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...year of Barack Obama, who is the indisputable Person of the Year, this is one competition where Michael Phelps can do no better than silver. But if the question were confined to sports, it would be Phelps by acclamation. His eight-for-eight performance in Beijing made him a household name, even as it placed him in the top tier of all-time Olympians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Year | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...real Barack Obama deserves note, but it was the virtual i-Obama who so dramatically transformed the future of politics. With millions of online donors and millions of virtual phone bankers downloading call lists of voters in targeted states, and with the YouTube videos, watched by millions, that defined critical campaign moments, i-Obama is my choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Year | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

President-elect BARACK OBAMA, after nominating Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State, dismissing a journalist's question about political differences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

Like eggnog or reruns of it's a wonderful life, college football fans' grumbling over the Bowl Championship Series (BCS)--the muddled method by which the sport anoints its national champion--has become a December rite. The chorus of critics includes Barack Obama, who opined in his first postelection interview that "any sensible person" would favor a playoff system to determine who's No. 1. And that was before the Oklahoma Sooners sped past Texas in this year's race to the BCS title game despite losing to the Longhorns 45-35 in October--a result purists say should logically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: The Bowl Championship Series | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

Before the attacks on Mumbai, the U.S. had been eager to see a reduction of Indo-Pakistani tensions in the hope--openly voiced by President-elect Barack Obama--that such changes would free Pakistan to conduct more effective counterinsurgency operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in its northwestern tribal areas. Washington fears that Indo-Pakistani rivalry will make its own task in Afghanistan more difficult. Obama therefore called a rapprochement between India and Pakistan a key objective of U.S. foreign policy. But he will find few takers in India for continuing a peace process with a government that does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Horror | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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