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...feel like music has turned into a lot of very small niche groups. I agree. I think it's healthy, actually. I think the most interesting art is inevitably created on the fringes - on an underground level. I don't say that to be snobbish. I just think art thrives best when it's created without regard to making any kind of compromise to get in front of a bigger audience. When a band gets to a certain level, they've made some compromises in order to make their music more mainstream, more palatable to a broader audience...
What about the really big acts, like the Beatles or Elvis? Do you think another major act like that will ever happen, or are people's music tastes too fractured? My initial inclination is that we're not going to see that level of success anytime soon. From that standpoint, U2 might be the last of the breed...
...checkmate; she's still essentially a governing queen to Obama's king. But the CIA fracas has presented Republicans with a rare crack in Pelosi's usually impervious armor. Some, including minority leader John Boehner, are demanding an investigation, while others, pointing to her 39% approval rating - about the level Newt Gingrich enjoyed when he was blowing up President Clinton's agenda during his first year as Speaker - suggest that in front of an open mike, she has become a liability to her party...
...that Gonzalez Calderoni was compromised are not new. Federal officials themselves eventually accused the formerly coveted officer of corruption and murder. Gonzalez Calderoni fled to the United States, where he denied the charges and in turn accused the Mexican government of framing him because he had information about higher-level corruption. He was gunned down in Texas in 2003, in an as yet unsolved killing...
...soil. There were 15 arrest warrants with his name on them in Mexico and others in the United States before Mexican federal agents finally nabbed the capo without firing a shot in 1989. "Félix Gallardo had become the most wanted drug trafficker both at national and international level," the federal attorney general's office wrote after the arrest. "This shows the willingness of [then President] Carlos Salinas to fight this social cancer to whatever end." (Read a story about Culiacán, Mexico's drug capital...