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...ADOLF HITLER Hitler was the first malign figure to be selected as POY, and his evil only grew during the next several years. Hitler's ruthless domination of Europe was, said TIME, "the greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today." The 1938 Munich pact confirmed it: he won a hands-off promise from Britain and France, and the stage was set for his pursuit of World...
...GEORGE C. MARSHALL Named POY first as a man of war--in 1943, when he was Chief of Staff of the Army--Marshall was chosen again as a man of peace: the Secretary of State who conceived the Marshall Plan, which promised to underwrite the economic recovery of postwar Europe's democracies. Through his bold scheme, said TIME, "the U.S. people, not quite realizing the full import of their act ... took upon their shoulders the leadership of the world...
...DENG XIAOPING The leader of 1 billion Chinese launched his Great Leap Outward--a staggeringly ambitious attempt to modernize China and make it a world power--in 1978, a move that made him POY. In 1985 TIME named him again, saying his reforms had "changed the daily lives of his nation's citizens to a greater extent than any other world leader." Indeed, wrote TIME, his blend of state ownership and private property, of central planning and competitive markets, of political dictatorship and limited economic and cultural freedom, holds "promise for changing the course of history...
...addition to the Person of the Year online poll, TIME.com offered a contest in which readers could explain their choice of POY in 50 words or less, with the best entry to be published in TIME. While there is no tally for these votes, they generally mirror the online results, but with fewer frivolous entries - apparently, wasting our time is less appealing when you have to waste yours...
...However, Attorney General John Ashcroft, "the man who trashed the Bill of Rights," - "should be POY for actually resurrecting Sen. Joseph McCarthy" - "Ashcroft is leading policies that in the name of security will keep future generations of Americans ignorant of the freedom we once...