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...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 and, yes, living alone with her cat, Pebbles. Nobody, the show made clear, had any idea they could sing...
...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...
...usually a bad idea to try to explain things that do not make sense. It is counterintuitive that expensive phones should sell well when the economy is shrinking, the credit markets look like a dust bowl, and people are losing jobs...
Wendy Kopp The founder and CEO of Teach for America is a past TIME 100 honoree Teach for America alum Tom Torkelson is proving that children from low-income communities can achieve. His Idea Academy and College Preparatory was ranked the 19th best high school and sixth best charter school in the country. All 100% of Tom's high school graduates have gone to college...
...This must be my 15 minutes," she said. "I've never intervened or asked for leniency for anybody being prosecuted, present or former employees of AIPAC or anybody else," she said. "That is just a farcical idea that I would have to cut a deal with AIPAC or somebody to get their attention. They're old friends of mine...