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...combat the trade in counterfeit medicines, even at the risk of her own life. It is good for her to be recognized as the Global Health hero she truly is. I appreciate her efforts and those of all the others fighting hard to eradicate dangerous diseases. Uche Iwuamadi Lagos Bono's expectant and optimistic essay on how to fight disease in poor countries set just the right tone. In the '80s and '90s, TV commercials depicting dirty, hungry children were detrimental to aid work abroad. Instead of rousing Americans into action, such images made them feel powerless. Work on improving...
Clad in his classic cowboy hat and tinted sunglasses, rock star Bono fielded questions from students and discussed a possible future collaboration with Harvard at an event held at the John F. Kennedy School of Government with University President Lawrence H. Summers yesterday. With his charisma and Irish humor, Bono urged students to become involved in global development and in the fight against AIDS. Bono founded an organization Debt, Aids, Trade in Africa in 2002 to raise awareness and instigate change in these particular areas. Summers kicked off the question and answer session asking Bono what the singer thought...
...note that Ted Turner has nominated Bono. I would like to endorse that. We have met on several occasions, and I have been impressed by his actions. He has been a voice for the poor, for the environment, for peace--and for the emerging global civil society...
Over the past year, a team of lawyers, approached by the nonprofit Innocence Project, spent thousands of pro bono hours conducting interviews, gathering documents and asking experts to compare the confessions of the sailors with the crime-scene evidence. What the team compiled was a laundry list of inconsistencies that it hopes will be enough to sway Warner just as the Governor is about to leave office and possibly make a run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Warner just last week spared the life of death-row inmate Robin Lovitt, citing the destruction of DNA evidence that might have cleared...
...Michigan reader singled out Bill Gates: "Here is a man brought up with middle-class values, and he chooses to spend his wealth not nurturing selfish dreams and desires but working to ensure that even the poorest people will have their basic medical needs met." Wrote a Seoul reader: "Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates are remarkable individuals with a clear vision of how to make a quantum difference. This is not about giving money but about having an inspirational effect on others." A Kathmandu journalist praised the interview with Bill and Melinda Gates as "one of the best...