Word: czechs
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...surprise that the U.S. women, defending gold medalists and world champions, beat Norway 2-0, but the ease with which they dispatched the normally tough Norwegians certainly made them gold-medal favorites. The American men were favored to go home early, and yet they fought the Czech Republic (2-2) and Cameroon (1-1) to draws and have a good shot at advancing to the medal round...
...former Harvard vice president and the current ambassador to the Czech Republic has been appointed chief executive officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the group announced late last week...
Since leaving the University in 1993 to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Shattuck's principal work has been in foreign affairs. In 1998 he became Ambassador to the Czech Republic, a post that he will leave in January to join the Kennedy Foundation...
After spending two years in the Czech Republic--a former Communist country where people are "so excited" about the right to vote for a party and a candidate--Trevor D. Dryer '02 realized "how often we as Americans take our citizenship [and voting rights] for granted...
Recent commencement speakers include Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan; Mary Robinson, U.N High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland; U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright; Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health; Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, and Vice President Al Gore...