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...unusual. It is in a faraway land and comes with a beautiful castle with uniformed guards at the gate. The candidate is, if anything, even more surprising: Sources tell TIME that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has begun to consider the possibility of running for the presidency of the Czech Republic once the second Clinton term is over. Like a woman who doesn't want to be seen dating until she is legally separated, she has let it be known to intermediaries that she is interested, but she will not discuss a possible engagement in another country until her current...
...Albright's lips may not move, but her feet are about to do a lot of talking. Next week she will spend three days in the Czech Republic. The official reason is to commemorate the 150th birthday of Tomas Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, known as the father of Czech democracy. Her schedule could be torn from a page in a presidential campaign: Next Monday she will fly to southern Moravia to receive a gold medal at Masaryk University in Brno; then it's off to Hodonin to visit Masaryk's birthplace. Either Albright is testing the waters...
...This romance began 18 months ago, officials on both sides of the Atlantic say, during a visit by Havel to Washington. Havel told the Czech-born secretary of state that he would like her to replace him as president of the Czech Republic. But Albright, less than halfway through her new job, demurred. Although Havel retains only a moral authority in the Czech Republic, the presidency being now a largely ceremonial post, the courtship has begun again. In a meeting last week in Hradcany Castle, former Czech ambassador to the U.S. Michael Zantovsky reintroduced the idea to Havel. "The ball...
...national, more diverse pool on the basis of the familiar college-admissions test and then sent on to the same colleges and the same influential institutions the Wasps had previously dominated. Today the President is a lower-middle-class Southern Baptist from Arkansas, the Secretary of State is a Czech immigrant, and the CEO of TIME's parent company is Jewish, but all three went to highly selective private colleges in the East. The change goes beyond mere anecdote. The overall tenor of elite institutions such as law firms, investment banks and university faculties has changed, becoming distinctly brainier, less...
...assault on the U.S. market is not in the cards; further expansion in Europe is more likely. Before its Czech purchases, SAB established itself in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Russia. A top brand like Pilsner Urquell, say industry insiders, will reinforce SAB's No. 1 position in the region and eventually give it the edge over Heineken in Germany as well. But rival Anheuser-Busch has little cause for concern. Although the St. Louis-based giant had expressed an interest in bidding for Nomura's Czech brewing interests, Eastern Europe is "not a priority region for our international development...