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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...explain the politics of his perilous plunge. "But right now, I feel as if the WTO is trying to make me swim without a life vest." A squadron of Koreans did make a break for the convention center later, but were repelled by riot police wielding shields and pepper spray. Homegrown radical and Hong Kong legislator Leung (Long Hair) Kwok-hung, who marched with the Koreans and was caught up in the tussle, summed up the experience: "I had a good time, apart from getting pepper-sprayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scenes from a Protest | 12/18/2005 | See Source »

...Peter R. Emmet ’06 really liked it because it used an Old Masters-style glaze, which Dean says “is more my taste in art.” When they came home one day to find it almost completely covered with white spray paint, it was a bit of an unpleasant shock. All that could be seen of the original painting was a one-inch remainder around the edges. According to Emmet, Dean could not understand why Hodges would destroy his own artwork. Hodges’ reply: the painting could be understood from its remaining...

Author: By R. DREW Davis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seeing the Beauty in Simplicity | 12/7/2005 | See Source »

...better than them because I had a job and money." Bright-eyed and polite, Wager is contemplating further hospitality training, modeling, obtaining her driver's license and buying a car. At the nearby Moree Panel Works, Joe Tighe, 19, is putting in another day as a spray painter. Winner of an Apprentice of the Year award, Tighe is an AES poster boy and a rare, non-sporting success story in these parts - in spite of a difficult upbringing, dropping out of school in Year 9, and little contact with working people. The AES mentored the quiet tradesman during his transition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jobs For Our Mob | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...floor surrounded by a tangled heap of fabric and thread. She lifts an elaborate metal structure covered in a veil of canvas, and puts it on her head. Merriman is creating performance art—a multi-piece costume that she will wear while walking through a labyrinth spray-painted on the Divinity School parking lot. The complex design will prevent her from seeing where she is going or moving too fast, she explains. “This is about surrendering your will to life.”Across the studio, a conglomeration of gently swaying silicone hangs delicately suspended...

Author: By Natasha M. Platt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: VES 130r: Criticality, the Body and "Other" Things | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...they slept and surrendered without a struggle, but in Sydney's southwest, Omar Baladjam allegedly shot at police when confronted walking near the Green Valley Mosque. Police say he pulled a handgun from his backpack and fired, wounding an officer in the hand. Police returned fire, hitting the spray painter and sometime television actor in the neck. A few suburbs away, police called in a helicopter with a heat-seeking camera to help locate father of five Mohamed Elomar, who hid in a park near his home in Condell Park. On Nov. 11, 25-year-old Izzydeen Atik was arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror in the Suburbs? | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

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