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"As a result of the public backlash it received from the United States for naming the Ayatollah Khomeini Man of the Year in 1979, Time has shied away from using figures that are controversial in the United States."

From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year

This says it all.