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Reform in France has always been dramatic, but never quite like this. The nation's annual Molière theater awards went unplugged last week, after performing-arts workers protesting a cut in their unemployment scheme stormed the Paris event and convinced stage hands to walk out. The scene verged on the surreal as actors collected their awards without music, backdrops, professional lighting or even microphones. All over France, unemployment has taken center stage. The spat over unemployment compensation in performing arts threatens to disrupt the Cannes film festival in mid-May. And two weeks ago, a Marseilles court overturned...
...wage on, as does the strong movement to find a proper balance between the rights of creator and audience. As a hugely active creator of culture, Gab is very interested in the ramifications of these policies for creativity and musicianship. When told of the voluntary Creative Commons licensing scheme (creativecommons.org) designed by Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig (who spoke at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute earlier this year on the subject) Gab said it sounds like a “dope idea.” This system gives artists a way to signal their desired control over their work...
...were organized by the regime's political wing, the Union Solidarity and Development Association, which has millions of members but only because state employees must join or lose their jobs. At one meeting in the ancient capital of Pagan, thousands of people "enthusiastically and unanimously" approved Khin Nyunt's scheme, reported the New Light of Myanmar. The newspaper's photos showed people sitting rigidly in perfect rows, looking miserable. Pagan is not a populous town, so to meet the Wagnerian standards set by meetings elsewhere in the country, people had to be ferried in from Mandalay in hundreds of minibuses...
...Khin Nyunt's road map envisages elections and a new constitution but mentions neither a credible timetable nor Suu Kyi, who led the NLD to a convincing victory in the 1990 election. My Burmese friends regard the whole scheme as a sop to the regime's supporters in Asia or just another stalling device?either way, more of a roadblock than a road map. (The U.S. State Department recently dismissed it as "hype.") The late dictator General Ne Win, who seized power in 1962, launched the disastrous "Burmese way to socialism," which bankrupted the country. Now his prot?g? Khin Nyunt...
...ransom, the payee was not God but the devil, who some felt had legitimate claim on humanity because of Adam's fall. But others preferred another scenario: to see the Crucifixion and Jesus' subsequent descent into what they called Hades as a kind of divine bait-and-switch scheme, whereby the devil thought he had claimed a particularly virtuous human victim only to discover he had allowed into his sanctum the power that would eventually wrest humanity back from his grasp. St. Augustine likened the devil to a mouse, the Cross to a mousetrap and Christ to the bait...