Who Will Be Person of the Year 2008?

Barack Obama? Gordon Brown? Michael Phelps? Click through the pros and cons of our finalists for Person of the Year and vote for the candidates you think are most deserving.

Damien Hirst

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Pro: Scarily talented British artist brought his pieces straight to auction, bypassing the time-honored gallery system, and fetched some $200 million. Art economics will never be the same.

Con: Yawn. A rich artist gets richer. Now, how far has my 401K fallen?

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