Word: yusuf
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...direction of merchandizing, setting up a shop near its old squat (they used to live in a derelict building on the campus of Yogyakarta's Indonesian Institute of the Arts, known after its Indonesian initials as ISI). "We can't avoid the system," shrugs founding member Mohammad Yusuf, 33, pointing out that when the group does earn money, it uses it for "collective purposes like teaching, training and buying supplies...
...That distance may gradually start to narrow, although the group remains confident that its growing celebrity won't affect its militant stance. "We have always taken on the status quo and that is never going to change," says Yusuf from his simple two-room bungalow, just down the hill from Taring Padi's studio. "We have been, and will always be, critical...
Sure, Yahoo! is practically a historic landmark, the last of the pure dotcom plays from the wild 1990s. But brace for impact: Microsoft hasn't even promised to keep the Yahoo! brand alive. ("That's a question we haven't answered yet," purrs Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's senior vice president of strategic partnerships. Really...
...houses are torched, the kiosks have been torched, but what have we gained with it?" says Yusuf Ibrahim, 24, who has lived in the slum all his life. "We've gained nothing. Where is Mwai Kibaki, where is Raila to come here and do what's necessary? We are still the same people who are here, we are the ones who are suffering. There are food shortages, our bellies are hungry. Where are the politicians...
...Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens...