<A HREF="http://www.forbes.com/2003/01/17/cx_da_0117topnews.html">Dick Parsons Is AOL's Person Of The Year</A> By Dan Ackman NEW YORK - A few weeks ago Time selected as its "Person of the Year" three "whistle-blowers" including the egregious Sherron Watkins. That was Time Magazine, a mere unit, speaking for the planet. For its own person of the year, AOL Time Warner, the corporation writ large, stuck closer to home and selected Richard Parsons, already its CEO, as its new chairman. <p>About the author: "Dan Ackman is a staff writer at Forbes.com. A lawyer by training, his work has appeared in The New York Times, the New York Daily News, American Lawyer, Newsday and the New York Law Journal."<p>***This is what happens when lawyers are allowed to write news stories***
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