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New Zealand Herald
| over 1 year ago
Monday Dec 26, 2011 Fears over North Korea's nuclear bomb hide a deeper truth, writes Jared Genser. In a strange, and some might say divinely inspired juxtaposition, Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong-il died around the same time about a week ago. Their lives...
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Kuwait Times
| over 1 year ago
His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's envoy, Ambassador Sheikh Faisal Al-Homoud Al-Malek Al-Sabah, delivered His Highness' condolences over death of the late President Vaclav Havel. Ambassador Sheikh Faisal Al-...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| over 1 year ago
Syria's Muslim Brotherhood claimed responsibility on Saturday for suicide bombings in Damascus that killed 44 people, saying they were the first step in liberating the capital and that more attacks were to come. AFP) A war of words is heating up...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| over 1 year ago
Vitus Cathedral here on Friday and gathered outside by the thousands on a frigid December morning for the funeral Mass of the playwright, dissident and former president Vaclav Havel, an emotional outpouring of affection that largely eluded him in his...
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HNN
| over 1 year ago
As I was watching the carriage transporting the late Vaclav Havel , the first President of free post-Communist Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic, into the Prague Castle I was sobered and deeply moved. Having been a witness...
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ITN
| over 1 year ago
The republic's first President, the final President of Czechoslovakia and famed political playwright died on December 18 following a long illness, aged 75. Current President Vaclav Klaus lauded the founding leader of the Czech Republic: "His belief...
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Christian Science Monitor
| over 1 year ago
ments Czechs, world leaders remember 'irreplaceable' Vaclav Havel at funeral World leaders inside Prague Castle, where Vaclav Havel's state funeral was held today, as well as thousands of Czechs gathered outside, marked him as an unforgettable part...
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Japan Times
| over 1 year ago
The Czech writer and dissident who became his country's first postcommunist president died Dec...Mr. Havel was Mr. Kim's worst nightmare an incorrigible and irrepressible dissenter, who never lost his moral compass, remaining suspicious of power even...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
In memory of the man who changed the Czech Republic, we look back at Mary Battiata's Washington Post article from Oct. 27, 1989: The Playwright in the Fire of Dissent: A Reluctant Hero Ponders His Role...People light candles and lay flowers at...
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B92
| over 1 year ago
Former Czech President Vaclav Havels funeral is underway in Prague. Madeleine Albright, Hillary and Bill Clinton are seen at the funeral (Beta) Numerous European and world leaders are attending the ceremony. Around 50 delegations from around the...
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Novinite
| over 1 year ago
Photo by CNN As Czechs and world leaders paid an emotional tribute to the country's late former president, Vaclav Havel , some of his close friends were the visible absence at the funeral ceremony on Friday. Former dissident and Havel friend Petr Uhl...
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Christian Science Monitor
| over 1 year ago
Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong-il moral opposites Former Czech President Vaclav Havel was a victim of communist dictatorship; North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was a communist dictator. It is time to correct a historic injustice and award Havel the Nobel...
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Canada.com
| over 1 year ago
Bells rang out and sirens blared on Friday for Velvet Revolution icon Vaclav Havel as world leaders and ordinary Czechs bid an emotional goodbye to the dissident playwright turned president. World figures including Bill and Hillary Clinton and former...
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National Public Radio
| over 1 year ago
World leaders past and present are in Prague for the funeral of Vaclav Havel , the playwright who led the "Velvet Revolution" in the former Czechoslovakia and then went on to lead the new Czech Republican after its peaceful split with Slovakia...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
World leaders and the people of the Czech Republic will pay final respects to former President Vaclav Havel at a state funeral in Prague Friday. The 75-year old former Czech leader died in his sleep of respiratory problems on Sunday. Havel, a...
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Mail Online UK
| over 1 year ago
World leaders pay their respects at the funeral of Vaclav Havel the playwright who freed Czechoslovakia from communism Last updated at 1:04 PM on 23rd December 2011 Dozens of world leaders paid their respects today at the funeral of Vaclav Havel, the...
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AP Online
| over 1 year ago
Czechs are bidding an emotional farewell to Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who led their peaceful 1989 revolution that brought to an end decades of Communist rule.
Havel's wife Dagmar, family members, friends and leaders from...
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AP Online
| over 1 year ago
Poland (AP) — Gdansk — the birthplace of Poland's Solidarity movement — has renamed a street after Vaclav Havel to honor the Czech anti-communist icon deeply revered by Poles.
Officials in the city, the home of Poland's own anti-...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
Will you be buying so-called ethical' gifts for loved ones this Christmas?...Suggested Topics Czechs are bidding an emotional farewell to Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who led their peaceful revolution that brought to an end decades of...
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Daily Nation
| over 1 year ago
Rating World leaders will join the Czech Republic in bidding a final farewell Friday to the country's freedom icon and first post-communism president Vaclav Havel , who died this week aged 75. French President Nicolas Sarkozy , British Prime Minister...
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Sofia Echo
| over 1 year ago
Havel's death on December 18 represents a reckoning for Czech citizens who almost unknowingly sidelined the national icon from public discourse in recent years. As friend and current foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg said upon hearing of Havel's...
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
Czech former President Vaclav Havel's coffin transported through the narrow streets of Prague and that moreover it has been opening three days of official mourning ahead of a state funeral on December 23.
