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Time Names Bono Person of The Year | ||||||||||||
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| Lisa Rogers, 12.21.2006, 10:55 AM | ||||||||||||
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| (EZ-Tracks) - U2 frontman Bono and Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and Melinda Gates have been named Persons of the Year by Time magazine. Gates, the world's richest man, his wife Melinda and singer Bono were honored as a reflection of their tireless work to alleviate poverty and help the less fortunate through benevolent charity. Bono was chosen for his Live 8 performance and mission to persuade the leaders of rich countries to drop the debt owed by the developing world. The Gates were in turn praised for their creation of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has quickly become the world's biggest charity. The latest issue of the magazine, published today, reads, "For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are Time's Persons of the Year." The publication aim to honor "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill." | ||||||||||||
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