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...life while his pro-corporate environmental policies damage human beings. In Bush's Utopia, you can spend all you want, make your friends rich and get re-elected by cutting taxes. The economic dangers of inflation and the pain of unemployment do not exist in Bush's unreal world. Karel Rogers West Olive...
...took a robot to breathe life into a state dinner. In Prague, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi charmed guests with assistant envoy ASIMO, a Honda humanoid. Asimo paid tribute to Czech writer Karel Capek, who coined the term robot in his 1921 play R.U.R. The mechanical sidekick also danced and made a toast--in Czech--but revealed that he was too young to drink...
...SENTENCED. Karel Hoffmann, 79, former director of Czechoslovakia's Central Communications Authority; to four years in jail for helping the Soviet Union crush the 1968 Prague Spring democracy movement; in Prague. Hoffmann ordered a media blackout to prevent news spreading about the Soviet invasion of the country. He is the first high-ranking Czech official to be convicted for involvement in thwarting the Prague Spring...
...vacancies present two more opportunities for Lewis and University President Lawrence H. Summers to appoint a racial minority to the position of master—something that has only happened twice in Harvard history. Former Dunster House Master Karel Liem, who left his position in 2001, was the last professor of color to serve as master, and he and others have called on Lewis to diversify the masters’ ranks...
...DIED. KAREL REISZ, 76, Czech-born pioneer of the 1960s British New Wave, whose influential films of the period included Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Morgan!; of a blood disorder; in London. He also directed the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of John Fowles' novel The French Lieutenant's Woman...