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Bono and the Gateses are TIME’s Persons of the Year

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief

February 1, 2006 by Leave a Comment

"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," Time magazine named Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates as its 2005 Persons of the Year. Editor-at-large Nancy Gibbs making the case for Time's selection called the Gates/Bono alliance "unlikely, unsentimental, … [Read more...] about Bono and the Gateses are TIME’s Persons of the Year

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