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...contrast, Kelly's career is built on a mattress. Even if his new album, with such songs as Sex Weed and (Sex) Love Is What We Makin', survives the taint of creepiness--and it's a credit to his skills as a hitmaker that it almost does--the prosecution's key piece of evidence is available to anyone with an Internet connection. It's an explicit 26-minute video (widely believed to be one of the most bootlegged in history) called R. Kelly Exposed. Once you've seen the visuals--their authenticity is questioned by Kelly's lawyer, though...
...debt-laden deals have their defenders. "I don't think leverage is a bad thing," says John Makin, director of fiscal-policy studies at Washington's American Enterprise Institute. "Very few people would own a house without it. It is a very important tool of modern finance." At a time when corporate raiders are on the rampage and Wall Street has become obsessed with short-term gains rather than long-term strategy, buyouts are often just good business. --By John Greenwald. Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York and Elizabeth Taylor/Chicago BIG PRICE TAGS...
After working some 30 jobs in nine Western states in the past 14 years, Knox understands the modern cowboy, and his poetry speaks the plains' truths. As he writes in a poem called The Dying Times: "Any man makin' a living by punchin' cows/ Will know what I mean when I say/ The good times that's been had are comin' to an end;/ Friends, we've about reached that day." His voice is not alone...
...idea. But throughout her standards album, also titled At Last, Lauper embraces her own fragility. She's not strong on the high notes of Walk On By (again with the Bacharach!) or Unchained Melody, but she's exceedingly clean and emotional. She's also very much herself. Lauper performs Makin' Whoopee with a Teutonic exhaustion worthy of Madeline Kahn. It's a great, funny interpretation made even better when, halfway through, Tony Bennett shows up for a little banter. Lauper isn't redefined by At Last - she'll forever just want to have fun - but Bennett comes off great. That...
Lavigne's first single, Complicated, features lyrics like "You're makin' me/ Laugh out loud when you strike your pose/ Take off all your preppy clothes/ You know you're not fooling/ Anyone when you become/ Somebody else, 'round everyone else." Holden, get her number. The same goes for Branch, who kicks off her single All You Wanted with the lines "I wanted to be like you/ I wanted everything/ So I tried to be like you/ And I got swept away." Carlton's very album title--Be Not Nobody--is self-esteem-workshop poetry...