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...collective shudder. The lessons seemed to be clear: a yearning for freedom would not always be consummated; tanks were more powerful than words; the good guys did not always win; Europe would remain divided. Indeed, at a time when cheap flights make weekends in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic no big deal for kids from Manchester to Malmö, it is hard to remember how permanent the division of Europe once felt. It wasn't just Budapest, '56 that taught us that - so did Prague '68, when the Soviet army once again reminded those who lived behind the Iron...
...have to be argued anymore. They are firmly believed, they have become part of an entrenched canon of anti-Americanism." Other experts doubt things are that bad, but elements of this canon are migrating into the mainstream and constraining the running room of politicians all over Europe. In the Czech Republic, for example, 83% of those polled in July don't want to let the U.S. build a military base there. The Transatlantic Trends survey shows the sharpest drop in support for U.S. leadership in countries that have traditionally been most pro-American, such as the U.K. and Poland...
Earlier this year, a group of Czech advertising execs stumbled upon the Lidice Memorial, on the site of a gruesome WWII war crime. In 1942, the Nazis murdered 340 innocent Lidice residents and razed [an error occurred while processing this directive] their village in retaliation for the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi. Noticing that the memorial, erected in 1962, was deserted, the advertising experts offered free publicity. A few months later, they returned with a fake online game, Total Burn-Out of Lidice (totalburnout.cz/eng), which first instructs players to earn points by killing Czechs and burning houses...
...fellow Harvard man would be back to this level again, but it seemed he had taken a first step—he had arrived at the top stage.Fast forward to 2006, and Blake is there again. This time, I watch him play the twelfth-seeded, hard-hitting Czech Thomas Berdych. Many expect this to be a tough match, that the Czech is really a better hardcourt player than Blake. James loses eight games in his straight set victory.On Thursday night, I’m at my aunt’s house in White Plains, N.Y., watching as Blake...
...overbearing puppet master. If I sat absolutely quietly and wrote lyrical verse about tree-tops, I was peachy. My father was hell-bent on bettering my lot - and by extension our family's lot." But, continues Quart in Hothouse Kids, "I was far too young for the Czech films and the difficult novels I was coerced to digest. My father's plan succeeded on one level, of course. I became a hothouse...