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...improve on the Roald Dahl children's book, and Monkeybone, a pretty frantic mix of live-action and animation. All these films owe less to the chipper confections of Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks than to Euro-cartoonery like The Triplets of Belleville and the work of Czech animator Jiri Trnka...
...Jiri Zak, who translated some of Kundera's French writings into Czech, told the Czech news agency CTK that the reports were "a nasty and incomprehensible surprise" - not least because the accused spy was nearly sentenced to death - but that it would not alter his views of the writer's work. "Everything that the writer lives through can somehow reflect in his work," wrote Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klima, a contemporary of Kundera's in a Czech newspaper. "Perhaps only a subconscious need to come to terms with [an experience] can ignite the creation of great work. That...
...even if Budvar does go up for grabs, says CEO Jiri Bocek, Anheuser-Busch would not be given preferential treatment over any other bidder. In January, the rivals announced a deal under which Anheuser-Busch would import and distribute Budvar's Czechvar beer in the United States. Rumors immediately swirled that the American brewer was trying to get ahead of potential bidders in a future privatization. But Bocek rejects those claims. He says that when Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV made him the surprise distribution-deal offer in a meeting in Prague, they agreed, he says, "that the only...
...everything from union pressure to slack doctors to sneaky employers. In the Czech Republic, for example, it's not just the workers that abuse the system. Since the government picks up the sick-pay tab, some employers put workers on sick leave during seasonal drops in demand. As Jiri Hofman, deputy minister of labor and social affairs, told Time: "Some companies suddenly report that almost 100% of their workers are sick. It's as if they've been hit by plague." Between August 2000 and August 2001, Germany's Betriebskrankenkasse des Landes Berlin (bkk) - a state health-insurance scheme - made...
...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 is on her side," says Jiri Pehe, a former dissident and adviser to Havel. "I think she would be the best candidate we could have for that position...