Bill and Melinda Gates with Bono are Time Magazine's Persons of the Year
According to Time Magazine -the Person of the Year is chosen - with an aim to pick “the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives.”
A Time article said “When you look at the number of people who die from the kind of diseases and poverty that the Gates’ and Bono are fighting, the death tolls are far greater than what occurs in natural disasters or wars,” he told Reuters.
The founder of computer giant Microsoft Corp., whose personal fortune of $46.5 billion topped Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s richest again this year, and his wife were named for their work in the Gates Foundation, the world’s biggest charity with a $29 billion endowment, while Bono was described as the “rocker who has made debt reduction sexy.”
“Bono charmed and bullied and morally blackmailed the leaders of the world’s richest countries into forgiving $40 billion in debt owed by the poorest,” Time said.
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