Art & Culture
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling accused of plagiarizing from children's wizard book
J.K. Rowling, the world’s richest author, is accused of stealing ideas for "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire" from another British author's children’s book. Rowling was added as a defendant to an ongoing legal claim filed against her publisher for alleged copyright infringement by the estate of the late Adrian Jacobs.
Spotlight proves too much for 7-year-old samba queen at Rio carnival Times Online 02/15/2010 | Carnival erupts in Rio amid scorching heat waveBRADLEY BROOKS AP 02/14/2010 |
 A Michael Jackson impersonator performed atop a silver float, and Madonna and Jesus watched from a crowded balcony, but all eyes were on seven-year-old samba queen Julia Lira as she strutted her stuff in front of thousands of people at Brazil’s world-famous carnival parade in Rio de Janiero last night. |  RIO DE JANEIRO — Carnival's raucous street parties flooded Rio with drum-beating local revelers and sweaty foreigners escaping snowbound cities. |
Baroque Concertos 2 on March 27 by CCOHKJulia Poon Poon's International Arts Management 02/12/2010 | Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker diesJonathan Watts The Guardian 02/06/2010 |
 Featuring soloists Andrea Zanchetta (violin), Leanne Nicholls (oboe) and Teresa Suen (harp) |  The last speaker of an ancient tribal language has died in the Andaman Islands, breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world's oldest cultures. |
China's Panchen Lama voted VP of state Buddhism body: report AFP 02/04/2010 | Sotheby's Sells Giacometti for Record $104.3 MillionKELLY CROW The Wall Street Journal 02/04/2010 |
 BEIJING — China's controversial choice as the second highest Tibetan spiritual figure, the 19-year-old Panchen Lama, was voted vice president of the nation's Buddhist Association Wednesday, state media reported. |  A 1960 Alberto Giacometti sculpture sold for £65 million ($104.3 million) at Sotheby's, setting a record price for a work of art at auction and signaling a potential resurgence in the art market. |
Ramayana Casts Its Ancient SpellSONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP The New York Times 02/04/2010 | Google named 'word of the decade' by American speech scholarsAndrew Hough Telegraph 01/14/2010 |
 SINGAPORE — With numerous heroes and villains and its powerful feel-good message of good triumphing over evil, the Ramayana has been one of the great epic poems of Indian culture for centuries. Originally attributed to the Hindu Sanskrit poet Valmiki, who lived about 400 B.C., the story has been retold and adapted over time by poets, scholars and everyday storytellers. |  Google's dominance of the internet has spread to the world of linguistics with the verb spawned from the brand name being voted word of the decade. |
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