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...Tikrit's main streets fresh graffiti praised Saddam and denounced the U.S. Marwan got out at the post office, where a local told him a slogan that proclaimed "Saddam is lord of Iraq" had been on the wall since Saddam's birthday in late April. Another, near the new police station, jointly staffed by U.S. and Iraqis probably had the most resonance for this hostile, conservative and deeply suspicious population: "The Americans are on the ground, now, but soon they will be in your beds...
...those seeking a wider audience, however, the most accessible form of public communication is graffiti. The new political parties and organizations that appear every day announce their birth and proclaim their intentions on blank walls...
...surprise decision to open the border that has divided the island since 1974. "Now that it is finally happening," Pantakis said, pausing to catch her breath at the border, "I feel strange and emotional." The most impenetrable barrier in Europe - complete with razor wire, U.N. peacekeepers and venomous graffiti - was transformed overnight into a block party. Even Turkish Cypriot police got in the mood, helping elderly Greeks cross the line. A traffic jam 10 km long snaked back from the border. At a small seaside café, a Turkish Cypriot student traded stories with visiting Greek Cypriot teens in broken...
...People in Mosul were the most pro-Saddam in Iraq - some say even more so than in Tikrit, his famously loyal hometown. Iraq's third-largest city, Mosul is also known as the biggest source of Iraqi army officers. Other cities in Iraq have graffiti like "Thank you Mr. Boush and Mr. Blear." Here, instead, there are Iraqi flags flying defiantly at mosques and vigilante checkpoints...
...most unusual and gifted artists. Here, in his bachelor-pad-cum-studio, Swaffield recycles carefully scavenged refuse from across the continent into rare works of art?pieces like Bali, an achingly exquisite collage finished in gold leaf, or Chinatown, an exuberant homage to Swaffield's favorite Hong Kong graffiti artist. Hanging in his tiny bathroom is Conjunctivitis, a maniacal disco ball formed from discarded spectacles, each pair of which Swaffield first tried on to check the refractive qualities. ("I got conjunctivitis making it," he says.) Another work, called Solewave?a collage of 350 ocean-bleached flip-flops plucked from various...