Word: graffitiing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Some experts in securities law point out that Internet stock-fraud cases are such a new and rapidly evolving area of jurisprudence that it is too soon to tell how judges will treat the SEC's recent wave of them. "Messages on stock bulletin boards are nothing more than graffiti," argues Mark Werksman, a lawyer for one of the California defendants. "Posting them is an exercise in free speech that imposes no clear legal obligation...
...neighborhood has always been a mix, and we've gotten along well," D'Onofrio says. "But now, we have gangs and gang-related graffiti, because the young ones don't know the seniors, members of one [nationality] don't know the other...
...consequences of marginal actions while working on a story about the crime rate in New York City. William Bratton, then the city's police commissioner, was a believer in the "broken windows" theory, which says such big crimes as assault and robbery happen where small decay, like litter and graffiti, is tolerated. To ward off shootings and break-ins, Bratton cracked down on things like public urination and subway spray painting, a tactic that explains at least part of the city's crime drop in the 1990s...
...uniqueness of this Harvard-born graffiti is that it extends beyond simple recounts of traumatic, salad bar sagas. Students in this community engage in a dialogue, responding to the prose written by their fellow partners in crime. A debate spanning the left corner discusses the difficulty of not becoming disillusioned with learning solely as a result of intense workloads. A contingent on the top right argues over women's worth--or seemingly lack thereof...
...graffiti artists and their comrades harbor no regrets for using the bathroom wall to fulfill their needs in the here...