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...without malice aforethought, he ended up - very profitably - on the Nazi side during the war. After jail, he's exiled to a remote corner of the country, where he has plenty of time to reflect on the error of his ways. His recollections form the substance of writer-director Jirí Menzel's wry yet wiry fable...
...solution, not the problem. Our job is to prove that by succeeding - and live better, fuller lives for it." - By Bruce Crumley BOHEMIA: E.U. HEADACHES For many people, headcheese - a seasoned loaf customarily made of pig's- head meat molded in aspic - is a culinary turnoff. But for Jirí Hlavácek, a butcher in Susice, south Bohemia, it was for years an economic lifeline. A grocer by profession, Hlavácek went into the meat business in 1991 at the exact same spot where, four decades earlier, Czechoslovakia's communists confiscated his grandfather's meat shop. His headcheese...
...plenty of competition. Dynamo Zizkov FC (members.lycos.co.uk/dynamozizkov), founded five years ago by soccer-mad Brits, is the best-known amateur club. Serious drop-ins are welcome at the weekly practice sessions. Tuesdays, from 8 p.m. on the Astroturf pitch behind the primary school at Námestí Jirího z Lobkovic 121/22, Prague 3 (Metro: Green line, Skalka stop). • In Tokyo try Aoyama Park (three minutes walk from Nogizaka Station, Chiyoda line), which is popular with expat amateurs on the weekends. Saturday morning is the best time to show up. Local team Vertex is always looking...
...says Meda Mladek, a Czech-American art collector who founded the Museum Kampa. Located in a beautifully restored mill house on the Vltava River, the museum features a collection of 150 works by 50 artists who worked in Central Europe between the 1960s and the 1980s. Big names like Jirí Kolár and Poland's Magdalena Abakanowicz are here, but the most riveting displays are by lesser-known artists. Especially imposing is Gebauer's Correct Side of the Slaughter-House, a Grim Reaper-like figure that mimics Lenin's official portraits. Gebauer, now 62, says he enjoys...
...this end, the JIR each year hosts a ceremonyto present the "Ig Nobel" awards, a spoof of theprestigious Swedish awards. The Ig Noblescelebrate the humor in legitimate, butquestionable, research...