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A Picture Is Worth…Toronto Preparing For A Riot At G20

I find this picture in BlogTO by Ronnie Yip to be extraordinary; The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty , a well-known group of rabble-rousers is preparing to march, and the police are out in force. But unlike the Battle of Seattle , the police are out to meet them, not in head-to-t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Will ‘X Factor’ Singing Competition Join ‘American Idol’ On Fox?

Network may agree to bring Simon Cowell’s British show to U.S. to keep him on ‘Idol.’ By Eric Ditzian Simon Cowell Photo: Steve Granitz/ WireImage With Simon Cowell ruling the judges’ table, “American Idol” launched in 2002, spun-off from its British predecessor, “Pop Idol.” “Pop Idol,” meanwhile, stalled in the U.K. and “The X Factor,” a singing competition created by Cowell, rose up to replace it in 2004

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Beyonce Agrees To Tone Down Concert For Malaysian Date

‘We are against Western sexy performances; we don’t think our people need that,’ an opposition group had said. By Matt Thompson Beyonc