"Two men asleep beside each other on a long journey into Africa, literally and thankfully above the thunderclouds. One is fairly clean shaven, papers strewn around him. Matte black suit, eyes slightly hollowed from no sleep, thoughts too big even for his big head. The other is a more bohemian mess. Unshaven, unkempt, he can't just have been up for days, his boyish face says years. An advertisement for why air miles can be bad for your health. When he wakes, an air hostess asks for his autograph. Confused and amused, he points to the geek in the black suit lying among the papers. That's me. Let me introduce myself. My name is Bono and I am the rock star student. The man with me is Jeffrey D. Sachs, the great economist, and for a few years now my professor. In time, his autograph will be worth a lot more than mine."
From the foreword to The End of poverty
Although I think it would actually be cooler to meet Bono, the picture is of (cool enough) Sachs and his "big head" as Bono calls it, and his autograph is in one of the first pages of my copy of The End of Poverty.
Although I think it would actually be cooler to meet Bono, the picture is of (cool enough) Sachs and his "big head" as Bono calls it, and his autograph is in one of the first pages of my copy of The End of Poverty.
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que buena foto, què es. veo que se llama img 5732. si la tomo con su camara, le rinde, bien. cuando llegue a la 9999, la camara genera un error y toca esperar y celebrar con una cerveza sus primeras diez mil imagenes del mundo real, depositadas en el mundo virtual, los ceros y unos que hacen la fotografia digital, son un sistema al borde del desastre.
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