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...deciding whether to trust GM falls to Zu Guttenberg, who took up his new job just four weeks ago. At 37, he's the youngest economy minister in Germany's post-war history and already he's being hailed as one of the country's most popular politicians. With his slicked-back hair, and boyish good looks, Zu Guttenberg exudes the one thing which most German politicians lack: charisma. Unlike his predecessor Michael Glos, a 64 year-old political veteran who shied away from the cameras, Zu Guttenberg has gone on a major media offensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Germany Help Bail Out GM? | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

House Masters: Tom and Verena Conley are, for lack of a better term, baller. Though no longer for credit, Tom still offers his immensely popular Wine Seminar every spring. He’s also a regular staple of Stein Clubs, where his conversation vacillates between sophisticated chatter about fine wine and French films to impassioned rants on his fierce, if somewhat contradictory allegiances to the Boston Red Sox and New York Giants. Verena plays his quieter counterpart, welcoming freshmen like sheep into the fold and secretly accumulating information about everyone in the house so she can strike up conversation...

Author: By FlyByBlog | Title: The Housing Crisis: Kirkland House | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

...service will provide data on how news stories spread around the Internet through both blogs and mainstream media outlets, and may help to answer important questions about the forces shaping popular discourse...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HLS Center Monitors Media | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

Dining Hall: Popular. Everyone wants to eat in Adams. That’s the problem. Adams residents are notoriously bitter about the overcrowding of Adams dining hall. Lucy’s much too nice to turn people away (unless she has Vinnie M. Chiappini's help), so the dining hall is frequently packed with non-Adams residents, making it nearly impossible to find a seat during peak hours. And once you do, good luck maneuvering your huge, awkward wooden chair...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel | Title: The Housing Crisis: Adams House | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

...become a popular subject of "Narcocorridos," - pop songs about drug traffickers - and has gained an almost mythical status in Mexico, where he has been compared to Elvis and Osama bin Laden. One song, by Los Buitres (The Vultures), describes his life as a fugitive: "He sleeps at times in homes/ At times in tents/ Radio and rifle at the foot/ Of the bed/ Sometimes his roof is a cave/ Guzman does seem to be everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joaquin Guzman Loera: Billionaire Drug Lord | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

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