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Which reminds me, I have to enter annoyance-management (anger-management's little kid brother) classes soon, since I get overly upset when people don't realize songs are cover versions. It's sort of understandable when the original is obscure (Soft Cell covering Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love"), but when the original was once a fairly big song (Tiffany covering Tommy James and the Shondells' "I Think We're Alone Now," Sixpence None the Richer covering The La's' "There She Goes") it just riles me. Riles me, I tell...
Ireland (and, since I am of Irish extraction, I know whereof I speak) is not a country known for producing pretty people. Enter the Corrs. The four siblings (Andrea, Sharon, Caroline and, least excitingly, Jim) decided to form a band in 1991 based on their musical influences, which they claimed to be pop and traditional Celtic music. To be honest, their Celtic streak was never very strong, and their pop was mediocre to say the least, but the international community embraced them, catapulting them to giant stardom. Americans, while buying the album enough to make it successful, didn't quite...
Interested students first enter a lottery. The winners then take a short quiz of true or false questions. Those who pass play a mock game of Hollywood Squares...
...nonpartisan system like this will revive the democratic spirit by giving third-party candidates a fair shot to enter the debates. They need not be turned away at the door any longer...
Fears of antiabortion protests kept Roussel Uclaf, the French company that developed mifepristone, from trying to enter the American market. Instead, the company donated rights to the drug to the Population Council, a New York City-based nonprofit research organization. The council conducted the clinical trial of mifepristone, but needed a drug-company partner to handle manufacturing, advertising and distribution. Again, fears of protest--or worse--intervened, with drug behemoths refusing to touch the controversial pill. The council spent a year searching before it chose Danco, a company started expressly to handle mifepristone...