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In 1996 he founded the Bar Pro Bono Unit of which he was Chairman until 2000 and remains President.
Although the UCLA football program has turned out dozens of highly successful NFL players through the years, including Troy Aikman, Bob Waterfield, Mel Farr, Billy Kilmer, Jay Schroeder, Freeman McNeil, Steve Bono, John Sciarra, Jamir Miller, Donnie Edwards, Jerry Robinson, Kermit Alexander, Dave Dalby, Jonathan Ogden, Cade McNown, Carnell Lake, Ken Norton Jr, Kenny Easley, Tommy Maddox and Maurice Jones-Drew, Gary Beban was — and remainsthe only Bruin to win the Heisman.

Bono and only
Bono is the only child of Cher and Sonny Bono of the pop duo Sonny & Cher, stars of a TV variety show on which the young child often appeared.
To date, only one case ( before a WTO dispute settlement panel, involving U. S. copyright exemptions allowing restaurants, bars and shops to play radio and TV broadcasts without paying licensing fees, passed in 1998 as a rider to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act ) has actually required an interpretation of the test.
However, the only woman to win the renamed recognition individually have been " The Whistleblowers " ( Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley, and Sherron Watkins in 2002 ) and Melinda Gates ( jointly with Bill Gates and Bono in 2005 ).
Bono Mack is the only Republican woman in California's congressional delegation.
In 1998, Bono Mack was added to the House Judiciary Committee by the Republican leadership in anticipation of the consideration of impeachment proceedings against then President Bill Clinton thus becoming the only Republican woman on the committee.
He also participated in Rock the Vote in 2004 and 2008 ; he and Bono being the only non-American artists to join the campaign encouraging young people to vote.
* Chaz Bono, American author and activist, the only child born out of musicians Sonny Bono and Cher's marriage
Sonny Bono's 1974 variety series, The Sonny Bono Comedy Revue, only lasted a few episodes.
Stewart came up with the idea of turning Mandela's prison number into a telephone number then wrote and recorded songs with Paul McCartney, Bono and Edge and various others that you could only hear if you dialled this number and whilst listening you were donating.
In the documentary In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story, Bono tells how he woke up for a concert's sound check, following a late night listening to the soundtrack to David Lynch's Blue Velvet, and had the tune in his head, figuring it was another Orbison song (" In Dreams " was the only Orbison song on that album ).
Bono, Paul McCartney and George Michael were the only artists from the original Band Aid who had been asked back to lend their voices to Band Aid 20.
Most of Harmoniums poems were published between 1914 and 1923 in various magazines, so most are now in the public domain in America and similar jurisdictions, as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act affects only works first published after 1922.
Bono from U2 commented that the Chimes ' cover of their hit " I Still Haven't Found What Im Looking For " was the " only cover version he had heard that he enjoyed and did the original justice ", adding " at last someone's come along to sing it properly ".
" Do You Feel Loved " was only performed during the first six shows, and " If God Will Send His Angels " was performed once by the full band, plus about 20 other times solely by Bono and The Edge.

Bono and member
Bono went on to an acting career and later entered politics, eventually becoming a member of the U. S. House of Representatives, Cher continued a successful career.
O ' Neill was an outspoken member of the administration, often saying things to the press that went against the administration's party line, and doing unusual things like taking a tour of Africa with singer Bono.
In February 2009, U2 member Bono called Chris Martin a wanker live on air during Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show.
During his period as a member of the Government, José Bono was involved in certain controversial events, some of them regarding his role as Minister of Defence ( e. g. the controversy created by the public declarations of Lt. General José Mena Aguado about the 1978 Spanish Constitution, defending the possibility of an intervention of the armed forces to maintain the territorial integrity of Spain ), and others regarding his membership of the Socialist Workers ' Party, the most significant of them being the detention of two members of the Popular Party ( PP ) who were participating with him in a popular demonstration, after they had allegedly attempted to assault him.
In an interview after the 1987 performance on a 25th anniversary television tribute to the Irish band The Dubliners, Bono stated that the first recording of " The Ballad of Springhill " he heard was that sung by Irish folk singer Luke Kelly a member of The Dubliners.
Though not an official member, Sonny Bono did hang out and contribute to sessions recorded by the Crew.
The MLE board initially included celebrity Bono from U2: in 2002, he stepped down in favour of fellow band member The Edge whose technical interests better fit the laboratory's mission and who ( unlike Bono ) regularly attended meetings of the board.
In 2003 Brown received two awards from the Oregon State Bar ( in the active emeritus member category ), one for the most Legal Services to the Poor, another for Total Hours of Pro Bono Services.
Lypton Village was a " youthful gang " created by Bono, Guggi ( Derek Rowan ) and Gavin Friday ( Fionan Hanvey ) in the early 1970s, where every member got a new identity and where they could escape from dreary and predictable Dublin life and be anything they wanted to be.
This became " She's a Mystery to Me ", a song written by Bono and fellow U2 member The Edge for Orbison.
The campaign is named after the song " One " by rock band U2, of which the campaign's co-founder Bono is a member.

