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...slight smile that lends him an enigmatic air. It's the same expression captured in the photos that have accompanied scores of magazine and newspaper articles on Rafik Abdelmoumèn Khalifa's spectacular rise as an international financier and jet-setter who hung out with celebrities like Bono, Pamela Anderson, Sting and Gérard Depardieu. But this particular shot of the Algerian tycoon is featured in a picture of a different kind: a mug shot on Interpol's Wanted list, where it was placed by Algerian authorities seeking to prosecute Khalifa for alleged crimes linked to the rise...
...determines what's cool, anyway? What's the hot toy we won't be able to buy at Christmas? Will China export another Yao Ming? Which miracle drugs are about to hit the market? Which new technologies will make us safer? What will we find on Mars? Where do Bono and Spielberg think we're heading? For all this and more, come with us on a journey to the near future
Rodrik said last year that under Sachs—whose public advocacy activities included appearing with rock singer Bono and advising the U.N. on poverty reduction—CID had become involved in influencing policy at the expense of academic research...
Rock is used to front men like Bono (who wants to throw his arms around the world) and Mick Jagger (who wants to throw his legs around the world). But Radiohead's lead singer, Thom Yorke, would just like the world to behave. His best songs--Fake Plastic Trees, Let Down, Pyramid Song--are written from the perspective of a perfectly rational person who thinks the rest of the world has gone nuts. As rock mantras go, this has all the sex appeal of "Get off my lawn!" But millions have been moved to heights of ecstasy by Radiohead...
...activist community find common purpose with the Christian right? Different aspects of the bill reflect the concerns of such disparate groupings as Act Up, the Abstinence Clearinghouse, drugmaker Merck and Co. and the Catholic Medical Mission Board. The aids consensus came about in part because scripture readings with Bono and the grassroots take-up of the Jubilee movement for debt relief have helped change the religious right's take on aids in the developing world: what was once seen by the religious right as a shameful "gay disease" has become a suitable object of Christian mercy. There are limits, though...