Clinton, Garofalo attend peace fund-raiser
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Associated Press
Jan. 16, 2003 | NEW YORK (AP) --
Janeane Garofalo was the host -- and Bill Clinton was the guest of honor -- at a fund-raiser for Seeds of Peace, a New York-based organization that's brought thousands of young people from 22 warring lands to a Maine camp to learn peace-brokering.
Garofalo described Clinton's arrival at a private VIP reception at the Hammerstein Ballroom Tuesday night “like The Beatles deplaning -- it was hysteria.”
About 1,300 guests paid $175 to $500 each also to hear the Barenaked Ladies, a pop band that received MTV's first Seeds of Peace award.
“We can never find redemption in another person's destruction,” the former president told his audience.
“No one ever gets even,” said Clinton, noting that “people in power will have to embrace the common wisdom of Seeds of Peace. This is not useless idealism.”
As part of the evening's celebrity auction, Clinton offered to have lunch and an 18-hole golf game with the highest bidder -- who paid $22,000 for the honor. Officials did not release the winner's name. |
