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VOL. 79 PART 6 NOVEMBER 2021
“Life was not so sweet for readers who tried to make torta di mele using our
recipe (La dolce vita, 28 September, page 10, Feast). Three eggs and 15g of
baking powder were missing from the ingredients and the method.”—The
Guardian
Lee “Scratch” Perry, a musical visionary who pioneered dub and roots reggae,
died in late August 2021. Shortly after working with Perry in Jamaica
in 1980, Paul McCartney was found with 219 grams of cannabis in his luggage
at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport. Facing up to seven years of
hard labour, McCartney was arrested and put in jail. The former Beatle’s
case was taken up by “Scratch”, who wrote a letter to the Japanese Minister
of Justice stating: “Please do not consider the amount of herbs involved
excessive. Master Paul McCartney’s intentions are positive.” Whether
Perry’s letter helped or not, “Master” McCartney was released from Japanese
jail after nine days and deported to England, where he later became Sir
James Paul McCartney, CH, MBE. Sir Paul gave up cannabis in his 70s wanting
to set a better example for his grandchildren. Perry, meanwhile, smoked
well into his 80s, blowing clouds of smoke onto master tapes to enhance the
recordings.
“Among the Germanic and Celtic tribes the winter solstice or the return of
the sun in December was celebrated long before the adoption of Christianity
and was known as ‘yule’ a term still used for the season. The holly, the
mistletoe, the yule log and the wassail bowl are relics of pre-Christian
times”: King v. Village of Waunakee, 185 Wis. 2d 25 (1994).
“Correction: An earlier version of this review misstated a song lyric. Adele
sings ‘Hello from the other siiiiiide,’ not ‘outsiiiiiide.’”—The New York Times
Ontario’s Deputy Judge Marty Klein has applied the “good fences” approach
to various cases including, in Braich v. Singh, 2015 CanLII 5780 (Ont. S.C.J.),
to the merits of having a written agreement: “Applied here - it is far wiser
for people to define the terms and limits between them, in a written agreement,
rather than rely upon oral/verbal arrangements. A good written
agreement, coupled with receipts if payment is in cash or canceled
cheques, will result in clear definition, should a situation ‘go south.’” And
more elaborately in Dukit.com (DUKuniversal) v. McDonald, 2006 CanLII
84246 (Ont. S.C.J.), where the same judge considered cross-claims regarding
work “to install a wireless network in the defendants’ home”, the judge
noted: “the plaintiff ought not to have ‘let down its guard (fence)’ and (a)
produced its initial quote in writing … . Had this been done (there being
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