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...would fall almost precisely on the 20th anniversary of Live Aid, and Bono wanted a concert to prove how far the movement had come. Bob Geldof "didn't want to repeat himself," says Bono, but six weeks before the summit he hit upon the idea of staging free concerts in each G-8 country. After a frenzy of persuasion, cities were lined up, sponsors found and bands, many of which already had concerts scheduled for the day, were persuaded to divert from their itineraries and play for free. "Charm, handsomeness and the fact that [Bono] wrote Where the Streets Have...
...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...
...headed by Ashok Alexander, formerly a senior partner at consulting firm McKinsey & Co. He calls the 200,000 sex workers served by the program "customers" and the clinics "franchises." In the past year, he has cut off funding to three nongovernmental organizations because they did not meet agreed-upon milestones. "People are not used to being terminated for nonperformance, strange as it may seem," Alexander says...
...Solomon’s Other Song,” Dec. 12), “As most everybody knows, the people who fight America’s wars tend to come from America’s most disadvantaged groups.” It is unfortunate that a claim based upon what is perceived as common knowledge should be so wrong. A November study (“Who Bears the Burden” by the Center for Data Analysis) showed, in fact, that 45 percent of all new enlisted recruits, excluding officers who are generally from wealthier families, are from the wealthiest...
...with a snowball. Dec. 10: 8:51 p.m.—An officer responded to the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) because an individual reported that “someone is after [him or her].” The responding officer could not locate either party upon arrival. 9:21 p.m.—Reports that an individual was refusing to leave the KSG sent a police officer to the scene. The responding officer found the lingering individual, checked him for any outstanding warrants with no results, issued him a trespass warning, and led him off campus...