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...They weren't there before, but Kashmiri militant groups now recruit fighters from all over Pakistan, even in the remotest areas. Sind province is known for its mellowness; Sufism, the most tolerant brand of Islam, flourishes in the numerous shrines. So it is jarring to see the invasion of graffiti along Sind's national highway, which cuts through vast fields of cotton, wheat and sugarcane, exhorting Muslims to kill Hindus and Westerners. VICTORY OR MARTYRDOM reads a sign by Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, one of the most influential Kashmir militant outfits. DEATH TO THE INFIDELS reads another. Attiya laughs. "Their infidels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Family Divided | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

Bullet holes riddle the walls of mosques in Florida and Texas. Hate graffiti and broken glass litter the sight of many Muslim-owned businesses around the country. At numerous American colleges, Muslim students have received death threats. An acquaintance of mine, who has first and last names of Arab derivation, was fired without explanation from his hardware store job last week, two days after the attack...

Author: By Terry E-E Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: American Pie: Changing the Recipe | 9/21/2001 | See Source »

...seem positively tame. Sumo wrestlers fight amid a candy-colored geometric background in one room, while another man tries to walk on ice wearing spherical shoes and a human nipple is transformed into an evening bag. There are bronze garbage bags and terra-cotta plungers, photographs of rest-room graffiti and gorgeous formal painting. There’s even a flying steamroller...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Burning Up: Art Sizzles at the Biennale | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...Twombly paintings (Twombly, along with Richard Serra, won the Leone d’oro this year), Mimmo Rotella’s decollages of circus posters and Lucinda Devlin’s chilling photographs of American execution cells. Less impressive offerings included Paul Graham’s photographs of bathroom graffiti, Nedko Solakov’s repeated painting of walls white and black, repeatedly layering the hues over each other, and Tanja Ostojic’s “reinterpretation” of Malevich’s black square using her pubic hairs...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Burning Up: Art Sizzles at the Biennale | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

Heavier Than Heaven provides a fascinating, honest account of a man whose life has often been shrouded by awe and urban myth. Although at times Cross fails to see Cobain as a mere mortal, lauding the inner meaning and brilliance of lyrics, childhood doodles and teenage graffiti that are not extraordinary in any way, Cross separates himself from other Nirvana biographers in that he is unafraid to prove that despite his obvious musical talent, Cobain was a self-interested hypocrite who was drastically different from how he was portrayed by other journalists and from how he wished to present himself...

Author: By Thalia S. Field, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Serving the Servants: A review of Charles R. Cross's _Heavier Than Heaven_ | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

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