Word: czechs
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...young people have lined up on either side of the Eighth Street Playhouse box office. Their behavior is genial and gentle, with no rock-concert jostling; there might be an invisible Sister Mary Ignatius patrolling the sidewalk. One couple chats in Portuguese; a trio converses in Czech. It's a U.N. in miniature--so much so that when a derelict wanders by, desperate to strike up a monologue, he asks a gaggle of teens, "Excuse me, do you speak American?" This guy is a rap artist without synthesizer, improvising an autobiography as he addresses the girls, and they pretend...
Gerrie de Villiers, a white farmer, was driving along a dirt road that borders Zimbabwe when he set off the first Czech-made antitank land mine. He escaped unhurt. About half a mile away, Elijah Makagamatha, a black truck driver, triggered a similar device. He too was unharmed, but the blast shattered the legs of a passenger. The next day another mine explosion killed a 25-year-old black driving a tractor. As security officials combed the area, rocket attacks narrowly missed two coal-to-oil refineries at Secunda, near Johannesburg. The outlawed African National Congress called the attacks...
Jeeps left over from the war, 1955 Chevrolets, 1953 Czech-made Skodas and armies of dilapidated jalopies jounce and judder through the broad avenues of Rangoon, Burma's capital. In the distance, red-brick Victorian steeples poke up among the golden domes of the pagodas, and along the road, great white-columned English mansions stand empty like haunted houses, their walls mildewed, their gardens overrun with weeds, moisture dripping from their eaves. In the Strand Hotel, a grand monument to colonial decay, ceiling fans turn lazily above a lost-and-found case still stuffed with pince-nez, ladies' compacts...
Jean-Noël Jeanneney, president of the French national library, has since inspired 19 libraries to join the cause. The national libraries in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, and Sweden all signed and released an official oppositional statement soon after Google unveiled the project in December...
...trotting students have in the past relied heavily on other schools’ study abroad programs—Harvard only offered two choices in 2003—Harvard has increased the number of Summer School programs it is offering this summer to 10 programs, including ones in Beijing, the Czech Republic, Oxford, and Barcelona, up from seven last year...