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...parts of the planet to rescue people from hunger, disease and natural disaster. By featuring on Time's cover a Chinese philanthropist, working creatively and energetically within China, it is my hope that you will inspire other global media organizations to focus more on homegrown solutions and solution providers. Bono, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates (and I dare say Madonna) are doing a great job in Africa. But surely there are African philanthropists and social entrepreneurs who also deserve a spot in the limelight - even if the power of their checkbooks is nowhere near that of the aforementioned? Tolu Ogunlesi...
...parts of the planet to rescue people from hunger, disease and natural disaster. By featuring on TIME's cover a Chinese philanthropist, working creatively and energetically within China, it is my hope that you will inspire other global media organizations to focus more on homegrown solutions and solution providers. Bono, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates (and I dare say Madonna) are doing a great job in Africa. But surely there are African philanthropists and social entrepreneurs who also deserve a spot in the limelight - even if the power of their checkbooks is nowhere near that of the aforementioned? Tolu Ogunlesi...
...also offering a special music package: Guests get a free six-month membership to Bono's new online music magazine (Red)Wire, which will send you one new song a week. Even if you don't book the special package, W guests who stay between Dec. 1 and 31 will get a one-week trial membership to the site. The promotion kicks off on Dec. 1, World AIDS Day, with special video and musical performances in select W lobbies...
...Hong Kong. "Philanthropy is my passion and my life now," he says. "I wake up and eat and I'm thinking about it. I'm still thinking in the bath. I talk to everyone I can." It is difficult to name any other A-list celebrity, not even Bono, who has made such a total commitment. There are plenty who touch down in Africa between albums or movies, but none has actually walked off the job as Li has done, at the top of his game...
...have been imprisoned for seven years, should be released "forthwith." (A sixth defendant was ruled an "enemy combatant" who should stay in government custody. He is appealing.) TIME spoke to one of the case's lead defense attorneys, Stephen Oleskey, about the actual cost of pro bono work, what it's like to visit one of the world's most secret detention camps 17 times, and why one of the detainees got sick celebrating Barack Obama's election. See pictures from inside Guantanamo