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Ishmael Beah doesn't realize it, but he's about to become a rock star. Well, the literary-humanitarian equivalent of a rock star. (I'll eat my hat if he does not meet Bono in the next 12 months.) Beah, 26, slight and handsome with a ready but wary smile, has written a memoir, and it's a doozy. Separated from his parents at 12 when rebel soldiers attacked his Sierra Leonean village, by 13 he was a child soldier and a drug addict. By 19 he was living in the U.S., at Oberlin College, in Ohio. In February...
...weapons-grade crush on Africa, has also turned its klieg lights on the plight of its children. Perhaps you heard about a couple of celebrities adopting kids from there? Fascination with the continent's woes dates back to Bob Geldof's famine-relief concerts in the mid-'80s. Bono picked up the baton in the '90s, and now every African nation seems to have its own celebrity benefactor. George Clooney has made the situation in Darfur one of his key talking points. Madonna is building an orphan center in Malawi. Brad Pitt helped produce and Nicole Kidman narrates God Grew...
That was then. Of late, opinion on corruption has changed, as campaigners such as rock star Bono, joined by businesses and governments, have argued that corruption is a key cause of Africa 's underdevelopment and makes a mockery of international competition for contracts. In part, that is because business leaders in the old rich countries fear new competition. At a conference on business corruption in Paris last December, executives from France - no strangers to business-ethics scandals themselves - complained that they were losing out in Africa to Chinese firms that were less legally and morally encumbered...
...first reported discovering the paintings in 2002. He has said that he found them in his deceased father’s Long Island storage facility, wrapped in brown paper and labeled as “32 Jackson experimental works.” The Harvard study, conducted pro-bono, was initiated at the request of Alex Matter himself...
...early-career thunder in a serious role. JACKIE EARLE HALEY A kid actor who was out of the biz for a decade, he's poignant in the role of the child molester in Little Children. BRAD PITT O.K., he's still got Angelina. But Pitt's pro bono work as a grieving, angry husband in Babel merited an Oscar nod. BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS ADRIANA BARRAZA, Babel CATE BLANCHETT, Notes on a Scandal ABIGAIL BRESLIN, Little Miss Sunshine JENNIFER HUDSON, Dreamgirls RINKO KIKUCHI, Babel JENNIFER HUDSON In the past two months, she has won every prize but the Nobel. This