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Bono at the World Economic Forum
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Bono Is Everywhere At Economic ForumBy CHRIS HAWLEY, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Every year at the World Economic Forum (news - web sites), there's a leader or two who stands out, courted by the rich and famous - and the media. In years past, Madeline Albright, Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), Bill Clinton and George Soros have been the stars. This year it's Bono, the lead singer of U2, who has made a cause out of Third World debt forgiveness. The rocker seems to be everywhere at the forum, which has otherwise brought a decidedly straight-laced crowd of business leaders and politicians to New York. ``He's a good friend of mine,'' said U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, lounging on a couch at the Inter-Continental Hotel where forum participants hold press conferences. ``He can meet with the pope one day and with Jesse Helms on another.'' Wearing blue wraparound sunglasses Thursday inside the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel where the participants hold their sessions, he traded opinions with three Nobel Peace Prize winners: Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel and Kofi Annan (news - web sites). Then Bono played a private concert for conference-goers. On Saturday, he faced off with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill on the forum's main stage in a debate on foreign aid, then joined Microsoft chairman Bill Gates (news - web sites) for a news conference on AIDS (news - web sites) prevention in Africa. ``The great thing about hanging out with Republicans, it is very, very, very unhip for both of us. There's kind of a parity of pain there,'' Bono joked. It's strange company for a singer who once railed against American imperialism in ``Bullet the Blue Sky'' and whose albums regularly lambaste Western consumerism and big business.
Another great American celebrity hypocrite. Who's music sucks.
Another great American celebrity hypocrite. Who's music sucks.
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