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...Nobel Peace Prize winner who inspired U2's song Walk On. The rest is intuitive. Bono arrives with no security, takes gifts (a leather-bound volume of Seamus Heaney for Patrick Leahy, a framed copy of the Marshall Plan speech for Colin Powell) to suit his host's taste. He poses for every staff picture, and his thank-you notes are handwritten and prompt. He wears whatever he pleases. "I refuse to be anything other than what I am," he says. "I literally get into the clothes at the end of the bed. If somebody doesn't take them...
...just gigantic! You know, Mao would have been so jealous!" Some couples have ballroom dancing. The Gateses have saving the world. And they like to do it the uncomfortable way, by looking straight into lives they know nothing about. Paul Farmer, a public-health pioneer, has been host to them both in Haiti. "I think they, unlike many people, have allowed themselves to remain open to the pain that a lot of people experience," he says. "Watching them listen, really listen, and wait for the answers and study people's faces and pay attention, I was very impressed...
...path from graduation to his current stint as host of CNBC’s hit show “Mad Money” was one of extremes...
...Twenty-eight years later, the journalist-turned-stock-broker-turned-TV-show-host has the same risk-taking mentality as he did during his undergraduate years...
...Let’s talk about better publicity for UC-funded parties. The concerns raised so vociferously and so often by Quad residents don’t affect the undergraduate population broadly enough to justify their triviality (like extended dining hall hours) nor are they as pressing as a host of other issues that pertain only to a small number of Harvard students (improved accessibility in campus buildings, for example). Objectively examined, life in the Quad is just fine for those who live there, and indulging Quadlings’ flowering victim-hood complex serves no one’s interests...