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Finally Bono can't restrain himself. "Do you know we've been chased down hallways with the words 'measurable results'? What you have here is the stuff that can change the world! What we need to do ..." and for a minute he is off. There are rhythmic pauses between his phrases, some of which have been rounded smooth by dozens of similar meetings, while others are hitting the air for the first time and are charged with tension. The overall effect is musical. Bono is taking a room filled with economists, mathematicians and policy experts and levitating it. When...
What would help get some of those checks cashed is a sustainable political movement, and Bono knows that. "I once asked Bill Gates what his long-term goal was for DATA," says Bono. "He said that one day he hoped people could run for office on this stuff." Bono anticipates that the celebrity-studded ONE Campaign, which gained pledges of support to ending global poverty from 2 million people, will someday become "the N.R.A. for the world's poor," but for now it's what economists call a risk-free choice; there's no fee to join and interest tends...
...expresses himself on a grand scale nightly, Bono is surprisingly stunted when it comes to talking about how he deals with the pressure he has brought upon himself. "I don't talk about this stuff to anybody," he says. "Of course, I don't talk about it to the band--it's boring enough for them onstage. When I go home, I don't want to talk about it. When I'm with my mates, I just don't. I think about it, and I allow occasionally enough time to think about it in moments of reflection...
...restorers found an opening for a Franklin stove, which is installed away from the wall to radiate heat around a room. Visitors can take a narrated multimedia tour through the basement and first two floors that Balisciano describes as a "historical experience." "This is not a museum with stuff behind glass and people peering over the red ropes," she says. "We are projecting history right onto the walls," with a sound-and-light show that recaps Franklin's London years. After three centuries, the house in which he spent them has been reinvented. tel: (44-20) 7930 9121; www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org
...Visitors can take a narrated multimedia tour through the basement and first two floors. "This is not a museum with stuff behind glass and people peering over the red ropes,'' Balisciano says, citing the accompanying sound-and-light show that recaps Franklin's London years. After three centuries, the house in which he spent them has been reinvented. benjaminfranklinhouse.org