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News and Culture Five

News Round-Up January 25

What we’re reading today:

And the last thing we’ll post on the whole Tiger Mother thing. Maybe. The Ottawa Citizen‘s Roger Collier wrote his response to Amy Chua last weekend: Why doesn’t he force his kids to spend hours on the piano or violin? “You don’t become CEO by butchering Beethoven on a baby grand. You become CEO by stepping over colleagues after stabbing them in the back. Besides, we have Guitar Hero IV on Xbox, so we got the music thing covered.”

Happy birthday Robert Burns! The Scottish poet who made haggis famous would have been 252 today. Feeling Scottish and want to take a stab at the sheep stomach dish? One of these days, we’ll try haggis. Just not today. But these haggis sliders look like a good like a good way to ease into eating everything that goes into haggis.