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...Ohio high school, has a different set of dramatic inspirations: High School Musical and teen soaps, which it throws in a blender with a squirt of pop-candy syrup and a generous dose of acid. But Glee is more than a send-up. Like its Fox sibling American Idol, it's equal parts laughing at and thrilling with; if it didn't also genuinely, earnestly love its music and its characters, it would become sour and unwatchable quick. Seeing a football team do a choreographed play to Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" may be funny...
...Twitter is a kind of global watercooler, the place to go if you want an instant take on anything from who should win American Idol to why on earth NASA aims to crash a probe into the moon, then the verdict is in. Within minutes of President Barack Obama's surprise Nobel Peace Prize win, the Twitterverse had greeted the news with a resounding raspberry. "What are the reasons for Obama to get Nobel Peace Prize?????" asked @ludmila_kh incredulously, if not grammatically. (See pictures of Obama overseas...
...most Afghans, the face of Farida Tarana, 27, evokes her tumultuous 2006 ascent to the No. 8 position on the widely watched local version of American Idol. She was the first female competitor from the conservative western province of Herat, and while she charmed audiences nationwide with her joyful renditions of classic Afghan songs, she was persecuted by conservatives for daring to break cultural taboos against women singing in public. These days, however, her face, emblazoned on election posters and billboards across Kabul, symbolizes the shattering of new barriers: popularly elected women in politics. Last week it was announced that...
...Karzai in fact earned the 50% plus one vote to forestall a runoff. The crisis of legitimacy has been a boon for Taliban propaganda, and the U.S. Administration is debating the value of sending more troops to a country whose government is fraught with corruption and fraud. (Read "Afghan Idol: A Subversive...
...York State Boxing Commission revoked his license for his refusal to fight in Vietnam, while George Foreman, who quit boxing in 1974, became the oldest fighter to win a major heavyweight title 20 years later. And it's not just athletes: in 2006, Barbra Streisand fans nearly took their idol to court when the singer announced a series of farewell shows - seven years after her last "last-ever" tour...