Word: careers
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...hear at an 8th grade party. In the sniveling “My Baby,” Britney thanks her children for helping her through hard times, but her repeated cooing is more irksome than comforting. If you were worried that Britney couldn’t revive her pop career, never fear. “Circus” has all the ingredients for a successful album—it’s simple and catchy. But this success comes at a price. In relying on her body to revive a sterile formula, Britney does not go beyond the image that...
...Chester French. Common’s entrance into a new crowd implies a baldly careerist effort to modernize his sound. The result is a resolutely generic club rap album entirely devoid of the musical experimentation and rhythmic virtuosity that defined Common’s early collaborators. Early in his career, Common gained a reputation for focusing on social and political issues instead of gangsterism and consumerist machismo. From the first verse of his new album’s title track, it’s obvious that this has changed: Common now seems primarily concerned with “Body movin?...
...we’re going to need to use our bench as we did tonight.” One player certain to see a lot of the court tomorrow is junior guard Jeremy Lin. The best player on the team, and perhaps in the Ivy League, Lin went a career-high 47 minutes against the Huskies before fouling out late in the second overtime. The Colonials sport their own weapons both inside and out. Led by guards Noel Wilmore and Tony Taylor, and forwards Damien Hollis and Diggs, George Washington will be tough, and it will take strong efforts from...
...Senate seat would have been a perfect way for Jackson to further distinguish himself from his father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, 67, who ran for the Democratic nomination for President in the 1980s. Congressman Jackson, however, is now fighting to make sure that his political ambitions, if not his career, survive this tangle with controversy and alleged corruption. A day after the Blagojevich scandal broke, Jackson's attorney admitted that the Congressman was the "Candidate 5" described in the 76-page federal complaint. According to court papers, Blagojevich believed that associates of Candidate 5 had offered to raise as much...
There's no doubt that Jackson's family name accelerated his political ascent. Among his first jobs after graduating from college was a position at his father's National Rainbow Coalition, where he managed voter registration efforts. He chose Chicago as the place to build his career because of the strength of Jesse Sr.'s support there. Nevertheless, the younger man has emphasized and established his own bona fides in politics and in activism in the African-American community. In the 1980s, he loudly opposed South Africa's apartheid regime, spending his 21st birthday in a Washington jail cell after...