Jesse Sullivan-CNN's "Most Intriguing Person" for Feb. 17th
By Darren Hartry
February 17, 2010
CNN has selected Jesse Sullivan as their "Most Intriguing Person"
A segment will air on CNN sometime in the near future.
Jesse has been sleeping in a tent near the U.S. Capitol to raise awareness for the need of shelter in Haiti. During the day Jesse is an assistant to the Ambassador of Haiti and works at their Embassy. Jesse is a 2003 graduate of PORTA High School.
Here is the link to the CNN page:
Intriguing People for February 17th, 2010
Jesse's Website-Live for Haiti
From CNN
What makes a person intriguing?
There are people who enter the news cycle every day because their actions or decisions are new, important or different. Others are in the news because they are the ones those decisions affect. And there are a number of people who are so famous or controversial that anything they say or do becomes news.
Some of these people do what we expect of them: They run for office, pass legislation, start a business, get hired or fired, commit a crime, make an arrest, get in accidents, hit a home run, overthrow a government, fight wars, sue an opponent, put out fires, prepare for hurricanes and cavort with people other than their spouses. They do make news, but the action is usually more important than who is involved in the story.
But every day, there are a number of people who become fascinating to us -- by virtue of their character, how they reached their decision, how they behaved under pressure or because of the remarkable circumstances surrounding the event they are involved in.
They arouse our curiosity. We hear about them and want to know more. What they have done or said stimulates conversations across the country. At times, there is even a mystery about them. What they have done may be unique, heroic, cowardly or ghastly, but they capture our imaginations. We want to know what makes them tick, why they believe what they do, and why they did what they did. They intrigue us.
