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...Jaroslav Kubera, the 56-year-old chain-smoking mayor of the Czech spa town of Teplice, is a man who likes to live and let live. A bookshelf in his office, for instance, bears a SMOKING PERMITTED sign. But these days a dispute pitting Arab investors against local people is making him smoke even more than usual. Kubera is in a tight spot. On one side are residents trying to stop a hotel and mosque from being built in the ancient resort town (pop. 53,000); on the other, private backers of the project who aim to invest...
...Friday night, the eve of the Jewish sabbath. Jaroslav Haidler prays, eats a simple meal and then goes back to work at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Osoblaha, a tiny town in the northeastern corner of the Czech Republic. Armed with a flashlight, he crouches in front of one of the 300 or so tombstones, transcribes its inscription and makes notes on the shape and condition of the stone. Haidler, 43, a part-Jewish theater-troupe director from Ústí nad Labem, a post-industrial city in the north of the country, has been documenting tombstones around the country...
...13th, with 88 qts.) In a league of its own is the Czech Republic's most famous beer, Pilsner Urquell. The original bottom-fermented Pils, or lager, it was first brewed in the Bohemian city of Pilsen in 1842. "It's a Rolls-Royce among beers," purrs Pilsner spokesman Jaroslav Pomp...
This year, honorary degrees will be awarded to: Samuel H. Beer, Robert A. Dahl, Gertrude B. Elion, Seamus J. Heaney, John H. Johnson, Jaroslav Pelikan, Mary Robinson, Henry Rosovsky and Jean-Pierre Serre...
...Jaroslav Pelikan...