The Short List For The TIME Person of the Year

Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo! CEO

Only 2.5 women made the short list for the TIME Person of the Year: Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo!, Malala Yousafzai, the student activist from Pakistan who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, and Hillary Clinton as half of the Bill and Hillary Clinton nomination. 

What is Bill Clinton doing these days besides roaming around campaigning for other people? Yes, we are purposefully ignoring the many gains achieved by the Clinton Global Initiative. We believe Hillary deserves this nod without the likes of Bill.

The rest of the short list includes: Mohammed Morsi, president of Egypt; Undocumented Americans; President Barack Obama, the 2008 winner; Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple; and the Higgs Boson and Italian physicist Fabiola Giannati.

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