crackerjack
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While we're at the Guardian.
Should this really be a lead story? And wasn't it utterly obvious that this would happen? Build a memorial by all means, but something less fragile might have been smarter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/14/lawrence.race
A £10m architectural centre built as a memorial to Stephen Lawrence, who was murdered in a racist attack 15 years ago, has been vandalised just a week after it opened, Guardian.co.uk can reveal.
Eight windows each worth £15,000 and designed by the Turner prizewinning artist Chris Ofili on the front of the new building in Deptford, south-east London, were destroyed overnight.
A Metropolitan police spokeswoman confirmed the attack was being treated as a racist incident.
"A number of windows had been broken and police were informed at 5.46am today. The hate crime unit at Lewisham CID are investigating the incident," she said.
Should this really be a lead story? And wasn't it utterly obvious that this would happen? Build a memorial by all means, but something less fragile might have been smarter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/14/lawrence.race