Baseball Hall takes center stage (The Daily Star)TOP 10 LOCAL SPORTS STORIES OF 2007 . Ironically, center stage belongs to the event that actually has one.
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Visit aimed at wealthy Democrats in the capital. Obama campaign targets London
Tory leader to focus on widening gulf between rich and poor amid rumours of snap election. Cameron braced for early poll
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We’re having a big week in the art attribution field. First there was the Italian conservator who decided that a canvas she’s been examining, and which has long been considered a copy of a Caravaggio, is the real thing. Then there was the mysterious canvas sold at auction last week in Leicestershire, England. At the time it was represented as an 18th century portrait of a man by an anonymous artist and offered at the anybody-can-afford-this estimate of $300 to $400. The auctioneers should have known something was different about this lot when inexplicably fierce bidding pushed the final price to $410,000, a sum that reportedly left the astonished seller very happy. But maybe not for long. This week the British papers report that the canvas may actually be a Titian, something those competing bidders obviously knew. Possible market value: $10 million. 
Portrait of a Man (detail), Attribution pendingBut the best story comes out of the U.S., where a London-based film maker has filed suit in a New York court against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. That’s the organization that, among other things, directs people who think they own a Warhol to the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, which in turn examines would be Warhols to determine whether they’re “real” Warhols, the kind you can sell for real Warhol prices. The film maker, Joe Simon-Whelan, has been at war with the Board for years after they twice rejected a purported 1964 Warhol self-portrait that Simon-Whelan bought in 1989 for $195,000. Simon-Whelan accuses the Board of acting fraudulently to keep the pool of authenticated Warhols artificially small, which would keep prices high for the recognized Warhols, many of which the Foundation owns and sometimes sells. Well, keeping the pool of an artist’s work smaller than it might otherwise be is the inevitable byproduct of any authentication board’s work. There are a lot fewer acknowledged Rembrandts in the world today then there were before the Rembrandt Research Project started combing through his output 39 years ago. So the main hurdle for Simon-Whelan will be to prove that the Board has acted “fraudulently.” At the very least, if the court decides that his claim has enough substance to bring the suit to trial, it will be interesting to learn more about just how the Board authenticates work by an artist whose whole philosophy revolved around mass production of imagery and the elimination of the artist’s unique touch. Is a Warhol silk screen less authentic if he went to the bathroom and left Gerard Malanga to pull the page? What if he didn’t even show up at the Factory that day? As Andy himself once said: “If someone faked my art, I couldn’t identify it.” I can’t wait til they form The Damien Hirst Authentication Board.
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Berlin, Germany: The largest synagogue in Germany reopens today after two years of renovation. Built in 1904, the Rykestrasse synagogue was one of the few Jewish buildings in the capital to survive the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938 Gallery: Berlin synagogue restored
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Wood County drug bust names (Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune)Editors note: The following names were originally reported arrested as part of what was described as Wood Countys largest drug bust. Some 18 months later, only one case remains open with the other almost 150 people charged having completed the process. Here is the list of those who went through the court system in connection with the arrests.
Fitch Ratings said the contraction in the US housing market is likely to be more severe than anticipated during the rest of 2007, mainly due to tighter mortgage standards and disrupted mortgage markets. Contraction in housing market to be worse than expected in rest of 2007 - Fitch
Yesterday Mark Schwartz, an attorney representing the Friends of the Barnes Foundation, a non-profit group attempting to prevent the Barnes collection from being moved from its home in Merion, Pa. to Philadelphia, filed a petition in Montgomery County Orphan’s Court asking Judge Stanley Ott to rescind his earlier decision permitting the move. Blogger Tyler Green and Jim McCaffrey of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin have both obtained copies of the filing and provide details on line. The filing is a step that’s been expected for some time. The surprising part is how far the 79-page petition goes in making some explosive claims, namely that the process that culminated in Ott’s decision was riddled with conflicts of interest. Attorney Schwartz had originally been retained by the Board of Commissioners of Montgomery County, where the Barnes is located, to file the petition on their behalf. But Schwartz resigned after members of the Board, which is also seeking to keep the Barnes in Merion, decided that they didn’t want to be associated with some of the claims that Schwartz was preparing to make. His petition points the finger at a whole roster of players in the Barnes mess, including Barnes Foundation President Bernard Watson, the trustees of Lincoln University ?that’s the Pennsylvania school that was given control of the Barnes Foundation by Barnes himself ?Pennsylvania’s Gov. Ed Rendell and the state attorney general. Here’s just one of those claims:
“The attorney general, instead of assuring adversarial proceedings in this matter, became an active participant with Gov. Ed Rendell to pressure Lincoln University trustees to withdraw their opposition to the Barnes Foundation’s petition [for permission to move its collection, thus breaking the terms of Barnes' will] in exchange for a commitment by the commonwealth [that's the state of Pennsylvania for you out-of-staters] to give Lincoln University millions of dollars of taxpayer money. The attorney general did not recognize its conflicts or those of others.”
The most intriguing claim of all? That if the Barnes collection does move to Philadelphia, it may not end up, as is now the plan, in a purpose-built new museum. That project has already run into a number of obstacles. Instead, the petition suggests, the priceless collection could end up in “a place of last resort” ? which might just be the Philadelphia Museum of Art. That’s the very institution that Barnes spent a good part of his life feuding with. One other irony here. The Philly Museum already possesses the collection assembled by Barnes’ friend and attorney John G. Johnson. At his death in 1917 Johnson left over 1200 paintings and his house to the city of Philadelphia. But in 1933 the city and the Pennsylvania Museum of Art ?as the Philadelphia Museum was then called ? successfully petitioned a judge to demolish the house and move Johnson’s collection into the museum. Barnes watched the whole episode unfold with complete dismay, and over the years moved repeatedly to insure that nothing of the kind could ever happen to his collection. We’ll see.
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? Britain alarmed by critics in US administration ? Ministers deny mission in southern Iraq has failed Bush defends UK Basra pullout
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The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your .The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog: The results of price comparing various online bookstores for this book. .
Bank stresses it is not facing financial crisis. ?800m hedge fund bail-out adds to City’s jitters over Barclays
Travel: On a trip where you actually want bad weather, Rebecca Loncraine discovers the thrill of chasing tornados across the vast Midwest. Why I’m praying for storms
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Yesterday Skype was down for all of its millions of users, and I still can’t get connected today. I tried a few times and thought it was something that I did — luckily I run about 17 different IM clients and generally can work around it — but this would have been a problem in [.] Skype (black) out
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