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...student who was punished for displaying a drug-related message across the street from his school. The case concerns Joseph Frederick, a high school student who was suspended for holding up a 14-foot banner that read “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” on the sidewalk next to his school at the 2002 Olympic torch relay in Juneau, Alaska. His principal argued that the sign encouraged drug use and interfered with the educational mission of the school. Kenneth Starr of Monica Lewinsky fame, who represented the principal, asked the court to carve...
...officer was dispatched to the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Brattle St. to take a report of an unattended knife observed on the sidewalk. The officer arrived and searched the area for the knife with negative results...
...time he stepped out on the sidewalk for a stroll, he had filled two large, double-elephant sheets and started on a third--ten square feet of fresh words. It was five o'clock...
Flowers and candles left on the sidewalk normally signify the mourning of sudden death by violence or accident. But in Copenhagen's Norrebro district, this week, they marked the passing of a controversial, 25-year old refuge for rebellious young malcontents that has improbably become a cause celebre across Europe...
...driving taxis," says Faried al-Suheil, who fled Baghdad for Stockholm in 1993, moved back in 2003, then returned to Stockholm last summer. He stood at the doorway of the Iraqi prayer hall in the Stockholm suburb of Jakobsberg late one evening. Six taxis were parked along the snowbound sidewalk while the drivers celebrated the Shi'ite holiday of Ashura inside. "The Swedes don't want to hire us" for skilled work, al-Suheil says...