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...Despite the hardships under the Japanese, and the ensuing guerrilla war against the Dutch, the 1940s were considered a good time to be an artist. Clustered in Yogyakarta were painters eager to break with the Dutch school of painting in Indonesia, of which the preeminent exemplar was the Bali-based Rudolf Bonnet. The pastoral depictions of Indonesian village life produced by Bonnet and others were dismissed by Sudjojono as so much shallow Orientalism. "For my people, reality is the reality of rice," he wrote in 1950, arguing for a muscular realism. One of the painters who was moved by Sudjojono...
...Colombia Freedom From FARC On July 20, the 198th anniversary of Colombian Independence Day, hundreds of thousands marched in cities across the nation to call for the release of hostages held by leftist rebel groups like the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The guerrilla group--which is said to hold an estimated 700 hostages--has suffered a streak of setbacks this year, including the death of its top two commanders and the July 2 rescue by government forces of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages. Betancourt herself appeared at a rally in Paris--one of dozens that took place...
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What We've Done Right When I walked across Afghanistan, shortly after the U.S.-led invasion had toppled the Taliban regime, there was no electricity in the 400 miles (640 km) between Herat and Kabul. The villages along the route were led by tribal chiefs, mullahs or guerrilla commanders who had little to do with their neighbors, let alone with the central government. Most districts that I visited had no schools or clinics. As a civil servant - I was on leave from my job in Britain's Foreign Office - I was surprised by how poor Afghanistan was and how ungoverned...
...Hizballah seems determined to resolve the rest of its outstanding disagreements with Israel - for example, Shebba Farms and other territory still occupied by Israel but claimed by Lebanon - in a manner similar to how it settled the prisoner issue: guerrilla operations, followed by indirect negotiations. But Israel is now unlikely to make the same kind of deal with a group that sees every negotiation as a step on the road to "liberating" Jerusalem. In that light, the prisoner exchange on July 16 isn't a promising first step toward ending hostilities between Israel and Lebanon, but instead the opening...