Word: ridding
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...principal goal has been for a long time to get rid of soft money; this was the vote that got rid of soft money," Feingold said after the vote...
...from "Dancer in the Dark." The Icelandic singer once made a video with "Ren and Stimpy" animator John Kricfalusi, and here she looked like a winsome cartoon character in her meringue-y dress, alternating between a childish singsong and an operatic wail. Really, it might be worth getting rid of the Best Song category altogether, since it's basically been the same five songs for the last 15 years: one piece of Randy Newman hackery, one Disney song, one quasi-Disney song, one interesting song by a cool artist, which will lose, and song by an old guy - this year...
...magazine, published by Vanida Koomanuwong, was shut down two years ago by a government policy aimed at limiting media exposure for transsexuals on the premise that they were a bad example for youth. TV shows with transsexual characters - usually used as sassy, obnoxious sidekicks - were told to get rid of the parts. Koomanuwong insists there was nothing vulgar about New Half. It featured real people, with real lives, she says. "People see transsexuals as nasty whores, or as mentally ill, but they're not: they're everyday people...
...Nothing ever happened along the lines of the bank scheming to get rid of the little guy," Keegan says. "That's just silly. The space became available, and we were pleased with the opportunity to expand...
They're all wrong, though. What we really need to do is to get rid of high school...