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...cost of the tragic blunder to Merkel's government could take longer to assess. A parliamentary commission is set to investigate the air strike next week, and Germany's current Defense Minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, one of the country's most popular politicians, has already been forced into an embarrassing repudiation of his statement last month that the air strike had been "militarily appropriate." (Read "Much Work Ahead for German Chancellor Merkel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anger Mounts in Germany Over Its Afghan Air Strike | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...some singers note that the show has a downside. The more popular Glee gets, the more audiences expect real-life singers to sound like the singers on it. That's a tall order when many onscreen songs may be getting a boost from pitch correction and other professional sound-enhancement technology. For instance, as Vinyl Street member and die-hard Glee fan Joanna Aven points out, there are only six singers onstage in the Glee version of "Don't Stop Believin' " - which became a top iTunes download and hit No. 4 on the Billboard chart, surpassing Journey's 1981 original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Glee Factor: A Rise in Amateur Singing Groups | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...didn't expect it to be so popular," she said. "I submitted my project at 11 and expected to be done with it, but I ended up staying up and working...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This was CS50 | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...Given those experiences playing an attorney, do you ever wish you went to law school, a very popular postgraduate choice for many Harvard graduates...

Author: By MARIETTA M COBURN, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions with Blair Underwood | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...audience, cheering Bahati and Langa on, sat Pastor Martin Ssempa, a popular and politically well-connected preacher who has been at the forefront of the anti-gay movement in the country. Until October, he was associated with the enormously influential Saddleback Church run by Pastor Rick Warren, the author of The Purpose Driven Life. Controversy over the anti-gay bill, however, led Warren, who has a large East African network of connections, to sever ties with Ssempa. Ssempa, who has told reporters of a secret group of witches who live beneath Lake Victoria, has a rapt student following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: With Uganda's Anti-Gay Movement | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

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