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Previous	SHORTS June 23, 2012 Anish Says No, No, No The answer's no, " he says. "No, no, no, no, no. The answer is no. " That was Anish Kapoor replying emphatically to a question asked by a BBC interviewer on whether his multimillion, tangled, red Olympic Orbit tower should have air vents to prevent water dripping on people's heads. He was then asked, tentatively, if he thought it would be a good idea to have a glass floor for the viewing platform. He thought not. Emphatically not. "No way, no way, I don't even want to hear it, no way, " said Anish. "I'll leave. No way, I refuse to have anything to do with this. Go to Blackpool to look down the [beep] tower. Go away, no way, no way, no way, no way, no way. " He sounds like Amy Winehouse in the song Rehab - no, no, no. As one Guardian columnist observed tartly: "He's right. If you start to compromise, you end up with. . . well, a compromise;art by committee, and no one wants that. But he does come across like a spoilt little boy running around in a rage with his hands over his ears, shouting: "No, no, no, no, no, no. " SHORTS June 23, 2012 Wiesel Returns Award Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel has "repudiated" a Hungarian government award he received in 2004 because top officials in Budapest attended a ceremony for a Nazi sympathiser. The memorial rite held weeks ago was offensive to the 83-year-old Wiesel, whose parents were sent to their deaths at Auschwitz by wartime Hungarian officials. Wiesel's searing memoir, Night, about the year he and his father spent in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, gave the world one of the most important testimonies to the inhumanity of Hitler's camps. He said in an interview that the Hungarian affair was just "too close to home". He wrote a letter this month to the speaker of the Hungarian parliament, Laszlo Kover, rejecting the award granted in 2004 by Hungary's president. Wiesel says it's "outrageous" that the parliament speaker participated in the May 27 ceremony honouring wartime parliament member Jozsef Nyiro. Wiesel calls him "a fascist ideologue".	Next
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