Person of the Week - 2006 Year in Review

As we ring in what will hopefully be a prosperous 2007, let us take a look back at some of the people who rocked the world in 2006. So, without futher ado, here are the names of those who earned this blog's Person of the Week award over the past year.

Click on any name to read their Person of the Week Column

Jan. 1-7: Ariel Sharon - Israeli Prime Minister
Jan. 8-14: Samuel Alito - Supreme Court Nominee
Jan. 15-21: Michelle Bachelet - Chilean President-Elect
Jan. 22-29: Stephen Harper - Canadian Prime Minister-Elect
Jan. 30 - Feb. 5: Anders Fogh Rasmussen - Danish Prime Minister
Feb 6-12: Jimmy Carter - Former U.S. President
Feb. 13-19: Zhang Dan - Chinese Figure Skater
Feb 20-26: Ismail Haniyeh -Palestinian Prime Minister-Elect
Feb. 27- March 4: Alexander Kozulin - Belorussian Presidential Candidate
March 5-11: Thaksin Shinawatra - Thai Prime Minister
March 12-18: Alexander Lukashenko - Belorussian Dictator
March 19-25: Alexander Milikevich and Alexander Kozulin - Belorussian Opposition Leaders
March 26-April 1: Jill Caroll - American Jounalist, Hostage in Iraq
April 2-8: Gyanendra - King of Nepal
April 9-15: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - President of Iran
April 16-22: Pope Benedict XVI
April 23-29: Adam Kidron - Music Producer (for his Spanish "Star Spangled Banner")
April 30-May 6: Patrick Kennedy - Rhode Island Congressman
May 7-13: Shimon Peres - Isreali Deputy Prime Minister
May 14-20: George W. Bush - U.S. President
May 21-27: Milo Đukanović - Prime Minister of Montenegro
May 28-June 3: Xanana Gusmao - East Timorese President
June 4-10: The tipster who gave up Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi
June 11-17: Karl Rove - U.S. Political Strategist
June 18-24: Evo Morales - Bolivian President
June 26-July 1: Ehud Olmert, Amir Petetz, and Gilad Shalit - Israeli Prime Minister, Defense Minister, and soldier kidnapped by Hamas.
July 2-8: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador - Defeated Mexican Presidential Candidate
July 9-15: Hassan Nasrallah - Leader of Hezbollah
July 16-22: Newt Gingrich - Former Speaker of the U.S. House
July 23-29: Condoleeza Rice - U.S. Secretary of State
July 30-Aug. 5: Fidel Castro - Cuban Dictator
Aug. 6-12: Ned Lamont - U.S. Senate Candidate (D-CT)
Aug. 13-19: John Mark Carr - Pretender to the murder of JonBenet Ramsey
Aug. 20-26: Mike Brown - Astronomer, "Planet Hunter"
Aug. 27-Sep. 2 - Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador - Defeated Mexican Presidential Candidate
Sep. 3-9: Tony Blair and Gordon Brown - British Prime Minister and Chancellor
Sep. 10-16: Pope Benedict XVI
Sep. 17-23: Sonthi Boonyaratglin - Thai Coup Leader
Sep. 24-30: Mark Foley - Disgraced Former U.S. Congressman (R-FL)
Oct. 1-7: Mike Gallagher - U.S. Radio Talk Show Host
Oct. 8-14: Kim Jong Il and Ban Ki-moon -North Korean Dictator and U.N. Secretary General-Elect
Oct. 22-28: Barack Obama - U.S. Senator (D-IL)
Oct. 29-Nov. 4: John Kerry - U.S. Senator (D-MA)
Nov. 5-11: Jim Webb - U.S. Senator-Elect (D-VA)
Nov. 12-18: Steny Hoyer - U.S. House Majority Leader-Elect
Nov. 19-25: Alexander Litvinenko - Poisoned Former KGB Agent
Nov. 26-Dec. 2: No Award
Dec. 3-10: No Award
Dec 10-16: No Award
Dec 17-23: Meles Zenawi - President of Ethiopia
Dec. 24-30: Gerald Ford - Former U.S. President

Persons of the Year: Mahhoud Ahmadinejad, Bashar al-Assad, and Hassan Nasrallah - Leaders of Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah

Thank you all for taking this journey with me, and I hope that we will continue it together in the year to come.