| Fond memories of a loyal, jovial friend
PETALING JAYA: The country's past and present leaders turned up to pay their last respects to Tan Sri Megat Junid Megat Ayub, who died of prostate cancer yesterday. All expressed sadness at his demise and described him as a cheerful and jovial character who was always full of funny stories and anecdotes.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is in Davos for the World Economic Forum, extended his condolences to Megat Junid's family through his special officer, Datuk Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak.
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who visited the family with wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, described the former domestic trade and consumer affairs minister as a good friend and colleague.
"He contributed much to the government and to politics.
IAF to host Armando Milani graphic art exhibit
Milani, who was a close friend of the late Iranian designer Morteza Momayyez, will be making a speech on the opening day and his workshop entitled “Water Pollution" will be set up in the forum on January 28.
Armando Milani was scheduled to hold the exhibit to commemorate the second death anniversary of Momayyez in November, but the forum's calendar was full.
Momayyez died of prostate cancer in Tehran on Nov. 26, 2005. He was regarded as the father of Iranian graphic design and was the chairman of the board of directors of the Iranian Graphic Designers Society from 1988 to 2004.
He was honored by the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA) with a lifetime achievement award in April 2004.
Armando Milani has been professor at Cooper Union and Art Directors Club, New York; the University of Lawrence, Kansas; the Parsons School of Design, Santo Domingo and the Instituto Europeo di Design and Politecnico University, Milan.
Fake newsroom, real anger
Forget what you've heard about the fifth and final season of The Wire, which begins tonight on HBO. Officially, what some critics have called the greatest show in the history of TV wraps up with a meditation on the evils of corporate newspaper ownership. But really, it's all about revenge.
So said David Simon, creator of the much-hailed series, who before a live audience in Baltimore last April described score-settling as his creative muse. Simon was performing in Creative Alliance's storytelling series, called The Stoop, which you can hear at www.stoopstorytelling.com. The topic that night: "My Nemesis."
Simon told the crowd he had two nemeses, John Carroll and Bill Marimow, the two most senior editors at The Sun when Simon was a reporter at the paper. (Full disclosure: Carroll and Simon were both gone from The Sun before I arrived in 2000, but Marimow hired me and treated me well.)
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