| 单词 | Havel |
| 例句 | But Havel had said that these were things they wanted; the only thing they needed was hope. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Havel prescribed exactly what our work seemed to require. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I’d grown fond of quoting Vaclav Havel, the great Czech leader who had said that “hope” was the one thing that people struggling in Eastern Europe needed during the era of Soviet domination. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Havel had said that people struggling for independence wanted money and recognition from other countries; they wanted more criticism of the Soviet empire from the West and more diplomatic pressure. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He advises readers to “secede culturally from the mainstream” and adopt a “hands-on localism” in politics, inspired by former Czech dissident Vaclav Havel and others who defied Eastern Bloc communism. Rod Dreher is the combative, oversharing blogger who speaks for today’s beleaguered Christians 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z The next year, when he went to Prague for a PEN conference and to see his friend, President Václav Havel, he visited the synagogue where the names of his grandparents were inscribed as Holocaust victims. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z "I can't stop rejoicing that I live in this time and can participate in it," Havel exulted. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z Considering it a personal failure, Havel resigned as president. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z Havel, a writer and dissident who was the former Czech president, was a true hero, she said. Twyla Tharp Creates ?The Princess and the Goblin? Ballet 2012-02-03T15:40:07Z Since the 1960s, Havel, now 73, has published dozens of plays, books and political essays to international acclaim. Ex-Czech President Havel wins Kafka literary prize 2010-06-08T16:26:00Z Havel, a dissident who helped his nation shed Communism, was long associated with hearts. Huge art work honoring Havel on display in Prague 2012-02-10T17:12:08Z Then we take a small ferry across the Havel river to a suburban neighborhood called Kladow, where the Räuberspielplatz, with its curling slides and long, crooked balance beams, is built right into the riverbank. What Makes Berlin a Playground Paradise 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Ties are particularly close with Charter 97, a pro-democracy initiative similar to the one founded in Czechoslovakia by the playwright Vaclav Havel and others when that country was under totalitarian rule. Theater Group in Belarus Is Forced Underground 2010-12-22T04:00:02Z But Mr. Havel occupied a special place in the world of theater. Vaclav Havel: An Intertwining of Artist and Politician 2011-12-19T10:10:08Z Vaclav Havel, arguably the least sullied moral hero of the previous twenty years, had come out in support of the war. Christopher Hitchens’ last years: Islam, the Iraq war and how a man of the left found his moment by breaking with the left 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Havel also said he saw the global economic crisis as a warning not to abandon basic human values in the scramble to prosper. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z Shy and bookish, with wispy mustache and unkempt hair, Havel came to symbolize the power of the people to peacefully overcome totalitarian rule. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z More than thirty years ago, Havel complained, “I cannot avoid the impression that many people in the West still understand little of what is actually at stake in our time.” Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Havel was the dissident playwright who led the 1989 revolution that toppled four decades of communist rule before becoming the country's president. Rock stars pay costs of tapestry to honor Havel 2012-11-20T17:25:08Z He had just been to see Vaclav Havel and we were talking about psychic ability. Jennifer Grey: 'I don't understand people who re-enact Dirty Dancing' 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Moreover, Havel’s diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump. Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z In the post, Mr. Klein recalled talking philosophy with Reed and the former Czech president Vaclav Havel after a state dinner at the Clinton White House. Who Was the Real Lou Reed? 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Here’s one entry in its entirety, in lines Rilke or Havel or Milosz would envy: The Kafka You Never Knew 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Rangers have started asking smokers to extinguish cigarettes, but nobody will be ticketed before next year, Havel said. Oregon poised to ban smoking on beaches 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Vaclav Havel reportedly rented out an entire hotel on the premises to recover from surgery. The 46 Places to Go in 2013 2013-01-11T16:15:59Z Mr. Triska emigrated in 1977 after signing a human rights manifesto inspired by his close friend Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who later became president of the Czech Republic. Jan Triska, Czech-American Actor Seen in ‘Ragtime,’ Dies at 80 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z In an October 2008 interview with The Associated Press, Havel rebuked Russia for invading Georgia two months earlier, and warned EU leaders against appeasing Moscow. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z There is a trail of admiring correspondence with Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright and president of the Czech Republic, who helped spread the subversive gospel of Reed’s group the Velvet Underground in the Soviet days. Lou Reed Archives Head to New York Public Library 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Large villas appeared along the city’s lakes and the River Havel. Heads Up: In Potsdam, Germany, a Time to Celebrate 2012-01-27T18:02:32Z Havel's plays were banned as hard-liners installed by Moscow snuffed out every whiff of rebellion. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z Mr. Havel, the playwright who helped found the Czech Republic and was its president for a decade, obviously knows something about the vagaries of politics. | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z In common with that character, Mr. Havel the playwright stoically avoided despair, and in doing so compelled his audience into a compassionate complicity. Vaclav Havel: An Intertwining of Artist and Politician 2011-12-19T10:10:08Z Contemptuous of professional political parties, which he derided for releasing “the citizen from all forms of concrete and personal responsibility,” Havel dreamed of an “informed, non-bureaucratic, dynamic, and open communities that comprise the ‘parallel polis.’ ” Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Havel was nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize, and collected dozens of other accolades worldwide for his efforts as a global ambassador of conscience, defended the downtrodden from Darfur to Myanmar. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z Mr. Havel, whose early plays were influential in shaping the cultural resistance to the totalitarian government of Czechoslovakia, surely isn’t contemplating any such permanent relinquishing of the dramatic form. | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z “The very loose guess is that there will be an extra million people in the state, in a state with fewer than 5 million residents,” says Chris Havel, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department spokesman. Last-ditch places to stay to view the solar eclipse 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Just southwest of Berlin, within reach by public transportation, there is an island in the river Havel where peacocks roam free, goats and buffalo graze in the meadows, all amid a curious collection of castles. In Transit Blog: Near Berlin, Nature and Culture Mix on Peacock Island 2011-09-01T10:00:51Z The film is a cinematic version of "Leaving," a Havel play that was staged two years ago. Vaclav Havel finishes shooting film 2010-08-23T14:31:00Z He became an increasingly outspoken critic of the Communist government in the 1970s, and near the end of the decade he joined Charter 77, the pro-democracy movement Mr. Havel helped found. Pavel Landovsky, Czech Actor and Dissident, Dies at 78 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z A Russian performance artist on Monday gave his Vaclav Havel Prize to a businessman who promised to fund a Russian group whose members have been convicted of killing policemen. Russian artist gives his Havel prize to group accused of killing police 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Indeed, Havel predicted in the mid-nineteen-eighties, even as Communism began to totter, that the kind of regime described in Orwell’s “1984” was certain to appear in the West. Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z With the collapse of Communism and Mr. Havel’s election as president, Mr. Topol was able to quit his job as a computer programmer and devote himself fully to music, poetry and writing. Filip Topol, Rock Musician of Czech Revolution, Dies at 48 2013-06-26T03:31:05Z Born in 1936, Havel came of age in Czechoslovakia, whose Communist rulers repeatedly imprisoned and continuously surveilled him while suppressing many of his writings. Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Havel was detained countless times and spent four years in communist jails. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z Within months, she was accompanying Havel, the former dissident playwright, when he came to Washington as his country’s new president. Shirley Temple, Iconic Child Star, Dies at 85 2014-02-11T11:24:36Z Widow of late Czech Republic's President Vaclav Havel, Dagmar Havlova poses for a photo by a memorial that was unveiled on the eve of 80th anniversary of his birth in Prague, Czech Republic, Tuesday, Oct. Czechs remember late president Vaclav Havel 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Many more people realize, as Havel did, that arbitrary and inhuman power cannot deprive them of the inner freedom to make moral choices, and to make human community meaningful. Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z He acquired many works by Cold War dissidents, among them Andrei Sakharov's memoir and books by Milovan Djilas and Vaclav Havel. Ashbel Green, editor of Cronkite, dies at age 84 2012-09-19T16:52:12Z In February 1990, soon after he was elected president, Mr. Havel was honored on stage at Lincoln Center. Vaclav Havel: An Intertwining of Artist and Politician 2011-12-19T10:10:08Z Thinking of his own close-knit fraternity of political outcasts in Eastern Europe, Havel called for “the rehabilitation of values like trust, openness, responsibility, solidarity, love” in politics. Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Topol first performed in 1978, when he was 13, at a gathering of dissidents at the country retreat of the playwright and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Filip Topol, Rock Musician of Czech Revolution, Dies at 48 2013-06-26T03:31:05Z Dreams from My Father ought not to be overvalued as a purely literary text; other writer-politicians such as Václav Havel and André Malraux wrote immensely greater and more mature work before holding office. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z “Unveiling” constitutes half of “The Václav Havel Project,” a double bill produced by the Alliance for New Music-Theatre that is destined to travel to the Prague Fringe Festival this month. ‘The Václav Havel Project’ heads to Prague Fringe Festival She took pains to show off liberal sympathies, with references to Havel, Mandela, even Occupy Wall Street. Liz Murdoch's MacTaggart lecture: a family affair 2012-08-23T21:55:34Z Saying he was inspired by Vaclav Havel, the playwright who became president of Czechoslovakia, he ran for Congress in 1990. Ralph Waite, Patriarch in TV Series ‘The Waltons,’ Dies at 85 2014-02-14T06:00:50Z Havel was a dissident playwright who led the 1989 Velvet Revolution that toppled four decades of communist rule in what was then Czechoslovakia before becoming the Czech Republic's first president. Czechs remember late president Vaclav Havel 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z The plays Mr. Havel wrote in the 1960s, beginning with “The Garden Party” and “The Memorandum,” were, Mr. Havel said, about “the situation of a man crushed” by social mechanisms. Vaclav Havel: An Intertwining of Artist and Politician 2011-12-19T10:10:08Z Advertisement Vaclav Havel, first post-Communist president of the Czech Republic, famously called his country’s signature housing “undignified rabbit hutches, slated for demolition.” The Monoliths of Bratislava 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z One year ago, an artists' manifesto for Belarus was published, calling for free speech and signed by Stoppard, Ai Weiwei and, in one of his last public acts, Václav Havel. Actors lobby David Cameron over plight of Belarusian political prisoners 2012-12-18T21:19:01Z Mr. Havel himself introduced Psi vojaci on stage at an anniversary concert, saying he had been proud to have ushered them into the underground movement. Filip Topol, Rock Musician of Czech Revolution, Dies at 48 2013-06-26T03:31:05Z O.K., it wasn’t actually Havel, the Czech playwright who went from dissident to president and died in 2011 at 75. Theater Review: ‘The Pig, or Vaclav Havel’s Hunt for a Pig,’ a Wry Czech Tale 2014-03-12T16:30:28Z The screening was presented by the Vaclav Havel Library, where Mr. Topol works as the program director. At the Prague Marathon, History Is a Spectator 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z It was initially a phrase of Vaclav Havel. Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova reflects on the roots of her rebellion 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z In letters to his wife from prison, Mr. Havel, who died on Sunday, expressed his artistic vision. Vaclav Havel: An Intertwining of Artist and Politician 2011-12-19T10:10:08Z Keane admits that he deliberately shaped the facts of Havel's life to form the arc of tragedy. General election 2010: the campaign to define it starts now 2010-05-07T12:09:00Z In one of Havel’s most famous essays, “Politics and Conscience,” from 1984, he asserted that dissidents like him, with their “flawed efforts” for freedom, were engaged in a universally necessary endeavor. Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Havel's arrest in January 1989 at another street protest and his subsequent trial generated anger at home and abroad. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z Within months, she was accompanying Havel, the former dissident playwright, when he came to Washington as his country's new president. Shirley Temple, iconic child star, dies at 85 2014-02-11T16:39:54Z From its source in southeastern Germany, near the Czech border, the Spree River flows steadily to the northwest, until it joins the Havel River in the Berlin borough of Spandau. Escaping Berlin for the Watery Wonders of the German Outdoors 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Later, Mr. Havel explored other territory: the Faust story in “Temptation,” the effect of slum clearance on architectural history in “Redevelopment.” Vaclav Havel: An Intertwining of Artist and Politician 2011-12-19T10:10:08Z This is Václav Havel, playwright, polemicist and chief engineer of the velvet revolution that drove the communist rulers from Prague. In praise of ? V?clav Havel's new career 2010-08-03T22:47:00Z Vaclav Havel, the playwright and former president of Czechoslovakia, once called Szymborska "such a pleasant, decent and modest lady." Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T23:09:00Z He was once described by Václav Havel, the first president of the Czech Republic, as "the intellectual conscience of the Polish nation". Polish journalist Adam Michnik receives Goethe medal 2011-08-28T11:00:01Z But, long before Havel formulated the “power of the powerless,” Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., showed that the coöperative action of self-aware individuals can be a formidable force. Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z It was the signal that Havel and his country had awaited. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z He means Vaclav Havel, of course: the playwright who will soon be president. ‘The Velvet Oratorio,’ at Bohemian National Hall 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Yet the novel’s true subject is humankind’s need, in all times, in all places, to “live in truth,” as the Czech dissident Vaclav Havel put it. From a Cuban novelist, the story of mankind’s quest for safe haven 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Havel left office in 2003, 10 years after Czechoslovakia broke up and just months before both nations joined the European Union. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z Havel himself acknowledged that his handling of domestic issues never matched his flair for foreign affairs. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z According to Havel, “the sole method of politics is quantifiable success,” which meant that “good and evil” were losing “all absolute meaning.” Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z With Vaclav Havel, the Czech author and playwright, it is impossible to separate the artist’s politics from the politician’s art. Vaclav Havel: An Intertwining of Artist and Politician 2011-12-19T10:10:08Z It’s partly a response to concerns that the earlier smoking ban, enacted in February, will push more smokers onto the coastline, said Chris Havel, an agency spokesman. Oregon poised to ban smoking on beaches 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The events of August 1988 — the 20th anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion — first suggested that Havel and his friends might one day replace the faceless apparatchiks who jailed them. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z Havel was his country's first democratically elected president after the nonviolent "Velvet Revolution" that ended four decades of repression by a regime he ridiculed as "Absurdistan." Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z Havel first made a name for himself after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion that crushed the Prague Spring reforms of Alexander Dubcek and other liberally minded communists in what was then Czechoslovakia. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z In Havel’s analysis, politics in general had become too “machine-like” and unresponsive, degrading flesh-and-blood human beings into “statistical choruses of voters.” Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Pavel Landovsky, a prominent Czech actor who became a noted dissident, working with the playwright and future Czechoslovak president Vaclav Havel, died on Friday. Pavel Landovsky, Czech Actor and Dissident, Dies at 78 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z "Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred," Havel famously said. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z This will no doubt be the only Weird Al book you’ll read with a quote by Vaclav Havel, the Czech writer and dissident who went on to become Czech president. Review | ‘Weird Al: Seriously’ gives a talented musician his due 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Holding a post of immense prestige but little power, Havel's image suffered in the latter years as his people discovered the difficulties of transforming their society in the post-communist era. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z For, Havel believed, “as long as our humanity remains defenseless, we will not be saved by any technical or organizational trick designed to produce better economic functioning.” Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Before it reaches the Havel, the Spree slices Berlin in two: a jagged cut from east to west. Escaping Berlin for the Watery Wonders of the German Outdoors 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The center has a mission to advance the legacy of Havel, who died in 2011 and was known for championing human rights and free expression. Salman Rushdie receives first-ever Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Schwarzenberg was born into a prestigious Czech family and became a senior aide to his friend Vaclav Havel after the former dissident won the country's first free election in 1990. 'True European': Former top Czech diplomat Schwarzenberg dies 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z Schwarzenberg was born into a prestigious Czech family and became a top aide to his friend Vaclav Havel after the former dissident won the country's first free election in 1990. Former top Czech diplomat Schwarzenberg dies aged 85 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z Kavala is one of the three candidates shortlisted for the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, which will be awarded on Oct. A European body condemns Turkey’s sentencing of an activist for links to 2013 protests 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z The Irishman plunged low to his right to keep out Elias Havel's effort from distance, before saving with his left leg from Marin Ljubicic after a goalmouth scramble. Liverpool come from behind to beat LASK 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Rushdie said Havel was “kind of a hero of mine” who was “able to be an artist at the same time as being an activist.” Salman Rushdie receives first-ever Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Like Havel, he hated idle chatter and would reply to discussions on the wrongs of the world with, "Well, what are we going to do about it?" 'True European': Former top Czech diplomat Schwarzenberg dies 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z Cerny was one of the founding members of the Civic Forum, a newly created opposition group led by the late Vaclav Havel that was instrumental in the transition to democracy. Jiri Cerny, a leading Czech music critic and a voice of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, dies at 87 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z She died on Tuesday morning, according to the Olga Havel Foundation, a charitable organization with which she was associated for many years. Dana Nemcova, leading Czech anti-communist, dies at 89 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Imprisonment for one’s beliefs is a common thread in biographies of change-makers ranging from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to dissident-turned-president Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic. Opinion | Nicaragua’s political future emerges from Ortega’s political prison 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Massive street protests in 1989, set in motion by the collapse of the Berlin Wall, ended full Communist Party control in Czechoslovakia and brought to power Havel, a leader of the Velvet Revolution. Lubomir Strougal, Moscow’s Cold War ally in Czechoslovakia, dies at 98 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z This year’s numbers are about the same, state Parks and Recreation Department associate director Chris Havel said. Crowded campsites, high demand cause fights, ‘camp pirates’ 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z He introduced Havel and other speakers to the massive rallies at Prague’s Wenceslas Square, where he read out the demands for political change that resulted in the end of the communist era. Jiri Cerny, a leading Czech music critic and a voice of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, dies at 87 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Born on Jan 14, 1934, Nemcova was one of the first people to sign Charter 77, a human rights manifesto inspired by Vaclav Havel, a fellow dissident who later became president. Dana Nemcova, leading Czech anti-communist, dies at 89 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z It’s located on the bank of the Vltava River next to the building where the late President Vaclav Havel used to live. Architect Vlado Milunić dies at 81; linked to Prague icon 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z "The aim of our demonstration is to demand change, mainly in solving the issue of energy prices, especially electricity and gas, which will destroy our economy this autumn," event co-organizer Jiri Havel told iDNES.cz news website. Tens of thousands protest in Prague against Czech government, EU and NATO 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z During one visit with Havel at his summer dacha outside Prague, Mr. Nagler presumed the rooms were bugged by the secret police and suggested they take a walk for privacy. Gerald Nagler, leading human rights activist since Cold War, dies at 92 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z For organizational reasons, the trial was held in a gymnasium in Brandenburg/Havel, the 101-year-old’s place of residence. Germany: former Nazi guard, 101, jailed for aiding murder 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Its signatories braved persecution from the regime, exercising what Havel dubbed ″the power of the powerless.″ Dana Nemcova, leading Czech anti-communist, dies at 89 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Havel is said to have been the first who talked to Milunić about making an architectural study for a possible arts center on the plot. Architect Vlado Milunić dies at 81; linked to Prague icon 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z When I met Chris Havel, associate director for the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, at Tumalo State Park near Bend in March, he was on his way to a birthday party. A pivotal period: Century-old state park systems face modern issues 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z We couldn’t stop laughing when an unexpected rainstorm blew our umbrellas inside out, and couldn’t stop smiling when the captivating playwright and dissident turned president Václav Havel charmed us over dinner. Opinion | Hillary Clinton: Madeleine Albright Warned Us, and She Was Right 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Vaclav Havel, the writer and former dissident who was the republic’s first president from 1993 to 2003, suggested publicly that she might succeed him. Madeleine Albright, First Woman to Serve as Secretary of State, Dies at 84 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z She later chaired the board of the Olga Havel Foundation established by Havel’s first wife, which focuses on helping disabled and abandoned people, as well as those facing discrimination. Dana Nemcova, leading Czech anti-communist, dies at 89 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Her dedication to the region made her a star in Eastern Europe, prompting Czech President Vaclav Havel, her close friend, to suggest that Dr. Albright succeed him. Madeleine Albright, first female secretary of state, dies at 84 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z “While some people will travel hours to get to their favorite park, for most people, it’s a half-hour away,” Havel said. A pivotal period: Century-old state park systems face modern issues 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z That evening, the Communist regime collapsed and within weeks Havel was president of a new democratic state. Ukraine war: Putin has redrawn the world - but not the way he wanted 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z They had to move from hiding place to hiding place to escape the Nazis — including a former goat shed and a boathouse on the Havel river, according to Germany news agency dpa. Holocaust survivor Inge Deutschkron dies at 99 in Berlin 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z In 1998, she was awarded a state honor by Havel, who was by then president. Dana Nemcova, leading Czech anti-communist, dies at 89 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z In late 1989, Czechoslovakia ousted its Communist leaders after the Velvet Revolution of nationwide protests led by such dissidents as playwright Vaclav Havel. When Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, Nixon promised not to ‘embarrass’ LBJ 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z “Many state parks occupy a special niche between typically more developed municipal parks and a backcountry experience,” said Havel, who estimated that about 85 percent of Oregon’s state parks play that role. A pivotal period: Century-old state park systems face modern issues 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z In spite of President Václav Havel’s pleas for unity, a movement to split the nation gained support among the people. