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...scrawled across the walls. The painting's content is explicitly political. "[Sudjojono's] point is that all the artist needs is his paint and brush and he can take on the world," explains Kuala Lumpur gallery owner Valentine Willie. Putting the artist center stage also gave the work a self-referential quality that would be echoed in the paintings of Masriadi and Suwage four decades later...
...Still Meet in St. Louis Re TIME's Postcard from St. Louis: It's clear that the loss of Anheuser-Busch would be a huge blow to the city's self-esteem [July 14]. But St. Louis, Mo., still has a beautiful urban park, a great orchestra, many art venues and an enviable architectural tradition. Dominic Ricciotti, WINONA, MINN...
...Zimbabwe's Suffering The gentle people of Zimbabwe are putting up with the impossible [July 14]. Mugabe may well want to go into luxurious retirement but is prevented from doing so by his henchmen. The self-interest of this handful of people has to be addressed to achieve a change of leadership. If the culture of corruption is not addressed, no future government will bring the change that this lovely country deserves. Tjarda Barratt, ELNORA, ALTA...
...International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia often complained that NATO and its associated intelligence services weren't trying hard enough to find Karadzic and his Bosnian Serb military commander, Ratko Mladic. Certainly no one has admitted to having had any inkling of Karadzic's final disguise: as a self-styled "spiritual researcher" named Dragan David Dabic...
...Litany of Horrors The indictment, first drawn up in 1995, says that Karadzic, who presided - often grandly - over the self-styled "Serbian Republic" in eastern and northern Bosnia during the war, is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims, as well as for a vicious ethnic-cleansing campaign that left many more homeless. The prosecution also claims Karadzic set up concentration camps in which non-Serbs were tortured, murdered and raped. The indictment was later amended to include genocide charges linked to the massacre of almost 8,000 men and boys in the U.N. "safe area...