Update 12/15/2010: Time whimped out, and gave the award to someone else. So, Julian Assange does not get his due, and the award goes to Mark Zuckerberg. Story at the Guardian: here.
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(excerpt from) CBS
The controversial founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has won an online vote to be TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year.
The annual online vote asks readers to choose the most influential person, people or things from the previous year.
Readers voted a total of 1,249,425 times, and the favorite was clear, TIME reported. Julian Assange raked in 382,020 votes, giving him an easy first place…
The magazine’s editorial choice of Person of the Year will be unveiled Wednesday…
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