Word: havelent
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...country's President Vaclav Havel, who is elected separately, has recently criticized the two most powerful parties, the Social Democrats and the CDP. He called their leaders' plan to share power--with one serving as prime minister and one heading the parliament-unconstitutional...
...years ago, when National Institutes of Health director and Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus was picked to be Harvard's commencement speaker, many members of the Class of 1996 asked why their speaker couldn't be someone better known, like Vaclav Havel, the 1995 speaker, or Al Gore '69, who spoke...
Recent speakers include Harold Varmus, directorof the National Institutes of Health, in 1996;Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, in1995; Vice President Al Gore '69, in 1994 andGeneral Colin Powell, former chairman of the JointChiefs of Staff...
...book draws on varied sources; Morris quotes everyone from Vaclav Havel, former president of Czechoslovakia, to ancient Irish folk songs. She does not focus only on large cities, or even large countries. She gives equal time to villages like Shnackenburg and countries like France and Germany. A few sections in the book are small lists of interesting tid-bits; for instance, in "An interlude on food" Morris explains that "The Italians eat most sensibly. The British eat most unhealthily. The Spaniards eat most abstermiously," and so on. And Morris has enough experience and writes genuinely enough that these pronouncements seem...
Czech history is full of political polymaths--the nation's first president, T.G. Masaryk, was trained as a philosopher, while Vaclav Havel was well-known as a dissident playwright long before he ever took office. Miroslav Holub, a Czech poet and well-respected immunologist, is no exception to this tradition. His latest collection of essays, Shedding Life, investigates topics as disparate as animal experimentation, opera and civic engagement. Beneath the surface of these lapidary essays is a compelling political message, a crie-de-coeur against totalitarianism from a scientist who has witnessed ideology's perversion of the truth...