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Delaney-Smith won over any doubters with her team’s dominant run. The USA’s closest victory was an 88-64 drubbing of Czech Republic in the opening game. The USA squad also routed South Africa 92-22 in pool play and downed Russia 118-67 in the semifinals...
...musing on the workings of communist ideology, Czech writer Milan Kundera notes about what he calls the two tears of kitsch. ?The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass. The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass.? Kitsch denies the earthy messiness of life. And ?totalitarian kitsch,? he writes, outlaws individualism, doubt and irony, because they risk exposing the beautiful lie it is designed to sustain. The gulag, Kundera argues, is ?a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse...
MARRIED. VACLAV HAVEL, 60, playwright President of the Czech Republic, and DAGMAR VESKRNOVA, mid-40s, a prominent Czech actress; at a municipal hall, in Prague. It is the second marriage for both. Havel is recovering from the removal of a malignant tumor and half his right lung...
Klaus was especially outspoken on the claims that the Czech Republic could not survive and flourish without the EU. He said that such a view could threaten both individual state sovereignty and national pride...
Klaus also said he that he supports the Czech Republic’s membership despite his opposition to many of the EU practices. Klaus’s justification for Czech membership lies in the idea that post-Communist countries need EU acceptance to achieve some modicum of “international recognition” and legitimacy...