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Tribe--who is arguing the Cipollone case pro bono, or without pay--based his argument on two pieces of congressional legislation in 1965 and 1969 which place restrictions on tobacco companies...
...album is full of major-league guitar crunching and mysterious, spacy chords. Evanescent melodies float seamlessly between songs of love, temptation, loose political parable and tight personal confession. The notes credit all songs to the band collectively -- lead singer Bono of late had taken a separate credit for lyrics -- and Achtung Baby does sound more cohesive than anything else U2 has done. Tunes like The Fly are restless, even reckless, with invention, and the band can write ravishing, slightly eerie romances like Mysterious Ways better than anyone else who can fill a stadium with cheering fans. There...
...followers by aggressively recruiting and regally pampering them at the church's "Celebrity Centers," a chain of clubhouses that offer expensive counseling and career guidance. Adherents include screen idols Tom Cruise and John Travolta, actresses Kirstie Alley, Mimi Rogers and Anne Archer, Palm Springs mayor and performer Sonny Bono, jazzman Chick Corea and even Nancy Cartwright, the voice of cartoon star Bart Simpson. Rank-and-file members, however, are dealt a less glamorous Scientology...
...September 1989 article in The Washington Monthly titled "The Pro Bono Hustle," Liza Mundy inquired about the role that pro bono work plays in promoting the careers of young attorneys. "Partners hastened to say that pro bono would never actually count against you," she discovered. Public service is not a recognized evil. What a relief...
SOME WILL CHARGE, as many New York lawyers did when that state's bar recently recommended that every attorney perform 20 hours of pro bono work each year, that requiring citizens to do work not of their choosing is simply a form of slavery. That argument, however, is barely above contempt. First, it ignores the reality that our society does require contributions of our time to fulfill civil duties--we are, for example, obligated to serve on juries when called...