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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Ordinary girl by day, pop star by night—it's the dream of millions of kids charmed by Disney's Hannah Montana. Her smash success tapped a deeper reality, though: when the daughter of country music's Billy Ray Cyrus explores the dual identities of a fictional celebrity—then takes the whole concept into sold-out arenas across the country—the line between fiction and reality vanishes.

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