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Diary of a B+ Grade Polymath ([personal profile] tcpip) wrote2009-12-13 03:11 pm

Academic and Work Pursuits, Polanski and Commie Debates

Received my results for the first two units of my MBA, Financial Management and Management Perspectives; I passed both with Distinction grades. This was an enormous relief, especially for the Financial Management exam, which I thought was extremely difficult at the time. It also means that, assuming I complete Marketing and Information Systems, I will have a Graduate Certificate in Management (Technology Systems) by the end of next month. Then on to the Graduate Diploma. On a related angle, I have been given the necessary task of trying to make some sense of the internal wiki, external website and some of our marketing material. It doesn't make sense to pitch with generic marketing speak to scientists, for some well-known reasons, which have recently become evident at the Australian Synchrotron.

The events of Roman Polanksi's extradition for sexual assault have been long discussed. If you have the stomach for it, you can read the testimony of the young Samantha Geimer on the events themselves. When some members of the entertainment industry tried to defend Polanksi on the grounds of his international cultural reputation, most people responded to this with appropriate outrage. An unexpected angle however has come from the Sparticist League who have defended Polanski because Samantha was sexually experienced and had tried quaaludes previous. You can read the Sparticist League's position in the Communist Party of Great Britian newspaper in issue 794 and my response in 795.

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2009-12-13 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Down with male violence against women !

Well, as unlikely as it is, a reversal of gender roles would have been just as wrong.

the Communist Party of Great Britain and its organ , "The Daily Worker" aren't the original ones

*nods* The CPGB are a new group; they seem remotely reasonable which is pleasant surprise.

[identity profile] fluffyblanket.livejournal.com 2009-12-13 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
Well , if they're a new group , they must be the THIRD with that title . I remember the second one long before I moved to Spain ...

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2009-12-13 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
Technically this is the "Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee)"

[identity profile] fluffyblanket.livejournal.com 2009-12-13 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oh , right ! Thanks for the esoteric info !
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