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To: carranza2 who wrote (59027)	12/16/2009 12:49:03 PM
From: SG	Respond to of 218046

I think Hitler was 1938 or so. I would have picked Bernie Madoff. SG

To: carranza2 who wrote (59027)	12/16/2009 7:46:05 PM
From: TobagoJack	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218046

just in in-tray player 1: becoming 'person of the year' is an ill omen for sure. it almost always is akin to a figurative death sentence for the person involved, and sometimes even a literal one. as an example, Jeff Bezos made the cover in 1999 - the year the internet portion of the tech stock bubble topped out. GW Bush made the cover as his popularity rating had just begun to slide, ending at the worst such rating since Nixon, concurrent with a stock market crash. Hitler made the cover in 1938, General Chiang Kai Chek in 1937. it turned out to be an ill omen, career-wise. Kennedy made the cover in the year before he was assassinated, as did Martin Luther King - a literal death sentence in both cases. Lyndon B. Johnson made the cover in 1964 - he was about to lead the country into the Vietnam catastrophe. Nixon and Kissinger made it in 1972. it was Yury Andropows turn in 1983 - he died shortly thereafter. Gorbachov became 'man of the decade' half a year before being forced to step down. Obama's turn to appear on the cover was last year (it must be said however that Time almost always chooses the new US president to be the 'person of the year') most worrisome however, in 2006 Time decided to write on its person-of-the-year cover 'YOU' - meaning the reader holding the magazine in his hands. does this mean we will be hit by an asteroid? :) player 2: "You" got hit by a financial tsunami and foreclosures...