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...court cases that Tehelka?which means "sensation" in Hindi?collapsed. Back at the helm of a reborn Tehelka weekly, however, Tejpal thinks that even his experience won't stop India's brash new journalism. "Ethics are changing again," he says, "and where the new line will be drawn, nobody knows...
...Many rules were first drawn up for health-and-safety reasons. But now they're costing jobs - as many as 600,000 across the E.U., according to a study carried out earlier this year by analysts Copenhagen Economics for the European Commission. The study argued that removing the barriers would give a big boost to productivity and wages as well as increasing employment. Consumers would also benefit from lower prices as a result of greater competition. It's a grand vision, but putting it into practice is tricky. This month, the European Commission retreated on its proposed directive for liberalizing...
...Perhaps Bacon, who never met his idol, was drawn to images that seemed tolerant of homosexuality, like the near-naked androgynous youths (one playing the flute, the other transported by the music) in the sketches for Picasso's monumental Pipes of Pan. When Bacon arrived in Paris at age 18 - after his father caught him in his mother's underwear and threw him out - he was certain of his homosexuality, but less certain of his artistic talent. He flirted with interior design when he returned to London in 1929 and, once he started painting, destroyed most of his early efforts...
...even though there's plenty of sex and violence and violent sex in Metropolis, the most compelling parts are actually Gaffney's accounts of 19th century manual labor, which are as coolly, finely drawn as an architect's rendering. Her German leading man shovels snow and lays roads for the city, replacing New York City's "knobby, pothole-begetting ostrich-egg cobblestones" with slabs of smooth Belgian granite. He does time mucking out the fascinating labyrinth of Manhattan sewers. He works underwater laying the foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge in the silty muck at the bottom of the East River...
...sensitive counter-insurgent operations, often acting as the lead teams in raids and rescue missions. In some cases, Iraqi units have used intelligence gleaned from locals to identify their own low-level targets, and then execute small raids on their own. Trained by Task Force Pioneer, a unit drawn from a support company from the U.S. Special Operating Force's 10th Group, the emerging Iraqi commando units have impressed U.S. commanders with their combat performance and bolstered confidence that Iraqis can keep the insurgents at bay on their own. "We can step away more now," says the U.S. commander...