Bono and Congress
Author Ronald Kessler mentioned Bono in his exposé book Inside Congress.
Kessler pointed out that Bono was widely ridiculed and was named one of the " dimmest bulbs " in Congress by Progressive Magazine and that The Washington Post referred to him as the " idiot savant from way beyond the Beltway ".
This was because the United States Congress passed both the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which enacts copyright term extension during the same week and used the same method using voice vote to make it less likely that the news media would report on the bills.
In the U. S. Congress, Nuevo is located in California's 45th Congressional District, which has a Cook Partisan Voting Index ( CPVI ) of R + 3 and is represented by Republican Mary Bono Mack.
Performing under her first name, Cher went on to a highly successful career as a solo singer and actress, while Sonny Bono was eventually elected to Congress as a Republican U. S. Representative from California.
Bono in their first album displayed also his political interest long before running for Congress, in the lyrics of " The Revolution Kind " song.
Congress has repeatedly extended the term of U. S. copyrights, with legislation such as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
Soon after, Sonny Bono became interested in politics, serving as Mayor of Palm Springs from 1988 to 1992 before being elected to Congress in 1994.
Giving a speech on the floor of Congress in favor of the bill, Bono Mack said:
However, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act ( CTEA ) meant that this work would not be in the public domain until 2019 — and not even then if Congress extended the term again, as it had eleven times since 1962.
* José Bono Martínez, ex-Minister of Defence in Spain and current President of the Congress of Deputies
In 1998, the United States Congress passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act which President Clinton signed into law.

Bono and have
Musicians who are primarily known as singers or performers on another instrument who also have recorded and performed harmonica solos include Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Taj Mahal, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News, John Mayall, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Bono of U2, Rick Davies of Supertramp, and Richard " Magic Dick " Salwitz of The J. Geils Band.
Other people who have been outed include Fannie Flagg, Pete Williams, Chastity Bono, and Richard Chamberlain.
Elvis Presley and Bono have stated his voice was, respectively, the greatest and most distinctive they had ever heard.
Later Akan groups such as the Ashanti federation and Fante states are thought to possibly have roots in the original Bono settlement at Bono manso.
Since 2002, many UK law firms and law schools have celebrated an annual Pro Bono Week, which encourages lawyers to offer pro bono services and increases general awareness of pro bono service.
The likes of Queen Noor of Jordan ( 2005 ), Bono ( 2004 ) and Sarah, Duchess of York ( 2004 ) have also pitched in for this one-day editorial stint to promote their causes and interests.
He has also become a close friend of international celebrities Bono and Angelina Jolie, both of whom have traveled to Africa with Sachs to witness the progress of the Millennium Villages.
As of 2007, Bono Mack was one of eight representatives to have been elected to their seats following the deaths of their husbands: Lindy Boggs ( D-LA ); Frances Payne Bolton ( R-OH ); Jo Ann Emerson ( R-MO ); Lois Capps ( D-CA ); Doris Matsui ( D-CA ); Beverly Byron ( D-MD ); and Sala Burton ( D-CA ).
They have performed in numerous charity concerts such as the Prince's Trust in 2004 and Live 8 alongside Bono in 2005.
Students from the Pro Bono Group of the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, have been participating in the scheme.
The Killers have become recognized for their work with the Product Red campaign, headed by Bono and Bobby Shriver.
This has often been referred to by the artists on stage, who have often encouraged the residents to donate money to charity in lieu of an entrance fee-notably, Bono from U2 ( 1989 ) and Robbie Williams ( 2003 ).
In fact, Rolling Stone claims this band to be “ the biggest band in the world .” Band members Bono ( Paul Hewson ), The Edge ( David Evans ), Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr have brought international attention to this unique genre.
In 2003, she was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow ( GLT ) by the World Economic Forum, joining nearly 500 individuals from business, politics, public interest groups, the media, and the arts and the sciences, including Bill Gates, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Michael Dell and Bono, who have been selected since the programme ’ s inception in 1993.
The band have been told by many fans that they played the song at their weddings, prompting Bono to respond, " Are you mad?
Their 1989 Lovetown Tour did not visit the United States, and at the end of the tour, lead vocalist Bono announced on-stage that it was " the end of something for U2 " and that " we have to go away and ... just dream it all up again ", foreshadowing changes for the group.
and U2 have been close friends since 1984, especially Stipe and Bono.
His most acclaimed detective novels, including Ten to sen ( 1958 ; Points and Lines, 1970 ); Suna no utsuwa ( 1961 ; Inspector Imanishi Investigates, 1989 ) and Kiri no hata ( 1961 ; Pro Bono, 2012 ), have been translated into a number of languages, including English.

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