jueves, febrero 15, 2007

TIME's Man of the Year

Adivinen quien fue la persona más veces elegida (3 veces): Franklin D. Roosvelt

Curiosidades: está Hitler, JFK, Juan Pablo II, Gandhi y dos veces Stalin. ¿Saben quien no está, pero que fue el máximo elegido en 2001? Sí, sí, Osama Bin Laden. Pusieron a Giuliani porque no daba.... vió.........., no daba.

Elegidos dos veces: Stalin, Marshall, Churchill, Harry Truman, Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Gorbachov, Reagan, Deng Xiaoping, Clinton y Bush (hijo).

The Man of the Year Winners

1927Charles Augustus Lindbergh
1928Walter P. Chrysler
1929Owen D. Young
1930Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
1931Pierre Laval
1932Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1933Hugh Samuel Johnson
1934Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1935Haile Selassie
1936Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson
1937Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-Shek
1938Adolf Hitler
1939Joseph Stalin
1940Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1941Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1942Joseph Stalin
1943George Catlett Marshall
1944Dwight David Eisenhower
1945Harry Truman
1946James F. Byrnes
1947George Catlett Marshall
1948Harry Truman
1949Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1950American Fighting-Man
1951Mohammed Mossadegh
1952Elizabeth II
1953Konrad Adenauer
1954John Foster Dulles
1955Harlow Herbert Curtice
1956Hungarian Freedom Fighter
1957Nikita Krushchev
1958Charles De Gaulle
1959Dwight David Eisenhower
1960U.S. Scientists
1961John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1962Pope John XXIII
1963Martin Luther King Jr.
1964Lyndon B. Johnson
1965General William Childs Westmoreland
1966Twenty-Five and Under
1967Lyndon B. Johnson
1968Astronauts Anders, Borman and Lovell
1969The Middle Americans
1970Willy Brandt
1971Richard Milhous Nixon
1972Nixon and Kissinger
1973John J. Sirica
1974King Faisal
1975American Women
1976Jimmy Carter
1977Anwar Sadat
1978Teng Hsiao-P'ing
1979Ayatullah Khomeini
1980Ronald Reagan
1981Lech Walesa
1982The Computer
1983Ronald Regan & Yuri Andropov
1984Peter Ueberroth
1985Deng Xiaoping
1986Corazon Aquino
1987Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1988Endangered Earth
1989Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1990The Two George Bushes
1991Ted Turner
1992Bill Clinton
1993The Peacemakers
1994Pope John Paul II
1995Newt Gingrich
1996Dr. David Ho
1997Andy Grove
1998Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr
1999Jeff Bezos
2000George W. Bush
2001Rudolph Giuliani
2002The Whistleblowers
2003The American Soldier
2004George W. Bush
2005Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, & Bono
2006You


Les paso un breve resumen de quién fue cada uno:

2000s
2005: Bono, Melinda and Bill Gates
For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow

2004: George W. Bush
For reshaping the rules of politics to fit his ten-gallon style

2003: The American Soldier
The face of America, its might and good will, in a region unused to democracy

2002: The Whistleblowers
Women who blew the whistle on Worldcom, Enron and the FBI

2001: Rudolph Giuliani
New York mayor leads with his heart after 9/11 attacks

2000: George W. Bush
41's son elected President in the most controversial fashion

1990s
1999: Jeff Bezos
Amazon.com founder changed face of business

1998: Bill Clinton/Kenneth Starr
President, independent counselor waged public battle

1997: Andy Grove
Intel CEO helps led digital revolution

1996: David Ho
AIDS researcher pioneered treatment for deadly disease

1995: Newt Gingrich
Speaker of the House spearheaded G.O.P.'s sweeping congressional victory

1994: John Paul II
Pope traveled the globe to express his conservative views

1993: The Peacemakers
Mandela, De Klerk, Rabin and Arafat found ways to break out from prisons of war

1992: Bill Clinton
Wonder boy from Hope, Ark., broke 12 years of G.O.P. control of White House

1991: Ted Turner
His Cable News Network revolutionized news coverage

1990: George Bush
President acted decisively abroad; waffles at home

1980s
1989: Mikhail Gorbachev
"Man of the Decade" became patron of change

1988: The Endangered Earth
Jumpstarted a new era of environmental activism

1987: Mikhail Gorbachev
Shattered Soviet lethargy

1986: Corazon Aquino
Led peaceful revolution that ended Marcos years in Philippines

1985: Deng Xiaoping
Reshaped China by embracing free-market reforms

1984: Peter Ueberroth
Married Big Business to the Olympics with profitable L.A. Games

