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(Reuters) - From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movement,
"The Protester" was named Time magazine's 2011 Person of the Year on
Wednesday.
Time defines the Person of the Year as someone who, for better or for worse, influences the events of the year.
"Is there a global tipping point for frustration? Everywhere, it
seems, people said they'd had enough," Time Editor Rick Stengel said in a
statement.
"They dissented; they demanded; they did not despair, even when the
answers came back in a cloud of tear gas or a hail of bullets. They
literally embodied the idea that individual action can bring collective,
colossal change," he said.
On almost every continent, 2011 has seen an almost unprecedented rise in both peaceful and sometimes violent unrest and dissent.
Protesters in a lengthening list of countries including Israel,
India, Chile, China, Britain, Spain and now the United States all
increasingly link their actions explicitly to the popular revolutions
that have shaken up the Middle East.
Admiral William McRaven, head of U.S. Special Operations Command and
overall commander of the secret U.S. mission into Pakistan in May that
killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, came in at second place on the
Time list.
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, whose 81 day secret detention by
authorities earlier this year sparked an international outcry, came in
at No. 3, followed by U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee
Chairman Paul Ryan.
Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, who married Prince William in April, rounded out the Time short list.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
(Reuters) - From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movement,
"The Protester" was named Time magazine's 2011 Person of the Year on
Wednesday.
Time defines the Person of the Year as someone who, for better or for worse, influences the events of the year.
"Is there a global tipping point for frustration? Everywhere, it
seems, people said they'd had enough," Time Editor Rick Stengel said in a
statement.
"They dissented; they demanded; they did not despair, even when the
answers came back in a cloud of tear gas or a hail of bullets. They
literally embodied the idea that individual action can bring collective,
colossal change," he said.
On almost every continent, 2011 has seen an almost unprecedented rise in both peaceful and sometimes violent unrest and dissent.
Protesters in a lengthening list of countries including Israel,
India, Chile, China, Britain, Spain and now the United States all
increasingly link their actions explicitly to the popular revolutions
that have shaken up the Middle East.
Admiral William McRaven, head of U.S. Special Operations Command and
overall commander of the secret U.S. mission into Pakistan in May that
killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, came in at second place on the
Time list.
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, whose 81 day secret detention by
authorities earlier this year sparked an international outcry, came in
at No. 3, followed by U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee
Chairman Paul Ryan.
Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, who married Prince William in April, rounded out the Time short list.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Doina Chiacu)