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...intransigence. "The ambitions for the constitution are reduced - especially on tax and social security - by the clear position of one country ? the United Kingdom," he complained. Blair's spokesman regretted Chirac's remarks and pointedly alluded to Britain's allies among the new eastern members - like Poland and the Czech Republic - who are now diluting France and Germany's historic domination of the E.U. "We are operating in a Europe of 25, not a Europe of six or two or one," he said. But British backers of the constitution lament that by portraying E.U. negotiations as fights against wily foreigners...
...TRIPP would leave the country. Now that she's got a new do and a new beau, Monica Lewinsky's indiscreet confessor plans to take a posse with her. Tripp and her German fiance, who run a boutique together in Virginia, are leading tours of Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. "It's a great opportunity for all my detractors to come along," jokes Tripp. Sounds fun. Just watch what you gossip about on the tour...
...degree—but that itch to break out from prescribed paths has stayed with Honeyman. It drove her work in two Harvard student groups that promote diversity, the Interfaith Council and the Race Culture, and Diversity (RCD) Initiative. It also landed her in places as distant as the Czech Republic, Honduras, and Rwanda as she worked to unite divided peoples by fostering greater cross-cultural understanding...
Honeyman says many of her current beliefs developed after a year abroad in the Czech Republic during high school...
...making bids for professional sports teams, Ledecky has come a long way from his working class childhood. He was the son of a Czech immigrant who came in 1947 to study English at Rutgers. His father stayed in the United States, taking a job as a dishwasher at a Howard Johnson’s just off the New Jersey Turnpike. Meanwhile, amidst the political upheaval in Czechoslovakia, his uncle was thrown into work camp, and his grandfather was made a janitor...