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...environmentalist. He doesn't wear Birkenstocks. He's African-American in a movement that tends to be overwhelmingly white. His background is in civil-rights activism - specifically prison reform - a cause he champions in Oakland, Calif. But Jones, the head of the non-profit Green For All and the author of the new book The Green-Collar Economy, could represent the future of environmentalism in America and a way for the movement to survive and even thrive through the coming recession. "The solution for the environment and the economy will be the same thing," says Jones. (Listen to Jones talk...
Almost 60 years ago, a Czech author may have reported a Western spy to the local authorities. The man, whose reputation is in shambles after a report released last week, is Milan Kundera who, according to a 1985 New York Times article, did for Eastern Europe “what Gabriel Garcia Marquez did for Latin America in the 1960’s and Alexander Solzhenitsyn did for Russia in the 1970?...
...which overshadows the reasonably balanced content of its article. A top Italian newspaper ran a headline that read, “Kundera helped the Czech secret police,” while the German paper Die Welt likened Kundera to Günter Grass, a Nobel Prize-winning author who hid his military service for the Nazis during most of his life. Several Czech journalists and intellectuals stated they are not surprised that Kundera had once been an informant, as if the matter were already settled. All the while, the author’s own denials were nearly drowned...
...that turned away from Communism to embrace the heady liberalismof the Prague Spring before it was crushed by Soviet tanks. So the recent allegation that, as a student under Communist rule, he informed local police on a young man is being greeted with dismay, and a little disbelief. The author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and other best selling novels has vehemently denied the allegation, saying that the allegations are an attempt at character "assassination" and that he did not even know the man in question - a Czech-born agent of a Western intelligence agency who was subsequently sentenced...
...Czech newspaper. "Perhaps only a subconscious need to come to terms with [an experience] can ignite the creation of great work. That is a paradox of creation and, in effect, of life itself." Speaking to TIME, Klima added, however, that while "any piece of biographical knowledge about an author can help in the interpretation of his work, it is not decisive." The Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek was " a drunk", Klima pointed out. "But he still wrote the work of genius The Good Soldier Svejk...