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...When Bono tears loose on U2's Bullet the Blue Sky, you can still hear the ache of fear in his voice, the closeness of the memory. The song is immediate and passionate, a cry of conscience on an album full of oblique social speculation and spiritual voyaging. The Joshua Tree is not, it would seem at first, a record for these times. Bono and the rest of the Irish band called U2 seem to be citizens of some alternative time frame spliced from the idealism of the '60s and the musical free-for-all of the late '70s. Their...
...that have helped U2 break through to an even wider audience -- have been in the service of a good cause, at Live Aid or during last summer's tour for Amnesty International. This is not, then, just a band for partying down. "Partying is a disguise, isn't it?" Bono asks, and does not wait for an answer. This is a band that believes rock music has moral imperatives and social responsibilities. There is no one better than U2 at bringing "over there" back "over here," and setting it down right by the front door, where no one can miss...
...especially on another continent. BRITNEY SPEARS told Elle magazine that she's mulling the name London Preston if the tyke due to exit her much on-display belly this fall is a boy. Spears' metropolitan moniker would mimic choices by David and Victoria Beckham, who call their boy Brooklyn; Bono, whose daughter is Memphis; Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin, whose lass is Ireland; and Michael Jackson, whose princess is Paris. If Spears has a girl, she says, she'll call her Addison Shye. Addison is a county in Vermont. It's not glamorous, but it's probably very pretty...
...every case Roberts has worked on will suit their purposes. Although for the most part he has shown a reliably conservative streak, Roberts has also taken some surprising stances, defending the rights of welfare recipients, criminal defendants and prisoners in pro bono cases, for instance, and representing the state attorneys general in their antitrust case against Microsoft. Still, while usually taking a fairly pragmatic approach to the law, Roberts has by and large demonstrated a consistent legal philosophy: it stresses relative judicial restraint and takes a limited view of congressional power but a broader view of executive privilege...
...host the 2012 Olympics provided Blair with another long-odds win. (Blair was so nervous about the result that he took a walk rather than watch the announcement on TV.) And by focusing the G-8 on Africa and coordinating his goals closely with those of campaigners like Bono and Bob Geldof, Blair has burnished the progressive credentials that his blood brotherhood with George W. Bush over Iraq had obscured...