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...between tongue-in-cheek and just plain pathetic. Final odds: 100-1 Switzerland: six4one If We All Give a Little. Céline Dion won the 1988 Eurovision for the Alpine nation, even though she's French-Canadian, starting a trend of Swiss outsourcing. Last year's Swiss representatives Vanilla Ninja were all from Estonia, and the country's 2006 multinational entry six4one has just one native performer. Luckily, the pop group won't be required to sing Switzerland's national anthem. Final odds: 28-1 Serbia and Montenegro No entry Even the soothing sounds of boy-band crooning...
...Chic’s “Good Times”), sampling quickly evolved into montage masterworks by artists like EPMD, the Beastie Boys, and De La Soul.But, not surprisingly in our über-litigious country, the golden age of sampling didn’t last. In 1990, Vanilla Ice had his fifteen minutes of shame trying to explain the profound difference between his “Ice Ice Baby” beat and the Queen and David Bowie song “Under Pressure,” which apparently revolved on a grace note difference so subtle that...
...BUZZ It's a hard call. Does Cruise the tabloid fixture hurt Cruise the movie star? This is the kind of movie audiences like to see him in, so it's a safer bet than, say, Vanilla Sky II. -By Rebecca Winters Keegan...
...which U.S. industry is celebrated. During a 24-hr. swing through Georgia, he will visit the Ford Motor Co.'s assembly plant near Atlanta. His tour guide: Henry Ford II. Dinner that night at the mansion of Georgia Governor George Busbee will feature spinach souffl, thinly sliced veal and vanilla mousse--all foods especially selected for eaters unskilled in the use of a knife and fork. TIME...
Labor activists staged a “teach-in” targeting Harvard’s ties to the Coca-Cola Company at Boylston Hall last night, with an anti-sweatshop organizer leading dozens of students and workers in a chant proclaiming, “Cherry, Diet, or Vanilla, Coca-Cola is a killa.” Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) sponsored the event as part of its spring “Right To Organize” campaign, which—in addition to its anti-Coke component—also targets AlliedBarton Security Services...