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Billions pledged to educate world's kids
NEW YORK — A coalition of governments, charities and UN agencies pledged $4.5 billion to get all the world's children in school by 2015. That was the target year established by a UN summit in 2000, but as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown noted,...Tags: Bono, Gordon Brown
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What Bono doesn't say about Africa
WILLIAM EASTERLY is a professor of economics at New York University, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of "The White Man's Burden: How the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest HaveJUST WHEN IT SEEMED that Western images of Africa could not get any weirder, the July 2007 special Africa issue of Vanity Fair was published, complete with a feature article on "Madonna's Malawi." At the same time, the memoirs of an African child...Tags: Relief and Aid Organizations, Economy, Consumer Electronics Industry, Famines, Elementary Schools
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Connecting to Hay on Wye
Special to the Los Angeles TimesTHE BEST WAY From LAX, KLM offers connecting service (change of planes) to Cardiff, Wales, about 47 miles from Hay on Wye. Restricted round-trip airfares start at $734. WHERE TO STAY The Swan at Hay, Church Street, Hay on Wye, Herefordshire; 011-44-...Tags: Dave Eggers, Doris Lessing, Martin Amis, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Hitchens
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Where's the paper?
Today, Reynolds and McChesney address the future of newspapers. Previously, they debated the state of contemporary news media and the value of traditional journalism. Later in the week, they'll debate media consolidation and other issues. Greatly...Tags: Willie Nelson, National Basketball Association, Government, Colleges and Universities, National Government
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Madonna's new baby is out of Africa, famously
Newsday Staff WriterMadonna has spent decades reinventing herself into intriguing characters. But as she makes the rounds this week to talk about her recent adoption of a Malawian boy, many wonder exactly what her latest role is. Nurturing mother? Publicity whore? Or...Tags: Books, Books and Magazines, Celebrity Mothers, Manhattan (New York City), Mia Farrow
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Stars seek new leading roles
Newsday Staff WriterGeorge Clooney was there. Mia Farrow was there. So were Drew Barrymore, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Naomi Watts, Matt Damon and Bono. It wasn't a Hollywood party, a movie premiere or the opening of a chic new restaurant. It was Africa, whose dubious...Tags: Mia Farrow, Famines, Massacres, Diplomacy, Clay Aiken
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THE BEST OF 2005 MUSIC
STAFF WRITER; Rafer Guzman; Gene SeymourFrom Mariah Carey (sizzling again) to 50 Cent (cooling off), it's a what've-you-done-lately pop world. Few things are more fickle than the here-today, gone-by-lunch life cycles of the music industry's seasonal pop and hip-hop stars. Yet, in 2005, the...Tags: Paul McCartney, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Jack Kerouac, Missing in Action
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A concerted effort to help
STAFF WRITEROn July 13, 1985, pop music changed the world. Live Aid - an event that joined many of music's biggest stars of the time for concerts in London and Philadelphia - united the world, playing to a television audience of more than 1.5 billion people and...Tags: Paul McCartney, Faith Hill, Summits, Diplomacy, Linda Ronstadt
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'Sketches of Frank Gehry'
Times Staff WriterArchitecture is the slowest of the arts, by far: It often takes a full decade for a building to go from sketch to ribbon-cutting, a journey that can be pushed off course by zoning officials, fussy clients and the laws of gravity. But in "Sketches of Frank...Tags: Santa Monica, National Hockey League, Sydney Pollack, California, Guggenheim Museum
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Movie review: 'Sketches of Frank Gehry'
Tribune staff reporter2½ stars (out of four) When famed architect Frank Gehry asked Sydney Pollack to make a documentary about him, Pollack initially demurred. "I don't know anything about making documentaries," Pollack recalls telling Gehry. "And I don't know anything...Tags: Sydney Pollack, Sony Corp., Movies, Architecture
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'New York Doll'
Times Staff Writer"New York Doll" is a documentary with the charm of the unexpected. It's a rock 'n' roll fairy tale involving fame and obscurity, feuds and friendship, glam rock and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If that sounds like an unlikely...Tags: Orange County Regional History Center, Donny Osmond, Iggy Pop, Cinema Industry, Christianity
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Rewind 2005: The Year In News
Like every year, 2005 saw tragic and sometimes frivolous news. Politicians became embroiled in controversy, important people died, celebrities did anpd said stupid things, and occasionally, we were uplifted by some good news. But if it's one message...Tags: Elton John, Paul McCartney, Bill Clinton, The Pope, Animal Diseases
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