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...Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus delivered both a typically blunt analysis of European Union (EU) affairs as well as a slightly optimistic vision for the future in a speech before students and faculty yesterday at Harvard’s Center for European Studies...
Klaus, who was in office in May 2004 when the Czech Republic achieved EU membership, has quickly become one of the most outspoken critics of the creation of a European super-nation that he believes the EU is facilitating...
...identity, but at what expense do we try to keep it? If not for the constant change and development of cultures and languages, France would never have developed its identity, an identity it is fighting to retain in part with laws to preserve its language. As an American of Czech, Scottish, British, German and Native American heritage, I have found it is unrealistic to become attached to just one of these defined groups, so I have cultivated a larger sense of community tied to all of them. I don't feel less a person for it. I'm saddened...
AUSTIN, TEXAS Name: Saveur Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival Dates: The first weekend each April Todd English, Diana Kennedy and Tyler Florence were this year's featured chefs. Also on the table: a showcase of Texas culinary talent and a cowboy breakfast with Czech and German touches from the hill country...
...perfect example. There was Maria Sharapova on Court 7, uh, wait a minute, that?s not the No. 1 ranked Russian. She?s the feature attraction at the evening session. No, it?s 16-year-old Nicole Vaidisova, another one of those Eastern European wonder women. A Czech, she?s just short of six feet tall with legs that go from Prague to Brno and the power to hit the ball just as far. This kid can smash it. She?s seeded 26th in Queens, but she reached the 3rd round in Wimbledon. Her path was made a little easier...