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...vandals used permanent market to deface the exterior brick wall of the master's residence with graffiti. An adjacent by the tutors' garage was also marked by the vandals. No suspects have been identified...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: NEWS BRIEFS | 7/7/1992 | See Source »

...Civilisation, which ignored the Spanish- speaking world. Aiming to show that the Latin legacy is as rich as anything in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, Fuentes has condensed five centuries of Hispanic experience into a multimedia saga that ranges, in his words, "from the caves of Altamira to the graffiti of East Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Daring Dreamer | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

Epps criticized the magazine's "rough treatmentof a sensitive issue" at the November rally, andRudenstine issued a statement condemning theLowell house graffiti...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Peninsula Issue Sparks Campus Controversy | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...newly built Tarrant County Correction Center in Fort Worth, the first fully functioning direct-supervision jail system in the state; it features sunny single cells with windows, no bars. "Since then," says the center's newly appointed warden, Major James Skidmore, "we have not had one piece of graffiti written on the walls, one toilet stopped up, one officer or inmate struck or injured. Our officer turnover rate has dropped to 5.4% from 18% in our linear jails, where on average an officer is injured once a day and costly compensation cases come up once a month. Having budgeted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gilded Cages | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...reason that suburbanites are ready to circle the lawn mowers is that many of them see the cities' problems seeping into their own community. While the more distant and wealthier suburbs can still claim to be free of graffiti, gangs and drugs, urban squalor is spreading into the less fortunate towns. Wander for only a few minutes from the leafy avenues of Garden City, a New York City suburb, and you find yourself in the run-down, drug-infested apartment blocks of Hempstead. Reported robberies grew by 17% on Long Island last year. They fell by 1.6% in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Land Is Your Land. . . This Land Is My Land | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

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