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Time unveiled its Person of Year, which is actually People of the Year, not a Force of the Year as many had suspected, with Good Samartians Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono being the people in question. You can't actually read why they're so great online - okay, you can read it, you Time subscribers - so we'll just speculate that Time was upset that an early pick of "Mother Nature" was leaked. And besides, what sells more magazines than one of the world's richest men and his do-gooding wife and an Irish rocker who rocks the sunglasses every chance he can? Managing Editor Jim Kelly explained on the Today show that the selection was to show what people can do in the face of adversity.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which is pretty amazing (we liked the New Yorker article about it a couple weeks ago) and Bono's One Campaign to fight poverty. And two things you can see on the Time.com site: Other People of the Year include Chief Justice John Roberts and Kanye West and the Best Photos of the Year.
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Do we even care who Time’s Man/Woman/Person/Inanimate Object/ of the Year is anymore? Is Time even relevant anymore? I think the only time I read it is in the waiting room of a doctor or dentist, and it’s usually a stale issue. Ditto for the other news weeklies.
As for the selection of Bill Gates and his wife and Bono, what the hell are they thinking?
Bill Gates is spending his money to make the evil Micro$oft empire look good by making huge donations to charities.
Bono is actually going out and doing more than throwing money at things, though.
Go Bono! Best Bono story I heard was him telling a group of Christian Conservatives that AIDS was the new leprocy and the plague was right out of the New Testament, then turned to them and said, "Christ healed the lepers, what are you guys doing?" And they ponied up.
'Course, it was Bono telling the story. That's part of the package, too, I guess.
Actually, anyone can read the article. There's an image link that says you can read the full article if you watch a short ad. Which is just what I did.
Microsoft is the least efficient way to get money to charities ever invented (eventually some of the money will find its way to this foundation). Better to donate your money directly to charities, and use free software on your computer. I'd recommend starting with OpenOffice, Thunderbird and Firefox, then getting more serious after you've mastered these.