NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time magazine named U.S. President-elect Barack Obama the Person of the Year in 2008 after he became the first African-American to win the White House, but the real contest may have been for the runners up.

 

The other finalists were U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, French President...

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