Experiments with truth: 8/21/09

    • Commuters at Southern Cross station in Melbourne were surprised with the famous balcony scene from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as part of a flash mob put together by drama students from the Victorian College of the Arts, who were protesting job losses and courses being scrapped.
    • Close to 150 people marched, chanted and honked horns in front of a high school in Richmond, Indiana yesterday to protest a new dress code.

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