Simon Cowell still has some work to do in his project of turning America into a nation of good music critics.
PERSONALIA: Simon Cowell is one of three judges on the popular American television program American Idol, in which unknown singers vie against each other for the title of "next American idol." Mandisa Hundley is a twenty-nine-year-old native of Tennessee with a huge, accurate soprano voice and a bravura command of gospel and R&B style. A popular vote by the program's viewers eliminated her from the competition last night, while various mediocrities prospered.

