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...Madonna is so easy to revile that you start to wish she'd make it a little harder. She knows symbolism like a Renaissance painter, and so you wonder whether all her world really is a stage, whether she knew that the whole world would watch her dance in the dusty Malawian village in her crisp white linens with the cosmically cute baby boy strapped to her back; that the press would be there waiting, scribbling, flashing when Baby David arrived with a bodyguard and nanny to join Madonna in her $15 million London home. Did she hope that...
When TIME asked MADONNA this summer about rumors that the mother of two might adopt a child, her response was a coy "Never say never." That's pop-star speak for "Very soon." A judge in Malawi last week approved her bid to take home a motherless 1-year-old, a move applauded by the boy's father. But local rights groups still objected. Apparently Madge's efforts to raise millions of dollars to help the sub-Saharan country's 900,000 or so orphans doesn't change the fact that she's no Angelina Jolie...
Last week, news outlets around the world announced that Madonna was reinventing herself, yet again. Although she has not abandoned using sex and 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...
...slouchy athletic-inspired dresses over neon-bright fishnet stockings. Like Galliano, Gaultier has never been at a loss for ideas. And he celebrated his 30th anniversary in fashion by marching every one of those bad-boy notions down his runway--from the prescient 1976 leather motorcycle-jacket look to Madonna's cone-bra dress. Every look came off as current, which is why Gaultier is so good. He knows how to break the rules and keep his clothes classic. Fashion could do worse when looking for a new engine: create that which is at once shockingly new and completely familiar...
...Continent-wide protests. So maybe if we just wait a while, the ship will right itself, buoyed up by a vast ocean of common experience and belief: a commitment to democracy and free markets, intensifying economic links, a shared culture that ranges from the Magna Carta to Montesquieu to Madonna to Mastercard to mtv. In one sense that has to be right. In a world still complex and dangerous, Europeans know they will not often find more natural partners than the Americans. Even as politicians disagree over how to handle Iraq and carbon emissions, French scientists find their labs...