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...included in the Whitney Biennial, the New York City museum survey that tries, however bumptiously, to define what's happening. The curators credited him with "serving as a model for painting's renewed focus on the intimate and the figurative." And with the Boston show, which will travel to Los Angeles and London, Hockney is more visible than he has been for some time...
...what if in the future, search were to become more personal, more local? We might turn more to our friends, neighbors and even strangers for opinions, recipes, travel tips and so on. That, more or less, is what Yahoo!'s bet is about. Yahoo! figures we won't be satisfied with a fat data-crunching search engine like Google's. Yahoo! is focusing instead on "social search," in which everyday Internet users pool their knowledge to create alternative systems of content that deliver more relevant results--which, of course, can be monetized...
...investment will fall, as will tourist numbers. But Sri Lanka's economy kept growing during the earlier years of war, and is in better shape today than it was, now that a collection of boutique hotels has made the island the favored destination of the long-haul travel crowd. Although tourists may continue to enjoy Sri Lanka, if war is renewed, those who live there year-round will continue to have their aspirations for peace thwarted. Haunting the island is the possibility that neither side in the conflict is able to rise above its worst instincts, and that two decades...
...United States. Ramadan had been invited to the November 2004 AAR conference and was planning to serve as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University when the Department of Homeland Security informed him in August 2004 that his visa had been revoked, Eck said. Ramadan could not travel to the U.S. for the conference, though he did participate via live video stream from Canada. The Homeland Security Department “doesn’t discuss the basis for its recommendations to the State Department—whether for or against granting an individual an immigration benefit...
...Abramoff scandal. "Some of the proposals out there were just not necessary," said one House leadership aide. The new management in the House agrees. Two days before his surprising election as House Majority Leader, Ohio Republican John Boehner had suggested one of Hastert's ideas, banning all privately funded travel, was "childish". Since then Boehner has further distanced himself from the reform ideas, suggesting that current laws have worked in catching violations of ethics rules and an independent office of public integrity to check for abuses is unnecessary. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant," Boehner said on Meet the Press last...