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...going to ask you to smell your armpits," Sue Sylvester informs two misbehaving cheerleaders. "That's the smell of failure, and it's stinking up my office." Sylvester, the cheerleading coach on Fox's smash teen-musical show, Glee, is a tyrant in a tracksuit: she claims to have had her tear ducts removed, and in one episode from the show's first season, she appears on local TV to advocate corporal punishment for kids. ("Yes, we cane!") But Sylvester saves her fiercest bile for the members of McKinley High's Glee club, New Directions. "I will...
Jane Lynch, the 49-year-old actress who wields Sue's bullhorn, has made a career out of playing a hard-ass. But in person, as it happens, Lynch is nice. She smiles easily and gushes over the show's writers, her castmates and her fans. In the earnestness department, in fact, she isn't too far removed from the Glee clubbers themselves. (See the all TIME 100 TV shows...
...since the House bill of 2005 which set off huge demonstrations across the country," says Newman. "The sheer breadth of this bill is going to alter the national discussion." He says the bill does four things: criminalizes undocumented status, enlists local police in illegal-immigration enforcement, allows citizens to sue police departments if citizens think the police are not being sufficiently vigilant in enforcement and forbids any city from ignoring the state law and becoming a so-called sanctuary zone. "That's before you get to racial profiling," says Newman, "because anyone who looks Latino or has an accent...
...Facebook account," Clemens Riedl, chief executive of VZ-Networks, tells TIME. "By doing this, she demonstrates that the German government has no legal means to control U.S. Internet companies operating in Germany." As if acknowledging this itself, the ministry pointed out last week that rival German Internet companies could sue Facebook for unfair competition but didn't elaborate on what measures the German government would take. (See "Rage Against Simon Cowell? A British Pop Charts Upset...
...easyJet of trying to hide its on-time flight statistics and depicting the airline's founder, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, with an elongated Pinocchio nose. The Greek-born tycoon was not amused. In a statement last month, he lashed out at Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary and said he would sue. "I am not a liar. That is libelous, and I will seek substantial damages. See you in court, Michael," Haji-Ioannou wrote. Taking a swipe of his own, he added that O'Leary has "an ego to match that of Napoleon. But every Napoleon has his Waterloo...