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David Cohn asks Time deputy managing editor Stephen Koepp if he expected so much criticism for the Person of the Year choice. "I expected that it would be provocative, that people would come at it from all different angles," he says. "It got people's attention. What I hope is that people will, beyond looking at the cover and responding to it initially, will open it up because it's a very rich issue, it's the biggest [Person of the Year] ever published."