“Just days ago, Malaysian cartoonist Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque, better known as Zunar, was arrested over a tweet he posted criticizing Malaysia’s judiciary. A cartoon he posted on his Twitter account showed Prime Minister Najib Razak as the judge in a high-profile case involving an opposition leader.”
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At The Berlin Film Festival, A Dissident Iranian Filmmaker Takes Top Prize
“Taxi is Panahi’s third film since he was banned from making films by the Iranian authorities and forbidden from travelling in 2010. It was filmed covertly as the director drove a taxi around Tehran.”
Get Ready For Crowded Skies As Commercial Drones Become Legal
The FAA “said it believes that drones can save lives, boost the economy, and be integrated safely into the national airspace.”
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Philip Levine, Former U.S. Poet Laureate And Pulitzer Prize Winner, Dies At 87
“In spare, realistic free verse, Mr. Levine explored the subjects that had animated his work for decades: his gritty Detroit childhood; the soul-numbing factory jobs he held as a youth; Spain, where he lived for some time as an adult; and the Spanish anarchists of the 1930s, a personal passion since he was a boy.”
A Brilliant, Progressive Woman Invented Monopoly – And Then A Man Stole The Idea And Sold It
“Magie filed a legal claim for her Landlord’s Game in 1903, more than three decades before Parker Brothers began manufacturing Monopoly. She actually designed the game as a protest against the big monopolists of her time — people like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller.”
What Living Architect Can Restore The Glory Of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School Of Art?
“The news last May that the Glasgow School of Art was burning was, for many people who care about British architecture, as close to hearing that an actual human friend was in danger as any threat to inanimate building materials can be.”
The Composer Of The Opera ‘Mourning Becomes Electra,’ Who Went To Prison For Pot Smuggling, Dies At 82
Marvin David Levy “was at midcentury an American composer of seemingly limitless promise, compared by Leonard Bernstein to Benjamin Britten.”