Word: mlada
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...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 and one of the NHL's best-paid players with a salary...
...with a degree in economics from Harvard University, Kozeny made a fortune in the 1990s, handling high-risk investments in mass privatization schemes in the emerging markets of the former eastern bloc. He has always maintained his innocence. "I am a straight shooter," he told the Czech daily Mlada fronta Dnes last November. "I sleep well and don't think that I did anything wrong." But Jaromír Jindrich, the lead Czech prosecutor in the case, says Kozeny took advantage of the "naiveté and inexperience" of the Czech people after the fall of communism. "At that time anybody...