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Bono's great gift is to take what has made him famous--charm, clarity of voice, an ability to touch people in their secret heart--combine those traits with a keen grasp of the political game and obsessive attention to detail, and channel it all toward getting everyone, from world leaders to music lovers, to engage with something overwhelming in its complexity. Although it's tempting for some to cast his global road show as the vanity project of a pampered celebrity, the fact is that Bono gets results. At Gleneagles--where Bono and his policy-and-advocacy body, DATA...
...issue--"but all of a sudden these guys are telling us they think they've figured it out," says Hart. "We'd completely flipped roles. Very weird." There were details to iron out, and the Treasury guys insisted Bono not be told for a while (he is a poor secret keeper), but willingness proved 95% of the battle...
...more than a half-century; in Bethesda, Md. A devout Mormon who viewed his work as a calling, Anderson often enraged his powerful subjects with his syndicated "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column, which broke stories like the Reagan Administration's arms-for-hostages deal with Iran and the secret transcripts of the Watergate grand jury. Richard Nixon put Anderson on his "enemies" list, prompting Nixon aide G. Gordon Liddy to devise a plan to murder him. Still, when Anderson's work on Watergate resulted in arrests, he provided financial assistance to the affected families. "I don't like to hurt...
Alex Perry's Letter From Bombay, "Could You Please Make Me a Shade Lighter?" [Dec. 5], reported that the desire for a lighter skin color is a national obsession in India. But Indians are not the only people who view fair skin as an ideal. It is no secret that many throughout the world feel the same way. Indeed, most of mankind does. Some of us as children were exposed to fairy tales like Snow White, in which the wicked queen asks, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" NIZAM VIRMANI Rolling Meadows...
...they used to call Deep Throat." W. MARK FELT, deputy director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal, disclosing after more than 30 years that he was the famed secret source relied upon by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein...