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...can’t even imagine what kind of life she would have led back in an orphanage in Korea. De Beausset’s arguments demonstrate real ignorance about issues of international adoption. Adoptive parents make this choice for a wide range of reasons—and Madonna??s reasoning, whatever it may be, is certainly not representative of all adoptive parents. I am sorry he is upset when he sees fellow Guatemalans being adopted, but I am not sure what a “country’s dignity” is and I am sure...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Behrens | Title: Foreign Adoption Gives Less Fortunate Better Lives | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

...Madonna??s recent troubles began when she filed papers to adopt a Malawian boy, David Banda, as her son. She was then accused by the international community of using her celebrity status to side-step Malawi’s laws. The birth father subsequently made and retracted statements of consent to a gleeful media, and a great many international figures have spoken on the topic...

Author: By Kyle A. De beausset | Title: Adopt a Conscience | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

...Madonna??s recent defense of her decision on the Oprah Winfrey Show, she portrays herself as a kind of savior, appealing to the inherent nobility of her actions. David “had survived malaria and tuberculosis, and no one from his extended family had visited him since the time he arrived,” she said. “So from my perspective, there was no one looking after David’s welfare.” She then proceeded to blame the negative coverage on an irresponsible media, which was doing a “great...

Author: By Kyle A. De beausset | Title: Adopt a Conscience | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

...religion to get attention, she has found a new way to drum up record sales: charity. The former material girl was to adopt a one-year-old boy from Malawi, an African country with one million children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic.Only 24 hours after this story broke, however, Madonna??s publicist insisted that the performer was not so much adopting one child but “kind of adopting an entire country of children.” When pressed for clarification, it was revealed that Madonna was actually considering spending $3 million to reduce poverty in Malawi...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv, | Title: Watch Out, Angelina | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

...circulated below the radar of commercial music. An example of the second class, the wacky Australians in the Avalanches laboriously cleared the rights to all 900-odd samples they used in their epic album “Since I Left You,” which include language tapes, Madonna??s “Holiday,” and a vocal clip of a giddy Club Med DJ.On the commercial side, Puff Daddy (now Diddy, formerly known as P. Diddy, Puffy D, Puff the Magic Dragon and “Steve”) and his pop gangster peers became...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kaavya Viswanathan—Master Sampler? | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

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