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...send them back to their hometowns. He lost his blanket and clothes in the raid, forcing him to keep warm in the dismally cold days that followed by building a tiny fire out of scraps of cardboard. Most of the petitioners' makeshift homes?built of plastic foam, plastic and tarp?were destroyed. Still, says Li, "[The petitioners] will be back. This is their only goal in life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nothing Left To Lose | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

...announced, "This is a jungle painting," standing in front of Apathy, an immense 8-m by 6-m work showing a skeletal centaur-like figure leaping across a grease-streaked backdrop. "I was in the Mexican jungle in 1986 and I came across a truck with this big tarp on it and I offered the driver $70 for it - that's what I had in my pocket - and we took it off the truck and we strung it up between two tall bamboo trees and held it taut with the help of two smaller palm trees and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Patron Saint of Paint | 2/15/2004 | See Source »

Erected in 1936 to commemorate Harvard’s tercentenary, this phallic statue sits between Widener Library and Bolyston Hall. Once the green tarp is removed this spring (Harvard always uses protection), the Asian obelisk will continue to watch over the yard...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Eye of the Beholder | 10/2/2003 | See Source »

...home, our leadership continues to peddle fear. The new Department of Homeland Security whipped up enough fear of chemical attacks that there was a run on tarp and duct tape. John Ashcroft’s website defending the USA PATRIOT Act is not only frightening but alliterative. Take a look at www.lifeandliberty.gov to read all about the “deadly plans of terrorists dedicated to destroying America.” And President Bush, in each of his last three addresses to the nation, has not once failed to conclude his remarks with references to “dangers...

Author: By Peter P.M. Buttigieg, | Title: Frightened—and Fighting Fear | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

Yesterday was a busy day for Agatha Okyere ’81. She was moving—packing her belongings into boxes and bags, fumbling beneath the blue tarp that guards her property...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed and Rebecca D. O’brien, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Grad Prepares To Leave Home on the Street | 11/15/2002 | See Source »

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