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Uhl was one of the organizers of the Charter 77 human rights manifesto inspired by Havel, a rare voice of resistance at the time, and published a samizdat journal about it. Petr Uhl, journalist, communist-era dissident dies at 80 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z He was one of the founders in late 1976 - alongside future president Vaclav Havel - of the Charter 77 human rights movement which became the main platform of peaceful opposition to the communist government. Czech journalist and human rights defender Petr Uhl dies 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z In January 1993, the country split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic, which elected Havel as its first president. When Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, Nixon promised not to ‘embarrass’ LBJ 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z “We can’t just wait for forested lands to burn. We must be anticipatory,” Havel said. A pivotal period: Century-old state park systems face modern issues 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Havel was elected president of the Czech Republic. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nobody likes change,” said Havel, the harbormaster, who has cleared and crushed about 120 derelict crafts in the last two years, most of them unoccupied. They live rent-free on San Francisco Bay. But now their 'floating homeless encampment' faces extinction 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z But in 2003 he was humiliated when the party failed to give him a ringing endorsement to succeed Vaclav Havel as president. Milos Zeman: The Czech leader proud to be politically incorrect 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z As a young resistor in Czechoslovakia in 1968, Havel had delivered radio addresses denouncing the Soviet invasion, before the radio station was shut down. When Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, Nixon promised not to ‘embarrass’ LBJ 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z The Oregon system’s centennial is not just a celebration; it’s also an opportunity to reflect on the state’s often painful history regarding race, including its treatment of Native Americans, Havel said. A pivotal period: Century-old state park systems face modern issues 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z One month later, a new parliament elected Václav Havel president of Czechoslovakia. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z More immediately, the mariners don’t trust officials, especially Havel. They live rent-free on San Francisco Bay. But now their 'floating homeless encampment' faces extinction 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z The communists jailed tens of thousands in forced labor camps in the 1950s and brutally repressed dissidents such as playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel, but remained in parliament following the revolution. Czech voters oust communists from parliament for first time since 1948 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Now almost 101, he is considered able to appear in a specially adapted court in Brandenburg an der Havel for up to two and half hours a day. Nazi trial: 100-year-old SS guard in court in Germany 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z At a ceremony in Strasbourg, France, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe awarded her its ninth Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize, which honors outstanding civil society action in the defense of human rights. Jailed Belarus opposition leader wins European rights prize 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Then, in 2003, Havel stepped down as president, in part because of ill health. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Havel gave notice to his agency that he’d be resigning at the end of the month to pursue other opportunities, which the anchor-outs saw as a small victory. They live rent-free on San Francisco Bay. But now their 'floating homeless encampment' faces extinction 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z The kind of intelligence Nelson Mandela and Václav Havel possessed was not artificial. To Solve the Environmental Crisis, We Must Foster the Power to Imagine 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Havel said the rules would be drafted by a working group that includes members of the drone and wildlife community. New rules in works to stop drones from harassing birds 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Passengers board a Russian government plane with expelled Russian diplomats at the Vaclav Havel airport in Prague, Czech Republic, May 29, 2021. Russia's Prague embassy stronghold cleared out in spy dispute 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Such a process recalls Vaclav Havel and his notion of second culture, articulated in the context of another hostile environment, that of a totalitarian regime. Review: Where Malcolm X meets the Marquis de Sade: Olivia Laing's intense new essays on freedom 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Curtis Havel, who until recently was the harbormaster overseeing the anchorage, has been threatened, sued and pepper sprayed. They live rent-free on San Francisco Bay. But now their 'floating homeless encampment' faces extinction 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Ultimately there's no substitute for disciplined, humane democratic movements such as those led by Mahatma Gandhi, Adam Michnick, Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and the founders of the American republic. Corporate capital and Trump's coup: Will business elites take a stand? 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Mr Obama was an admirer of Václav Havel - the Czech Republic's first president after the Velvet Revolution - but found his successor Václav Klaus more troubling. Obama memoir: What he really thought of Putin and other leaders 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z After the 1989 anti-Communist revolution led by Vaclav Havel, it won the Golden Bear award at the Berlin international film festival. Czech Oscar winning director Jiri Menzel dies at age 82 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Vystrcil has said his Taiwan visit underscores the “values-based” foreign policy put in place by late President Vaclav Havel, an anti-communist dissident and personal friend of the exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama. 'I am Taiwanese' Czech speaker tells parliament, likely to rile China 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z From shore, people see the boats float like paper hats on the glassy green surface of Richardson Bay “and they get all misty-eyed and dreamy,” Havel said. They live rent-free on San Francisco Bay. But now their 'floating homeless encampment' faces extinction 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z “As has been true since March, we’re usually left with the ‘least bad’ option when it comes to managing a huge crowd of people,” state parks spokesman Chris Havel said. Oregon, Washington respond to areas of outdoor overcrowding 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z The collective was awarded the Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent in 2019. Thailand Police Arrest Activists, Escalating Protest Crackdown 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Navalny’s heroic struggle is no different from what Gandhi, King, Mandela and Havel fought for. Opinion | A Russian dissident is fighting for his life. Where is the U.S.? 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Oregon Parks and Recreation Department spokesman Chris Havel said they’re seeing a level of use well beyond a normal year especially on the Oregon Coast and west of the Cascades. Seeking COVID-19 escape, people crowding Oregon outdoors 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z “And if they sink, God help us, it’s a little environmental disaster,” Havel said. They live rent-free on San Francisco Bay. But now their 'floating homeless encampment' faces extinction 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z He resigned as party boss in November 1989, a month before writer and liberal political activist Vaclav Havel took office as Czechoslovakia’s last president. Milos Jakes, Czechoslovakia’s Communist leader during Velvet Revolution, dies at 97 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z “But where will we get a Václav Havel? If the people chant, ‘Putin resign!’ then I’m with my people.” Strains Show in Russia’s Make-Believe Politics 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Havel said visitors can help by packing out trash and bringing their own water, toilet paper and hand sanitizer. Layoffs, few seasonal workers at Oregon State Parks 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z He was echoing Vaclav Havel, the famed dissident in Communist-era Czechoslovakia who became the country’s president after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. Opinion | A Chinese lawyer criticized the regime’s handling of the pandemic. Then he disappeared. 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The eventual “Velvet” revolution was so-called not because of any CIA shenanigans, but in part the influence of the Velvet Underground on the Plastics and their champion, Václav Havel. ‘Rockers and spies’ – how the CIA used culture to shred the iron curtain 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z When Communist rule ended in Czechoslovakia in 1989, President Vaclav Havel appointed her his adviser for sport and social issues. On this day: Born May 3, 1942: Vera Caslavska, Czech gymnast 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Before becoming Czechoslovakia’s first president following the collapse of Soviet-era communism, Havel was an underground playwright who spent time in prison for his subversive views. Review: City Garage opens a window to life behind the Iron Curtain in 'Largo Desolato' 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Cultural offerings this weekend start with Sting in the musical “The Last Ship,” Pacific Symphony’s Lunar New Year celebration, the dance company A.I.M by Kyle Abraham and the Václav Havel drama “Largo Desolato.” 8 best things to do in L.A. including the Sting musical 'The Last Ship' 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z He later formed a consulting firm to offer business advice in post-Soviet Central Europe and received the Czech Republic’s Medal of Merit from President Vaclav Havel. Roger Scruton, British philosopher and conservative lightning rod, dies at 75 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z I was standing beside Vaclav Havel as he greeted him and ushered him onto the balcony overlooking the vast crowd, as tenderly as a son with an elderly father. When crowds toppled communism's house of cards 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z “I don’t think we’ve seen the top edge of demand,” Havel said. How yurts helped save Oregon state parks 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z Their classmates included other precocious rebels, among them a future playwright, dissident and president of the future democratic Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel. Milos Forman, Ivan Passer and their 73-year friendship: Childhood, escaping Czechoslovakia and conquering Hollywood 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z It was a time of Vaclav Havel’s plays and Bohumil Hrabal’s fiction, but for Passer, the new cinema played a special role. Czech history through the eyes of a filmmaker 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The 1989 Velvet Revolution led by late Vaclav Havel ended 40 years of the communist rule. 3 former top Czech communist face misuse of power charges 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Later that night, at Charter 77's headquarters - the Magic Lantern Theatre - I watched as Dubcek and Havel and the others sat on stage. When crowds toppled communism's house of cards 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z “Yurts still have a future and an important role, right now it’s just that we need to balance the inventory out,” Havel said. How yurts helped save Oregon state parks 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z Within a decade, Vaclav Havel was in prison. Milos Forman, Ivan Passer and their 73-year friendship: Childhood, escaping Czechoslovakia and conquering Hollywood 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The 1989 Velvet Revolution led by late Vaclav Havel ended 40 years of the communist rule. 3 former top Czech communist face misuse of power charges 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z It was necessary to commemorate Havel’s ideals – crystallised in his famous quote “truth and love will prevail over lies and hatred” – which, Malý argued, are as relevant today as in communist times. Velvet Revolution dissidents warn against new threats to Czech freedom 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z Stastny was chosen to design a logo for Havel's Civic Forum, the political movement that rushed in to fill the vacuum left by the collapsing Communist regime. Velvet Revolution: Prague's ghosts of communism 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z It did at first, thanks to Velvet Revolution leader Vaclav Havel. Opinion | The politics of the 1930s are still playing out in Eastern Europe 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z For the two filmmakers in exile, their movies were forbidden, even eradicated from the literature — as if the work never existed — until Havel became president, after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. Milos Forman, Ivan Passer and their 73-year friendship: Childhood, escaping Czechoslovakia and conquering Hollywood 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z I met Bukovsky for the first time in the newly liberated Prague in 1990, at a conference for Soviet dissidents and their supporters hosted by Czech President Vaclav Havel. Opinion | This Soviet dissident knew why finding common ground with dictators can’t work 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Last month, he was awarded the Council of Europe's Vaclaw Havel Prize for human rights. The Uighur geography teacher who vanished in China 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z For many Czechs, the liberal and humanist values espoused by ex-president Vaclav Havel, who died in 2011, are now highly toxic. Velvet Revolution: Prague's ghosts of communism 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z But his action on Jan. 16, 1969, did inspire weeklong protests two decades later, and the Velvet Revolution led by Vaclav Havel later in 1989 that ended Czechoslovakia’s communist era. Czechs open memorial to student who burned himself to death 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z What Vaclav Havel, the dissident and then Czechoslovakia’s last president, warned against has come to the mainland: a “world of absolute manipulation.” Opinion | Time is on Taiwan’s side, as long as the U.S. is, too 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, according to Bukovsky, Havel was the only world leader to offer direct support to the Soviet dissident movement. Opinion | This Soviet dissident knew why finding common ground with dictators can’t work 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z There was a time when various countries were asking me to help them write their constitutions, such as Václav Havel in the Czech Republic and Nelson Mandela in South Africa. Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe: Framers would tell us to impeach him right now 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z He opens his jacket to reveal a T-shirt with the slogan Havel A Nice Day. Velvet Revolution: Prague's ghosts of communism 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z As Havel sometimes said about China, “Even an elephant will recognize the courage of a small bird and change his posture,” Fischer recalled. China is investing in Europe — but there are strings attached 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z He says it’s an insight from Václav Havel! Opinion | Do these human rights spark joy? 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Warhol’s banana became a symbol of subversion in communist Europe, where Czech dissidents including Václav Havel revered the Velvet Underground. Bananas in art: a short history of the salacious, disturbing and censored fruit 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The bust of Vaclav Havel in the U.S. Perspective | Madeleine Albright and Fred Malek: An unlikely, inspiring bipartisan friendship 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z “The camping season is stretching itself,” state parks spokesman Chris Havel said. Oregon reports boom in camping, longer camping season 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The great Czech dissident Vaclav Havel once argued that politics followed culture. How higher education has been weaponized in the age of Trump — and how it can be redeemed 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z In the mid-seventies, Václav Havel and other dissidents met at Café Slavia to discuss Charter 77, their manifesto criticizing the Communist regime for ignoring human rights in the Czechoslovak Constitution and in other official documents. Heidi Schreck Takes the Constitution to Broadway 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z At least five flights to Prague’ Vaclav Havel Airport were diverted to the Czech Republic’s second-largest city, Brno, or to Vienna in neighboring Austria on Sunday. The Latest: Rare snowstorm delays, diverts flights in Prague 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z These types of challenges are common with any long trail system, said Chris Havel, the associate director for Oregon State Parks. State looks to improve Oregon Coast Trail 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Ninety percent of state park sites are currently free of charge - but Havel told the newspaper that park officials aren’t considering adding fees in those locations. Oregon reports boom in camping, longer camping season 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z “I still hope Beckett, Kafka and Havel are not those who will finish writing this piece.” Theresa May Survives Leadership Challenge, but Brexit Plan Is Still in Peril 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Schreck had Googled the Constitution of the Czech Republic, written in part by Havel and ratified in 1993, and had found things to envy, including environmental protection and gender equality. Heidi Schreck Takes the Constitution to Broadway 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z It was the playwright, former political prisoner, and then President Václav Havel who invited C.E.U. to Prague. How George Soros’s University in Budapest Fell Victim to a Nationalist Bureaucracy 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Other winners of the Ambassador of Conscience award include Vaclav Havel and Nelson Mandela. Amnesty International strips Aung San Suu Kyi of its most prestigious human rights award - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z That same year, she was awarded the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize. 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Yazidi Activist and Congolese Doctor 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Yes, he’s a British white guy, but he’s also a child refugee from wartime Czechoslovakia and a human-rights advocate since even before his friendship with the late playwright-turned statesman Vaclav Havel. Stuck inside of Stockholm with the Nobel blues again - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The next day, we visited the Václav Havel Library, around the corner from Café Slavia. Heidi Schreck Takes the Constitution to Broadway 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z “It was a defining moment,” said Jiri Pehe, a former political adviser to Václav Havel, the first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia and now the director of New York University in Prague. 50 years after Prague Spring, lessons on freedom 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Hanzel, who later served as personal secretary to Vaclav Havel, the country’s first post-communist president, expressed concern that, for the first time since 1989, the Czech Communists are again wielding political influence. 'Punch to the face': Czechs mark half-century since Soviet invasion 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z “It was a defining moment,” said Jiri Pehe, a former political adviser to Vaclav Havel, the first president of post-Communist Czechoslovakia and now the director of New York University in Prague. 50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Among those interviewed is a young Václav Havel who later became the last president of Czechoslovakia and a leader in the Velvet Revolution of 1989. The Moviegoer, Aug. 19-25 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z In the ground-floor gallery, Schreck looked at a display case containing Havel’s childhood drawings and a report card. Heidi Schreck Takes the Constitution to Broadway 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Vaclav Havel, the anti-Communist activist and the country’s first leader after the fall of the Berlin Wall, invited the Dalai Lama to a state visit in 1990, angering Beijing. China Seeks Influence in Europe, One Business Deal at a Time 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The young prime minister could become the new Václav Havel, a symbol of liberal democracy in Central Europe, like the Czech intellectual, Hungary’s then-ambassador to the U.S. told him. In Orban’s Hungary, a Glimpse of Europe’s Demise 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z In April, Amnesty International gave Kaepernick its Ambassador of Conscience Award, its most prestigious human-rights honor, whose past winners include Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel. National Education Association gives Colin Kaepernick its ‘highest honor’ 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z To paraphrase a thought often attributed to Vaclav Havel: You should always be willing to join with those who say they are on a quest for the truth. Readers Respond to the 6.3.18 Issue 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z “I have to admit, I was Googling frantically last night to make sure there was not some terrible thing he had done,” Schreck said about Havel—so far, so good. Heidi Schreck Takes the Constitution to Broadway 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z One night, Henry Kissinger, a former American secretary of state, came to see a show with Vaclav Havel, then president of Czechoslovakia. Lorraine Gordon, queen of the Village Vanguard 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z He says he takes inspiration from the peaceful transitions of power under Vaclav Havel in Czechoslovakia and Nelson Mandela in South Africa. Armenia’s charismatic opposition leader whips up pressure after talks break off 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Havel wrote some new pieces, and old Havel-and-Kundera greatest hits were republished. Remembering culture's role in the Prague Spring 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z It fit the barbed intellectualism of his compatriots, including playwright Vaclav Havel and novelist Milan Kundera, and marked him a dissident. Czech-born director Milos Forman understood the American experience 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z This mode of operation is constructing a surveillance system that we must evade like Vaclav Havel passing samizdat around the underground literary circles. Cambridge Analytica and the Coming Data Bust 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z In the early 90s, as prominent dissidents such as Mr. Havel and Lech Walesa in Poland entered office, it was widely assumed that the region would transition naturally into democratic states and market economies. How a Liberal Dissident Became a Far-Right Hero, in Hungary and Beyond 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z While he was still a dissident playwright living under a Communist system, Vaclav Havel produced possibly the most brilliant essay ever written on political oppression in Eastern Europe: “The Power of the Powerless.” Opinion | What the Soviet bloc and the American South have in common 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Change at that time came from the top, with leaders like Vaclav Havel. Young Slovaks Buck a Trend, Protesting to Save Their Democracy 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z “What you have here are a lot of competing interests,” Havel said. Texas prosecutors looking into dog death on United flight 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z “We’re going to create a teen room, and make way for more interactive activities such as tutoring,” Havel said. Local library returns after 19-year renovation project 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Antoine Havel was a World War I veteran injured by mustard gas. Michigan man uses books, museum to preserve area history 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z Havel memorably asked his readers to imagine a greengrocer who obediently posts a hackneyed slogan — “workers of the world, unite!” — in the window of his shop. Opinion | What the Soviet bloc and the American South have in common 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z The first post-communist Czech president was Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led anti-Soviet demonstrations, and the job grew to match his stature. Pro-Europe Czechs hope for early spring in Prague, push to defeat Putin-friendly president 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Havel suggests, however, that a criminal prosecution has little chance of succeeding and likely would be a response to public opinion. Texas prosecutors looking into dog death on United flight 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z If we would uphold these commitments, we should be prepared, with Havel, to defend the democratic ideal. Opinion | The real greatest threat to democracy this year 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Vaclav Havel talked of how dissidents refused “to live within a lie.” Opinion | God bless all the anti-Trump Republicans 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z What would happen, Havel asked, if one fine day that greengrocer stopped going along to get along? Opinion | What the Soviet bloc and the American South have in common 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Uprisings by workers and students in Czechoslovakia toppled the communist government there in 1989, and by the end of that year, playwright and activist Václav Havel had been installed as the country’s president. My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z After the anti-Communist 1989 Velvet Revolution led by Havel, Triska regularly returned home to play in movies and theaters, including a leading role in “The Elementary School,” nominated for an Academy Award. US-based actor Jan Triska dies after fall from Prague bridge 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Clinton muses: “Havel understood that authoritarians who rely on lies to control their people are fundamentally not that different from neighborhood bullies. … This felt like the right message for 2017.” Analysis | The Daily 202: The reading list that helped Hillary Clinton cope 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Clinton says that after the election she reread former Czech Republic president Václav Havel's essay about how individuals can fight back against authoritarian regimes. Here Are All the Books Hillary Clinton Name-Drops in Her New Memoir 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Oregon State Parks spokesman Chris Havel said someone, probably a surfer, reported seeing dorsal fins about noon Tuesday. Surfers beware: Shark dorsal fins seen off Oregon’s Cannon Beach 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Havel himself was a fan of the Velvet Underground, whose music he had first heard when he visited the United States for six weeks in 1968. My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z WLUK-TV reports http://bit.ly/2v030Ba that Jason Havel was sentenced Thursday to nine months in jail. Wisconsin men sentenced for stealing diapers from charity 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Published online in 2008, the document was modeled in part on Charter 77, an anti-Communist tract that Czech dissidents such as Vaclav Havel, a friend of Mr. Liu’s, had drafted decades earlier. Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize laureate imprisoned in China, dies at 61 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z He was particularly inspired by Vaclav Havel, the Czech writer and dissident who became the first president of the Czech Republic in 1993. Nobel laureate and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo dies at 61 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z The prize, established by the New York-based Human Rights Foundation in memory of the late Czech statesman Vaclav Havel, celebrates those who, “with bravery and ingenuity unmask the lie of dictatorship by living in truth.” Why Trump’s pro-Sunni tilt worries human-rights campaigners 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z After Havel won election to the presidency, Rolling Stone approached Reed about going to Czechoslovakia to interview Havel. My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z So the agency is taking the uncommon step of offering the land for sale to the public through an auction, Havel said. Oregon State Parks auctioning off 38-acre woodland 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Havel surveyed the post-communist politics of his time and found leaders willing “to gain the favor of a confused electorate by offering a colorful range of attractive nonsense.” Opinion | Trump’s 100th-day speech may have been the most hate-filled in modern history 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Department spokesman Chris Havel says with the help of the U.S. Oregon parks open 1,000 more campsite for 2017 solar eclipse 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Vaclav Havel stepped forward and refused to live “within a lie.” Opinion | The tribal truths that set the stage for Trump’s lies 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Reed had just appeared on the cover of the magazine for the first time, and Havel’s interest in the Velvet Underground and rock music in general had already become part of his myth. My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Havel said money from such sales goes into a fund used to buy land. Oregon State Parks auctioning off 38-acre woodland 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z It is certainly not the spirit of Trumpism, which exemplifies the moral and spiritual poverty Havel decries: the cultivation of anger, resentment, antagonism and tribal hostilities; the bragging and the brooding; the egotism and self-pity. Opinion | Trump’s 100th-day speech may have been the most hate-filled in modern history 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z His writings were credited with influencing Václav Havel, the dissident playwright who became the first president of Czechoslovakia after communism, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain. Michael Novak, theologian who made a spiritual case for capitalism, dies at 83 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z When Vaclav Havel, the Czech dissident playwright and later president, hailed Frank Zappa, Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones as his political heroes, he was not being frivolous. The End of the Anglo-American Order 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Havel was delighted that Reed, one of his musical heroes, would be interviewing him. My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z “It was after I-5 went in and modern rest areas went in that use at that park started to drop pretty sharp,” Havel said. Oregon State Parks auctioning off 38-acre woodland 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Václav Havel is one of his moral and political inspirations. Fidel’s Legacy—A Dissident’s View 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Oregon Parks and Recreation Department spokesman Chris Havel says the agency appreciates the tourism but is having problems keeping up with the trash and the wear and tear on parks. Oregon tourism grows, generating income and problems 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Along with Vaclav Havel, Michnik defined the meaning of the anti-Soviet uprisings both for the people of the Eastern bloc and for readers in the West. The Party That Wants to Make Poland Great Again 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z So off he went to interview Havel in Prague. My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Harvesting the timber on the land is an option for the buyer, Havel said. Oregon State Parks auctioning off 38-acre woodland 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z An event at the Bohemian National Hall on the Upper East Side commemorated the life of Mr. Havel, a writer, dissident and statesman. New York Today: Artists-in-Residence 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The Havel Prize follows on other recognition for Ms. Murad, who is 23. Nadia Murad, Yazidi Woman Who Survived ISIS Captivity, Wins Human Rights Prize 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Havel was a dissident playwright who led the 1989 Velvet Revolution that toppled four decades of communist rule in what was then Czechoslovakia before becoming the Czech Republic’s first president. Czechs remember late president Vaclav Havel 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Havel’s remarks on all these matters were nuanced and insightful, but Reed reduced them to a truism: “You obviously feel and prove that music can change the world?” My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Havel pointed us to the Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft, more commonly known as the Tokyo Convention. Here's What Happens When a Crime Is Committed On a Plane 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Havel’s widow, brother and several close friends were in attendance. New York Today: Artists-in-Residence 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z “Protest” The Alliance for New Music-Theatre performs the play by poet and former Czech president Vaclav Havel about life under a totalitarian regime. Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, Sept. 22-28, 2016 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Havel says that police are still investigating the destruction of the rock. The destruction of a social media 'rock star' - BBC News 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Havel’s response was characteristically thoughtful: “Not in itself, it’s not sufficient in itself. But it can contribute to that significantly in being a part of the awakening of the human spirit.” My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z “Jurisdiction is explicitly provided to the state in which the aircraft is registered,” Havel wrote in an email. Here's What Happens When a Crime Is Committed On a Plane 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Mayor Bill de Blasio has declared Sept. 28 to be Vaclav Havel Day in the city. New York Today: Artists-in-Residence 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z “It’s one of those places that symbolizes everything that is wonderful about the Oregon coast,” Havel said. Vandals caught on video toppling beloved Oregon rock formation 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Chris Havel, associate director of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, told BBC Trending that a they had built a fence around the structure and put up signs warning visitors from going near it. The destruction of a social media 'rock star' - BBC News 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Reed also spoke about how nervous he had been to interview Havel, which makes some of its awkwardness more understandable. My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Yet “even though the fences and sign are very clear, the beauty of the area is a very powerful lure,” Havel says. Iconic Park Rock Destroyed by Vandals, Video Shows Ms. Karpetova said Mr. Havel’s works were just as important as they were decades ago. New York Today: Artists-in-Residence 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The cliff edges near the rock are considered unstable and there’s been a sign prohibiting people from getting near the popular rock for years, Havel said. Vandals caught on video toppling beloved Oregon rock formation 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Parks spokesman Chris Havel says there’s a good reason the area is fenced off. Cape Kiwanda rock formation collapses 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Having a Lou Reed interview with Václav Havel would be a coup for Musician, regardless of its quality. My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Havel hopes the incident will also prompt reflection. Iconic Park Rock Destroyed by Vandals, Video Shows The city’s Czech community last night honored the memory of an artist who rose to become a president, serving as a prisoner along the way: Vaclav Havel. New York Today: Artists-in-Residence 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Even those who bypassed the fenced-off area to strike the tree pose on the rock, Havel said, “hastened the rock’s demise.” Vandals caught on video toppling beloved Oregon rock formation 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z After the Velvet Revolution of 1989, which ended decades of Communist rule, she was appointed an adviser to President Vaclav Havel on sports and social issues. Vera Caslavska, Gymnast Who Faced Off With Soviets, Dies at 74 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z A few moments remain cringeworthy, but at many other points, Reed seems genuinely stirred by Havel and wonderstruck by the role his songs had played in such a monumental historical moment. My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z “The parks are there for everyone to enjoy,” Havel says. Iconic Park Rock Destroyed by Vandals, Video Shows When Communist rule ended in Czechoslovakia in 1989, new President Vaclav Havel made her his adviser for sport and social issues. Czech gymnast Caslavska, Olympic great and anti-Soviet icon, dies at 74 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Express Script’s next CFO, James Havel, spent a similar amount of time in the role before transitioning briefly to vice president of finance. A Quick CFO Exit Can Spell Trouble 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z “We’re not seeing much confusion about what the current signs and fence mean,” said Chris Havel, spokesman for the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Cape Kiwanda: Risking death for the perfect photo 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z Feminist author Gloria Steinem’s speech in 1987 touches on everyday unseen politics, Ira Glass talks about his parents’ thwarted aspirations and Czech philosopher Vaclav Havel questions the purpose of politicians. The best commencement speeches: from Jill Abramson to Neil Gaiman 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z That would be part of a wider exhibit, which includes foreign leaders such as Vaclav Havel and Winston Churchill, as well as civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. Harriet Tubman will be on the $20 bill but still doesn’t rate a statue in the Capitol 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Martin Odlozil was convicted of causing his father's death but subsequently pardoned by Havel. Czech gymnast Caslavska, Olympic great and anti-Soviet icon, dies at 74 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Czechoslovakia’s first post-communist president, Vaclav Havel, said it evoked images of “crawling slugs”. Metamorphosis 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z The father of former Prime Minister Václav Havel helped pioneer the film industry in the 1930s. Czech prime minister hopes to entice on-location filming with new incentives 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Xi's visit is a result of a more business-oriented Czech approach to China than the one that prevailed under the late President Vaclav Havel, a prominent proponent of human rights. Thirty business deals worth $4 billion are signed at the end of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Czech Republic 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z They also plan to hang a giant photo of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama near the airport alongside one of former Czech President Vaclav Havel, a former dissident and human rights activist. Chinese flags defaced in Prague ahead of Xi visit - BBC News 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z “That kind of habitat attracts living animals even if it’s floating out in the ocean,” Havel said. Wrecked vessel washed ashore in Oregon may be from Japan tsunami 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Even Vaclav Havel's attempt to answer my question didn't heal my wounded pride. Visegrad: The castle where a Central European bloc was born - BBC News 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Her words showed a strong affinity to the thinking of figures like Mahatma Gandhi and Václav Havel, not to mention a strong spiritual strain drawn from her intense Buddhist faith. How Will Aung San Suu Kyi Govern Myanmar? 