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| Tuesday, August 10, 1999 |
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| Tuesday, August 10, 1999 |
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| MediaCom, Prague, wins VW/Skoda account in the Czech Republic in April | U.S.-based Euroweb leaps into Czech ISPs | ||||||||||||||||
| The Czech Market Stays Bullish - Will the Government Go Bearish? Fears of old-style communist ways shadow an economy and a stock exchange | |||||||||||||||||
| No Pulse '99? A new manifesto, Impuls 99, aims to save Czech society. Sadly, it does little more than fulfil the need of some Czech intellectuals to pompously pontificate in public | |||||||||||||||||
| Czech Hockey Star Jiri Dopita Rejects Florida Panthers - Decides To Remain In Czech Republic For Professional And Personal Reasons | Czech July core CPI flat,crown outlook mixed |
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| EUROPEAN YOUTHS CONVERGE IN MORAVIAN VILLAGE TO RESTORE JEWISH CEMETARY In an era when so many tragic stories of hate and violence are reported among young people, a refreshing story has emerged from a Moravian village. Students from five European countries gathered on Sunday to tak on the task of cleaning and refurbishing a Jewish cemetery in the village of Miroslav, near the South Moravian town of Znojmo. The group of students included nineteen young Czechs, along with fellow students from Germany, Poland, The Netherlands and Slovakia. The students spent 40 hours each to clean up rubble, as well as personally meet those who have been promoting Jewish cultural values, including writer Ivan Klima, Brno-based artist Wolf Spitzbart and playwright Milan Uhde. The Miroslav Jewish Cemetery has tombstones dating from as early as the 17th century. | IMPULSE - '99 MAY HAVE BEEN A BIT, IMPULSIVE! - The newest Czech public initiative group, Impulse 99, which hundreds of Czech intellectuals have allegedly signed, as an appeal for decency and common sense in politics, seems to be on a collision course after two people claimed that they, in-fact, never signed it. Supreme Court President Eliska Wagnerova said that while she sympathised with the appeal against political arrogance, her public status in the judiciary effectively made it impossible for her to sign the document. Her name, but not her signature, was included in a list published on the internet. Another reported signatory, Radio Free Europe's Yvonne Prenosilova, says that she only signed an abbreviated version of the manifesto. Ms. Prenosilova added that her status as a journalist, working for a public-service broadcasting organization, effectively precluded her from signing the document. Impulse 99 is an initiative group created to promote more public discussion on civic and political problems. Its signatories believe that they are being neglected in the Czech Republic. | ||||||||||||||||
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| From Douglas A. Sylva - The New York Times Book Review: In one of the speeches collected in 'The Art of the Impossible,' Vaclav Havel declares that as he entered politics he feared 'the poetry was over and the prose was beginning.' . . . But throughout these eloquent speeches, . . . [he] records his efforts to retain his earlier point of view, to continue to see society as a place of mysterious possibility even as he must organize and guide it. . . . The mystical, vaguely pantheistic tone of these speeches will be unfamiliar to those accustomed to American political oratory, as will Havel's silence about particular government policies. He cares much more about what his people think and feel than how they should resolve specific political questions. The greatest attribute of these speeches is the inspiring optimism of someone who has seen the worst of humanity without losing faith in it. |
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