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...European game that's been losing popularity to soccer. Hockey audiences have increased by 10-15% across Europe's top seven leagues, as fans turn out to see players they'd previously known only from satellite television. "The [Czech] league has become the equivalent of the NHL," boasts Karel Knap, a sports journalist with the leading Czech daily Mlada Fronta Dnes. That might be a stretch, but it's undeniable that some of the game's European greats are back on home turf again. Jaromir Jagr, the Czech star forward for the New York Rangers...
...Australia's first dollar note, the genre hasn't always been a license to print money. When Maningrida barks were presented in Sydney in the early '70s, they were derided as "rubbish." It's taken European eyes to turn them into fine-art gold. Czech artist and anthropologist Karel Kupka began amassing barks in the '50s, and his collection will feature in the African and Oceanic art museum opening at Quai Branly, Paris, in 2006. Meanwhile, a Mawurndjul survey is planned for Basel's Museum der Kulturen next year...
PROTEST THEATER From Aug. 27 through Sept. 11, six theater companies will stage an American Theater Festival close to Madison Square Garden, featuring political plays like The White Plague, a satire of war by Karel Capek...
...carried out the stock transactions for Vivendi. (The three others worked at Vivendi, including former Chief Financial Officer Guillaume Hannezo.) And there may be repercussions for the regulators themselves. The initial spark for the investigation was a complaint filed by small Vivendi shareholders. Frédérik-Karel Canoy, the lawyer for the group, tells Time that he has now filed a follow-up demand for a formal investigation of the cob's president and general manager, both of whom are still in office. The cob, since renamed the Financial Market Authority, didn't respond to requests for comment...
...President Bush's problem is that he can't differentiate between reality and his version of reality. He is seriously out of touch. KAREL ROGERS West Olive, Mich...