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...dinars but now buys only about 600. But that's nothing compared to eBay, which has been gripped by Saddamania, driving dinars bearing his picture to parity with the greenback. Miss Piggy must be outraged In the words of the two grumpy Muppets that Thomas and Florian Haffa acquired - with the rest of the Jim Henson Company - while building Germany's EMTV empire, it must be "like a kind of torture to have to watch this show." Last week the Haffas were fined €1.4 million for misleading investors and inflating share prices with rosy €300 million profit forecasts
...Current plans place the memorial, an imposing (detractors say fascistic) design by Austrian architect Friedrich St. Florian, smack dab in the middle of the Mall, between the towering Washington Monument and the stately Lincoln memorial (site of Martin Luther King?s "I Have a Dream" speech). Opponents call it an outrageous defacement of a national space, while defendants consider the prominent placement a fitting testimony to the monument?s importance...
Pity the poor Haffa brothers, Florian and Thomas. Around this time last year the two Bavarian businessmen were closing in on the purchase of the late Jim Henson's Muppet empire--a $680 million deal that brought Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and the denizens of Sesame Street into the fold of their company, EM.TV & Merchandising. They were the toast of the high-flying Neuer Markt, a sub-exchange that the Deutsche Borse (German Stock Exchange) set up for sky-bound new issues like theirs...
Look at 'em now. The Neuer Markt is floundering with the rest of world stock markets, Florian is out of his job as EM.TV's chief financial officer, and both men are under investigation for fraud and face a possible wave of lawsuits...
...Arlington National Cemetery suggested by him was considered and rejected. The portion of the Washington Mall that includes the Rainbow Pool, the agreed-upon site for the memorial, needs a structure to enhance it. The four panels that reviewed design submissions selected, independently and unanimously, Friedrich St. Florian's design as the most appropriate for the site and for the significance of World War II. FRED F. WOERNER General, U.S.A. (ret.); Chairman The National Battle Monuments Commission Washington