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...also cast her vote for U2 front-man Bono, ?for putting a face on African poverty.? Brazile also welcomed the third recommendation from conservative Washington tax reform activist Grover Norquist, who suggested a pairing of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with civil right icon Rosa Parks, who died recently. Brazile hailed Rice's emergence as ?the face of American democracy...
...Bono should be named TIME'S Person of the Year. No single individual has done more to raise global awareness about the urgency and need to create a more peaceful and equitable world. And there is nothing on the planet that is more important than that...
...magazine, which is to cover stories that are shaping our future but don't always attract big, blaring headlines. Some of the disease fighters we profiled in last week's issue, "How to Save a Life," attended the meeting, and one person even made two appearances by satellite. Bono, the rock star of global health, addressed the gathering from Los Angeles, where he is touring with U2. "I feel like I'm missing Woodstock," he said. That evening, he performed a transcontinental duet with Alicia Keys, who headlined a benefit concert for Keep a Child Alive...
...CAMPAIGN www.one.org You've heard Bono. You've seen the white plastic bracelets. This coalition of faith-based, medical and advocacy groups is trying to rally Americans to demand that an additional 1% of the U.S. federal budget go toward fighting global poverty and AIDS...
...fantastic sums of money, more than $1 billion this year alone. But he also gives the brainpower that helped him make that money in the first place, hunting down the best ideas for where to fight, how to focus, what to fund. If you're a rock star like Bono, you give money. But you also give the hot white lights that follow you everywhere, so that they shine on problems that grow in shadows. If you're Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, you raise money--but you also give the symbols of power and the power of symbols...