Word: czechs
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Viktor Kozeny ’87-’89, whose financial exploits in the Czech Republic earned him international notoriety as the “Pirate of Prague,” was indicted last Thursday on charges of stealing $182 million from the clients of an investment firm in New York...
...Czech sculptor Kurt Gebauer found communism so oppressive that he withdrew to an isolated hilltop house near Prague and in 1973 declared it his own state - complete with its own anthem. "State Gebauer" became an "island of free expression" populated with whimsical figures of swimmers, gnomes and cows. And being a largely abstract concept, the sculptor's retreat escaped the attention of the authorities. Many unofficial artists working behind the Iron Curtain created private cocoons where they could work unhindered, though this meant their work was rarely seen. Now a new museum in Prague seeks to rescue them from obscurity...
...directing on the mainstageits a play called Temptation by Vaclav Havel, who was formerly president of the Czech Republic. Its a really exciting project. I feel that its the first play that matches me tonally, because its funny and serious at the same time...
Bush was probably correct to separate Baghdad from Sept. 11 (though the Czech government still maintains that Mohammed Atta met with an Iraqi agent in Prague in April 2001). But the administration’s seeming timidity on the broader issue of pre-war links between Saddam and bin Laden is puzzling. To be sure, it is now indisputable that Baathist Iraq had some degree of contact with al Qaeda during much of the past 10 years. Those still not persuaded should consider all that’s emerged since the war began last March...
When Madeleine Albright became Secretary of State, the Czech-born exile was the first woman to serve in that post. On the eve of the publication of her memoir, Madame Secretary (Miramax; 592 pages)--which covers everything from discovering belatedly that her family was Jewish to her years in the Clinton Administration--she spoke with TIME's J.F.O. McAllister...