Word: vaclav
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...MARRIED. VACLAV HAVEL, 60, playwright President of the Czech Republic, and DAGMAR VESKRNOVA, mid-40s, a prominent Czech actress; at a municipal hall, in Prague. It is the second marriage for both. Havel is recovering from the removal of a malignant tumor and half his right lung...
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...
...under the open skies." "It is a great compliment to the artists that they should be feared," says Stoppard. In Belarus to give a master class to the FT, he was reminded of his visits to communist Czechoslovakia, when he saw actors perform banned works in private apartments. As Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led that country's revolution and became its President reminded FT members in a letter of support, "it was the Prague actors' strike in 1989 that triggered" the peaceful uprising. "It's extraordinary how shortsighted all repressive regimes are," says Stoppard. And the FT is determined...
...years. Variety has increased along with quantity; besides rice and wheat, the Chinese are growing and eating more poultry and pork (China has the world's largest pig population, though many are scrawny beasts quite unlike the corn-fattened hogs of Iowa or Nebraska). The biggest payoff of all: Vaclav Smil, a Canadian geographer, calculates that in China, "today's diets appear to supply, on the average, enough energy and protein for normal growth and healthy life." In a country that has been racked by periodic famines throughout four millenniums of recorded history, the average citizen has, finally, enough...
...Vaclav Havel, a leader of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution of 1989, is one of the great heroes of democracy of the twentieth century. He is also a highly regarded playwright and author. On the other hand, I believe the most famous thing Kofi Annan has ever written is the notorious fax in which he explicitly forbade United Nations troops from interfering in the Rwandan genocide. In addition to looking the other way through an ever-growing series of genocides, Annan is presiding over the oil-for-food scandal, one of the largest humanitarian crimes in history, and accusations...