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...Gateses say their smartest investment yet has been GAVI. This year, when five European nations backed them up with an unprecedented $4 billion over 10 years to fund GAVI's work, it was all about leverage. At Davos, Bill Gates and Bono had tag-team meetings with Blair, Schröder and other leaders, using the example of one as peer pressure for the other. Bill remembers talking to Bono between meetings and telling him he wasn't sure Schröder would come around. Bono was undeterred. "I tend to be a little more realistic," Bill says. "He's always saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Riches to Rags | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...elections.The debate ended with a request that the candidates say one nice thing about the other candidates. “I really like Tom’s accent and Annie’s pink scarf,” said Voith. “Haddock is one of the smartest guys you’ll ever meet...He’s smarter than me,” Grimeland answered. Nancy A. Hung ’08—co-publicity chair of the Asian-American Association (AAA)—said she found the forum helpful. “It definitely...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Council Hears Campus Groups | 12/2/2005 | See Source »

...expects to be the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. Frank said he would have run for John Kerry’s Senate seat had it been vacated.Eric P. Lesser ’07, president of the Harvard Dems, described Frank as “one of the smartest members of Congress.” He said he felt the Congressman connected well with the audience, especially given Frank’s connections to Harvard. In addition to being a cum laude graduate of the College, Frank holds a cum laude degree from Harvard Law School...

Author: By Cyrus M. Mossavar-rahmani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Frank Lambastes Republican Views | 12/2/2005 | See Source »

...original comic panel it draws on is not considered art," Spiegelman says. Slowly, that attitude evolved as people learned to appreciate comics in all their uniqueness. "Comics require that the viewer read pictures, not look at them," says Chris Ware, author-artist of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and one of the medium's reigning grand masters. "This is a peculiar means of apprehension that really has no precedent in Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peanuts in the Gallery | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...core of an influential group of neoconservatives that pushed President Bush to remove Saddam Hussein from office. Their ideas and their respect were-and are-mutual. "I'm a great fan of the Vice President," Libby told Larry King in 2002. "I think he's one of the smartest, most honorable people I've ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Cheney's Cheney" | 10/28/2005 | See Source »

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