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...Brion's album Meaningless could have been one of 1999's best solo debuts--but you may never get to hear it. Lava/Atlantic, Brion's label, decided the CD wasn't sufficiently marketable and never released it. "I was treated as if I had handed in my 'art record,' as if I had intentionally done some horribly self-destructive thing," says Brion. "I thought I handed in something that was reasonably commercial...
When Hillary Clinton sat down to write her first book, it became an instant best seller. Her audiotape narration even won a Grammy. And of course the title, It Takes a Village, entered the vernacular. The President wasn't quite so fortunate. When he wrote his first book in office, Between Hope and History, it went straight to the remainder bins...
Most likely to succeed 54% Class valedictorian 18% Best athlete 11% Class clown 8% Most popular...
...assistance. As Senator Christopher Dodd said in a nationally televised 1983 address opposing President Reagan's request for military aid to El Salvador, "We must hear the cry for bread and schools, work and opportunity, that comes from campesinos everywhere in this hemisphere." Well, it turns out that the best cure for the poverty the left so agonized about then is precisely what the left is demonstrating against today--capitalism and trade. In one country alone, China, capitalism and trade have lifted more people out of poverty in a single generation than ever in human history...
...Ranking on Amazon.com's best-seller list of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling...