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  'American Idol's Top 11 seventh-season finalists take to the stage

  March 19, 2008
  American Idol's Top 11 seventh-season finalists took the stage during last night's live performance episode broadcast, singing songs from the John Lennon/Paul McCartney songbook.
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  Simon Cowell gives big, gives $162,000 to family with sick daughter

  March 18, 2008
  Simon Cowell's heart is apparently warmer than one would expect.
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  'American Idol' cuts its first finalist, eliminates David Hernandez

  March 13, 2008
  Simon Cowell's prediction was spot on.
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  Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth: I'll be back on 'Celebrity Apprentice'

  March 12, 2008
  If you thought Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth's The Celebrity Apprentice ouster during last week's broadcast was too good to be true, you were apparently right.
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  Simon Cowell sees 'Idol's David Hernandez, Kristy Lee Cook in trouble

  March 12, 2008
  Simon Cowell was initially leery of allowing David Hernandez into American Idol's seventh-season Top 24 -- and despite the former male stripper wowing the judge in recent weeks, Cowell feels his poor performance during last night's live episode broadcast could hurt Hernandez with home viewers.
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  'American Idol' Top 12 seventh-season finalists take to the stage

  March 12, 2008
  American Idol's Top 12 seventh-season finalists took the stage for the first time during last night's live performance episode broadcast, singing songs from the famed John Lennon/Paul McCartney songbook.
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  Asia'h Epperson blames 'American Idol' ouster on performance order

  March 11, 2008
  When Asia'h Epperson learned she was going to be the first American Idol seventh-season female semifinalist to sing during last Wednesday night's live performance episode broadcast, she had a feeling it might lead to her elimination.

• Ousted 'Idol' hopeful Luke Menard tuned out Simon Cowell's criticism

  March 11, 2008
  Simon Cowell described Luke Menard's performances as both "girlie" and "forgettable," criticism that the American Idol seventh-season semifinalist didn't think was too helpful.
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  Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul voice in on David Hernandez's past

  March 10, 2008
  Randy Jackson said he judges the vocal ability of American Idol hopefuls, not their pasts -- a distinction that had to be made due to seventh-season finalist David Hernandez's previous employment as a male stripper.
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  Ousted 'American Idol' hopeful Kady Malloy didn't get Cowell criticism

  March 10, 2008
  Simon Cowell likened Kady Malloy's onstage personality to a "robot" -- a sentiment the American Idol seventh-season semifinalist couldn't completely comprehend.

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