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...women's bathroom at The Crimson became the center of attention in 1989 when the business manager painted over staffer-written graffiti. The graffiti had begun in protest to male dominance at The Crimson and had been accumulating since before Seidman's time...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: ABOUT/FACE | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

...think stereotypes have very dangerous implications for society. You know, when the Oklahoma bombing took place, everyone thought it was the Muslims. There was a great sense of paranoia. There were individual families who were attacked, mosques defaced by graffiti. I even had a student ask me once, 'How can a rational and intelligent person like you be a Muslim?' It tells...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Asani Uses Diverse Background as Tool in Teaching Indo-Muslim Language, Culture | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...favor with their bosses. Most of those men took little interest in the neighborhood--with the exception of the few black fire fighters who were there--and treated the station house as a fortress. Residents viewed them as outsiders, and some youngsters vandalized the place with rocks and graffiti. But as white firemen slowly transferred out, a core of African Americans who chose to remain behind began leaving the station's steel door open nearly 20 hours a day. At that point something unexpected happened: people stopped trashing the place, and children started venturing inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW A FEW FIREMEN CREATED A SAFE HAVEN | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

BAGHDAD: Imagine 535 congressmen squatting on a D.C. sidewalk scribbling anti-Iraqi graffiti, and you have some idea of the level of hysteria prevalent in Iraq right now. While Saddam Hussein continued to insist he does not want a war, all 250 members of his parliament met outside the building Monday to chalk "down with America" on the stone streets. Speaker Saadoun Hammadi urged all Iraqi families to do the same outside their homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writing On the Wall | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...store features the "full surround room," decorated with hip urban graffiti, where customers can sit on a couch and enjoy the visual and sound quality of the store's DVD system...

Author: By Jung K. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tweeter's Has Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

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