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This tour has been a bit of a love fest," says U2 frontman Bono, sounding genuinely humbled and slightly surprised that a tour by one of the most celebrated bands in the world in support of one of its most acclaimed albums in years would generate any sort of affection at all. "I've nearly wept reading some of the reviews of the shows, they've been so effusive." He pauses and smiles. "It's just great being in this band at this minute...
...band members, however, are wary of crossing the line from performers to preachers. They understand that taking a political stand is usually viewed as the act of a band desperately trying to be cool. "It's just so unhip to be talking about debt relief," says Bono, discussing his passion of the past few years. "The band has been really supportive about giving me the time to work on this." He first became interested in Africa's economic plight in the 1980s, after the Live Aid concerts that raised money for Ethiopian famine victims. "My wife Ali and I ended...
...images may have faded, but Bono's curiosity did not. In 1999, the singer got involved with Jubilee 2000, now known as Drop the Debt, a London-based coalition of academics and activists who equated Third World debt with slavery. In the course of his work with the campaign Bono has met with Presidents, Prime Ministers and the Pope to get attention for the issue. He relishes the incongruity of a rock star talking about world policy, but he backs it up by knowing his stuff. He reads economics tomes and did some unofficial studying at Harvard. "I think that...
...Cold War. Above all, I said, I was proud that America was seen abroad as the Land of Opportunity, the country to which millions of people migrated in the last two centuries because it promised everyone a reward for hard work, a better life for their children. As Bono said on Class Day, as a young Dubliner watching America put a man on the moon, he believed that nothing was impossible here. Foreigners respected and admired Americans...
Harvard students are notoriously insecure about their alma mater. Ask where they go to school, and they'll usually respond, "In Boston." Follow up with "Where in Boston?" and they sheepishly admit, "Uh, Harvard." But for one shining moment last week, Harvard had reason to be proud, as BONO gave the school's class-day address. "My name is Bono, and I am a rock star," he announced to a crowd of 15,000 (including Al Gore), who giddily bathed in his mojo. The 20-minute speech mixed star anecdotes with stories from Bono's Third World debt-relief tour...