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...farfetched to connect the suicides of two young men - one possibly facing jail, the other lovelorn - to the stress of postcommunist life? Jaroslava Moserová doesn't think so. A senator and physician who treated Palach in the days before he died, she thinks she understands the strain these men were under. She compares the 1989 collapse of communism to tearing down a zoo and letting the predators loose. The past 14 years have been a chaotic, confusing time. But this response, she says, "is futile. During Palach's time there was no other way [to protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Suicidal Spring | 4/20/2003 | See Source »

...Cheat? But what about U.S. schools? Most of the visitors had found the work there much easier than at home. Therefore, said Czechoslovakia's Jaroslava Moserova, "Americans cheat far less in examinations. At home, everyone cheats and everyone helps. You write notes on your handkerchief or pin notes to your skirt. But when I go back, I'm going to study without cheating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Answers by Bus | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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