Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2005 will be Mother Nature, if yesterday's lunch debate in the Time-Life Building was any indication.

The panel — which included NBC's Brian Williams, CNN's Anderson Cooper, Democratic consultant Donna Brazile and conservative think tank head Grover Norquist — all agreed this year's combination of hurricanes, tsunami and the Pakistan earthquake make for a natural choice.

Asked by Time editor Jim Kelly who should play Mother Nature on the cover, Williams cracked, "Bea Arthur." The runner-ups figure to be Bono, the Google guys, Condoleezza Rice, Pope Benedict XVI, Patrick Fitzgerald, Lance Armstrong and Steve Jobs.

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