http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/dec/08/time-person-of-the-year/
"Time's Person of the Year short list has big names, bigger issues"
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Here are the top five choices from the magazine's reader poll results, which were determined after nearly 5 million votes cast.
- Modi finished first with 16.2 percent of the vote.
- The protesters in Ferguson, Mo., finished second with 9.2 percent.
- Hong Kong protest leader Joshua Wong was third with 7 percent.
- Malala Yousafzai, the youngest-ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, was fourth with 4.9 percent.
- All the doctors and nurses treating the Ebola outbreak were fifth with 4.5 percent of the vote.
- Russian president Vladimir Putin finished just out of the Top 5 with 4.3 percent of the vote.
- "Orange is the New Black" actress Laverne Cox was seventh with 3.4 percent.
- Indonesian president Joko Widodo,
- Pope Francis and
- Nigeria's kidnapped Chibok Girls
- President Barack Obama,
- Beyonce
- Actress Jennifer Lawrence
- Singer Taylor Swift,
- Comedian John Oliver,
- Apple CEO Tim Cook and
- Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
None of the other people, from 14 to 17 who drew votes, got more than 2 percent of them.
http://time.com/3623703/time-person-of-the-year-2014-shortlist/
*Image photoshopped - prevention of KMA stalking*
"TIME Unveils Finalists for 2014 Person of the Year
- The Ferguson protesters, who took to the streets in August following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer, and again in November when a grand jury declined to indict the officer in the killing.
- The Ebola caregivers, who are still fighting the biggest Ebola outbreak in history, that has so far taken the lives of nearly 7,000 people in West Africa.
- Vladimir Putin, the Russian president who has remained in the headlines throughout this year, from his country’s stewardship of the Winter Olympics in Sochi to its annexation of Crimea, and its role in the ongoing civil strife in eastern Ukraine.
- Taylor Swift, one of the world’s top-selling pop artists, who this year shook up the music industry by pulling her music from streaming service Spotify, which she believes should compensate artists more.
- Jack Ma, an English teacher turned founder and CEO of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant which debuted a $25 billion IPO.
- Tim Cook, who introduced Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, Apple Watch, and Apple Pay this year, and whose decision to come out made him the first openly gay Fortune 500 CEO.
- Masoud Barzani, the acting president of the Iraqi Kurdish Region since 2005, who has deftly threaded the region’s push for independence with the ongoing fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria.
- Roger Goodell, the National Football League commissioner whose leadership has been under great scrutiny this year as the league dealt with public incidents of domestic abuse by players such as Ray Rice, among other controversies."
http://time.com/3623703/time-person-of-the-year-2014-shortlist/
Malala Yousafzai would be my vote, *with Taylor Swift second

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