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The morning plenary at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) just concluded. After some opening remarks, President Clinton "Oprahed" an august panel that included Queen Rania Al-Abdullah (Jordan),  E. Neville Isdell, chairman of Coca-Cola, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, Al Gore and the person I was most excited to hear Bono!

This is the fourth CGI but the first that I have attended.  It is a star-studded alignment of donors like Pam Omidyar, corporate CEOs, nonprofits, Nobel Peace PrizeLaureates like Gore and Muhammad Yunus, the founder of the Grameen Bank, and government types.  Mayor Bloomberg, who spoke with Lance Armstrong, prior to the panel about funding cancer prevention in Africa, is all of the above minus the Nobel Peace Prize! Read more »