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Many readers applauded TIME's selection of Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono as the Persons of the Year for 2005. But others suggested different heroes who stood strong in the face of disaster...
...Your choice of Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates as Persons of the Year was inspired [Dec. 26-Jan. 2]. In a year marked by unusual tragedy, it was heartwarming to read about an unprecedented outpouring of generosity. Your honorees are not only appropriately symbolic of that philanthropy but also unique examples of individuals who, by virtue of their wealth and fame, can change the course of history. What your story revealed, however, was that not just their wealth and fame heightened their impact. Credit the Gateses for learning firsthand about the diseases of the poor, then making careful choices...
...Although I appreciate what Bill and Melinda Gates have done for the unfortunate, perhaps in the future, TIME will choose not only people who give because they are wealthy but also those who give despite their poverty. They are the true good samaritans. Samuel Mulia Jakarta...
...very pleased with TIME's choice of the "Good Samaritans," Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono, as your Persons of the Year [Dec. 26, 2005--Jan. 2, 2006]. Those three have been successful in breaking through people's apathy about worldwide poverty that kills millions every year. The trio is waking us up to the world's problems. Here is a son who lost a mother because of AIDS. There is a father who lost a daughter to malaria. How can we be indifferent to those sorrows? The Gateses and Bono are pioneers, leading us to end that injustice. ALISA...
...years, mostly in France, I recently returned from a teaching mission in sub-Saharan Africa. There I was appalled to see patients with acute pneumonia sent home to die, unless the family could pay $180 in cash for hospitalization. I am reassured to read that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands strict accountability from its grantees. ALBERT FOURNIER Amiens, France