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...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...
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...
...everyone agrees. While it would be remarkable for Albright to cap her career by seeking the top post in a country from which she and her family escaped twice, once from the Nazis, a second time from the communists, it would also be extremely difficult. Czech polls show that the war in Kosovo, often dubbed Madeleine's War, was opposed by 75% of the Czech people. Also, Havel's term is not up until January 2003. He has been weakened by an operation for lung cancer and has no strong political base, so his approval would not help her politically...
More troublesome, the Czech President is elected by members of parliament. MILOS ZEMAN, head of the Social Democrats, and VACLAV KLAUS, chairman of the opposition Civic Democratic Party, have their own matches to make. They might not cotton to someone who is not just an outsider but a woman as well. "I'm sure she won't have a problem finding a job after she's out of the State Department," says Jonathan Stein of Prague's EastWest Institute. "But I don't think that job's going to be in Prague." Next week Albright will begin to pursue that...