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...Vaclav Havel, the president of the Czech Republic and a dissident whose writings helped bring about the downfall of a Communist regime, will deliver the principal address at Harvard's 344th Commencement on June 8, University officials confirmed yesterday...
...Through his words and deeds Vaclav Havel has been a compelling presence in international affairs, and especially in the emergence and development of democratic society," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in a statement. "His eloquence and courage have helped guide his country through an extremely difficult passage in its history...
...Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia in 1989, played a leading role in causing the collapse of Czechoslovakia's Communist regime...
Many of the ideas championed by Brown,Feyerabend and Havel are part of the movement of"post-modernism...
After reading an editorial in the New YorkTimes by Havel, Huth was encouraged to write aresponse which was recently completed and will beprinted in a Czech national science journal. "Icouldn't resist the opportunity to write aresponse that would be printed in the Czechrepublic," he says...