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...World Bank. Trevor Manuel may be South Africa's internationally respected finance minister, but a little over a decade ago he was still on the wrong end of the tear gas and water cannon as a firebrand anti-apartheid leader. The conference's host, Czech president Vaclav Havel may be feeling a little nostalgic, too - after all, back in '68 he was just another Absurdist playwright trying to overthrow the system...
...that of all the means of entertainment and expression in Renaissance England theater was the most closely censored by the crown (and that theatrical censorship was the last form of censorship to be lifted in England, not officially ending until the 1960s), that social agitators from Voltaire to Vaclav Havel to Wole Soyinka all turned to drama to express their ideas...
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...
This romance began 18 months ago, officials on both sides of the Atlantic say, during a visit by Havel to Washington. Havel told the Czech-born Secretary of State that he would like her to replace him as President of the Czech Republic. But Albright, less than halfway through her new job, demurred. Although Havel retains only a moral authority in the Czech Republic, the presidency being now a largely ceremonial post, the courtship has begun again. In a meeting last week in Hradcany Castle, former Czech Ambassador to the U.S. MICHAEL ZANTOVSKY reintroduced the idea to Havel. "The ball...
...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...