“They always wanted to get rid of me, and they finally succeeded,” Francis Menotti said in his first extensive interview since his ouster in November as director of the Festival of Two Worlds here. “They did everything they could to remove the festival from me. They isolated me from my staff. They bullied my staff. They withheld funds.”
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A Crusade Against Bureaucratic-Speak That Doesn’t Mean Anything
“Recently, a decree went around to local authorities in England and Wales – town and county councils, mostly – from the body that governs them, forbidding use of a long list of popular crapspeak terms. The Local Government Association sent out a list last week of 100 “non-words” for councils to avoid.”
Wiki-Leaking – Changing The World Of Information
Wikileaks gives whistleblowers opportunity to publish secret documents. “After 18 months of publishing government, industry and military secrets that have sparked international scandals, led to takedown threats and briefly gotten the site banned in the United States, Assange says Wikileaks is just getting started changing the world.”
Early Australian Tattoos Similar To Rock Art Of The Time
“Body art was all the rage in early Australia, as it was in many other parts of the ancient world, and now a new study reports that elaborate and distinctive designs on the skin of indigenous Aussies repeated characters and motifs found on rock art and all sorts of portable objects, ranging from toys to pipes.”
JK Rowling Joins Fight Against Age-Labeling For Children’s Books
The petition argues that imposing an age-guidance figure on children’s books is “ill-conceived, damaging to the interests of young readers and highly unlikely to make the slightest difference to sales.”