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...financial terms, membership of Taring Padi is not easy. Some of the group's peers at ISI, such as Rudi Mantofani, Yunizar and Handiwirman Saputra, have gone on to establish reputations as successful young artists, selling works for tens of thousands of dollars. While Taring Padi's members no longer live in derelict premises - disenchantment with communal cooking and an attack by Muslim fundamentalists in 2003 saw the squat's abandonment - they still lead a hand-to-mouth existence, centered on their humble atelier in the Central Java village of Sembungan. "They are a very egalitarian bunch of guys," says...
...stabilizing the Balkans, the creation of Europe's youngest state could be paving the way for future troubles. How things turn out largely depends on the European Union, which just decided to dispatch some 2,000 police officers, prosecutors and judges to Kosovo. Their goal, in essence, is to establish the rule of law in Kosovo so that the 15,000 NATO peacekeepers currently deployed there can go home. The E.U. must also keep an angry and frustrated Serbia on the path toward European membership, because that prospect is just about its only inducement to good behavior toward...
...departure is ramping up debate over whether the U.S. should free itself of torrid Cuban-exile politics, dismantle its 46-year-old trade embargo against Cuba and establish the kind of diplomatic relations Washington has with other ironfisted regimes, like those in China and Saudi Arabia. The Bush Administration has steadfastly refused to even consider ending the embargo, a policy that may sway elections in Florida but has failed utterly to dislodge the regime in Havana. If the U.S. hopes to get more results, the President who takes office next January will need to change course and engage Cuba, allowing...
Lacking the vast charisma that enabled his brother to hold on to power for nearly a half-century, Raśl can go one of two ways to establish his legitimacy: he can return to his hard-line roots and use his security forces to crack down on dissent, or he can earn the affection of his beleaguered people by further loosening the economic and political screws--a path that may be easier to take if Washington drops the embargo. "If we don't," says Jake Colvin, director of the Washington-based USA*Engage, an arm of the National Foreign Trade Council...
...home a share for their affiliated museums and universities. Today the source nation keeps almost everything, despite the fact that a foreign museum or university is usually paying for the dig. "If archaeologists were to say, 'We're going to withdraw our expertise until you say you will re-establish partage,''' says Cuno, "it seems to me [source] nations would respond to that...