1983: Ronald Reagan/Yuri Andropov
Deadlock failed to de-escalate cold war missile race

1982: The Computer
TIME anticipated a revolution

1981: Lech Walesa
Solidarity leader struck first blows against Kremlin's empire

1980: Ronald Reagan
Americas leaned right, and The Great Communicator was born

1970s
1979: Ayatullah Khomeini
Rarely has so improbable a leader shaken the world

1978: Teng Hsiao-p'ing
Brought stability to China, long racked by extremism

1977: Anwar Sadat
Dared greatly with surprise peace gambit and trip to Israel

1976: Jimmy Carter
Played outsider status into successful run for White House

1975: U.S. Women
Refusing to play second-fiddle, women asserted their equality

1974: King Faisal
Saudi led OPEC price hikes that roiled world markets

1973: Judge Sirica
Broke Watergate open by pursuing truth in the White House

1972: Nixon/Kissinger
Master diplomats talked detente with U.S.S.R., visited Mao

1971: Richard Nixon
Opened China's door, devalued dollar, quelled antiwar protest

1970: Willy Brandt
West German tried to bring about enlarged, united Western Europe

1960s
1969: Middle Class
Their silent but newly felt presence began to shape course of nation

1968: U.S. Astronauts
Led the way as race to moon enters final lap

1967: Lyndon Johnson
Vietnam turned him from architect of social reform into embattled leader

1966: Young People
They shook up society, trusted no one over 30

1965: Gen. William Westmoreland
Oversaw struggling U.S. grunts in Vietnam

1964: Lyndon Johnson
President began to forge his Great Society

1963: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Led civil rights cause by arming troops with dreams and oratory

1962: Pope John XXIII
Opened the windows of his age-old Church, sparks revolution

1961: John F. Kennedy
Won battle for White House against Richard Nixon in squeaker

1960: U.S. Scientists
Scored inpressive gains while struggling to keep pace with Soviets

1950s
1959: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rallied NATO allies by facing up to high-flying Khrushchev

1958: Charles De Gaulle
Crisis in Algeria brought WWII hero back to power in France

1957: Nikita Khrushchev
Scored an immense propaganda victory over U.S. with launch of Sputnik

1956: Hungarian Patriot
Launched first revolt behind Soviet's "Iron Curtain"

1955: Harlow H. Curtice
Helped steer U.S. into new age of wide-open affluence

1954: John Foster Dulles
Secretary of State brought "brinksmanship" to cold war lexicon

1953: Konrad Adenauer
Forced war-shattered West Germany to face the future

1952: Queen Elizabeth II
Her coronation ushered in a new era for Britain

1951: Mohammed Mossadegh
Rallied short-lived anti-Western government in Iran

1950: G.I. Joe
Marched into history as cold war heats up in Korea

1940s
1949: Winston Churchill
Named Man of the Half-Century

1948: Harry S. Truman
"Gave 'em hell" with stunning victory over Tom Dewey

1947: George Marshall
Secretary of State oversaw visionary Marshall Plan

1946: James F. Byrnes
First Secretary of State to face the cold war

1945: Harry Truman
Answered critics and proved his mettle

1944: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rolled back Germans after leading Allies into France

1943: Gen. George Marshall
Oversaw vast war effort on two fronts

1942: Joseph Stalin
The U.S.'s new ally in war against Hitler

1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Faced two potent foes after preparing reluctant U.S. for battle

1940: Winston Churchill
Britain stood firm against Hitler, who conquered five nations

1930s
1939: Joseph Stalin
Paved the way for Hitler's war by signing secret pact with old enemy

1938: Adolf Hitler
His figure strode over Europe with all the swagger of a conqueror

1937: Gen. and Mme. Chang Kai-Shek
Japan's invasion of China imperiled them as "Man and Woman of the Year"

1936: Wallis Simpson
Shook the British crown with her new husband, once King Edward VIII

1935: Haile Selassie
Ethiopia's king fought an incursion by Italy's strongman, Mussolini

1934: Franklin D. Roosevelt
The President battles the Depression

1933: Hugh Johnson
National Recovery Administrator works tirelessly to revive America's economy

1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Takes over as President for nation facing economic calamity

1931: Pierre Laval
His energy and vision restored France to the center of world events

1930: Mohandas Gandhi
The pacifist mobilizes India to pursue its independence

1920s
1929: Owen Young
U.S. businessman chaired second post-war Reparations Conference

1928: Walter Chrysler
Rocked Detroit by buying Dodge and unveiling a new line, Plymouth

1927: Charles Lindbergh
His solo New York-Paris flight made him a legend

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