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Call me a fan, but Bono stands out. In the past three years, in talking to politicians, aid workers, activists and United Nations and development-bank officials, I have never heard a single suggestion that the U2 singer was involved with the plight of the world's poor for anything other than genuine concern. In part that's because he has convinced the professionals that he does his homework. It's one thing to hear celebrities talk about "doing something" for a cause. It's quite another to hear a rock star give a lecture on "HIPC conditionality," the terms...
...adequately differentiate the two, perhaps their approach to aging will. Distinguishing herself from the founder of Ms. magazine, CHER, 55, asserted, "I'm just not gonna Gloria Steinem out and say, 'Oh, no, I'm thrilled.'" In an interview to air this week on ABC's Primetime Thursday, the singer turned actress turned disco diva rejects the blather about the glory of gathering wisdom and laugh lines: "I would love to lie, but I don't think there's anything good about it." Lest one snicker over her attempts to fight aging with nips and tucks, Cher sets the record...
...they danced. Both men showed the strain of natural dancers trying to hit the high notes in a form that didn?t automatically suit them. But Gene?s smoky tenor voice was more assured than Fred?s wispy tenor was. So why isn?t Kelly cherished as a singer? (There?s just one CD of Kelly songs, to Astaire?s dozen or so.) It could be that most of Fred?s tunes were written for him, while most of Kelly?s were oldies; and the new songs that Betty Comden and Adolph Green wrote for "On the Town," "Singin...
...Call me a fan, but Bono stands out. In the past three years, in talking to politicians, aid workers, activists and United Nations and development-bank officials, I have never heard a single suggestion that the U2 singer was involved with the plight of the world's poor for anything other than genuine concern. In part that's because he has convinced the professionals that he does his homework. It's one thing to hear celebrities talk about "doing something" for a cause. It's quite another to hear a rock star give a lecture on "HIPC conditionality," the terms...
Sachs—who is well-known for working with rock group U2’s lead singer Bono to reduce the debt faced by developing nations—said he is a part of a group that is planning a possible million-person march led by Bono on the Mall in Washington to advocate aid for developing countries...