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...book draws on varied sources; Morris quotes everyone from Vaclav Havel, former president of Czechoslovakia, to ancient Irish folk songs. She does not focus only on large cities, or even large countries. She gives equal time to villages like Shnackenburg and countries like France and Germany. A few sections in the book are small lists of interesting tid-bits; for instance, in "An interlude on food" Morris explains that "The Italians eat most sensibly. The British eat most unhealthily. The Spaniards eat most abstermiously," and so on. And Morris has enough experience and writes genuinely enough that these pronouncements seem...
...Bush, citizens still get weepy with nostalgia when they recall Mr. Bush's appreciation of Czechoslovakia's President Vaclav Havel as "living, or dying, whatever, for freedom." Assessing the volatility of the 1988 presidential election, Bush predicted, "The undecideds could vote one way or the other...
...class reads three works by Kundera, in addition to screening the film version of his The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Other authors featured include Josef Skvorecky and Czech President Vaclav Havel...
...Vaclav Havel has a sense of humor, but too far is too far. The Czech President has asked his lawyers to seek almost $150,000 in damages from a shoe company that depicted him being licked by a terrier on a poster, according to the daily newspaper Dnes. What riled him was not the image but the English slogan, which contains the F word...
...well, somewhat strained. At the American embassy in Prague, word was that a visit was tentative. In the end, Albright decided it was best to repair the breach. The two women had a private breakfast in Albright's hotel the morning after she arrived, and later, when Czech President VACLAV HAVEL presented Albright with the country's highest honor at Hradcany Castle, Simova was seated front and center, wiping tears from her eyes. But Albright did not invite Simova to tour the Old Jewish Cemetery and the Pinkas Synagogue with her, even though they share more than a dozen relatives...