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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sidewalk chalk is the first weapon of student voice across the country; on many college campuses, it’s difficult to find a virgin square of asphalt. Colorful riots of amateur images, murals laid down on their side, document the vibrancy of student life. At one corner, they may advertise an upcoming event, at another, a protest, and at still another, a whimsically encoded maxim...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Chalk It Up | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...seeing tremendous excitement and enthusiasm all over the state," New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch said. Chalk it up to high stakes, aggressive organizing, well-known candidates, the lack of an incumbent-not to mention weather so unseasonably fine that a voter might feel almost lucky to be waiting in line outside a voting station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Hampshire Has Its Say | 1/8/2008 | See Source »

...seeing tremendous excitement and enthusiasm all over the state," New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch said. Chalk it up to high stakes, aggressive organizing, well-known candidates, the lack of an incumbent or weather so unseasonably fine that a voter might feel almost lucky to be waiting in line outside a voting station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making It a Race Again | 1/8/2008 | See Source »

...continuous diagetic sound, and re-establishing shots (in short, everything that makes a movie feel slick and unreal) ever shake an adult audience as deeply as the subject matter calls for? When Washington’s character boldly writes the word “Revolution” on the chalk board the first day of class, the theater screen feels especially opaque. Vladimir Mayakovsky once asserted that there is no revolutionary art without revolutionary form. And the film doesn’t present any revolution to its viewersThis isn’t to say “The Great Debaters?...

Author: By Daniel B. Howell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Great Debaters | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...that isn’t enough to get you to climb to the third floor of the Malkin Athletic Center to see them, maybe it’ll be the intangibles that do. Maybe it’ll be what I’ll chalk up to a little bit of spunk mixed with a little bit of luck...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MAD ABOUT YOU: Women’s Fencing on Fire...Again | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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