Word: czechs
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...Seine, just south of Paris. On Nov. 15, this message appeared on a web forum hosted in the Netherlands, according to Magenta, a watchdog group in Amsterdam: "Just throw that Muslim vermin, those f___ing Muslim rats out of the country." And on the same day, Agrese 95, a Czech "white power" band, played before some 150 people in central Bohemia, singing lyrics like: "Enough tolerance ... Your future is ovens and gas chambers." Most incidents like these do not make headlines. Although they would be denounced by the vast majority of Europeans, they are often not recognized by police...
...expected to adopt a new law under which Greeks found guilty of discriminating against religious or ethnic groups will face up to a year in prison. But a law would need someone to enforce it. In Aslam's case, the police have yet to begin inquiries. MONDAY MORNING TRUTNOV, CZECH REPUBLIC There is a cluster of plain sandstone tombstones, some carrying names, others a simple Star of David, at the edge of the cemetery in Trutnov. They line a narrow path that leads up to a polished granite plaque. In the brutally blunt language common to postwar reckoning, the sign...
...power between the main nationalist and socialist parties, to the chagrin of Madrid, which is struggling to contain more militant separatism in the Basque region. Not So Dirty, After All CZECH REPUBLIC Officials announced that contrary to earlier reports, radioactive material seized in a police sting was not weapons-grade, nor was it suitable for making a dirty bomb. Two Slovaks were arrested on Nov. 14 in the eastern city of Brno after allegedly trying to sell to an undercover agent 3 kg of what appeared to be nuclear fuel rods from the former Soviet Union...
...sheer math—gaining near fluency in a new foreign language every 1.73 years—might boggle the mind of even the most jaded Harvard overachievers. Now imagine learning 15 languages with the knowledge that you’ll never parlez francais in Paris or practice Czech in Prague. In fact, you’ll never leave North America...
...It’s a bit of a conundrum for friends,” Dean Hunt, Schoenhof’s Foreign Books employee and long-time language maestro, admits with a chuckle. Because, despite the fact that Hunt knows French, German, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Ukranian, Finnish and a smattering of Slavic languages, he hasn’t ventured off this continent in 18 years. “I hate flying,” he says, at home with the store’s obscure volumes and multilingual clientele. Hunt leans back decisively...