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...aren't saying that cooking is a new art form," says Ruth Noack, Documenta's curator. "We're saying that Ferran Adrià shows artistic intelligence." That distinction is lost on Spanish artists, who feel underrepresented at Documenta and have long toiled in obscurity even as Spanish chefs became international superstars. Others complain that the move signals the banalization of Documenta. "Both Adrià's participation and contribution seem ridiculous to me," sniffed the great art critic Robert Hughes, adding that "food is food." Adrià counters that his critics don't understand what he does or his role in the art show...
...Latinos have become the state's largest minority, making up 3.7% of the population in 2005. Banking, restaurant menus and even voter registration cards are now offered in Spanish, but Hispanics' emergence has not been without friction. Over the years Iowans have grown fearful that the immigrants brought in by the state's hog farms and hospitality industry are dragging down their minimum wages and taking jobs they might want, said Paula Martinez, who sits on the Iowa Democratic Central Committee. And the immigration debate, in turn, has helped make the Hispanic community "incredibly" active, according to Armando Villareal, administrator...
...second best tennis player in the world. Now the Spanish master of the clay courts will try to beat out No. 1, Roger Federer, in the upcoming U.S. Open. Rafael Nadal will now take your questions...
...does it feel to be most likely the best Spanish tennis player ever at such a young age? -Sergio Núñez, Madrid I honestly don't think much about those things. I'm just working daily in the present, to try to do everything possible get improve my game, to win another title. I can thing about those things after I'm done playing tennis...
...Francisville, Louisiana, a sleepy, Spanish moss-draped town of 1,800 in the heart of what tourism officials have dubbed Plantation Country, was well out of strike range when Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the state two years ago. Its downtown is a dense collection of graceful buildings, many dating back to the 18th century, which are still as carefully preserved and nurtured as the town's air of Old South gentility. But beginning this week St. Francisville finds itself at the center of a media storm, playing host to a controversial trial over the deaths of 35 nursing home...