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...People's Choice Awards; in Beverly Hills, Calif. He gained fame in 1976 when he won a landmark lawsuit against actor Lee Marvin, whose lover, Michele Triola Marvin, had abandoned her nightclub singing career to be his companion. Mitchelson also represented such celebrities as Joan Collins and Sonny Bono but later served more than two years in prison for tax fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 4, 2004 | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...World Bank program, called the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative, reduced Uganda's loan payments on the condition that the savings be channeled into health care, agricultural development and free primary education. Over the past few years, debt relief has been touted by everyone from Irish rock star Bono to boxing champ Muhammad Ali as one of the best ways to help lift the world's poorest countries out of poverty. According to the World Bank, even nations in the hipc program - which was extended last week - pay on average more than 12% of their revenues each year to creditors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Africa Get Out Of Debt? | 10/3/2004 | See Source »

...another 1.5 million will go to Dutch citizens. In October, the 56 photographs in the book will be blown up and displayed in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington DC, in an exhibition supported by DATA, the anti-poverty group co-founded by Irish singer and activist Bono, of the band U2, who wrote the song whose lyrics supply the book's only words. "If you look at the book, there are only questions," says Veenman. "I don't give answers. I just ask: 'Why is there no war against poverty? We have a war against terror. But where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Anonymous Cry | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...without marriage ("palimony") earned him a famous client list; in Beverly Hills, California . In 1976, he won a landmark lawsuit against actor Lee Marvin, whose lover, Michele Triola Marvin, had abandoned her nightclub singing career to be his companion. Mitchelson also represented such celebrities as Joan Collins and Sonny Bono, but later drew criticism for shoddy work, and served more than two years in prison for tax fraud. DIED. RUSS MEYER, 82, soft-core-porn director whose work set the tone for late 20th century pop culture at its most cheerfully leering; in Los Angeles. Always a picture taker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/26/2004 | See Source »

...could possibly be misinterpreted as a sign of midlife crisis. Instead, this as-yet-untitled album is just full of confident, expansive guitar rock from the masters of the form. All the old tricks--the Edge's echoing guitar notes, Larry Mullen Jr.'s martial snare--still work, although Bono has lost a touch of the high clarity he had in his mullet-sporting days. He still has enormous assuredness, and the occasional cracks in his voice make the bad-relationship songs (and, as always, there are quite a few) darker and more dramatic. Custom would seem to demand that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Preview | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

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