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That life of truth was built in the 1970s and 1980s by reconstructing ... In the whirlwind autumn of 1989, when the Iron Curtain collapsed under the weight of its lies, it was Havel who Czechs rallied around. He was elected president of a free Czechoslovakia.
- A heart for Havel (theartnewspaper.com)
- Huge art work honoring Havel on display in Prague - AP (api.bing.com)
A classless act by Government House leader Peter Van Loan. It’s not the first time this has happened. Back in November, both she and a representative from the Bloc Quebecois were prevented from delivering Remembrance Day statements on two separate occasions. And this folks is what drives me crazy about the Conservative Party. It’s not [...]
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- Poet-president Vaclav Havel brought morality to politics (api.bing.com)
- Forum 2000 event to continue after death of Havel, its founder (ceskenoviny.cz)
... the country's presidents since the 1989 Velvet Revolution - the late Vaclav Havel and his political archrival Vaclav Klaus - were elected by Parliament. Future presidents will be chosen in a popular election that will include a runoff if no ...
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- Facebook group wants Czech leader renamed Havel (api.bing.com)
- Facebook group wants Czech president renamed (api.bing.com)
The U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, led by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., are both introducing resolutions to honor the life of former Czech president Vaclav Havel. Havel, who died Dec. 18, helped usher ...
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- Facebook initiative wants all Czech presidents to take Vaclav Havel's name (winnipegfreepress.com)
- Facebook campaign wants all presidents named Havel (api.bing.com)
Supporter of Nick Clegg condemns as 'cheap trick' decision to hold joint minute's silence for Václav Havel and Franco ministerThe ghosts of Europe's troubled past hover over the institutions of the European Union but seldom come to life.That changed briefly on Monday when a minute's silence was held for Manuel Fraga Iribarne, the last surviving minister in the government of General Francisco Franco, Spain's Falangist dictator.Jerzy Buzek, the...
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From guardian.co.uk
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Obituaries for Václav Havel, the dissident playwright turned Czech president, seemed to devote more column inches to his political career than to his plays. This isn’t unreasonable, but it made me want to encounter his dramatic works again ...
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- LINDEN-RETEK: Remembering Vaclav Havel (api.bing.com)
- Josef Skvorecky (blogger.com)
I fleetingly met Vaclav Havel on June 10, 1990. It was the morning after Czechoslovakia’s first free elections in decades. At breakfast in our Prague hotel, my friend Marie Winn, who had translated some of Havel’s plays, and her husband, Alan Miller, who was making a documentary film on Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, introduced us.
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From commonwealmagazine.org
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The deaths of Vaclav Havel, first president of the Czech Republic and worldwide defender of human freedoms, and Kim Jong Il, supreme leader of Stalinist North Korea, give cause for reflection on the important values of freedom and liberty. Their ...
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- The passing of Kim Jong Il and Vaclav Havel (api.bing.com)
- Learning from the lessons of Havel and Kim (api.bing.com)
I've been wanting to write about Vaclav Havel, who died on December 18th. I'm going to use the opportunity of a short guest-blogging stint at Concurrring Opinions to write about him both there and here at PropertyProf. My sense is...
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Few playwrights become presidents of their country. Fewer still have previously been denounced as "too bourgeois", evicted from their home, denied access to higher education, forced into a position of vilified dissidency and imprisoned for 'anti-state activity'.
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- Vaclav Havel, playwright, dissident and statesman (api.bing.com)
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