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Bono, meanwhile, launched a final burst of back-room politicking, greasing countless surreal encounters with people who had no business being in the same room together. Days before the summit, he visited 10 Downing Street and learned that the G-8's civil-servant negotiators, or "sherpas," who put deals into precise language, were feuding over how to pay for the proposed $50 billion aid package. "We were having a beer," Blair told TIME, "and just decided we would talk to these people who'd done an incredible amount of work, to give them a sense of the importance...
Just before the end of the summit--which was disrupted by the July 7 terrorist attacks in London--Bono dropped by President Bush's suite for a final nudge. "On so many issues it's difficult to know what God wants from us," Bono told Bush, "but on this issue, helping the desperately poor, we know God will bless...
...history. "You always worry for him when he gets up onstage to say these things," says Melinda. "Yeah, [we think] Oh, no, these are normal people here!" says Bill. Bono slept at their house, and the three of them stayed up until 3 a.m. scheming about the G-8 summit and listening to Bono's impressions of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy...
Each day, the Gates foundation receives about 140 requests for money or help. (It was a major sponsor of the TIME Global Health Summit, held in New York City in November.) Until now, the foundation has focused on education, libraries, global health and Seattle-area initiatives. But it may soon add water, sanitation and hygiene or financial services for the poor to the portfolio. Bill says he would also like to learn more about the Middle East and Asia. And he claims he will continue to increase the amount of time he devotes to the foundation. While it spends only...
...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...