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Oprah and the Voice of a New Generation

Lucia Brawley | Posted 12.17.2009 | Media

Read More: The Shift, Derrick Ashong, Oprah Winfrey, The Economist, Steven Spielberg, Vanity Fair, Bono, Harpo Productions, Desmond Tutu, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey Network, Soulfege, Community Marketing Blog-Off, Media News

"Everything I've worked so hard for is coming together right now," says Derrick Ashong, activist, social entrepreneur, and front man to the band Soulfege.

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Why Do We Care About Tiger Woods?

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 12.04.2009 | Sports

Read More: Fame, Magic Johnson, Henry Kissinger, Tiger Woods, Dennis Rodman, Bono, George Clooney, Celebrity, Tiger Woods Scandal, John Ensign Affair, Power, Mark Sanford Affair, Sports News

Once we've conflated celebrity with power, it's inevitable that we will see a celebrity's errors as a betrayal. We made him famous, we imputed power to him, and then he took advantage of it.

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'Coming Together As One' Campaign Encourages Youth To Fight Poverty

Posted 12.01.2009 | Impact

Read More: John Cho, HIV/AIDS, Hayden Panettiere, Poverty, Leighton Meester, Malaria, Corbin Bleu, Global Poverty, one.org, HIV/AIDS Africa, Fighting Malaria, Bono, World AIDS Day, Impact News

Young stars Hayden Panettiere, John Cho, Corbin Bleu, Leighton Meester and others have joined ONE.org to encourage college students to join their camp...

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Deeply In The (RED) This World AIDS Day

James Boyce | Posted 12.01.2009 | Impact

Read More: World AIDS Day, Nike, Bono, Impact News

It might not seem like much, buying an iPod, or a cup of coffee at Starbucks, but collectively, we have done an amazing thing.

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African Leaders Advise Bono On Reform Of U2

William Easterly | Posted 11.23.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Bono, Foreign Aid, Nelson Mandela, Development, Africa, U2, Comedy News

Saying that U2's rock had lost touch with its African roots, the Commission called for urgent measures to halt U2's slide towards impending crisis.

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NBC's Brian Williams: Changing the World for the Better

Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: New Orleans, White House, Council on Foreign Relations, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, Bono, Thought Leaders, Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, Columbia University School of Journalism, Global Citizens, Msnbc, Cnbc, Yitzhak Rabin, Jim Luce, Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World., Hurricane Katrina, Nigeria, Jane Stoddard Williams, Bill Clinton, Kabul, New Canaan, Ghana, Ohio State University, Making a Difference, Paul Stevers, Bates College, Facebook, Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News, HIV/AIDS, Andeisha Farid, Tom Brokaw, Mali, Afghan Child Education and Care Organization, Walter Cronkite, Afceco, Disease, Jimmy Carter, Afghanistan, Orphans International Worldwide, Poverty, New York News

Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO) and its founder Andeisha Farid in ...

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Music for the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Tim Mohr | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1989, The Cure, Ultravox, 99 Red Balloons, Kate Bush, Nukes, Sisters of Mercy, Atomic War, Billy Bragg, The Smiths, Nena, Nuclear Weapons, Alphaville, U2, Tim Mohr, Atomic Bomb, Berlin Wall, Anne Clark, Bono, Berlin, Entertainment News

The awareness of mortality in 1980s nuke-pop was amplified by the inescapably bleak Cold War reality. With the fall of the Wall, much of the threat evaporated. The music, however, lives on.

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Rock Hall Rocks to a $4 Million-Plus Haul

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 11.06.2009 | Entertainment

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation's Joel Peresman has confirmed that last week's monster benefit concerts in Madison Square Garden will yield at least $4 million.

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Bill Gates' Birthday: Bono Serenades Gates In Song (VIDEO)

Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology

Read More: Bono, Bill Gates, Bill Gates Birthday, Bono Bill Gates, Bono U2, Bill Gates Birthday Song, U2 Bill Gates Birthday, U2 Concert Gates, U2 Gates, Technology News

See video below Bill Gates turned 54-years-old October 28, and celebrated his birthday at the U2 concert in Vancouver B.C., TechFlash reports. A lot...

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A Note to Bill Gates, Oprah, Madonna: size isn't everything!

Richard Walden | Posted 11.03.2009 | Impact

Read More: Brangelina, Philanthropy, Malawi, Oprah, Grameen Bank, Social Venture Capitalists, Madonna, Pierre Omidyar, Bill Gates, Muhammad Yunus, Bono, Impact News

I appreciate the Gates family's, Oprah's, and Madonna's philanthropic work, but they're missing a huge world full of local talent, new ideas and smaller-scale projects crying out for funding.

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The Myth That Michael Jackson Was Happy And Healthy

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The-Michael-Jackson-Tapes, Michael Jackson, This Is It, Bono, Entertainment News

If we choose to believe that Michael Jackson was happy and healthy at the time of his death we are wrong. We would also be missing the point -- that we can learn from Michael's tragic death.

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Look Who's Not Talking, Bono!

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 10.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Politics, Greil Marcus, Concerts, Animal Rights, Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails, Courtney Love, U2, Rage Against the Machine, Iggy Pop, Music, Bono, Hole, Entertainment News

Mo longer are we content to hear the tin pot half-baked undergraduate political ramblings of some bloke who just happens to have the mic. What in the hell would he know?

