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'Fearless Girl' to leave Wall Street's 'Charging Bull'

By VERENA DOBNIK its popularity spawned an visitors from around the
Associated Press online petition seeking to world swirled around the
NEW YORK (AP) — New keep it. The city agreed. ponytailed girl in a wind-
York's "Fearless Girl" statue Much of its popularity blown dress.
that has become a global hinged on its juxtaposition The bull and the girl belong
symbol of female business with the 11-foot-tall (3-me- together, said Martine Guil-
prowess will be moved ter-tall), 7,100-pound bull lon, a high school teacher
from her spot staring down statue, which Italian sculp- visiting from Paris.
Wall Street's bronze "Charg- tor Arturo Di Modica creat- "A little girl can be stronger
ing Bull" to a new home ed as a symbol of American than a big animal; she's a
facing the New York Stock financial resilience follow- human mental force that is
Exchange. ing the 1987 stock market bigger than animal force,"
And the bull, a longtime fix- crash. Di Modica wanted Guillon said in her native
ture and tourist attraction the girl gone, saying she French. "It touches me a lot
at the foot of Broadway, altered the dynamic of his to see, in front of this enor-
may wind up following in bull and was no more than mity, the force of a little girl In this April 12, 2017 file photo, people gather at the "Fearless
her footsteps. what he called "an adver- with her hands on her hips Girl" sculpture in lower Manhattan, New York.
Mayor Bill de Blasio an- tising trick." who knows how to say, 'I'm Associated Press
nounced Thursday that Relief for the sculptor, here too, I count too, and
"Fearless Girl," a sculpture though, may not be com- even if I'm a very little girl, where it was delivered on a exchange will show that a
by Kristen Visbal of a girl ing. if you push with animal forklift truck as guerrilla art woman really has a place
with her hands on her hips "The Bull will almost certain- strength, you won't get far.'" during the night in Decem- there," said Lin Mateedul-
and chin pointed up, will ly be moved and will very The relocation to the stock ber 1989 to express finan- satit, a 26-year-old woman
be moved by the end of likely wind up reunited with exchange, three blocks cial survival after the stock who works for a chemi-
the year to a permanent 'Fearless Girl,' " de Blasio's away, would bring the bull market collapse. cal trading company in
home near the stock ex- spokesman, Eric Phillips, back to its original place "Moving her to the stock Thailand.q
change. wrote on Twitter.
The statue was installed in The two figures on a Broad-
March 2017 by the Boston- way traffic median have
based State Street Global become such a popular
Advisors financial firm as a draw that it constitutes a
temporary display lasting a safety hazard, with crowds
few weeks to encourage often spilling into the street,
corporations to put more city officials said.
women on their boards. But After the announcement,

Lecturer slams school for not

backing Bush-tweet professor

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A to academic freedom."
Fresno State lecturer who Writers and free speech
says he was demoted after advocates also called on
posting a tweet that Don- California State University,
ald Trump "must hang" says Fresno on Thursday to end
the university president is its investigation of Jarrar's
again failing to defend tweets. Meanwhile, critics
academic freedom, this continued to slam Jarrar on
time over a professor who social media for being in-
called former First Lady sensitive so soon after Bush's
Barbara Bush an "amazing death was announced
racist." In an opinion post- Tuesday."Barbara Bush was
ed Thursday by The Fresno a generous and smart and
Bee, Lars Maischak says amazing racist who, along
university President Joseph with her husband, raised a
Castro is siding with attack- war criminal," Jarrar wrote
ers of English professor Ran- on a Twitter account Tues-
da Jarrar instead of stand- day that has since been
ing up to the "fascist threat made private. q