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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dark days of the cold war, Soviet propaganda was predictably noisy and lurid. During Dictator Joseph Stalin's "Hate America" campaign of the early 1950s, for instance, Kremlin artists depicted U.S. soldiers as hideous, spider-like creatures, armed with spray guns and injection needles, demonically waging germ warfare. But the ad that filled three-quarters of a page in the New York Times last week was far more sophisticated. WHAT HOLDS BACK PROGRESS AT THE GENEVA TALKS? queried the headline. In four columns of dull gray type, paid for by the Soviet embassy in Washington, an editorial reprinted from Pravda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pitchmen of the Kremlin | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...public opinion against foreign competition and market forces, and those on the right are fermenting hostility against foreign migrants. You helped rebrand the Labour Party in Britain. Are there any lessons there for Europe? Yes. With the Labour Party I realized quickly that you couldn't simply do a spray job. If you repaint an old car, it's still going to be an old car. Instead you have to re-engineer the model, reconstruct it, rethink whether that model is what the public wants and whether they would feel comfortable driving it. In a sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "We Have To Reinvent The Idea Of Europe" | 6/19/2005 | See Source »

...years ago, CRASH teams were all over them, jumping out of their patrol cars to search them for weapons and drugs, getting them to pull up their shirts to show their tattoos, pumping them for information about shootings. These days the cops barely engage. The night before, Rowdy had spray-painted a two-story design of PBS, the Playboys logo, on the front of a building on Pico. It took him nearly three hours--from 2:30 a.m. to past 5 in the morning--and in that time not a single police car came by to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: L.A. Gangs Are Back | 6/13/2005 | See Source »

...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers discovered three people in the process of spray painting a building at 1105 Mass. Ave. Cambridge Police Department (CPD) officers were called to the scene and one of the perpetrators was placed under arrest...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

...Officers were sent to two locations—Holyoke Center and Cronkhite Graduate Center—to investigate reports of vandalism. Spray paint had been discovered on the walls of both buildings...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

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