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Like Vaclav Havel, his Czech counterpart who served 13 years as president after the 1989 Velvet Revolution, Mr. Goncz fought a totalitarian regime and spent time in communist prisons. Arpad Goncz, Hungary’s first post-Communist-era president, dies at 93 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Chan, the university professor, urged students to look to the examples of Nelson Mandela and Václav Havel, the Czech dissident and former president, who were both jailed because of their struggles. Hong Kong umbrella movement marks first anniversary and vows to fight on 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z As the Soviet dissident playwright-turned-statesman Václav Havel wrote, the essential truth about tyrannies is their fragility. The Bare Flagpoles of Havana 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z He later signed the Charter 77 human rights manifesto inspired by Havel. Czech dissident playwright Josef Topol dies at 80 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Several years later, Vaculik was one of a group of dissidents who wrote the Charter 77 human rights manifesto, along with the playwright and future President Vaclav Havel. Czech novelist Ludvik Vaculik dies, aged 88 - BBC News 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z The study, Havel says, is limited to short-term effects of fructose versus glucose. Fructose May Motivate People to Seek Out Food 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Vaclav Havel, the Czech Republic's first president after the Velvet Revolution against communist rule, once said that politics needs more intellectuals. Is India's Aam Admi Party no place for intellectuals? 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z But in 2002, both the Czech president, Vaclav Havel, and the C.I.A. concluded that there was no evidence to confirm the report. Stanislav Gross, Czech Leader Who Erred on Iraq Link to 9/11, Dies at 45 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Havel had an idea for a roommate matching company. Hustle Con: The Startup Conference For Non-Techies 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Authorities spotted the debris while they were inspecting fishing licenses off of Oregon’s central coast, according to Oregon Parks and Recreation Department spokesperson Chris Havel. Piece of Ship from Japan’s 2011 Tsunami Surfaces in Oregon 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z In a second painting, another flying man, this one composed of hundreds of white birds, was conceived to honor Vaclav Havel, the writer, dissident and statesman, after his death in 2011. Escaping the Past, or Embracing It Before It Fades 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z "I hear objections," Havel, a former dissident playwright wrote. Is India's Aam Admi Party no place for intellectuals? 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Chris Havel of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department said the debris was spotted Thursday morning and by evening was a few miles offshore. Boat chunk off Oregon coast thought to be tsunami debris 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Parr liked Havel’s idea, so he turned down the Airbnb offer, dropped out of school, and moved to San Francisco to join Havel. Hustle Con: The Startup Conference For Non-Techies 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Chris Havel of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department says the debris was spotted Thursday morning and by evening was a few miles offshore. Boat chunk off Oregon coast thought to be tsunami debris 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The state Parks Department defers to other agencies in dealing with cougar or bear sightings, said spokesman Chris Havel. Bend police criticized for shooting cougar at park 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z These reformers should be as well known in the West as Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov and Havel were generations earlier. The Islam reformers vs. the Muslim zealots 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z “There is no way the U.S. government would put at risk over 100 open skies agreements,” said Brian F. Havel, the director of the International Aviation Law Institute at DePaul University, in Chicago. Gulf Airlines’ Expansion Sets Off a Row in the U.S. 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z He convinced Havel to join him, and they organized a team to manage the conference. Hustle Con: The Startup Conference For Non-Techies 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Sometimes we don’t need any government to go and change the world, like that one great leader Vaclav Havel used to say. Ohio governor’s State of the State speech 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z As a result of his reception by Havel, Zappa’s status reached cosmic proportions in the country at that time. Vaclav Havel’s Walk on the Wild Side However, most people are unaware of what may have been Havel’s most important contribution to his success: his ability to articulate and carry out his existential philosophy to “ live within the truth.” Havel lived as if he were free But Mr. Havel said the debate might provide a chance to review state subsidies in the business and maybe come up with general fairness rules. Gulf Airlines’ Expansion Sets Off a Row in the U.S. 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, in much of Central and Eastern Europe, the ideals of leaders such as dissident-turned-Czech president Václav Havel, who this week was honored with the unveiling of a bust at the U.S. On Velvet Revolution’s anniversary, a reinforced commitment to democracy Vaclav Havel, dissident playwright who served as the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic, became only the fourth foreign leader represented in our grand Capitol building. In the Capitol’s marbled Statuary Hall, a moment of moral clarity People light candles and hold the national flag in tribute to late former Czech President Vaclav Havel at Wenceslas Square in Prague December 18, 2011. Vaclav Havel’s Walk on the Wild Side A tenuous connection – Havel loved American music, including rock and blues — put Billy Gibbons, the frontman of legendary rock band ZZ Top, at the otherwise formal ceremony. ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons calls Capitol gig honoring Vaclav Havel ‘unexpected’ On Dec. 29, 1989, Havel, a dissident playwright, became Czechoslovakia’s first democratically elected president in a half-century. Milos Zeman, Czech president, pelted on Velvet Revolution anniversary 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z A wave of demonstrations followed across the now Czech Republic, toppling the communist government and replacing it with one led by dissident playwright Vaclav Havel. Eggs thrown on Czech anniversary 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Havel was a man willing to go to jail rather than do what was morally wrong. In the Capitol’s marbled Statuary Hall, a moment of moral clarity On Dec. 29, 1989, Havel, a dissident playwright, became Czechoslovakia's first democratically elected president in a half-century. President pelted on Velvet Revolution anniversary 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Turns out, he was actually a Havel groupie, recalling one time he’d met the leader on an international flight. ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons calls Capitol gig honoring Vaclav Havel ‘unexpected’ That sense of moral responsibility for others led Havel, until his death in 2011, to be one of the world’s leading advocates for human rights. Are Czechs giving up on moral responsibility? It culminated in the appointment of the country's first non-communist government in more than four decades and the election of Vaclav Havel, a playwright turned dissident, to the post of president. Velvet Revolution at 25 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z It was Czech immigrants and the children of Czech immigrants who pushed to have Havel honored. In the Capitol’s marbled Statuary Hall, a moment of moral clarity They wanted to capture the excitement of the rallies, the brutality of police beatings and the surreal repression of a nation that Vaclav Havel — later president — dubbed "Absurdistan." Toys talk to kids about Velvet Revolution 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Things that seemed at home in the Capitol building’s Statuary Hall during Wednesday’s unveiling of Czech president Valclav Havel’s bust: marble, bronze and a confab of world leaders. ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons calls Capitol gig honoring Vaclav Havel ‘unexpected’ Havel emphasized the importance of morality in politics and economics and said that we should base our actions on “responsibility to something higher than my family, country, my firm, my success.” Are Czechs giving up on moral responsibility? Havel says that rule got more public support. Oregon agency won’t press for beach smoking ban 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Havel, who died in 2011, may no longer look to America for inspiration if he were in office today. In the Capitol’s marbled Statuary Hall, a moment of moral clarity On Dec. 29, Havel became the country's first democratically elected president in a half-century. Toys talk to kids about Velvet Revolution 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Havel became the first President of Czechoslovakia on 29 December 1989. A Return to Prague 24 Years Later * We are Never Checkmated by History * Brushfires of the Mind 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Martin names Robins, another officer, the detention center and its administrator, Tom Havel, as defendants. Man in San Juan County jail beating files lawsuit 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z As for how the education initiative would work, Havel said placing signs that emphasize picking up trash would be a start. Oregon agency won’t press for beach smoking ban 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Agency spokesman Chris Havel says the move to include beaches is partly a response to concerns that the earlier ban would push more smokers onto the coastline. Oregon moves to ban smoking on beaches 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Brian F. Havel, director of the International Aviation Law Institute and associate dean for International Studies at DePaul University College of Law, said the airline was in a fix. Airline Will Not Escape Liability if Act of War Caused Crash 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z At precisely the same time, President Vaclav Havel emptied the country's prisons. From revolution to business empire 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z A message left for Havel seeking comment was not immediately returned Sunday. Man in San Juan County jail beating files lawsuit 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z “We’re looking to produce the greatest benefit with the fewest amount of resources,” Havel said. Oregon agency won’t press for beach smoking ban 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Father Halik was one of the leading voices in the fight against Soviet communism in the late 1980s, and a frequent figure at the side of his longtime friend and ally, Vaclav Havel. The Rev. Tomas Halik Castigates Putin for Russia’s Seizure of Crimea 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z During the Prague Spring of 1968, for instance, a young dissident playwright, Vaclav Havel, took to the airwaves on Radio Free Czechoslovakia and made a name for himself as Soviet tanks approached. 3 accomplishments of the Arab Spring that everybody seems to have forgotten 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z She calls her one-woman operation the Powerless Press, evoking Vaclav Havel. Book Review: 'Notes From Underground' By Roger Scruton 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Havel entered the fray, saying that Mr. Albrecht’s demurral “damages the interests of the Czech Republic and the Czech Philharmonic.” Gerd Albrecht, Volatile Conductor, Is Dead at 78 2014-02-10T03:30:00Z “If we can accomplish those goals without a rule that would be difficult to enforce, we should try that first,” said spokesman Chris Havel of the state Parks and Recreation Department. Oregon agency won’t press for beach smoking ban 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z When discussing Father Halik, nearly everyone tells the story of how Mr. Havel once remarked that the priest should succeed him as the Czech president. The Rev. Tomas Halik Castigates Putin for Russia’s Seizure of Crimea 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z After Mr. Havel became president of Czechoslovakia, Mr. Bilak was charged with high treason with regard to the 1968 invasion, but the case was dropped because of insufficient evidence. Vasil Bilak, Czechoslovak Communist Who Encouraged 1968 Soviet Invasion, Dies at 96 2014-02-07T03:51:41Z Airport operations were not affected, a spokeswoman for Vaclav Havel Airport Prague said earlier. Czech police end search of Lufthansa flight after bomb threat 2013-11-22T16:47:51Z A spokeswoman for Vaclav Havel Airport Prague said airport operations were not affected. Czech police search Lufthansa flight after bomb threat 2013-11-22T11:56:10Z A spokeswomen for Vaclav Havel Airport Prague, Marika Janouskova, said the plane was standing away from the terminal while police and a bomb squad searched the craft. Czech police search Lufthansa flight after bomb threat 2013-11-22T11:07:49Z They are heirs to the party which ran the country for decades until dissident Vaclav Havel led a revolution to end one-party rule. In Czech rustbelt, new government can expect little sympathy 2013-10-16T12:07:10Z Mr. Havel died in late 2011 at the age of 75. The Lede: Vaclav Havel Refused 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Nomination, Says Daw Aung San Suu Kyi 2013-09-16T14:14:04Z Some supporters in the crowd compared their arrested leader to Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel. Russia Rises Up 2013-07-19T08:45:00Z In 1990, Mr. Horn was awarded the Charlemagne Prize — whose winners include Winston Churchill and Vaclav Havel, the former Czech president — for laying “one of the foundation stones for European unity.” Gyula Horn, Helped Part Iron Curtain, Dies at 80 2013-06-21T02:02:30Z Two decades ago, Czech dissident Vaclav Havel led a "Velvet Revolution" that overthrew Communist rule and turned his country into a beacon of liberty. Czech prime minister steps down after graft scandal 2013-06-16T20:49:04Z The Czech Republic became a beacon of liberty in 1989 when former dissident Vaclav Havel led the "Velvet Revolution" against communist rule. Czech cabinet in crisis after police sweep government offices 2013-06-13T18:33:41Z The Czech Republic was a beacon of liberty in 1989 when former dissident Vaclav Havel led a Velvet Revolution against communist rule. Czech police detain prime minister's aide: media 2013-06-13T13:29:04Z The Czech republic was a beacon of