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...choreography, the elaborate video presentations, even Madonna's patter - there's almost no sense any more of an artist interacting spontaneously with the audience. Even the way the concert ends - her big hit "Hung Up," blackout, lights go up, goodbye! Not even an encore. Sure, encores have gotten to be as programmed as anything else, but at least there was the illusion of the artist repaying the audience for its spontaneous enthusiasm...
Chick-lit has gotten a bum rap in the past few years, and Viswanathan’s actions did little to improve the genre’s reputation. But McCafferty, as the Village Voice pointed out in May, should not suffer for Viswanathan’s sins; it may be easy to deride the author who inspired the bulk of Viswanathan’s plagiarism, but it’s not fair to do so without reading her work...
...which would also explain how diabetes leads to heart disease. But while it isn't yet exactly certain what's going on, the result is a kind of good news/bad news story. The bad news is that type 2 diabetes has been on a dramatic increase as Americans have gotten more obese over the past couple of decades - which means the Alzheimer's epidemic that's already expected simply as a result of the aging of the massive Baby Boom generation could be even bigger than anyone thought. The good news is that by inching closer to an understanding...
...embraced the right-wing House Republican immigration plan in his Senate campaign. "I don't think we ran an ad where [Republican beer baron] Pete Coors wasn't seen wearing a tuxedo," says Mandy Grunwald, who advised Colorado's successful Democratic Senate candidate Ken Salazar in 2004. "It's gotten to the point where every campaign is a populist campaign, and the strongest populist argument we have is the Republicans' fiscal irresponsibility back in Washington...
...bend, so amendment supporters were forced to target centrist Democrats in the hope of making up their one-vote deficit. But none of the ones they were eyeing ? Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Maria Cantwell of Washington ? flipped. Even if they could have gotten one of them to change his or her position, it might not have mattered. Senate Republican aides believe that as many as a dozen self-proclaimed amendment supporters privately opposed the flag burning amendment and were only supporting it for political gain. If the Amendment were to have actually passed...