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...Cycle Five), and Danielle (Cycle Six) were all upper-middle of the pack contestants who survived well into the season before rising to the top as their more boisterous and inconsistent competitors fell by the wayside. The same has happened in the biggest reality competition of all time: American Idol. Kelly Clarkson, winner of American Idol’s first season, and Jordin Sparks, winner of the last, both followed the narratives of non-frontrunners who broke out big near...
...Hard Sell at Home: If Chavez has learned one thing from his idol Fidel Castro, it's how to summon the threat of the U.S. to distract his countrymen from problems at home. And if there is one thing Uribe has learned from his pal George W. Bush, it's how to manipulate the terrorist threat to amass greater executive power. But a cross-border war would most likely backfire on both men - especially Chavez, whose strategy this time may have been a miscalculation, as Venezuelans haven't exactly taken to the streets to answer his martial call. Chavez plans...
...avenues of public life, we can solve some of those problems. I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place. I don't think all or any of those problems get solved overnight. Especially American Idol...
...piece has Dolores Delago dreaming that she is getting career counsel from the American Idol judges (their faces rendered in increasingly distorted funhouse images). "You should be in Vegas," Simon says. But when she gets there, ready to star in her classy aquatic revue, she finds she's not booked at Cirque du Soleil but at a Daze Inn motel where the water attraction is called Sunque du So Low. Ever the trouper, Dolores dons Elvis cape and shades and belts out "Viva Las Vegas," "It's Now or Never"and "My Way." So she's performing in the motel...
...dangerous paradigms. It was a recently formed third party that got rid of slavery, after all. That's because a two-party system is designed to eliminate extreme ideas--the Dennis Kuciniches, Mike Gravels, Ron Pauls and Tom Tancredos--much like the first few episodes of American Idol. The parties quickly get us down to two choices that we find acceptable but are just different enough to argue over: McDonald's and Burger King; Coke and Pepsi; Shi'a and Sunni...