liberty in the late 1980s when former dissident Vaclav Havel led a Velvet Revolution against Communist rule. Czech police detain prime minister's aide: media 2013-06-13T12:09:48Z Mr Hamrayev cited the former leaders of South Africa and the Czech Republic, Nelson Mandela and Vaclac Havel as his sources of inspiration. Tributes paid to Uzbek activist 2013-05-07T15:29:09Z Vaclav Havel, the hero of the 1989 Velvet Revolution that brought down Communism, died in late 2011, depriving the Czechs of their most celebrated moral leader. Former Prime Minister Is Elected President of Czech Republic 2013-01-26T17:18:26Z In the early 1990s, Mr Schwarzenberg worked as chancellor to the President Vaclav Havel, the leader of the Velvet Revolution that brought down Communist rule in 1989. Czechs vote in second round poll 2013-01-26T11:57:50Z While in exile in Vienna in 1984, he became president of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and cast himself as an important liaison between the West and Czechoslovak dissidents, including Mr. Havel. Czech Prince, Schwarzenberg, Runs a Punk Campaign 2013-01-25T02:56:06Z Currently the foreign minister, Schwarzenberg worked as chancellor to the first post-communist President Vaclav Havel in the early 1990s. Czech prince mixes charm and punk in run for presidency 2013-01-24T12:40:34Z They decided on dissolution over the heads of the public and the president, Vaclav Havel, whose Velvet Revolution overthrew communism. The Velvet Divorce 2013-01-20T17:49:06Z He was a close friend of former President Vaclav Havel and served in his presidential office. Rivals in Czech Presidential Runoff Support Warmer Ties With Europe 2013-01-12T20:19:06Z Karel Schwarzenberg is a titled prince, 75 years of age but wildly popularly amongst young, urban voters - and closely linked to the country's first president, the late Vaclav Havel, he adds. Czech vote goes to second round 2013-01-12T16:10:26Z After the fall of Communism in 1989, he returned to Czechoslovakia to work for Mr. Havel, offering up his glittering foreign contacts. Czech Prince, Schwarzenberg, Runs a Punk Campaign 2013-01-25T02:56:06Z Mr Klaus's predecessor as president was the playwright and dissident Vaclav Havel, the leader of the Velvet Revolution that brought down Communist rule. Czechs to vote for new president 2013-01-11T06:02:54Z Klaus took over the presidency from Vaclav Havel, the playwright and dissident who led the Velvet Revolution that ended Communist rule. End of an era as Czechs vote to replace president Klaus 2013-01-10T17:32:19Z His Czech fans are encouraging people to roll up their trouser legs in a comic gesture to honour Havel. Havel honoured with neon heart 2012-12-18T10:38:16Z "They all reacted in different ways," says Chris Havel of Oregon Parks and Recreation Service. Oregon braced for tsunami debris storms 2012-10-09T01:49:12Z The elections, the first direct vote for president here, signal the end of an era, that of the two Vaclavs — Havel and Klaus — who have dominated Czech politics for the past two decades. Czech Prince, Schwarzenberg, Runs a Punk Campaign 2013-01-25T02:56:06Z To me, today's ceremony is proof of recognition of President Vaclav Havel, a recognition of freedom and democracy in our country, a recognition of his acts for this country. Prague airport named after Havel 2012-10-05T22:05:15Z Recalling the last letter she had received from Vaclav Havel, Suu Kyi said: “He was ill, but his concern was only for me, for us in Burma,” she said. Suu Kyi Meets Her Peers 2012-09-30T15:36:00Z As Czech president he wore trousers which were "noticeably short", the Havel was widely admired for his long struggle against communist repression. Havel honoured with neon heart 2012-12-18T10:38:16Z The next one that strikes will leave them "susceptible to the same sort of tragedy that struck Japan", Mr Havel says. Oregon braced for tsunami debris storms 2012-10-09T01:49:12Z At best, Mr. Jirsa said, Mr. Schwarzenberg has shown a desire to emulate his previous boss, Mr. Havel, and transcend ideology. Czech Prince, Schwarzenberg, Runs a Punk Campaign 2013-01-25T02:56:06Z Vaclav Havel became president of Czechoslovakia in 1989 after the fall of communism. Prague airport named after Havel 2012-10-05T22:05:15Z Jiri Pehe, a frequent critic of the center-right government and an adviser to Vaclav Havel when he was president, attributed the crisis to a national aversion to state regulation after four decades of Communist rule. Czechs Ban Hard Liquor Sales After Methanol Poisonings 2012-09-18T00:00:41Z Brian Havel, director of the International Aviation Law Institute in Chicago, said despite EU doubts, the fact that the US and other countries are holding the meeting now suggests they are serious. US airlines urge Hillary Clinton to intervene over EU carbon law 2012-07-31T13:16:39Z When the organizers of a human-rights forum invited her to Oslo to receive the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent, her bosses warned that she would lose her job if she insisted on attending. The Rebellion Behind the Veil 2012-07-30T05:00:00Z He was also nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize by former Czech President Vaclav Havel. Cardinal praises prominent Cuban dissident at funeral 2012-07-24T20:27:41Z A spokesman for the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, Chris Havel, said two options were being considered for its removal. Tsunami dock washes up in Oregon 2012-06-07T08:29:42Z A starfish native to Japan was among the marine life still clinging to the structure, Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation spokesman Chris Havel was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency. Tsunami dock washed up in Oregon 2012-06-07T04:15:19Z "We will bear the cost right now," Havel said. Dock from Japanese tsunami washes up on Oregon beach 2012-06-07T01:01:55Z Clark then goes on to criticize Havel’s legacy. It's the End of the Year As We Know It 2011-12-30T16:22:02Z Among the dignitaries assembled in St. Vitus's Cathedral to honor Mr. Havel, who died Dec. 18 at age 75, were current ... Leaders Gather for Havel's Funeral 2011-12-24T02:37:56Z “Europe owes Vaclav Havel a profound debt,” Cameron said before departing from London. Clintons Among World Leaders at Funeral for Havel in Prague 2011-12-24T10:10:52Z "This is tsunami debris, not just from Japan, but from the tsunami itself," Mr Havel said. Tsunami dock washed up in Oregon 2012-06-07T04:15:19Z The Parks Department is working with Oregon's Department of Fish and Wildlife to contain any invasive species threats, Havel said. Dock from Japanese tsunami washes up on Oregon beach 2012-06-07T01:01:55Z Friday was the third and final day of mourning for Mr. Havel, who died Sunday at the age of 75 after struggling for years will respiratory ailments. Mourners in Czech Republic Honor Vaclav Havel 2011-12-23T14:00:38Z Bill Clinton's presence was testimony to his close relationship with Havel, who took him to drink beer in a Prague pub and play saxophone in a club when he visited in 1994. World leaders bid farewell to Vaclav Havel 2011-12-23T12:31:07Z “The Pope always admired Vaclav Havel,” a Vatican representative said at the beginning of the ceremony. Clintons Among World Leaders at Funeral for Havel in Prague 2011-12-23T11:58:02Z PRAGUE—World leaders past and present gathered Friday in the Czech capital for the state funeral of the country's former President Vaclav Havel. Leaders Gather for Havel's Funeral 2011-12-23T11:21:23Z "It is from some area on the Northeast coast of Japan," Havel said. Dock from Japanese tsunami washes up on Oregon beach 2012-06-07T01:01:55Z The two nations were one at the time of the nonviolent Velvet Revolution, and Mr. Havel was the first and only post-Communist president of Czechoslovakia before the country’s division. Mourners in Czech Republic Honor Vaclav Havel 2011-12-23T14:00:38Z Russia, which Havel criticized for human rights abuses and democratic shortfalls as recently as this month, was represented by rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin. World leaders bid farewell to Vaclav Havel 2011-12-23T12:31:07Z Havel died in his sleep on Dec. 18 at the age of 75 after a long illness. Clintons, Sarkozy at Funeral for Havel in Prague as Czechs Mourn 2011-12-23T11:07:39Z An official at the Czech Republic's U.N. mission said the Czechs did not request a similar moment of silence for Vaclav Havel, the playwright-turned-dissident who died on Sunday. U.N. assembly plans moment of silence for Kim Jong-il 2011-12-22T19:43:29Z In the late 1980s, Havel led Czechoslovakia's peaceful revolution against Soviet rule. International Man of Mystery: Kim Jong Il's Russian Roots and Travels 2011-12-21T14:40:00Z The Clintons called Havel a “towering figure in the world of human rights and a force for progress in Eastern Europe.” Clintons to attend funeral of former Czech President Vaclav Havel 2011-12-21T20:53:08Z “The figure of Vaclav Havel defies clear categorization and superficial assessment.” Havel’s Casket Moved to Prague Castle as Czechs Mourn Leader 2011-12-21T10:39:08Z A memorial for Mr. Havel, who passed away on Sunday, was extensively documented on YouTube. The Lede Blog: A Farewell to Havel in Prague 2011-12-20T02:19:49Z Havel, who died in his sleep after a long illness, was an international icon for opposing totalitarian regimes in the former Soviet bloc and helped lead the country to democracy. Czechs Mourn Ex-President Havel as Government Sets State Funeral 2011-12-19T16:58:52Z Though he disagreed with Havel over the president’s support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Havel’s friendship with George W. Bush, they remained friends, he said in a phone interview yesterday. Czech Cabinet Plans Havel Funeral as EU Holds Minute of Silence 2011-12-19T00:10:37Z Vaclav Havel was one of the greatest Europeans of our age. Havel, leader of "Velvet Revolution," dies 2011-12-19T00:06:25Z Havel was the only one in politics who was decent and managed to remain in politics. Havel’s Casket Moved to Prague Castle as Czechs Mourn Leader 2011-12-21T10:39:08Z Among the tributes coming in after the death of Vaclav Havel, the playwright who helped found the Czech Republic and was its president for a decade, are several from the theater world. ArtsBeat Blog: Remembering the Words of Vaclav Havel 2011-12-18T20:38:55Z A film based on the play and directed by Havel was released on March 22, 2011, and Havel attended the premier in Prague. Czechs Mourn Ex-President Havel as Government Sets State Funeral 2011-12-19T16:58:52Z “For all 20 years I appreciated that Havel was the representative of a civic society, that he was against consumerism and technocraticsm,” Uhl said. Czech Cabinet Plans Havel Funeral as EU Holds Minute of Silence 2011-12-19T00:10:37Z On Sunday, two soldiers stood to attention beside a picture of Havel at the castle in Prague as scores of mourners quietly lit candles and paid their respects. Havel, leader of "Velvet Revolution," dies 2011-12-19T00:06:25Z Havel likened their view to defending concentration camps in order to preserve the jailers' jobs. Leaving the Castle: Havel's Life After the Presidency 2011-12-18T09:50:00Z The Public Theater, which produced the American premieres of several of Mr. Havel’s plays, wrote on Twitter: “We are saddened by the death of Vaclav Havel.” ArtsBeat Blog: Remembering the Words of Vaclav Havel 2011-12-18T20:38:55Z Some shook keys recalling similar gestures from the Velvet Revolution and shouted “Long Live Havel.” Czechs Mourn Ex-President Havel as Government Sets State Funeral 2011-12-19T16:58:52Z Havel was born into a prominent Prague family. Czech Cabinet Plans Havel Funeral as EU Holds Minute of Silence 2011-12-19T00:10:37Z Havel's remains were to be displayed on Wednesday and Thursday, the president's office said, and news agency CTK said the funeral could be on Friday. Havel, leader of "Velvet Revolution," dies 2011-12-19T00:06:25Z As a former president, Havel continued to wield considerable influence over public opinion on a variety of political, environmental and human rights issues, both domestic and international. Leaving the Castle: Havel's Life After the Presidency 2011-12-18T09:50:00Z In addition to several books Mr. Havel wrote 19 plays, including “The Garden Party,” “The Memorandum” and “Temptation.” ArtsBeat Blog: Remembering the Words of Vaclav Havel 2011-12-18T20:38:55Z “Vaclav Havel is dead but his legacy will live on,” one of the speakers at the event told the crowd. Czechs Mourn Ex-President Havel as Government Sets State Funeral 2011-12-19T16:58:52Z After the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Havel worked various jobs, including as a laborer in a brewery, a job that went on to inspire his play “Audience.” Czech Cabinet Plans Havel Funeral as EU Holds Minute of Silence 2011-12-19T00:10:37Z Born in 1936, the son of a rich building contractor, Havel was denied a good education after the Communists seized power in 1948 and stripped the family of its wealth. Havel, leader of "Velvet Revolution," dies 2011-12-19T00:06:25Z Economic and external political pressures were at play, but Havel embodied the moral and intellectual force of humanity that ultimately resisted the tyranny. Witness:Vaclav Havel: Moral force at the end of a long staircase 2011-12-18T18:55:26Z Mr. Havel, whose past works include ‘The Memorandum’ and ‘A Private View,’ has once again attempted to transmute the nightmare of totalitarian repression into bleak comedy of high linguistic absurdity. ArtsBeat Blog: Remembering the Words of Vaclav Havel 2011-12-18T20:38:55Z Havel washed test tubes for a living and decided that life was absurd. The Death of the Playwright-President: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) 2011-12-18T09:30:00Z During the same period, Havel became known for his political essays, which included “The Power of the Powerless” and “Politics and Conscience.” Czech Cabinet Plans Havel Funeral as EU Holds Minute of Silence 2011-12-19T00:10:37Z Havel's plays then disappeared in censors' vaults, and the author was forced into menial jobs such as rolling beer barrels. Havel, leader of "Velvet Revolution," dies 2011-12-19T00:06:25Z Mr. Havel was his country’s first democratically elected president after the nonviolent “Velvet Revolution” that ended four decades of repression by a regime he ridiculed as “Absurdistan.” Vaclav Havel, Dissident Playwright Who Led Czechoslovakia, Dead at 75 