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...night that this year's summit began in Gleneagles, Scotland, Bono thought it might be nice to change things up a bit. U2 had scheduled a concert at a stadium in nearby Edinburgh, and Bono, as is his custom, invited pretty much everyone he thought would be interesting to drop by, which explains how George Clooney, Hollywood's leading lefty, and Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank and an architect of the Iraq war, ended up in the same room backstage. "It could have been a little uncomfortable," says Clooney. "In fact, I was kind of expecting...
...World Bank president Jim Wolfensohn; Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers) to cement relationships and encourage the sense that at least on one issue, everyone could break bread. Spouses were invited, and to spice things up, Bono might ask a friend from another sphere, like Jordan's Queen Noor, to drop by. "Your first responsibility is not to be dull," he says. "Why don't the poor deserve flash in their representation...
...Naidoo, the South African who chaired Make Poverty History's international umbrella, felt that Geldof--who called the debt deal a "10 out of 10"--was too exuberant and pointed out that all the deal meant was that 50,000, the number of people dying unnecessarily each day, would drop to 37,000. Naidoo's skepticism underlines the limits of Bono's approach: all that was achieved at Gleneagles was a series of commitments--signed checks, not cashed ones...
Very soon, however, they realized that they could never do what they hoped to do because even their money was a drop in the bucket. Instead of downsizing their ambition, they decided they needed force multipliers--or leverage, to use one of Bill's favorite terms from Microsoft. They needed other organizations and countries to step up and make the foundation look puny. According to WHO's Commission for Macroeconomics and Health, it would cost $25 billion annually to save 8 million lives a year. The Gates Foundation will spend, this year, about $1 billion on global health. Bill Gates...
...scratching his head and admitting, “I just don’t think we paid the price or did the little things.” “I’m not sure why we were surprised,” he added. But from the first drop of the puck, the Crimson looked surprised. The Big Green launched 43 shots on net, 33 of which came in the first two periods, and three of its five goals came off rebounds in traffic. Only eight penalties were assessed—five on Dartmouth—yet Harvard never...