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...Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, they opened a dialogue with Bono and ultimately persuaded Bush to meet him. "I took my boys, 8 and 10, to their first rock concert--U2 here in Washington," says Gerson. "We met Bono beforehand, and he says, 'I'm so honored that you would pick me for your first concert. I'm a little hoarse tonight. I need you to do me a favor. If you hear my voice going out, I want you to pray for me.' He's just obviously a good...
Standing before the festering multitudes, a doctor urged them to go ahead and pick out a family to talk to. "Do you want to go first?" Melinda quietly asked Bill. "No," he answered under his breath, his smile frozen on his face. Melinda strode forward, knelt beside one mother and reached out to help give the baby medicine. Then the doctor sprayed her hands with sanitizer, and they moved on to the next encounter...
...attention filters, the human equivalent of throwing a dart at a map. A pretty face and a famous name are a convenient excuse to focus on one problem in the midst of a thousand equally unignorable others. To give to Tibet and not Africa may seem callous. But to pick Richard Gere over Bono--that's just show...
...living longer and staying in better shape longer. I mean, look at George--he was jumping out of airplanes at 80, and that was unheard of not very long ago. The other thing is that you gotta learn to let go of some things. My advice is pick a couple of things that matter and then leave yourself the flexibility to seize opportunities as they come up. Most of us feel we've had a pretty good shot at life. And we feel we owe our country and maybe the world at least some measure of our time and talents...
...House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi can appoint people to high-level commissions and direct millions of federal dollars to her district. But the lawmaker from San Francisco can't pick her own car. For security reasons, congressional leaders are required to ride in vans or sport-utility vehicles driven by Capitol Hill police. Pelosi, worried about environmental impact, is no longer content to ride in a gas-guzzling black Chevy Suburban. "I want a hybrid," she told TIME last week. A few Governors and mayors have already switched to hybrid cars for their official use. But so far, Pelosi says...