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Pencil sharpeners banned after attack WEAPON: A pencil sharpener blade PENCIL sharpeners have been banned from a primary school after a pupil dismantled one and used the blade to slash another child's neck. The victim was attacked in the playground at Waterloo Primary School in Ashton under Lyne. He was taken to Tameside Hospital where he had butterfly stitches placed on the wound. The attacker was suspended for two days and is now back in school. Police, who were notified two days later, have spoken to the young attacker and his parents. Headteacher David Willis has now banned all pencil...

"The Great 20th Century Art Scam: or how Arrogance, Greed andFolly Nearly Destroyed 2500 years of Western Art" F r e d R o s s "Nobody who has invested much time downa blind alley likes the messenger who shinesa light at the brick wall up ahead." For over 90 years, there has been a concerted and relentless effort to disparage, denigrate and obliterate the reputations, names, and brilliance of the academic artistic masters of the late 19th Century. Fueled by a cooperative press, the ruling powers have held the global art establishment in an iron grip. Equally, there...

<p>PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Les Fossel, the Republican candidate who trailed by nine votes when a legislative recount stalled, challenged the Maine Senate on Wednesday to ''do the right thing, not the politically expedient thing.''</p> <p>Fossel said he fears that Senate Democrats will oversee the recount of disputed ballots out of the public view and will use a one-vote majority with opponent Chris Hall being provisionally seated to ensure a victory.</p>