Sunday, December 27, 2009

Czech Wounds Still Open, Communists Face a Ban

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There is a movement afoot, as documented in this New York Times article (click on my title to read it), to ban the Communist party in the Cz...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

American Mistletoe Growers are Leaving Money on the Table

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Glorious Czech mistletoe on display One of the Czech Christmas traditions I fell in love with was the way Czechs hang their version of mistl...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

Inside Milos Forman's Connecticut Home

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Milos Foreman Milos Forman has been "at the top of the heap" in not one, but two, countries. One loss for American society is that...
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Monday, December 7, 2009

Prague, One Pint at a Time

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One of the easiest things to do in the Czech Republic is become a beer snob. It even happened to me - somebody who previously had a beer eve...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Disarming the Velvet Revolution

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Vaclav Havel waves to the crowd in November 1989 CNN has put together a whole group of videos commemorating an "Autumn of Change" ...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

Czechs Velvet Revolution Paved by Plastic People

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The Plastic People of the Universe Today the New York Times celebrates the rock band that started events in motion that would eventually res...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009

The Real Reason Vaclav Klaus is so popular with the Czechs

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Regular readers of my blog know how I have frequently savored tidbits of Czech skepticism so at odds with American pie-in-the-sky optimism. ...
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