Posts by Hilary Stace
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Then I must read it.
Re books and aut(h)ors Nick (H)ornby going to be on Kim (H)ill next week and (h)ere is a link to just out Prospect interview
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But give us a few months to read them first. Although I'm disappointed the second is not about Michel F.
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I have a whole thing about The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum and the limits of interpretation but I can't express it in fewer than three thousand words
I nominate Giovanni to lead this initiative with 3000 Italian accented words on these two books by Umberto Eco.
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Snap Giovanni. Just answered a Colmar Brunton survey on the Wgtn mayoralty. Silly survey in that it didn't take into account STV, but it still gave me a chance to tick Celia Wade-Brown.
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Then there was the rise of those banshee feminists who demanded equal pay for equal work and many right-thinking people -- women among them -- thought that that was not only outrageous but would destroy the family unit and bankrupt the country.
Pay equity hasn't happened yet. Banshee feminists (and unionists) are still demanding parity 110 years after women won the vote. At parliament grounds this morning a group of women dressed as 1890s suffragists staged a pay equi-tea complete with cake with 12% slice missing. May even feature in the mainstream media.
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From the latest New Scientist:
'Japan's incoming prime minister Yukio Hatoyama has pledged a 25 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2020, compared with 1990 levels, and challenged other countries to do likewise.' -
Courageous kids
I wonder if that news will appear in the Marsden old girls' newsletter?
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I remember Judy Bailey reading a news item about 10 years ago which cited the results for a public opinion poll on the death penalty. It was something like 49% in favour and she looked suitably grim. However, a veteran of the campaign to get rid of the death penalty several decades earlier was very happy as it was apparently the first time it had ever gone under 50%.
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Philip - Off topic but your recent article on special education has been widely praised
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Charles Chauvel is scathing