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...attractive American student on trial for murder can count on support 6,000 miles away in her native Seattle. There, one of Amanda Knox's most vocal backers is attorney Anne Bremner, who has offered her counsel pro bono to the accused's family and is a spokeswoman for Friends of Amanda. On Friday, she sat down with TIME to go over the case against Knox, who took the witness stand on Friday in her murder trial...
...global economic recession, that the world's richest nations have failed to deliver much of the aid they promised Africa four years ago. But campaigners are not letting the Group of Eight (G-8) industrialized countries off the hook. According to ONE, an advocacy group founded by U2 singer Bono, most of the blame for the shortfall in pledges made at the high-profile Gleneagles summit in 2005 rests on just two countries - Italy and France. Italy, which next month hosts a summit of G-8 leaders, has delivered a minuscule 3% of the amount it pledged at Gleneagles, according...
...while figures such as Geldolf and Bono continue to try to shame the wealthy of the world into giving to the poorest, some tough economic realities are likely to intervene when the eight richest leaders converge in Italy to crunch the numbers for African...
...addition to working as a judge, taught law at New York and Columbia universities. Also active in numerous pro bono causes...
...groups still have to finance the infrastructure required for an extra person on staff. Many nonprofits have seen their own revenues fall in recent months and undertaken layoffs themselves. Just finding the money for another computer can be hard, says Esther Lardent, president of the Washington-based nonprofit Pro Bono Institute, never mind the cost of training and supervising of a brand-new lawyer. "Morale and office tensions also have to be considered," she adds. "At $75,000, these young people might be getting paid more than the most experienced attorney on staff...