CAIRO — A crackdown on U.S.-funded pro-democracy groups in Egypt and a bill before parliament that that would further restrict the work of nongovernmental organizations here are inhibiting development work and activism during a period many Egyptians hoped would be marked by greater freedoms. Read full article > >

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Mr. Tàpies grounded his work in the brute reality of the Spanish street and in the turbulent political dramas of his youth in Catalonia.

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Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88

Around 20% of unemployed people who have been on the government’s main welfare-to-work scheme, the Work Programme, for at least 6 months have been found a job, the BBC has learnt.

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Work programme on track: Grayling

TAMPA – A combative Mitt Romney on Monday broadened his call for Newt Gingrich to release records from his work as a consultant, speculating that those documents and records from a House ethics investigation from his time as speaker could show “potentially wrongful activity of some kind.” Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney expands attack on Newt Gingrich, slamming work for health-care firms

In South Carolina, debate over his work as a businessman has spared Mitt Romney an inquisition on social issues.

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Political Memo: For Romney, Attacks on Bain Career Have Upside

The Broadway adaptation of “Porgy and Bess,” opening Thursday, is just one of a series of attempts by composers’ estates to get the most out their work before copyrights expire.

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With ‘Porgy’ on Broadway, Gershwin Heirs Flex Their Rights

Blasts his work at Bain Capital.

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Pro-Gingrich Ad Attacks Romney

Surging Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has gone from a man of modest income to millionaire since losing his U.S. Senate seat in 2006, earning much of it by working as a conservative commentator on Fox News and advising industry and lobby firms. Santorum earned $1.3 million in 2010 and the first half of 2011, according to his most recent financial disclosure form. The largest chunk of his employment earnings — $332,000 — came from his work as a consultant for groups advocating and lobbying for industry interests. That included $142,500 to help advise a Pennsylvania natural gas firm, Consol Energy, and $65,000 to consult with lobby firm American Continental Group, and its insurance services client. Read full article > >

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Santorum experienced major jump in income after leaving Senate

“Over the past three years, Barack Obama has been replacing our merit-based society with an Entitlement Society,” Mitt Romney wrote in USA Today last month. The coming election, Romney told Wall Street Journal editors last month, will be “ a very simple choice ” between Obama’s “European social democratic” vision and “a merit-based opportunity society — an American-style society — where people earn their rewards based on their education, their work, their willingness to take risks and their dreams.” Read full article > >

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No longer the land of opportunity

Syrian activists call for mass demonstrations on Friday against President Bashar al-Assad, as Arab League monitors continue their work.

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Syria protesters urge mass rally

There are two standout works by iona rozeal brown in the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s 30 Americans exhibition, devoted to the work of African American artists. On first glance, they look like 18th- or 19th-century Japanese images, flat, colorful and erotic, with figures that have the theatrical exaggeration of Kabuki actors. But examine them more closely and a volatile tension emerges between their decorative surface and their provocative treatment of identity and race. In one image, the subject is wearing blackface makeup. In the other, a sexually available, ample and buxom Asian woman with very dark skin looks as if she just emerged from the corner nail and wig shop. Read full article > >

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Artist melds art forms, eras and disparate cultures in provocative works

Hackers targeted Stratfor, a global intelligence company, but it was unclear Sunday evening whether the breach and apparent release of credit card information was the work of the group Anonymous.

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The head of the British Army, General Sir Peter Wall, has visited servicemen and women in Helmand province to thank them for their work in Afghanistan.

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VIDEO: Army chief visits troops in Helmand

As Ingo Schulze’s “ Adam and Evelyn ” begins, it’s 1989 somewhere in East Germany. A carefree, feckless young couple set off for a vacation they’ve been planning for months. Adam is a 30ish guy who makes a good living as a master tailor. He’s an artist at his work, which consists of turning fairly ordinary women into striking beauties. He’s not conceited about his talent, but he recognizes it, and it brings him quiet satisfaction. Read full article > >

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Book review: ‘Adam and Evelyn,’ by Ingo Schulze

Ginger White now says Herman Cain is not the only man in her life who gave her money. White, who has said she had a 13-year affair with Herman Cain , on Monday told the Daily Beast’ s Leslie Bennetts that “Cain wasn’t the only man who helped her financially; her work history and her sex life have long been intermingled in complex and contradictory ways.’’ Read full article > >

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Ginger White says multiple men helped her financially