Posted on Monday, December 19 2005 @ 0:19 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Time has named Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, "Persons of the Year", along with Bono from U2 for being "Good Samaritans" who made a difference in different ways.
“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 magazine said in its Dec. 19 issue, made public on Sunday.
Managing Editor James Kelly said the three had been chosen as the people most effective at finding ways to eradicate such calamities as malaria in Africa, HIV and AIDS and the grinding poverty that kills 8 million people a year.
You can read more over
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