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...most critical part of the story, however, revolves around leadership. A man much smarter and more eloquent than me, Vaclav Havel, once noted that the Soviet-backed communist systems were able to endure as long as they did because they essentially bought the acquiescence of the population by mortgaging the future; they kept citizens quiet in the present but the system of doing so could not possibly endure. While not morally comparable to communist dictatorships, even a poorly run democracy such as Hungary is vastly preferable to a well run party-state, it seems that nearly the same process...
...earn points by killing Czechs and burning houses. A few clicks later, there's a revelation that the Lidice massacre was anything but a game. When the Lidice Memorial director, Milous Cervencl, first saw it, he "almost fell off the chair." He endorses it now, but Lidice Mayor Vaclav Zelenka, 68, one of 17 children who survived the massacre, remains unimpressed: "I lost my father, two uncles, a 6-year-old girl cousin and a 13-year-old boy cousin. My mom passed through two concentration camps. My grandmother went to Auschwitz. What would you think about it?" Still...
...have been resolved. But it is not too late. I think the chances are good for a resolution even within a year. You've been a government critic most of your life. Why not run for office? [Laughs.] Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation. [Former Czech President] Vaclav Havel had to make that decision, [which] took him in a particular direction. My decision has taken me in the opposite direction. Let them do all the dirty work! Nigeria is an incredibly rich country, sitting on a lot of oil, and yet it has lived through a succession...
...jewelry into her two daughters' clothes and took them on vacation to Croatia. "On the bus on the way back to Czechoslovakia," remembers Gupta, "we got down somewhere and went into some forest. The idea was to get to Germany. But the border guards caught us." The next year, Vaclav Havel led Czechoslovakia's revolution. But Gupta's mother had sown the seeds of escape deep in her daughter. By 15, Gupta was modeling in Prague. By 17, it was Milan. And by 19, she was sharing a models' flat in Tokyo. "It was a great experience," she says...
...Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu.CREAM OF THE CROPThe world’s top 10 public intellectuals, chosen by voters in an online poll, with the number of votes received in parentheses.#1: Noam Chomsky (4,827) #2: Umberto Eco (2,464) #3: Richard Dawkins (2,188) #4: Vaclav Havel (1,990) #5: Christopher Hitchens (1,844)#6: Paul Krugman (1,746) #7: Jurgen Habermas (1,639) #8: Amartya Sen (1,590) #9: Jared Diamond (1,499) #10: Salman Rushdie (1,468) Harvard’s BESTHarvard had 10 names on a list of top public intellectuals chosen...