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SF Gate
| over 1 year ago
Sean Gallup / Getty Prague Castle guards walk past mourners waiting in line to pay their last respects at the coffin of former Czech President Vaclav Havel lying in state at Prague Castle on December 22, 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic. Images More...
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Global Voices
| over 1 year ago
A tribute to Vaclav Havel , by Lubos Motl of The Reference Frame: [] Havel has been an unusually strong moral autority that has influenced even people such as me who ultimately found out that they disagree with him about many pretty fundamental...
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CNN
| over 1 year ago
Vaclav Havel, the shy but iron-willed Czech writer endowed with a playful sense of humor and a powerful moral compass, is to be buried Friday, with world leaders and ordinary people gathering at Prague Castle to say final farewells.
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
World leaders prepare to honour Vaclav Havel Vaclav Havel's coffin has been lying in state at Vladislav Hall in Prague Castle since Wednesday Leaders from around the world are preparing to attend the funeral of former Czech President Vaclav Havel in...
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CNN
| over 1 year ago
Vaclav Havel, the shy but iron-willed Czech writer endowed with a playful sense of humor and a powerful moral compass, is to be buried Friday, with world leaders and ordinary people gathering at Prague Castle to say final farewells.
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| over 1 year ago
December 22, 2011 At Chanukah, Czech Jews marvel at blessings of Havel's revolution by Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTA On the first night of Chanukah, I stood in the splendid reception hall of the U.S. ambassador's residence in Prague as the ambassador...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
I write this from my atelier in a large, gloomy monastery building in Prague's Old Town, close to the famous Charles Bridge...The only other people in the building tonight are the gatekeeper, who looks after the big baroque doors of the outer...
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Disinfo.com
| over 1 year ago
One was a widely celebrated anti-communist, the other a widely despised communist. However, both the lives and thoughts of the Czech Republic's Vaclav Havel, and North Korea's Kim Jung-il were given short shrift. The playwright turned President Havel...
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AP Online
| over 1 year ago
Poland (AP) — When Czech playwright Vaclav Havel was thrown in prison for his anti-communist writings, life for people across the East Bloc was shaped by the soul-crushing repression of rigged elections, tapped phones and isolation behind the Iron...
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Radio Prague
| over 1 year ago
Zdenek Lukes remembers Vaclav Havel When Vaclav Havel came to Prague Castle, it meant a complete upheaval not only of the old system of governance, but also of the way things were run at the historical seat of the president itself. One of those who...
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Radio Prague
| over 1 year ago
Vaclav Havel honoured at Prague's Chanukah ceremony The late president Vaclav Havel was honoured by Prague's Jewish community on Wednesday during a Chanukah lighting ceremony in Jan Palach square in the centre of the capital. Jewish leaders, along...
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The Herald
| over 1 year ago
Guilty plea in Ponzi case Aformer Albuquerque real estate executive has pleaded guilty to wire and mail fraud and agreed to serve 10 to 20 years in prison to settle charges he ran a multi-state Ponzi scheme. Doug Vaughan entered the plea Wednesday in...
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Sofia Echo
| over 1 year ago
Amnesty said Wednesday that Havel was a human rights defender who left behind "an outstanding moral and intellectual legacy." A senior Amnesty official said his work as an advocate for human rights, democracy, and freedom is an inspiration to...
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Bookforum
| over 1 year ago
Vaclav Havel's life would seem to be an unrivalled success story: the Philosopher-King, a man who combines political power with a global moral authority comparable only to that of the Pope, the Dalai Lama or Nelson Mandela. And just as at the end of...
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Epoch Times
| over 1 year ago
December 21, 2011 Prime Minister Stephen Harper pays his respects to Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia, by signing the book of condolences at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Ottawa. (Jason Ransom/PMO Photo)...
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Global Voices
| over 1 year ago
More posts on Vaclav Havel and his legacy from around the region's Anglophone blogosphere: Richard Byrne of Balkans via Bohemia ; CzechFolks.com ; Petr Bokuvka of The Czech Daily Word - here and here ; Jeremy Druker of TOL's East of Center ; Tjebbe...
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Global Voices
| over 1 year ago
A tribute to Vaclav Havel , by Lubos Motl of The Reference Frame: [] Havel has been an unusually strong moral autority that has influenced even people such as me who ultimately found out that they disagree with him about many pretty fundamental...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
Will you be buying so-called ethical' gifts for loved ones this Christmas?...Yesterday, Moody's, the credit rating agency, threatened the UK with a downgrade of its AAA rating. ... Median households are marginally worse off this year than they were...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Havel, right, directed a film adaptation of his last play Leaving. Long before becoming an anti-communism icon and Czech president, the late Vaclav Havel earned a reputation as visionary playwright in the vein of the theater of the absurd and Franz...
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Kansas City Star
| over 1 year ago
The White House says former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to the Czech Republic for Friday's funeral of former President Vaclav Havel.The White House says the Clintons will be joined by former...
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Mail Online UK
| over 1 year ago
Thousands of mourners follow the hearse carrying the coffin of former Czech President Vaclav Havel as it makes its way across Prague's Charles Bridge on its way to Prague Castle Some people peered out of windows above the streets for a better view...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
Cameron to attend funeral of Czech leader Vaclav Havel Thousands of people accompanied Mr Havel's coffin as it was carried through the Prague streets Prime Minister David Cameron will attend the funeral of former Czech president Vaclav Havel in...
