Person of the Year 2007

His final year as Russia's President has been his most successful yet. At home, he secured his political future. Abroad, he expanded his outsize—if not always benign—influence on global affairs

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They call him Hollywood's "Mayor of Comedy," the stand-up wannabe and writer of acclaimed-but-cancelled TV series who finally failed his way to the top. His 2005 hit The 40-Year-Old Virgin begat this year's Knocked Up—and now Apatow is building an assembly line of low-budget, large-laugh films. Luckily, his raw material, the social and sexual foibles of under-achieving men, is one of nature's ultimate renewable resources.

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