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...work often cited as proof is So Was Born the Generation of '66. Painted in that year, it shows a young artist, in a red hip-length jacket, holding up a paintbrush like a peace offering amid a violent streetscape. In the background, graffiti from the Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI) is 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...
...Just keep improving the equipment. That's the only thing you can do. Football's a violent game - always will be, always has been. You keep improving the rules to make it safer, and you keep working on the equipment. But you're not going to eliminate injuries...
...people, and the slaughter at Srebrenica, which killed more than 7,000 men, some of whose bodies had filled the site at Glogova. It was former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic, who died in jail in 2006, who had hatched and orchestrated the overall plan for the ethnic cleansing and violent division of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
...Isoventionism, Part I A ship carrying lightly armed U.S. and Canadian troops, sent as part of an agreement between the United Nations and the Haitian military that aims to restore President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power, was unable to dock in Haiti last week because a violent mob of army-backed civilians threatened the troops' safety. The U.N. Security Council later voted to reactivate an oil- and-arms embargo on Haiti, which will take effect this week if the Haitian military does not abide by the accord. President Clinton has ordered six Navy vessels into the area to enforce...
...down the facility. Secretary of State for * Information Aubelin Jolicoeur only made matters worse by going on the radio and declaring that the strikers were ''without honor.'' Said he: ''If I saw them, I would spit in their faces.'' The government's action in the TV case led to violent demonstrations in Port-au-Prince and several other cities. Protesters blocked highways by erecting burning barricades. Along the Harry Truman Sea Drive in the capital, angry youths hurled rocks and pieces of iron at passing motorists. Observed Port-au-Prince Businessman Roger Savain: ''Any country that has such a legion...