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...then with Katrina, the two men have galvanized the private response to natural disasters this year. What's more, by working together, Bush and Clinton have reminded a deeply divided nation how much old-fashioned teamwork is missing from its politics and what can be accomplished if people just join forces and pitch in. Says Clinton: "I think people see this, and it reminds them of how America is supposed to work...
...phone numbers, personal descriptions--that in a few days they and the Virginia-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were able to locate all the children's parents, whom rescuers had taken to San Antonio, Texas. The kids were whisked by a private Angel Flight plane to join them in San Antonio, where De'Monte and his family now live. "I was shocked, surprised and proud of my baby when I heard what he did," Williams, 27, says of De'Monte. "I tell him he's a superhero." And a humble one at that. "It feels good that...
...more money to fund them. In the office of Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, he speaks of multilateralism and how development aid reminds the rest of the world of America's greatness. Then he asks for more money. In stadiums, he tells people that if they join together, they have a chance to make poverty history. Then U2 plays...
...stuff." Bono anticipates that the celebrity-studded ONE Campaign, which gained pledges of support to ending global poverty from 2 million people, will someday become "the N.R.A. for the world's poor," but for now it's what economists call a risk-free choice; there's no fee to join and interest tends to rise and fall based on world events. "I really believe the movement is our future," says Bono, "but it's not here...
...good money to watch movies based on TV shows we wouldn't watch for free in reruns. They change our clothes and haircuts. They even get us to buy--God help us--puggles. You should be grateful that Sharon Stone and Tom Hanks merely ask you to join the fight against AIDS. They could just as easily command you to build a pair of wings out of newspaper and fly off the roof of your garage...