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    After 400 years under the Portuguese, and the last 24 years under the Indonesians, the East Timorese concluded on 30 August 1999 through a national referendum, that the time had come for their realization of self-determination. As events to follow the referendum clearly displayed to the world, however, it seemed that Indonesia was not prepared to let her go so easily, lest they were interpreted as giving a green light to Aceh and Ambon to secede. Despite what then proved to be tremendous obstacles, with a determination to succeed, the East Timorese picked up the ashes of their destruction and have started the process of reconstruction. Efforts to assist in the birth of a new nation have been forthcoming - but, are they enough?

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    Like others before their time, contemporary artist Prayura Ulachadha had a tendency to perceive what others had yet to see, to think of what others had yet to dream of, and to speak of what others had yet a capacity to understand. Following the glimpse into Prayura's life and times provided in Sarakadee's last edition, we attempt to bring you closer this time, to Prayura's reason for creation - his magical artistic expression, and his true vision of life.

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    To follow the development of the female form (Bijine) during the Ukiyoe era of Japanese art history is to follow from birth to blossom the splendid maturity of unadulterated, original Japanese artistic expression. The progression of Hishikawa Moronobu's first introduction of people as focal points in art, to Kiyonobu's promotion of the representation of the female form in art, tells a tale of the sophistication of the small, stout representation of woman to the billowing, magnificent representation of woman that is plainly and simply beauty, erupting in Ukiyoe's Golden Age of the Bijine...

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