Call 2001 the year the United States lost its nerve and surrendered a sense of vitality. You see, it was during 2001 that the National Law Journal and Time Magazine both chose as people of the year diminutive and reactive creatures lacking visions of their own. It was a year in which fear and the imperatives of feeling good took precedence over seeing clearly.
Time Magazine chose Rudolph Guiliani, the outgoing mayor of New York City, as the person of the year. Why? He conducts a mean wake, and his handling of the suicide attacks on the New York City on Sept. 11 was just the soporific a traumatized nation needed. “Every time he spoke, millions of people felt better,” Time told us.
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