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...under a staircase. Margaret Barron paints tiny cityscapes on adhesive tape that are stuck on handy surfaces somewhere near the actual locations. Several are sited in the Tate environs, at risk of being peeled off or fly-posted over. Young guns Nick Relph and Oliver Payne first made a splash with video works showing the city from the perspective of skateboarders or graffiti artists. In their latest adventure they visit the disappearing underworld of the gents' public toilet, and find the gap between London's image and its reality. Not all the work is quite so intimate or quotidian...
...writings on India's growing self-confidence, in part because the esteemed author appears to sanction the party's Hindu-nationalistic agenda. So it must have stung last week when Naipaul expressed "profound disappointment" with the government's crackdown on news website Tehelka. The muckraking site made a splash nearly two years ago with a sting operation that exposed Defense Ministry officials accepting bribes. After promising to investigate the matter, a government commission has done little since but investigate Tehelka and freeze the assets of its financier, nearly squeezing the business out of existence. Meanwhile, the bureaucrats caught on videotape...
...will probably have healed itself anyway. But the President took the plunge this week, offering a $670 billion tax-cut package that drew adjectives like "bold," "aggressive" and yes, "foolhardy." Leave it to posterity - or the economy in 2008 - to judge which, but there's no question that the splash has set the tone for the domestic economic-political debate for the next few months, and that's good enough to make the president our Person of the Week...
...sausage. While absorbing the best of the rest, Bologna is considered the birthplace of several staple products and inimitable dishes. The Bolognese sauce (other Italians call it ragù) is chopped beef or veal with just a light touch of tomato sauce, a bit of pancetta, onion and a splash of milk and wine; it is served over tagliatelle pasta or as the filling of a lasagna. Proud locals also say tortellini, the small triangle-shaped meat-and-cheese-filled pasta, were invented in Bologna - though Modena also stakes that claim. Situated at the base of the Apennine foothills halfway...
...weight throw is where Harvard women’s track and field has made the biggest splash in its season-opening meet against Boston College in recent years...