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‘The Ebola fighters’ Honored By ‘Time’ As Person Of The Year

‘The Ebola fighters’ Honored By ‘Time’ As Person Of The Year

By Julie Westfall, Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Time magazine, as is its yearly tradition, has named a person of the year, and this year it chose multiple persons: those who are helping to fight the spread of Ebola around the world.

“The rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and women are willing to stand and fight. For tireless acts of courage and mercy, for buying the world time to boost its defenses, for risking, for persisting, for sacrificing and saving,” Time’s editor wrote.

Nina Pham, an American nurse from Dallas who caught the disease after treating the man who was the first person diagnosed with Ebola on American soil, said she was proud to be a part of Time’s coverage.

It’s not the first time Time has chosen to honor a group rather than an individual: The Protester, the Peacemakers and the Good Samaritans, among others, have been chosen in past years.

The other 2014 finalists for Time’s Person of the Year were Roger Goodell, Taylor Swift, the Ferguson protesters, Vladimir Putin, Jack Ma, Tim Cook and Masoud Barzani.

AFP Photo/Chip Somodevilla

Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie Are Married, Spokesman Says

Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie Are Married, Spokesman Says

By Julie Westfall, Los Angeles Times

It happened: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got married in France on Saturday, a spokesman told the Associated Press.

The apparently secret, much-anticipated nuptials occurred at their Provence home Chateau Miraval and were attended by an unspecified number of friends and family, including the pair’s six children.

The couple has been together for nine years and announced their engagement two years ago. They got their marriage license from a California judge, who also performed the ceremony, AP reports.

Jolie said in the past that they would wed if their children — Maddox, 13, Pax, 10, Zahara, 9, Shiloh, 8, and twins Knox and Viv, 6 — asked, and apparently they did. Pitt told CBS News in 2012: “We’re getting a lot of pressure from the kids.”

“Yeah, it means something to them, and they’re, you know, they have questions when their friends’ parents are married and, why is that?”

Pitt had once said that he and Jolie wouldn’t tie the knot until all Americans had the equal right to do so.

Los Angeles Times staff writer Christie D’Zurilla contributed to this report.

AFP Photo/Frazer Harrison

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