Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cultures blur into each other: Luxembourg, San Marino, Monaco, Andorra are each different but by the end of the book seem remarkably similar and indistinguishable. After hearing about the Brittons, Sorbs, Wends and Karaim, it becomes difficult to remember which, exactly, was the hea-then tribes near the Czech border of Germany and which were the radical splinter-group that broke off from Judaism in the eighth century...
...Czech history is full of political polymaths--the nation's first president, T.G. Masaryk, was trained as a philosopher, while Vaclav Havel was well-known as a dissident playwright long before he ever took office. Miroslav Holub, a Czech poet and well-respected immunologist, is no exception to this tradition. His latest collection of essays, Shedding Life, investigates topics as disparate as animal experimentation, opera and civic engagement. Beneath the surface of these lapidary essays is a compelling political message, a crie-de-coeur against totalitarianism from a scientist who has witnessed ideology's perversion of the truth...
Chairman Arafat P.L.O. (1) President Fujimori Peru President Havel Czech Republic Chancellor Kohl Germany (4) President Mugabe Zimbabwe Prime Minister Sharif Pakistan President Yeltsin Russia...
...Eastern Europe, the key to rapid growth is economic reform--the more radical, the better. Countries that have wholeheartedly embraced capitalism and privatization of state industry, like Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia, will see 4% to 5% expansion this year and next. Russia, where the problems of postcommunist transition are worse, will show 1% growth in 1997--but that is miraculous after the ruin of the past. In 1998, DRI/McGraw-Hill forecasts, Russian growth will...
...class reads three works by Kundera, in addition to screening the film version of his The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Other authors featured include Josef Skvorecky and Czech President Vaclav Havel...