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Maybe it is because of the enormous amount of respect I hold for Ripken that I now question his action. Maybe, like Anaheim Angels' outfielder Tim Salmon, I am just bothered by the fact that I cannot figure out what Ripken was thinking...
This summer, the outlandishly successful television phenomenon known as Survivor captured the attention of an audience who did not want to watch reruns of Dawson's Creek having seen every episode during the school year and cannot understand how the contestants on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? know the answers to all those difficult questions...
...prefigured all subsequent media revolutions: television, the Internet, etc. What the Discovery Channel failed to drool over was the near-simultaneous development of printmaking. In the fifteenth century, woodcuts and engravings were accessible to an audience much larger than the small literate classes, and even today we cannot claim to be anything other than a visual culture. Early prints should be as important to us as early editions of the Bible...
...someone like Bjork or musicians on the fringe, but Madonna's case is singular. She never needed to change, she never needed to evolve. Every Mariah Carey record is the same. Every Whitney Houston record is the same. Every Britney Spears record will be the same. But Madonna cannot stand repetition. Repetition is boring, repetition engenders complacency, complacency ensures the rule of "kiddie pop" and bands like 98 Degrees. Madonna abhors these bubblegum pop queens simply because she hates their laziness and their casual desecration of all the values she's held sacred in her musical career--after all, Britney...
...will" take its course. In a jarring addendum to their argument against the surgery, they also indicated they'd likely look into foster care or adoption in England if Jodie did survive the separation, citing the remoteness of their island and the lack of medical facilities there. "We cannot see how we can possibly cope either financially or personally with a child where we live, who will have the serious disabilities that Jodie will have if she should survive the operation...