Let’s look at the Summum case. On November 12, lawyers went before the High Court to argue the big free speech case. In 1971, Pleasant Grove City, Utah, accepted a red granite monument featuring the Ten Commandments for placement in Pioneer Park. But in 2003, when the president of the Summum church asked the mayor of Pleasant Grove City to accept a monument inscribed with the religion’s Seven Aphorisms, the city said no thanks. The constitutional issue is whether, because Pleasant Grove City accepted the Ten Commandments monument, it must accept the Seven Aphorisms monument. Is the Ten Commandments monument speech made by a private group or citizen, making the city’s denial of the Seven Aphorisms display subject to strict constitutional scrutiny, or is it government speech, in which case the speaking government entity has greater freedom to pick and choose among messages? WSJ Law Blog November 12, 2008

Two U.S. internet service providers have pulled the plug on the firm McColo following an investigation by the Washington Post newspaper. Anti-spam firm Ironport has seen junk mail levels drop by 70% since McColo was taken offline on 11 November.
"It is an unprecedented drop but will be a temporary outage as the networks move from North America to places where there is less scrutiny," said Jason Steer, a spokesman for Ironport. The Washington Post has been gathering data on McColo for the past four months and passed the information to its internet service providers, Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7725492.stm

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The novel works better than academic literature to explain global problems
Now some economists are validating that notion. “Despite the regular flow of academic studies, expert reports, and policy position papers, it is arguably novelists who do as good a job–if not a better one–of representing and communicating the realities of international development,” says Dr. Dennis Rodgers from England’s Manchester University’s Brooks World Poverty Institute. Rodgers was speaking for a team of academics from Manchester University and the London School of Economics as they presented a report called “The Fiction of Development: Literary Representation as a Source of Authoritative Knowledge.”
The reason: Fiction “does not compromise on complexity, politics or readability in the way that academic literature sometimes does,” argues Dr. Rodgers. In a piece in the Telegraph last week, Rodgers goes on to cite “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini, “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga, and “Brick Lane” by Monica Ali as books that he says have done more to educate large numbers of people about life under the Taliban in Afghanistan, social injustice in India, and global development problems everywhere than any number of academic studies.
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2008/11/10/why-novels-are-best-at-explaining-world-problems/#more-898

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, (1858-1944) was an English composer. In 1910 Smyth joined the Women's Social and Political Union, a militant suffrage organization, giving up music for two years to devote herself to the cause. Her "The March of the Women" became the anthem of the women's suffrage movement, though suffragists most often shouted the words, by Cicely Hamilton, rather than actually singing Smyth's tune. She served two months in Holloway Prison. When Thomas Beecham went to visit her there, he found suffragettes marching in the quadrangle and singing, as Smyth leaned out a window conducting the song with a toothbrush. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Smyth

On November 13, 1940 Disney released “Fantasia,” an animated film based on classical music favorites ranging from Bach to Stravinsky; Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra recorded the soundtrack, and in one famous scene Stokowski shakes hands with Mickey Mouse. Composers Datebook

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