the magazine about who or what it should choose as its Person of the Year.
He was joined by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who with Williams traveled to the Gulf Coast to cover Katrina, which hit on Aug. 29. Other members included Time reporter Matthew Cooper, Democratic political consultant Donna Brazile, conservative activist Grover Norquist and Cynthia Cooper, named a Person of the Year by the magazine in 2002 for her role as a WorldCom whistleblower.
Monday's panel also suggested Bono , U2's lead singer and activist; the Iraqi people, or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, as possibilities.
Jim Kelly, Time's managing editor, said the magazine's staff was considering four or five possibilities. The magazine's Person of the Year issue will come out sometime next month.