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...Their life stories, as told in countless profiles, are oddly similar. Potts, 39, was raised in a scuzzy part of Bristol, England, we're told, by a bus-driver dad and supermarket-cashier mom. Boyle, 48, was one of nine children whose father worked in a car factory and mother in a typing pool. At school they were both bullied. When he turned up in front of the judges, Potts was a dentally challenged mobile phone salesman, wearing a $50 suit from the supermarket chain Tescos. Boyle, with her gold dress, black hose, white shoes and hedgerow eyebrows, was unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Susan Boyle: Not Quite Out of Nowhere | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Well, not quite. Luciano Pavarotti, for one, had an idea about Potts. While Potts' hometown, Fishponds, is not an upscale neighborhood, he went to St. Mary's Redcliffe, one of the best non-private schools in Bristol. After he graduated with honors from university, he went on a quiz-cum-talent show hosted by Michael Barrymore and won enough money to take singing classes in Italy. There he performed for Pavarotti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Susan Boyle: Not Quite Out of Nowhere | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...from the last Administration, former Vice President Dick Cheney and Bush adviser Karl Rove, have rarely missed an opportunity to attack the new President. Most recently, House Republican leaders botched the rollout of the party's budget alternative, and then, naturally, blamed one another for it. (See pictures of Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Floundering GOP Looks for a Turnaround | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...Most of the time.' LEVI JOHNSTON, ex-fiancé of Sarah Palin's eldest daughter Bristol, after being asked in a TV interview whether the couple practiced safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...disappointed that Levi and his family are engaging in flat-out lies, gross exaggeration and even distortion of their relationship.' A statement released by the PALIN FAMILY, which slammed Johnston's claim that the governor probably knew he and Bristol were sleeping together; Johnston also says the family has restricted his access to infant son Tripp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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