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Article: Can a young Bill succeed where Uncle Sam failed?
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- Marketing Week
- Article date:
- February 3, 2005
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Bill Gates heads one of the world's most powerful companies yet appears to have a better grasp of accountability than his president. By George Pitcher
There are now two people running American foreign policy: George W. Bush and Bill Gates. Our Prime Minister looked distinctly uncomfortable as he shared a platform at the World Economic Forum last week with the Microsoft chairman and U2's rocker-turned-eco-warrior, Bono. Tony Blair, one supposed, would much rather be trying to "make poverty history" in the company of people that match his stature, such as the American president and, say, Sir Cliff Richard. But such is the devalued currency of world politics that ...