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...That would be Bono. The Irish rock star and activist could probably be the next Prime Minister of Canada if he wanted the job. But the post is to be taken by a man who spoke after him at the Liberal Party convention in Toronto last week, Paul Martin. A former Finance Minister who has had the longest dauphinate since Brian Williams was first tagged as the heir to Tom Brokaw, Martin will soon replace Jean Chretien, who has led Canada for a decade. Last week the Liberals elected Martin party boss on Chretien's retirement, and the Prime Ministership...
...Martin, one of life's rumpled figures with the sort of hair that no amount of grooming will ever make right, hasn't got Bono's charisma. His speech accepting the leadership of the party took a while to get going, and his biggest applause line - hey, this is Canada - came when he said, "I will keep the promise of universal and high-quality health care." At 65, he has become a quintessential figure of the Canadian establishment, a millionaire shipping magnate whose father, a stalwart of the Liberal Party, very nearly became Prime Minister himself in the 1960s...
Last year, HLS instituted pro-bono or underpaid legal service requirements for students, in an effort to have students give something back to the community...
...good old row." BONO, U2 front man, on his meeting with President George W. Bush, at which they discussed aids funding...
...deems nonessential to the functioning of his community. Pávek's initiative has won cheers from dozens of mayors who share the predicament, but the state administration is unimpressed. Calling the new rules unconstitutional, it has given him a month to scrap them. (Several lawyers have offered pro bono services if the matter ends up in the Constitutional Court.) That's not the mayor's only problem, either. Two government departments have launched fresh audits on Jindrichovice: one into its 2001 finances, the other into its compliance with health-insurance guidelines over the past nine years. That...