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...took about three minutes with Bono for Gates to change his mind. Bill and his wife Melinda, another computer nerd turned poverty warrior, love facts and data with a tenderness most people reserve for their children, and Bono was hurling metrics across the table as fast as they could keep up. "He was every bit the geek that we are," says Gates Foundation chief Patty Stonesifer, who helped broker that first summit. "He just happens to be a geek who is a fantastic musician...
...Brown was admitted to Harvard’s Ph.D. program in economics—to be a “full time nerd,” he jokes—but opted to take a year off first...
...enough Oscar gold to fund another CIA-backed military coup in Guatemala.Going into the details (a long, absurd capitalist saga) of the Weinstein brothers’ departure from Disney is useless at this point. Essentially, the nightmare couldn’t have lasted much longer. Money-grubbing ex-nerd testosterone receptacles like Michael Eisner were fated to have a rocky relationship with Bob & Harvey Weinstein. Harvey yelled at or sat on people who irritated him too much, and the folks high up at Buena Vista weren’t going to let the Two Stooges boss them around just because...
...tryin’.A few months ago, I faced the hardest of all T-shirt statement tasks—what do you wear to a concert, as you straddle the line between looking like a tool with the band’s tee on and looking like a nerd in bland everyday clothing. Attending an Oasis/Jet concert, I thought I would make the ultimate ironic move with my “Gangsta” top. Smiling to myself on how clever I was as I walked through the crowd, I suddenly passed a girl wearing the exact same shirt...
...different clusters being created all at once, and the overall effect can be to increase diversity. It may be that in each of those groups, I'm finding people who are precisely like me, but there are 10 me's. There's Malcolm the football fan, Malcolm the psychology nerd...