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Enter the New Democrat Network, which began life in 1996 as a political action committee--that is, a group able to raise money and donate it to candidates. It was led by a From and Joe Lieberman protege named Simon Rosenberg who, at age 40, is a generation younger than From and markedly less combative. Until this year, the NDN was regarded, accurately, as a DLC clone. But a serious rift has opened between the two groups. "There's a debate in the New Democratic world about where we are going," Rosenberg told me diplomatically. "And if it's true...
Source: Christine Simon and John Cooley, University of Connecticut; Gene Kritsky, College of Mount St. Joseph; Keith Clay, Indiana University; National Geographic; Cicadamania.org
...mammoth futuristic fake-suede couch--and three very ordinary teenage women battling America's largest case of butterflies. A few weeks ago, over a catered dinner of poached salmon and Chinese chicken salad, the contestants chatted with TIME about taking the judges' critiques of their singing, especially the gleeful Simon Cowell's, in front of well over 20 million Fox viewers. "Simon's comments humble us," said Jasmine Trias. "We've been turned into celebrities overnight, but we're still the same people we always were...
...People call me 'ghetto,'" she says, over a goodbye kiss-off dinner for John Stevens, Idol's Sinatraesque teenage crooner, at Mr. Cecil's California Ribs in Sherman Oaks. "I'm loud, and I have a big personality. People took me to be arrogant because I talked back to Simon...
Perhaps too well. Idol was created in Britain by music executive Simon Fuller not just to make hit TV but also to find lasting talent for him to sign. So far the breakout star of this Idol season is William Hung, famous for butchering Ricky Martin's She Bangs at an audition; his debut CD sold nearly 38,000 copies in its first week. Jackson says he sometimes is worried that Idol the reality show will undercut Idol the music search, which in its first two seasons produced both salable talents and high ratings. "Kelly Clarkson was great," says Jackson...