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...been resolved. But it is not too late. I think the chances are good for a resolution even within a year. You've been a government critic most of your life. Why not run for office? [Laughs.] Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation. [Former Czech President] Vaclav Havel had to make that decision, [which] took him in a particular direction. My decision has taken me in the opposite direction. Let them do all the dirty work! Nigeria is an incredibly rich country, sitting on a lot of oil, and yet it has lived through a succession of dictators...
DIED. Barbara Epstein, 77, literary lion who as a founder and co-editor of the New York Review of Books worked with--and in many cases, befriended--writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Desmond Tutu, Václav Havel and Alison Lurie; in New York City. Epstein was a junior editor at Doubleday when she helped produce Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl in 1952. During a 1963 newspaper strike, she helped launch the Review with her then husband Jason Epstein and shared, with Robert Silvers, responsibility of editing it for the next 43 years. Her sharp pencil...
...dreams: Margaret Thatcher, determined to reverse Britain's long and complacent slide into a grimy irrelevancy; Helmut Kohl, with his passion to reunify Germany; Jacques Delors, bludgeoning the member states of the European Union into taking seriously their promise to forge an ever closer union; Václav Havel, insisting that Europe was a single moral and political space that should never again be divided into a free West and an oppressed East. They don't make them like that anymore, of course, and there is a conventional explanation why. In the 50 years after World War II, the state...
...Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu.CREAM OF THE CROPThe world’s top 10 public intellectuals, chosen by voters in an online poll, with the number of votes received in parentheses.#1: Noam Chomsky (4,827) #2: Umberto Eco (2,464) #3: Richard Dawkins (2,188) #4: Vaclav Havel (1,990) #5: Christopher Hitchens (1,844)#6: Paul Krugman (1,746) #7: Jurgen Habermas (1,639) #8: Amartya Sen (1,590) #9: Jared Diamond (1,499) #10: Salman Rushdie (1,468) Harvard’s BESTHarvard had 10 names on a list of top public intellectuals chosen by Foreign...
MARRIED. VACLAV HAVEL, 60, playwright President of the Czech Republic, and DAGMAR VESKRNOVA, mid-40s, a prominent Czech actress; at a municipal hall, in Prague. It is the second marriage for both. Havel is recovering from the removal of a malignant tumor and half his right lung...