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...organized a year-long musical celebration for the Cathedral’s tercentenary in addition to the usual seasonal music and daily liturgical selections for which St. Paul’s is famous. Scott has had many works written for him by composers such as Petr Eben, Charles Camilleri, Kenneth Leighton and William Mathias, among others, and his recordings of twentieth century great Marcel Dupré are considered authoritative. He has recorded two albums for Decca, and his recording at the organ of Southwark Cathedral won the Gramophone magazine’s “Critic Choice Award?...
...says his colleagues are intent on gaining positions in business, politics and the media. "Getting people to gradually accept our ideological maxims will get us further than just drawing blood in the streets," he says. "That way we'll pack them into ovens in the long run." According to Petr Khomyakov, a leading proponent of Russian nationalism, similar ideas are spreading among educated young people like Alex. "I've been watching these kids for years," Khomyakov says. "They meet each other in university classes and scientific seminars. They have this ingrained genetic friend-foe identification system." Khomyakov warns that both...
...bear the legend attention bureaucrats!!! entry forbidden. Mayor Petr Pávek imposed the ban Sept. 12 after he found his staff of three spending as much as 80% of their working hours complying with countless (and he says "nonsensical") requests for information from the Czech Statistical Office and other state bureaus. "It drains our resources and doesn't leave enough time for work in the community," he says. In addition to the ban, he plans to charge an hourly rate for compliance with requests that he deems nonessential to the functioning of his community. Pávek's initiative...
...police charged 10 soldiers with hazing new conscripts and in February, the unit's former psychologist received a one-year suspended sentence for raping a conscript. Klaus' office said it will push ahead with plans to professionalize the unit, which is still largely made up of conscripts. Petr Necas, a prominent opposition M.P., has a more radical solution: disband the unit and build it anew - a real changing of the guard. - By Jan Stojaspal/Prague...
...best film, the main character has second thoughts about hiding his Jewish friend and eventually - without turning him over - joins the Nazis to protect his family. "Some consider this excessive relativizing," Hrebejk says. "But this is how I see people. Tragicomedy and ambivalence are part of life." Screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky, a high school classmate of Hrebejk's who wrote all of his features, puts it this way: "We all knew how evil the system was, but we all had to make our pact with it. In a sense it wasn't about being part of the system or not. Most...