JK Rowling considered for Time magazine's 'Person of the Year'
December 17, 2003 at 2:41 PM ET
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CNN will air a special half-hour report
on the process of selecting this year's Time magazine "Person of the Year." The list for 2003 includes top world leaders like George W. Bush and Tony Blair, presidential hopeful and political grassroots instigator Howard Dean, and none other than "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling.
Since 1927, with the debut selection of Charles Lindbergh as "Man of the Year," Time has offered a wide range of heroes and villains as the person or persons who most affected the news of the world. At times, the selection has sparked considerable public debate, particularly with the selection of people such as Adolf Hitler, Ayatullah Khomeini, Nikita Khrushchev and Josef Stalin.
The show, to be broadcast Dec. 21 at 8:30 a.m. ET, will take viewers behind the scenes of the selection process, profiling some of the hopefuls.