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As I read Andrew F. Cooper's Celebrity Diplomacy, a first-rate meditation on the role of media stars as international relations players, my mind went back to 2000 and a visit by Bono, lead singer of the mega-group U2, to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. I heard a commotion outside my office on the third floor of the Littauer Center and peered out into the hallway just in time to see a diminutive figure with longish hair disappear around the corner. Several young women staffers were standing about in a gaga state. "Did you see?" one breathlessly declared. "That was …
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