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...women are passive, right? Women like to "talk things out." Not this woman. Madeleine Albright, as many are quick to point out, is not "soft" on foreign policy issues. She was raised the daughter of a Czech diplomat, Joseph Korbel, and was forced to flee Czechoslovakia, first from the Nazis in 1938 and then later when the Communists came to power. The result, Albright said, is that "My mindset is Munich; most of my generation's was Vietnam." In a day and age where many political leaders are pushing for a more limited use of force, Albright is a fervent...
Jack Kirrane still remembers when the phone rang early in the morning in his hotel room in Prague. Kirrane was in Czechoslovakia with the 1948 U.S. Olympic hockey team preparing for the games on a European tour...
...Collins, the renowned tennis writer and commentator, immediately dubbed the 5-ft. 6-in. phenomenon "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" Hingis. Like Milan Kundera's novel, Hingis was conceived in Czechoslovakia. She was named by her tennis-loving parents for the national heroine and acquaintance Martina Navratilova. By the age of two, the little Martina was playing outdoors, and at five she was playing in tournaments. She spent her first eight years in what is now Slovakia, and after her parents' divorce and her mother Melanie's subsequent marriage to a Swiss computer executive, she moved to Trubbach, Switzerland...
Like Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Emeritus Charles Fried--the first appointment of Gov. William F. Weld '66 to the Supreme Judicial Court--Marshall is an immigrant. (Fried's family fled the Nazi regime in Czechoslovakia at the start of World...
DIED. RAFAEL KUBELIK, 82, Bohemian-born maestro; in Lucerne, Switzerland. Son of renowned violinist Jan Kubelik, he became, at 27, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague. Seeking artistic freedom, he left Czechoslovakia when it went communist in 1948. Over the years he led the Chicago Symphony and Munich's Bavarian Radio Symphony...