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Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus delivered both a typically blunt analysis of European Union (EU) affairs as well as a slightly optimistic vision for the future in a speech before students and faculty yesterday at Harvard’s Center for European Studies...
...Klaus, who was in office in May 2004 when the Czech Republic achieved EU membership, has quickly become one of the most outspoken critics of the creation of a European super-nation that he believes the EU is facilitating...
...speech yesterday, Klaus said he believes that EU member states have “little residual sovereignty,” and that without major structural changes to the EU the “democratic deficit” in Europe will only grow...
...would-be conqueror, be he a general or a filmmaker. Herzog's amazing parable, about a 16th century Spanish explorer intoxicated and ultimately destroyed by the voluptuous verdancy of the Amazon, has a daft energy so intense that it seems to be a study of insanity from the inside. Klaus Kinski's splendid, spuming performance lives in there too: it is less an impersonation of imperial madness than a total occupation...
...clerics represented France at its worst, the Dreyfusards, most of them Christian, demonstrated the nation's passion for justice and equality. Both sides continued to seethe until they collided once again in 1940, when the Third Reich occupied the country. Events like the upcoming trial of Nazi Captain Klaus Barbie, now imprisoned in Lyon, continue to show how many of the old "forces and virtues" survive to this...