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When the story broke, it seemed to be yet another horrific New York City fable: delinquent teen commandeers an eight-car subway train, taking 2,000 passengers on a three-hour joyride on the A line, the longest in the system. But as it turned out, the tale of Keron ("Keno") Thomas, 16, was not of the Honey-let's-call-that-broker-in- Westchester-this-city-really-is-going-to-hell variety. It was that other type of urban story, the kind that continues to propel big-city dwellers forward each day, a tale of hard work and self...
Street musicians and Cambridge residents within the last month have forced opposition to the upcoming installation of television monitors at some Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) subway stops...
...have enough printed acts at the T," said Vivian Kurkjian, a Cambridge resident who wrote a rap song protesting the proposed placement of monitors in the subway, known as the T. "These monitors are an intrusion in our lives," Kurkjian said...
...monitors will be used to post MBTA information such as subway delays and scheduling information, readily accessible to the hearing-impaired...
...didn't surprise me entirely though. In Madrid someone had taken the far-right Falangist party on dozens of building Graffiti's proclaiming "SKIN HEADS" and "KKK" occupied conspicuous places in subway stations. I'd seen racist rhetoric in the T and on down town buildings in Boston, but never to much as in Madrid...