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HuffPost Reviews: Jack Johnson, R.E.M., Train, Dolly, Carly, and More, Plus U2 Plays The Rose Bowl, and This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Adam Clayton, Sesame Street, Jimmy Stafford, Paul Simon, Bono, Scott Underwood, Pam Tillis, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Counting Crows, Dolly Parton, Carly Simon, Emmett Malloy, Elton John, David Bowie, Disney, Needtobreathe, "Weird Al" Yankovic, G Love, Pink Martini, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ben Harper, Kathy Mattea, Train, Tanya Tucker, Sara Watkins, Eddie Vedder, Larry Mullen Jr., U2, Von, Jack Johnson, Jackson Browne, American Idol, Pat Monahan, R.E.M., Moondog, Elvis Costello, Entertainment News

In 2008, Jack Johnson toured the world with his Sleep Through The Static concerts, the best of these shows assembled for his new CD/DVD En Concert.

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Spider-Man Musical Delayed Due To Investor, Production Troubles

nytimes.com | Patrick Healy | Posted 10.23.2009 | New York

Read More: David Garfinkle, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, Spider-Man Musical Delay, Spider-Man, Bono, Broadway, Spider-Man Musical, New York, New York City, New York News

The new multimillion-dollar Broadway "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" is now expected to start previews and open this spring later than scheduled, beca...

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Conscious Companies: 7 Business Initiatives For Good

Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact

Read More: The Gap, Slidepoll, Oprah Winfrey, Ronald Mcdonald's House Charities, David Arquette, The Global Fund, McDonald's, Starbucks, Feeding America, Target, Bono, Impact News

John D. Rockefeller Jr. said to "think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege." Several major international corporations are trying to follow that...

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World Politics: Wanting to Puke

Tom Matlack | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Afghanistan, Bono, Afghanistan War, World News

was brought up to believe in peace not war. But the world is a different place. I am not one who believes we can decide to disengage from the world at this late hour.

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Bono Defends Obama's Nobel Prize

Posted 10.19.2009 | Impact

Read More: National Identity, Bono, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, America, Impact News

A few years ago, I accepted a Golden Globe award by barking out an expletive. One imagines President Obama did the same when he heard about his Nobel...

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Reconsidering Favoritism In College Admissions

The Atlantic | James Warren | Posted 10.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: University of Illinois, Nepotism, College Admissions, Ethics, University of Illinois Clout List, University of Illinois Admissions Scandal, Bono, Chicago News

Indeed, the whole business of admissions is touchy and what can pass for scandal in modern media has surrounded the University of Illinois in recent m...

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Counter-Factual History: McCain Is President and Bono Wins the Nobel Prize

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: Straits of Hormuz, Syria, Shanghai Treaty Organization, Mongolia, Vaclav Havel, Lithuania, Bono, Kosovo, China, Cold War, Robert Kagan, Putin, Iran, Nato, Joe Lieberam, Russia, Lech WałęSa, Czech Republic, Latvia, John McCain, Serbia, League of Democracies, Nobel Peace Prize, Colombia, Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, Medvedev, Cnn, Poland, Georgia, Israel, Wolf Blitzer, Tawian, Lita, World News

"I have to admit that I'm beginning to miss George W. Bush," is the way former Republican Senator "Chuck" Hagel responded when being asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer to assess the foreign policy record of the administration of Republican President John McCain.

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Star Wars In Concert Comes To Denver: Where Does It Rank With Other Questionable Musical Adaptations? (VOTE, VIDEO)

Posted 10.08.2009 | Denver

Read More: Slidepoll, Shrek, U2, Star Wars in Concert, Bono, Denver, The Wedding Singer, Spiderman, American Idiot, Denver Star Wars, Denver News

Get excited, Denver: Star Wars In Concert is coming to town, playing at the Pepsi Center on October 18th. The event will feature a live symphony orch...

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TV Review: The Cleveland Show

Catie Lazarus | Posted 10.12.2009 | Entertainment

The Cleveland Show is simultaneously inventive and familiar in how it chronicles the adventures of a loving and garden-variety dysfunctional American family.

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Writers Should Think Like Bono

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: U2, Writers, Books, Bono, Death of Books, Publishing, Kindle, Technology and Writing, Writing, Reader Technology, Progressive Companies, Entertainment News

The books of the 21st century will no longer be sold by an agent to a publishing house who tries to sell them to bookstores. The most successful books of the future will look more like a U2 concert.

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This Sunday, Help Us Turn Carnegie Hall (RED)

James Boyce | Posted 11.29.2009 | New York

Read More: Carnegie Hall, (RED), Bono, Adam Clayton, Celtic Music, U2, Irish Music, Gavin Friday, The Edge, Benefit Concert, New York News

Not only is Irish musician Gavin Friday performing at Carnegie Hall on Sunday night, he's bringing a few friends. Like Bono. The Edge. Larry Mullen, Jr. And Adam Clayton.

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Brace Yourself for Pink Overload

Halle Tecco | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Pink, Donating to Charity, Breast Cancer, Cause Marketing, Giving, Pink-Ribbon, Consumer Protection, Bono, Living News

We're seeing "pinkwashing," when corporations try to boost sales by turning their products pink in the fight against breast cancer. But will your pretty pink purchase really have an impact?

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Coldplay Donates One Million Pounds To Charity

Posted 11.23.2009 | Impact

Read More: Donating to Charity, Charity, Kids Company, Coldplay, Bono, Chris Martin, Impact News

Chris Martin is sending a message to Bono: We can make an impact too! This week Martin's band Coldplay donated one million pounds to British organiza...

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