Yeah, they hang. Bill, Bono and Melinda. Three activists with an iPod. Time voted them "Persons of the Year." I found this interview interesting. A couple quotes from Bono:
1. On meeting the Gates:
"It was fresh not to be seen as a celebrity but as a piece in the puzzle of how we communicate the jeopardy of all those lives--and the opportunity of helping if we can just agree on something. It was nice not to be asked how the Achtung! Baby sessions went in Berlin."
2. On his anger regarding injustice:
"I get angry all right--but at myself and our inability to tell the story, to get the news out that this need not be a burden but instead an adventure. But that anger is much more than made up for by the nobility of these people and their entrepreneurial nature. And then you see what a new medicine can do. Three years ago, the idea that nearly half a million Africans would be on antiretrovirals paid for by the U.S.A. was absolutely preposterous. That more than repays the anger."
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