Word: bonos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...part of the business school's just-launched social entrepreneurship program, the undergraduate vendors have teamed with an organization that knows a few things about socially responsible marketing: Edun Apparel is a clothing line started in 2005 by U2's Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson, which aims to bring fair employment practices to the fashion industry. "Bono and Ali are both committed to the mission that trade is more important than aid," said Edun CEO Christian Kemp-Griffin...
...Robert Lindsay is spot on with the PM's speech patterns, mannerisms and tics. Lindsay visibly swells when an aide advises Blair to shun the press after his resignation, telling Blair "You're Olympian." But while waiting for the U.N. to call and offer him "something big" or for Bono to get in touch, Blair sits around toying with the idea of setting up the "Blair Foundation for International Peace and Justice and Interfaith Understanding ... or something like that," or dictating the closing chapters of his autobiography, in which he mentions "the hand of history on my shoulder" 29 times...
Charles “Cully” D. Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, sparked outrage from the legal community after urging corporations to cut their ties with firms that have lawyers doing pro bono work for Guantánamo Bay detainees on Federal News Radio last Thursday...
...interview with Federal News Radio, Stimson listed the names of several major law firms with lawyers defending Guantánamo detainees, suggesting that they be boycotted. Though these lawyers—coordinated by the Center for Constitutional Rights—work pro bono, Stimson suggested that they were “receiving moneys from who knows where...
Close your eyes, and the dude kind of sounds like Bono! The Joshua Tree, a U2 tribute band named for the real-deal’s eponymous 1987 hit album, performs all your favorites at a fraction of the cost. With five bucks, you can belt out “Bloody Sunday” with a decidedly non-Irish but still pretty talented rock band...