Word: czechs
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...Europeans - Austrian neo-Nazis, Serbian warlords, ethnic Albanian guerillas, English football hooligans - who still cling to more restrictive, and virulent, notions of identity and nationhood. But for just as many, such boundaries no longer signify anything. Sascha Pichler, 27, was born in Salzburg, Austria to parents of Austrian, Czech, Russian and Serb descent. She spent her childhood in Malaysia, the U.S., Portugal and Germany. After earning degrees from Oxford and the London School of Economics, she moved to Brussels. She rarely sits still: since January she has been to Paris, London, Nice, Milan and Vienna. "It's so automatic...
Zecha never set out to create retreats for the rich. The descendant of a Czech-Indonesian family that acquired plantations in Indonesia in the 19th century, Zecha was educated in the U.S. and began his career in Asia as a journalist and publisher. In the early 1970s he helped found Regent International Hotels, but cashed out 13 years later. Shortly afterward he was looking to build a private holiday home for himself, his wife and son, when he stumbled upon the coconut plantation where Amanpuri sits today...
...river; Anthony Jr. (Robert Iler) is running with a bad crowd; and Carmela - long-cheated-on Carmela - is sublimating her feelings like a good suburban housewife, through tennis lessons. (We also follow the Sopranos' Polish maid, one of a growing cast of peripheral East Europeans - Polish domestics, Russian strippers, Czech mobsters - who provide a modern-day connection to the Italian Americans' immigrant past...
...five slots by the Academy screening committee were some highly esteemed works: Hong Kong's In the Mood for Love, Iran's A Time for Drunken Horses, South Korea's Chunhyang, Sweden's Songs from the Second Floor and Thailand's 6ixtynin9. In their place are the Czech Republic's Divided We Fall (a barren couple named Mary and Joseph take in a Jewish refugee during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia) and Mexico's Amores Parros/Life's a Bitch (a car crash brings together five people from radically different backgrounds; sounds as if it should be called Traffic). But life...
...Poverty combined with a lack of interest in a crime that ultimately victimizes foreigners has led to some surprisingly callous responses. Authorities in the Czech Republic, for example, have stamped foreign victims' passports with an "undesirable" mark and dumped the women at the border, according to a recent report from the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. In Moldova, even a doctor in the venereal disease clinic treating women who have returned to the country believes their troubles are in most cases self-inflicted. "A woman's sexual behavior is entirely her responsibility," declared Viorel Kalistru...