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There will be no recount on this one: President-elect George W. Bush today was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year.
As in this year’s razor-thin presidential election, the Texas governor received the nod over Vice President Al Gore.
Bush’s victory, obviously, did not come easy. After 35 days of legal wrangling, a U.S. Supreme Court decision ended the Florida recount to lift Bush into the White House.
Time magazine：时代杂志；这是美国一家著名的新闻杂志，它每年评选一位“年度风云人物”，今年评选的是刚刚当上美国总统的小布什。
razor-thin：像剃须刀一样薄的；形容小布什以极其微弱的优势战胜戈尔赢得大选。
wrangle：争论，争吵；布什与戈尔的竞选引发了法律争端，戈尔认为计票结果不正确，要求弗罗里达州人工重新计票，双方上诉到美国最高法院，结果高院驳回戈尔的起诉，判处布什获胜。
In an interview with the magazine, Bush said he viewed the close election as a positive for his administration.
“It gives us a chance to show we can rise above a divided house, that there are some issues ... that are more important than that which has divided the house,” the 54-year-old Bush said.
positive：积极的，正面的；小布什认为竞选风波会对他的任期产生积极的影响，但是许多专家的观点却和他相反。
Time’s first cover honoree was Charles Lindbergh in 1927; last year’s winner was Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. President Clinton was twice named as an honoree — first after his election in 1992, and again with special prosecutor Kenneth Starr in 1998 after the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
honoree：领奖人；1927年Charles Lindbergh赢得第一届风云人物，去年的得主是亚马逊网站的创始人Jeff Bezos，现任总统克林顿曾经两次获此称号，第一次是92年，98年的第二次获奖可不太光彩，当时他因为性丑闻差点下台。
prosecutor：检察官；98年和克林顿一起当选的还有克林顿弹劾案中的一大主角，独立检察官斯塔尔。
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