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...Czech Republic has successfully negotiated its transition from communism to a full-fledged market economy, said the republic's prime minister in a speech on political economy at the Kennedy School last night...
...Carnesale, provost and dean of the Kennedy School, introduced the prime minister, calling him the "architect" of the Czech Republic's economic miracle. Klaus criticized some economists' allegations that the Czech Republic is currently in the throes of an extended recession...
...pleased to welcome Czech president and playwright Vaclav Havel to Harvard. As a distinguished dissident and prominent player in the demise of Communism in Eastern Europe, the man who will speak at the University's 344th Commencement this June is highly deserving of the podium...
Throughout the 1960s, Havel wrote essays and plays that went unpublished in his native country but greatly shaped underground Czechoslovakia. Over the next decade, he was a leader of the Charter-77 movement in which he helped to produce a manifesto of Czech citizens' criticisms of the autocratic regime...
Later in 1990, Havel effectively broke the international isolation of Austrian Nazi-cum-President Kurt Waldheim by visiting him in Salzburg. Havel did castigate the still-dissembling Waldheim by telling him, "Lying can never save us from the lie." Yet the Czech leader's visit unjustifiably dignified Waldheim...