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The
first woman to ever have adopted a child is now also the first woman
to have given birth.
Jolie, who
gave birth to her daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt in Namibia,
last month, said her older children, 18-month-old Zahara, adopted
from Ethiopia, and 4-year-old Maddox, adopted from Cambodia, are
adjusting to life with a new sibling. |
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Jolie
said Zahara is jealous of Shiloh "because she's still a little
girl," but for Maddox, "it's like having this tiny little pet he can
just hold and look at." |
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The 31-year-old actress criticized
the US stating, "Our priorities are
quite strange." Jolie
continued by saying that spending money on war rather than
"dealing with situations that could end up in conflict if left
unassisted" could prove costly in the end. |
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identified the tattoo on her upper back,
"Know Your Rights," as a phrase taken from
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the UN in
1948. |
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It is
miraculous that so much wisdom could be packaged in such a little
brain. |
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Bruce
Springsteen
revealed in an interview that some former fans
have mailed his albums back to him. He did not indicate if they did
so because they get sick of the harsh, screaming noise or just his
dirty appearance. |
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During an interview on CNN,
Springsteen
was asked by Soledad O'Brien if getting a hard
time about his political views -- including his support of John
Kerry for president -- made him question
musicians'
attempts to be taken seriously. Bruce replied, "They should
let Ann Coulter do it instead?" |
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Then he
added, "You can
turn on the idiots rambling on, on cable television, every night of
the week -- and they say musicians shouldn’t speak up? It’s insane,
it’s funny." He called politics
"an organic part of what I’m doing. ...
It’s called common sense. I don’t even see it as politics at this
point." |
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But, Bruce,
where's the music... that melodious, rhythmic, sound communicating
messages while soothing the savage beast? |
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Susan
Sarandon, the actress
and political activist, says the US
should help build schools in Mexico -- not walls along the border.
It appears that she has failed to review the record. Even when born
and raised in the US, Mexicans fail to get educated in the public
schools, go on to higher education, and perform well in high-level
non-agricultural jobs. |
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Sarandon
was visiting a preschool in a slum bordering a vast,
municipal garbage dump in Tijuana, Mexico. She
said education was the key to improving lives in Mexico. She
criticized a US congressional proposal to extend walls along the
2,000-mile US-Mexico border. |
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If Mexicans fail to respect and
appreciate the values of education when raised in the US, how will
building schools in Mexico help Mexicans? Although it does make
Sarandon feel good. |
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