<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important; "><div id="article" class="auto-hyphenated" style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; "><div class="page" style="font-size: 20px; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify; "><h1 class="title" style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.25em; text-align: center; -webkit-hyphens: manual; ">TIME NAMES MITT ROMNEY MAN OF THE YEAR 1912</h1><p style="font-size: 14px; "><img alt="happy-romney-boro.jpg" width="465" height="309" class="reader-image-large" style="float: none; margin: auto auto 0.75em; max-width: 100%; display: block; " id="f307b13f-4bdf-448d-8b0f-8e80eeb013ca" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:B8065F63-97B0-4510-AF2E-C3D84431E789@att.net"></p><p><font size="3">NEW YORK —In an extraordinary gesture of recognition for a losing Presidential nominee, <i>Time</i> magazine today named former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney Man of the Year 1912.</font></p><p><font size="3">In a press release explaining its decision, <em>Time</em>’<em>s</em> editorial board wrote, “Even though his quest for the Presidency was unsuccessful, Mr. Romney’s ideas about foreign policy, taxation, wealth inequality, and women’s rights typified the year 1912 as no one else has.”</font></p><div><p><font size="3">In giving Mr. Romney the nod, <i>Time</i> said that he beat out such other candidates for Man of the Year 1912 as Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic.</font></p><p><font size="3">“It was very close between but Romney and the Titanic guy, but we gave it to Romney because it took him slightly longer to sink,” <i>Time</i> wrote.</font></p><p><font size="3">Mr. Romney could not be reached for comment, a spokesman said, because he was travelling around the world visiting his money.</font></p><p><br></p></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentBottomClass" style="line-height: 14px !important; text-align: left !important; "></span></div></body></html>