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Allen's follow-up, It's Not Me, It's You, isn't nearly as cute, but grownup things rarely are. Born in London and raised there by an actor father and a film-producer mother (as a girl, Allen appeared as a lady-in-waiting in Elizabeth and was mentored by, among others, Joe Strummer), Allen, 23, appears to have embraced a slightly more serious view of what pop can be. Not that you can tell from the hooks. Produced by Greg Kurstin of the retro-pop duo the Bird and the Bee, the music robs every genre...
...Other writers have also limned the First Lady. There are at least three admiring biographies (Michelle Obama: An American Story by David Colbert; Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope by Elizabeth Lightfoot; and Political Profiles: Michelle Obama by Jeff C. Young). There is also a volume of letters, Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Lady. At least two more books are in the works, one about her style, and one about the First Spouse and the "cultural moment." A Michelle Obama coloring book has just arrived in stores, and a comic book...
...cut” from another team, finished his burrito in one minute flat. Most participants saw the contest as a free dinner. “It just looked fun, I really like Qdoba burritos, it was a free Qdoba burrito, and I was really hungry,” Elizabeth A. Miranda ’11 said. “I honestly wasn’t really watching the other team at all.” Boston University student Yevgeniy M. Maksimenko, a certified EMT, was present at the contest for safety reasons. “You know, they?...
...Megrahi's return to Libya. Never one to stray far from the limelight, Gaddafi marks his 40th year in power on Sept. 1 - a milestone that makes him the third longest serving head of state in the world after King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. (See a gallery of the worst-dressed world leaders...
...pastors disappearing? Mainline churches (as well as some Evangelical) prefer their ministers seminary trained. But the starting salary for debt-burdened seminary grads now runs to $35,000 a year. That can break a poor and aging congregation, says Elizabeth Rickert Dowdy, pastor of the Tar Wallet Baptist Church in Cumberland, Va., who recently helped disband her other church: "When you have a congregation that's historically been able to survive at 20 members and loses 12, they close." And for the first time in American history, the majority of seminarians don't come from rural areas. Shannon Jung...