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...dinosaur, the purple Mesozoic character that seems to have overstayed his welcome in the marketplace. Last year Germany's EM.TV bought the late Jim Henson's Muppet empire as part of a whopping $680 million deal, mainly to take advantage of the brand. Now, as EM.TV attempts to rid itself of debt, Kermit and Miss Piggy could be sold again - though some analysts say the Henson stable may fetch less than half EM.TV's original outlay...
...place. It's supposed to be jammed with toys and kitschy knickknacks and surrounded by a cactus garden he planted himself. "It's sad-scary. Even telling you this, you're thinking, 'Funny and colorful.' No. It's scary," he says. He's going to take it apart, get rid of all the junk, de-Pee-wee it, maybe make it a place for an adult. Then again, with all his other projects, he might not get around...
...eliminate close to 6,000 earmarks--those pet projects that lawmakers fund by going around the budget process. He should have an ally in JOHN MCCAIN, who has been trying unsuccessfully for years to eliminate these extra items that balloon government spending. Why are earmarks so hard to get rid of? Because one person's wasteful pork is another person's vital program. Bush is already being attacked for his plans to eliminate earmarks for programs that seek to prevent child abuse. McCain is all too familiar with such assaults. During last year's presidential primaries, he was accused...
...can’t presume race doesn’t exist in the artistic world,” she said. “Race profits. They would have gotten rid of it if it wasn’t working...
...surprisingly, getting rid of these humiliating proofs of foreign military and jurisdictional superiority became a central preoccupation of Chinese nationalism. Much of 20th-century Chinese history is the story of China's attempts to regain control over its tariffs on foreign trade, to eradicate the treaty ports, and once more to compel the foreigners to be tried according to Chinese...