Vladamir Putin – TIME Magazine Person of the Year

Time Magazine has named Vladamir Putin, Russia’s President for almost eight years, Person of the Year for 2007:

“No one is born with a stare like Vladimir Putin’s. The Russian President’s pale blue eyes are so cool, so devoid of emotion that the stare must have begun as an affect, the gesture of someone who understood that power might be achieved by the suppression of ordinary needs, like blinking. The affect is now seamless, which makes talking to the Russian President not just exhausting but often chilling. It’s a gaze that says, I’m in charge.”

I won’t be able to read the whole thing until later this week.