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...CRIME AND PUNISHMENT The vast majority of Miers' corporate cases were resolved without litigation, so she has rarely seen the inside of a courtroom. She has expressed strong opinions, though, about the justice system, advocating the expansion of free legal aid and encouraging lawyers to do more pro bono work. In a 1993 A.B.A. Journal article, she called for more funding for the defense of death-row prisoners in Texas. Miers also served on the board of Exodus Ministries, a Christian group that helps former prisoners adjust to life outside prison...
Other planned initiatives include a program to train civil-rights lawyers to be expert witnesses; support of the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965; a joint program with the Kennedy School of Government in criminal justice policy; and a pro-bono project to overturn wrongful convictions...
...seven-year-old center enjoyed a high profile under its founding director, Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76, who joined with U2 singer Bono to promote debt relief and advised U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on poverty reduction...
There are further signs of changes and counterbalances as well. Although Bono has received lyric credit on the last two albums, the songwriting has traditionally involved the whole band, "chipping away," as Mullen puts it, "chipping away and doing it until it feels right. It takes an awful long time and is incredibly frustrating." Sometimes the system works well -- Pride (In the Name of Love) was written at a sound check in a total of seven minutes -- but the Edge is mulling over further streamlining. "I think in the future Bono and I will work together more closely," he says...
...Bono has been reading Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver and has promised to write new songs during this tour. He has already begun one, based on a recent video shoot at a grungy Los Angeles location and a chance encounter with a gay Viet Nam vet. "I spotted empty bottles all over the roof with the label Wild Irish Rose wine," he says. "So I started this song. It is about suicide. The opening line is 'This city of angels has brought a devil out in me.' " (Well, the band has been listening to a good deal...