Time's Person of the Year

[Art Sandusky]

Without him, the 20th century is most radically different. It was a perfectly sound choice.

[Slayer]

At the time, I figured they would've gone with Churchill or FDR

[DrVenkman PhD]

The Daily Show's segment about this was quite amusing.

[Dobbs 3K]

Yeah, I loved Stewart's line about "Well, the media has basically abdicated their roles, so this award makes sense."

[SuperJerk]

I just noticed time pussied out when naming a person of the century. The went with Einstien. I think they should have gone with Stalin. He made backwards Russia into a global super power that dominated half of Europe. Hitler also would have been a stong candidate.

I think they were looking more at long-term influence. Stalin's influence lasted barely half a century. Though you could correctly argue the world would be very different if WW2 had never happened, Hitler's direct influence ended in 1945. Einstein's influence on science will outlive us all.