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...Henson Company, which produces the now famous Muppets, was just acquired by a German firm, along with the rights to use all of the Muppet characters. At first thought it seems somewhat strange that the wild fuzzy creatures of our childhood that were so quintessentially American should be owned by a foreign company. But on reflection it is part of a very worthwhile trend that can help diffuse a valuable American cultural innovation and adapt it to many other parts of the world...
...wonderful example of this is a new television show in Egypt called "Salaam Sesame." It adapts the idea of the American "Sesame Street" into a children's program mixing the use of Muppets and live characters. But it has modified the characters to promote social messages tailored towards contemporary Egypt. Set in a working-class suburb of Cairo, it features a similar assortment of human characters as the U.S. version, but they are altered to represent local types--the green grocer, the civil servant, the craftsman and the local schoolteacher...
...Vanguard is different because when the use of Harvard's name came into the mix [with them], we were actually licensing it," Wrinn said...
...state charges that because Harvard has not raised the issue before, "the University promoted as well as acquiesced in this use by participating in the founding of the Harvard Community Health Plan, now Harvard Pilgrim, under that name," the suit reads...
...this rather conventional case capture the national spotlight? Probably for two reasons: One, Beets was a woman, and for whatever reason, America, while generally supportive of the death penalty, still finds it difficult to execute females. Second, she was a great-grandmother, and most headlines referring to the case use that identification, as in "Great-Grandmother's Time Is Running Out," or "Will Texas Kill Great-Grandmother?" Images of a seemingly nice old lady doomed to die always play well with the media. The other reason Beets is attracting so much attention is that her case presents a perfect opportunity...