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Michael would be Michael Stipe of R.E.M. The two singers struck up a friendship through mutual admiration in the mid-'90s, and Stipe, another introverted front man, has become Yorke's occasional mentor. "It's a very particular thing that we do," says Stipe. "It's different from playing guitar or acting or painting, and he just needed someone who had been through it to kind of bring him back down to earth and overstate the obvious, which is that you can't believe your own hype. His material explores darker aspects of walking the earth, and people project that...
...Human Rights Watch's international justice program. "Some in Zagreb," he fears, "draw comfort from the Bush Administration's objections to an International Criminal Court" and enjoy seeing "the world's only superpower going on a jihad against international justice." Ironically, the Bobetko dispute comes as Croatia's President, Stipe Mesic, prepares to take the witness stand in the Hague. One of 177 witnesses whom prosecutors plan to call in the newest phase of Milosevic's war-crimes trial - dealing with "ethnic cleansing" in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina - he is due to testify on Oct. 1. The accusations against Bobetko...
...While Stipe scribbles away, Jones wonders aloud which part of the DATA Agenda--dropping the debt, making trade rules more advantageous for poor countries or getting more funding for AIDS drugs and health care--Bono wants the world to focus on. "I think you've got too many issues. That's how we blew it before," says Jones, who raised money for famine relief in 1985 as part of USA for Africa. "Americans don't know about f___ing Philadelphia, let alone Africa. Trade is some very sophisticated politics. You have to particularize the drama for them...
...impractical for a political advocate. Two weeks after the Super Bowl performance, Bono is in Los Angeles to accept a $100,000 donation from the Entertainment Industry Foundation for DATA. He calls a meeting on the porch of his suite at the Chateau Marmont with Michael Stipe, Quincy Jones, Bobby Shriver (the record-producing and fund-raising son of Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver) and Jamie Drummond, DATA's director. It's a new-ideas meeting, and Bono hopes to tap some of the music industry's sharpest philanthropic minds to raise public awareness for DATA's core issues...
...While Stipe scribbles away, Jones wonders aloud which part of the DATA Agenda?dropping the debt, making trade rules more advantageous for poor countries or getting more funding for aids drugs and health care?Bono wants the world to focus on. "I think you've got too many issues. That's how we blew it before," says Jones, who raised money for famine relief in 1985 as part of USA for Africa. "Americans don't know about ?f___ing Philadelphia, let alone Africa. Trade is some very sophisticated politics. You have to particularize the drama for them...