Word: apartness
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There are many places the Gateses could go together for an adventure. That they chose to come to India and Bangladesh to sit on concrete floors and talk about tuberculosis and diarrhea sets them apart from most globe-trotting billionaires. But their relationship with the developing world is even more complicated than that. As they tour hospitals and huts, they seem to delight in these escapades, not just because they are intellectually captivated by the scientific challenge of treating the diseases of the poor but also because they are convinced that they are living through a historic inflection point when...
...would be easy to watch the alliance in action and imagine the division of labor: head and heart, business and culture; one side brings the money, the other side the buzz. But like many great teams, this one is more than the sum of its symbols. Apart from his music stardom, Bono is a busy capitalist (he's a named partner in a $2 billion private equity firm), moves in political circles like a very charming shark, aptly named his organization DATA (debt, AIDS, trade, Africa) to capture both the breadth of his ambitions and the depth of his research...
...break for the convention center later, but were repelled by riot police wielding shields and pepper spray. Homegrown radical and Hong Kong legislator Leung (Long Hair) Kwok-hung, who marched with the Koreans and was caught up in the tussle, summed up the experience: "I had a good time, apart from getting pepper-sprayed...
...bring him up to the Pope's private quarters. It was around noon when the Cardinal approached the Holy Father's bedside. John Paul's condition had deteriorated that morning. The same throat infection that had twice sent him to Gemelli hospital had begun to spread through his body. Apart from his curial position, Ratzinger was there as one of the Pope's dearest friends, and Vatican insiders have quietly speculated about this final encounter between the two men. Some, according to Vatican sources, actually believe the Pope prophesied to Ratzinger that the German would be his successor. Whatever form...
...returning, but they are too stuck in their unhappy lives in small-town Russia to dare to make such a drastic shift as a move to the city. Moscow becomes a symbol of everything their lives are not, holding the potential for the radical changes of excitement and prosperity. Apart from pining for the remote possibility of a move to Moscow, the sisters spend their time engaging in various romantic entanglements, reluctantly working, and playing hostess to the soldiers garrisoned in the town. This staging of “Three Sisters” often places the action in vague...