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...heard some environmentalists call Gore’s decision not to return to Washington inconceivable. While it sure is cool to be friends with Bono or Madonna, common wisdom dictates that the President of the United States is still the man (or woman) who can champion issues to greatest effect. If you want to change the world, we’re told, pack your bags and head toward the swamp-land of Washington...
...Greater New York area. The gift will provide another $200,000 for need-based scholarships at Harvard Business School (HBS), as well as full scholarships for two Harvard MBA students who focus on non-profit management. The club’s members provide about $1 million worth of pro bono consulting every year, but this year marks the first time that HBSCNY will offer a gift approaching this size, along with its consulting services, according to HBSCNY President Bruce T. Marcus. The extra money comes from over-subscription to the club’s main fundraising event, the HBSCNY Leadership...
...matters not just in business. Rock icon Bono gets high marks for his woomanship in promoting social causes. A surprisingly genial visit in 2000 to the archconservative Senator Jesse Helms, during which Bono communed with the septuagenarian politician, yielded an appropriation of $435 million for debt relief for Africa. It wouldn't have happened, say the authors, had it not been for Bono's on-the-spot ability to switch "to a completely different language," abandoning his fact-laden pitch to talk religion with Helms...
Much of Corbijn's work is distinctively grainy, black and white or with a sandy brown or metallic blue sheen. It's unglamorous, but that's the point. "For all that kind of stylized decadence in some of his photography, his eye was always mocking it, mocking celebrity," says Bono of U2, whom Corbijn helped transform from a scruffy band of Irish rockers with mullets to global superstars. "It's a Dutch reformer's eye. I don't think he even knows how Protestant he is." Corbijn's relationship with U2 stretches back 25 years and has always gone beyond...
...movie has a few guest artistes: Bono as a Ken Kesey-style drug emancipator, and Eddie Izzard, with Blue Meanies as his backup group, doing a raffish "For the Benefit of Mr. Kite." There's also an excellent "Come Together" performed by Joe Cocker, who, astonishingly, has outlived both crimes against his body and most of his contemporaries. (He and Jerry Lee Lewis are the very improbable Indestructibles of rock 'n roll...