Academic and Work Pursuits, Polanski and Commie Debates

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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.

Comments

[forwrathandruin.livejournal.com]

Re: "understand where they're coming from on the first concern"

I'm afraid I don't really sympathize here either. Extradition is hardly new, and he's effectively been a fugitive from justice for three decades. The fact that he's probably a harmless old man now is no salve, either - he got to live thirty years free when others have done their time by rights.

And yes, Franco-American relations prooooobably won't be hurt by the arrest of a man wanted for rape. If they are (which they won't be), then we see something of the French culture and it's worth the price.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

I think it's more to do with national sovereignty issues between France, the U.S. and Switzerland. Just because I understand it however, doesn't mean I agree with it. I don't think rights of national sovereignty surpass universal rights.. like the right not to be drugged and sodomised against one's express will.

The Franco-US thing is a bit odd; if the French had an issue with the US whisking away one of their citizens from a third-party country, I would be more concerned with the Swiss allowing it.