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...Call me a fan, but Bono stands out. In the past three years, in talking to politicians, aid workers, activists and United Nations and development-bank officials, I have never heard a single suggestion that the U2 singer was involved with the plight of the world's poor for anything other than genuine concern. In part that's because he has convinced the professionals that he does his homework. It's one thing to hear celebrities talk about "doing something" for a cause. It's quite another to hear a rock star give a lecture on "HIPC conditionality," the terms...
...Bono also wins plaudits because he's not easily typecast. Asking for more government funding for the developing world is a quick way to get applause from liberal constituencies. But Bono stresses a more subtle point, and one that often raises opposition on the political left. For many nations, exporting agricultural commodities and cheap T shirts is the best way to raise standards of living, yet as soon as they try to do so, protectionist lobbies in the First World-French farmers, American textile firms-scream bloody murder. Bono isn't swayed. "There is no justification," he says, "for denying...
...More important, Bono has given a public face to the agenda of the developing world at an important moment. Within the next six months, crucial decisions will be made on the shape of the rich world's policies for poverty reduction. Next month in Monterrey, Mexico, President Bush and other leaders will gather to hash out the scale and terms of a new and expanded program of financial assistance to the poorest countries. In the fall a conference in Johannesburg will take stock of the progress toward the U.N.'s "millennium goals" to eliminate extreme poverty and increase access...
...June Carter Cash, feel somewhat inappropriate, interrupting the solitary tone established in the previous disc. “Girl from the North Country,” a duet with Bob Dylan, also doesn’t quite work. Cash’s wonderful voice, which U2’s Bono calls “the most male voice in Christendom,” clashes with Dylan’s weak bleats. But the second disc does have a couple of must-haves: live renditions of “Folsom Prison Blues” (unfortunately, the studio version is absent...
...copyright changes, known as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA), meant that works that had been expected to enter the public domain were prevented from becoming freely available on the Internet...