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...rough month. Liberal interest groups are running brutal TV ads that take a page from adopt-a-starving-African-child commercials. Adorable children stare wide-eyed into the camera as a voice-over criticizes President Bush and members of his party for blocking a $35 billion expansion of the popular State Children's Health Insurance Program ("George Bush just vetoed Abby," intones the narrator). And sick kids, it turns out, are just the first salvo: Democrats have lined up an array of heartwarming--and expensive--bills that will be potentially embarrassing for Bush to veto...
...lawsuits, giving kids a lesson in the American pillars of capitalism and litigation.) Says Debra Rathwell, senior vice president of AEG Live, the tour's promoter: "I've had e-mails from people saying, 'Should I not pay my mortgage this month and go to Hannah Montana?'" With the popularity of Hannah (and franchises including High School Musical, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and Cheetah Girls), Disney overtook rival Nickelodeon to become the most-watched cable channel in prime time. You can't even escape Hannah on a dark street; according to CostumZee.com she's the most popular...
Disney has never cared about being edgy--popular, sure, but not hip. Hipness is about exclusion--who gets it, who doesn't--and there's more money for Disney in being a big, inclusive tent or, rather, a theme park. Unlike, say, Shrek, Hannah Montana has no fast-flying references and in-jokes for the grownups. "People talk about The Simpsons' playing at two levels," says Rich Ross, president of Disney Channel Worldwide. At Disney, he says, "there are no two levels. There's one level that appeals to both." Parents see a retro family sitcom like Full House...
...signs. Other recreational facilities that had opened temporarily during the renovation—such as in the Gordon Track and the Wigglesworth Hall basement—have been shut down in anticipation of the MAC’s reopening. “The space at Wigg was very popular and well-received,” Gibson said, “so we’ll work with other people at the College to see if that’s a place we’ll want to return to exercise...
...prevent the BBC from "drifting steadily into irrelevance". Thompson said the BBC also plans to sell its Television Center in west London, which has been the production hub of the 85-year-old pillar of British society since the 1960s. It will also begin accepting advertising on its hugely popular website, bbc.com...