visiting singer, who denies having chosen an orphan boy. "Madonna's people asked us to identify 12 children aged one, and what I know so far is that she identified one child yesterday," said Minister of Information Patricia Kaliati...

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The Brazilian fireball with the wild hair, acoustic guitar and bare feet is back again - after her first Edge CD "Verde" - with a gangbusters CD which also is meant to appeal to a wider public than most of her previous either bossa nova or jazz guitar ef...

Did you make one of those creative, poignant, angry, sublime, ironic, raging signs we have been seeing in the recent Iraq protests? Did you labor over a handmade banner at all the anti-sweatshop marches? Did you Now is the time to show them in a museum!...

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