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...course, of the recent developments on the television program “Britain’s Got Talent,” our former colonizers’ “American Idol” equivalent. By now, you’ve probably seen the all-too-perfect video of contestant Susan Boyle’s crowd-wowing rendition of Les Miserables’ “I Dreamed a Dream.” If you haven’t, perhaps you’ve heard her background story—hailing from Blackburn, Scotland, she is a middle-aged, unemployed charity...
...story of Susan Boyle - like that of Paul Potts before her - is, except to the most jaded and curmudgeonly among us, completely irresistible. Fished, seemingly, from the bottom of the troll pond by Britain's Got Talent, these two humble, working-class, physically ill-favored souls were suddenly found to be capable of creating things of astonishing beauty. People reacted as if vast quantities of treasure were discovered in the trunk of a broken-down Hyundai abandoned on their street. It was always there, but nobody had ever bothered to look. Thanks to that grouchy Simon Cowell (and YouTube...
...their true tales are more heartening. Paul Potts and Susan Boyle each wanted to build a career on their talent, even tried to. He got stalled; she got rejected. But the same things that barred them from entering showbiz - upbringing, luck, family duty and, in this TV-driven world, looks - are what delivered them eventually to fame's main square. They had the exact qualities the reality industry knows how to package. As Cowell said to Boyle, in what may have been the most honest comment in the whole program, "I knew the minute you walked out on that stage...
...connected with it be released, and I hope that her request is granted. I think it's very important that it be granted." Even a few Republicans defended Harman. "I would find it virtually impossible to believe that Jane would act in any other than professional manner," said Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican. "I know her very well; she has very high ethical standards...
...Anyone who goes to school here must be vaccinated,” said UHS Infection Control Surveillance Nurse Susan Fitzgerald. “We get documentation from everyone who starts school—you can’t register without...