2011-12-18T12:22:27Z The second, ‘Catastrophe,’ dedicated to Mr. Havel by Samuel Beckett, is a highly symbolic homage to the author’s martyrdom. ArtsBeat Blog: Remembering the Words of Vaclav Havel 2011-12-18T20:38:55Z Havel the playwright painted the world as absurd. The Death of the Playwright-President: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) 2011-12-18T09:30:00Z A film based on the play was released on March 22, 2011, and Havel attended the premier in Prague. Czech Cabinet Plans Havel Funeral as EU Holds Minute of Silence 2011-12-19T00:10:37Z When Klaus was prime minister, Havel launched a stinging attack against him, which many thought was a step too far. Havel, leader of "Velvet Revolution," dies 2011-12-19T00:06:25Z Considering it a personal failure, Mr.. Havel resigned as president. Vaclav Havel, Dissident Playwright Who Led Czechoslovakia, Dead at 75 2011-12-18T12:22:27Z Mr. Havel is a humanist with an earnest message. ArtsBeat Blog: Remembering the Words of Vaclav Havel 2011-12-18T20:38:55Z The naturally nervous Havel was a difficult prisoner. The Death of the Playwright-President: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) 2011-12-18T09:30:00Z Havel, who died in his sleep yesterday after a long illness, was an international icon for opposing totalitarian regimes in the former Soviet bloc and helped lead the country to democracy. Czech Cabinet Plans Havel Funeral as EU Holds Minute of Silence 2011-12-19T00:10:37Z Havel repeatedly irked Chinese communists by hosting the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, most recently this month. Havel, leader of "Velvet Revolution," dies 2011-12-19T00:06:25Z Mr. Havel first made a name for himself after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion that crushed the Prague Spring reforms of Alexander Dubcek and other liberally minded communists in what was then Czechoslovakia. Vaclav Havel, Dissident Playwright Who Led Czechoslovakia, Dead at 75 2011-12-18T12:22:27Z Gustavus, still too weak to meet the foe, entrenched himself at Werben, at the confluence of the Havel and Elbe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z And in the face of a sometimes-brutal transition to capitalism, Havel argued for a sustained humanism to provide a balance. The Death of the Playwright-President: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) 2011-12-18T09:30:00Z Some shook keys and shouted “Long Live Havel.” Czech Cabinet Plans Havel Funeral as EU Holds Minute of Silence 2011-12-19T00:10:37Z "I spent a few years in prison, but perhaps I would be there three times as long if ... not for international solidarity," Havel said at a seminar on Myanmar in late 2007. Havel, leader of "Velvet Revolution," dies 2011-12-19T00:06:25Z Mr. Havel left office in 2003, 10 years after Czechoslovakia broke up and a few months before both nations joined the European Union. Vaclav Havel, Dissident Playwright Who Led Czechoslovakia, Dead at 75 2011-12-18T12:22:27Z In those revolts, thinkers or ideologues — from Thomas Paine to Lenin to Mao to Vaclav Havel — helped provide a unifying vision or became symbols of a people’s aspirations. News Analysis: The Arab Intellectuals Who Didn?t Roar 2011-10-30T18:09:41Z Havel spent most of his life feeling like an outsider. The Death of the Playwright-President: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) 2011-12-18T09:30:00Z “Vaclav Havel is dead but his legacy will live on,” one of the speakers at the event, told the crowd. Czech Cabinet Plans Havel Funeral as EU Holds Minute of Silence 2011-12-19T00:10:37Z Havel returned to writing, and published a new play, "Leaving," which won rave reviews, premiered in 2008 and was later turned into a film. Havel, leader of "Velvet Revolution," dies 2011-12-19T00:06:25Z Mr. Havel was nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize, and collected dozens of accolades worldwide for his efforts as a global ambassador of conscience, defended the downtrodden from Darfur to Myanmar. Vaclav Havel, Dissident Playwright Who Led Czechoslovakia, Dead at 75 2011-12-18T12:22:27Z West of Berlin the Havel widens into what are called the Havel lakes, to which the environs of Potsdam owe their charms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z "People are still full of totalitarian habits," Havel chided. The Death of the Playwright-President: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) 2011-12-18T09:30:00Z While his official authority as president was limited by the Czech constitution, Havel used the presidency as a platform for building what he called a “civil society.” Czech Cabinet Plans Havel Funeral as EU Holds Minute of Silence 2011-12-19T00:10:37Z Just six months after completing his last jail sentence, Havel led hundreds of thousands of protesters in Prague's cobblestone streets in a peaceful uprising in November 1989 that ended Soviet-backed rule. Havel, leader of "Velvet Revolution," dies 2011-12-19T00:06:25Z Mr. Havel was detained countless times and spent four years in communist jails. Vaclav Havel, Dissident Playwright Who Led Czechoslovakia, Dead at 75 2011-12-18T12:22:27Z The lakes in the Prussian and Pomeranian provinces, in Mecklenburg and in Holstein, and those of the Havel, have already been mentioned. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z People took the revolution-era poster that said "Havel to the Castle" and altered it to read "Havel's in the Castle." The Death of the Playwright-President: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) 2011-12-18T09:30:00Z Whether this global connectivity results in the kind of unified planet theory of human progress envisioned in a line of thinking from Darwin through Havel remains to be seen. Dot Earth Blog: Growing Pains in Maturing Brains and Global Networks 2011-09-20T16:36:27Z "Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred" was Havel's trademark slogan that many Czechs recall from the revolution. Havel, leader of "Velvet Revolution," dies 2011-12-19T00:06:25Z The events of August 1988 — the 20th anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion — first suggested that Mr. Havel and his friends might one day replace the faceless apparatchiks who jailed them. Vaclav Havel, Dissident Playwright Who Led Czechoslovakia, Dead at 75 2011-12-18T12:22:27Z There are 13 honorary members, including former Czech President Václav Havel, who defended Roma rights after the Velvet Revolution swept him to power in 1989. Roma Establish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Belgrade 2011-09-09T18:47:45Z Havel was no longer president after the end of his term in 2003. The Death of the Playwright-President: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) 2011-12-18T09:30:00Z In the statement, the board said it regretted “most deeply” the news that Mr. Havel, the first president of the Czech Republic after the fall of communism, might give back his award. German Group Cancels Prize to Putin After Outcry 2011-07-16T18:35:10Z Havel lost some of his allure in the later years of his time at the castle. Havel, leader of "Velvet Revolution," dies 2011-12-19T00:06:25Z On Saturday, a spokeswoman for Mr Havel said he thought the panel were "very wise" to reconsider their choice. Rights prize withdrawn from Putin 2011-07-16T17:38:59Z Very rarely do we find a career intellectual like Vaclav Havel, who succeeded in leading Czechoslovakia to democracy after the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Op-Ed Contributor: The Kings We Crown 2011-05-02T02:18:02Z Havel at first glance was an unlikely beacon of morality. The Death of the Playwright-President: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) 2011-12-18T09:30:00Z Havel and Stanhope are having healthy people drink three sugar- or H.F.C.S.-sweetened beverages a day and then seeing what happens. Magazine Preview: Is Sugar Toxic? 2011-04-13T13:41:16Z Mr. Havel said the verdict still could go in favor of the Union because the court “has been quite supportive of E.U. initiatives that impose economic costs on the airlines and are pro-consumer.” Green Column: European Pollution Regulations Face Challenge 2011-04-10T21:02:12Z Germany's human rights commissioner Markus Loening said it was "downright cynical" for Mr Putin to be put in the same group as previous winners Mikhail Gorbachev and Mr Havel. Rights prize withdrawn from Putin 2011-07-16T17:38:59Z "In the meantime, all eyes should be on China," said Havel, noting that nation's ambition to challenge Boeing and Airbus in the market for wide-body aircraft. WTO: Boeing lifted by $5.3 billion in illegal aid 2011-04-01T00:40:18Z "Add to that," Havel said, "the fact that I was overweight and the other children, as children will, laughed at my tubbiness." The Death of the Playwright-President: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) 2011-12-18T09:30:00Z Much of their time was spent at their summer home at Tegel, on the banks of the Havel, about eight miles from Berlin. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z Microsoft spokeswoman Melissa Havel declined to comment on the specifics of the agreement. Microsoft Is Said to Pay Nokia More Than $1 Billion in Accord 2011-03-07T20:20:03Z The unease is heightened by the absence of a charismatic, reassuring leader among the protesters — the revolution is missing a Vaclav Havel or Corazon Aquino. Revolution, Delayed 2011-02-10T05:40:00Z As pressure for reform gathered momentum in the late 1980s, he was among the first to sign the Charter 77 human rights manifesto inspired by Mr. Havel. Jiri Dienstbier, Noted Czech Dissident, Dies at 73 2011-01-08T23:30:27Z In 1948 Havel became a different kind of pariah when the communists seized power in postwar Czechoslovakia, confiscating his family's property and barring him from high school. The Death of the Playwright-President: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) 2011-12-18T09:30:00Z Liu's manifesto was based on a letter by Havel and other Czechoslovak intellectuals in the 1970s protesting against the communist government. Rights abuses show China will not be a true leader: sources 2010-12-05T00:09:00Z In 1989, he helped Mr. Havel draft a petition known as “A Few Sentences” that called on the Communist authorities to release political prisoners and recognize freedom of speech and other basic human rights. Jiri Krizan, Czech Dissident and Screenwriter, Dies at 68 2010-10-15T01:40:00Z In January, a group including Václav Havel and Peace Prize laureates Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama co-signed an article saying Liu deserved the prize for "his bravery and clarity of thought about China's future." Despite China Threat, Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Dissident 2010-10-08T10:20:00Z He was endorsed by former Czech dissident Vaclav Havel and is a runaway favorite among bookmakers. Chinese, Afghan activists lead race for Peace Nobel 2010-10-06T16:05:00Z Havel didn't start the revolution — that happened when police beat unarmed students on Nov. 17, 1989. The Death of the Playwright-President: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) 2011-12-18T09:30:00Z Zhang Zuhua, an outspoken political theorist who signed the latest petition, described it as a spontaneous response to the Havel letter. Petition Urges Nobel for Jailed Chinese Writer 2010-09-25T18:29:00Z How close to the dreams he nurtured from Vienna when his friend Vaclav Havel was still a dissident playwright pursued by the Communists? Letter From Europe: East European Eyes on France?s Roma Policy 2010-09-06T21:08:00Z Indeed, Gorbachev’s vision was much the same as that endorsed by the fiercely anti-Communist former dissidents in East Germany — and by the likes of Vaclav Havel in Czechoslovakia, too. 2010-01-22T20:08:00Z It had been a poor place, situated betwixt the Havel and a swamp; the King had made it into an architectural camp; no civilian could carry a sword there, not even the minister of state. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. But Havel was thrust into a role he did not choose. The Death of the Playwright-President: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) 2011-12-18T09:30:00Z BRANDENBURG, a town of Germany, capital of the district and province of same name, on the river Havel, 36 m. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" “That’s too far to run for supper–and back again–this afternoon, boys,” said Mrs. Havel. Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club On the bridge over the Havel, overlooking Babelsburg, a tire burst, and we were delayed about half an hour. An Account of Our Arresting Experiences The red glow of evening lay across the water; the sun could no longer be seen in all its splendour, a dusky, melancholy peace lay over the Havel and the pines. The Son of His Mother Those were lonely years, but Havel beat back depression and wrote plays, started an underground press, and founded the human rights group Charter 77. The Death of the Playwright-President: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) 2011-12-18T09:30:00Z There is at Paretz, near Potsdam, a flower-bordered walk leading from a grotto overlooking the Havel to an iron gate, above which is inscribed "May 20, 1810" and the letter "L." Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History “This shall be no lazy girls’ camp,” declared Mrs. Havel. Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club A tall young man was the first to reach the offender, who is said to have been Carl Havel, associate editor of a German newspaper. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature On one occasion I saw a boy company at drill march straight into the Havel river, no command to halt having been given at the river bank! Face to Face with Kaiserism Havel performed the normal duties of presidents, but to Czechs his most important role was as a guide, even a talisman. The Death of the Playwright-President: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) 2011-12-18T09:30:00Z The great bay into which the Havel here expands has pretty islands and shores. In and Around Berlin “Mrs. Havel is not going fishing, and I can stay with her.” Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club At the same moment a man, said to be Terence Carlin, a member of a prominent Chicago family, struck Havel's assailant. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature No remains of the old castle exist, but the church, built in the thirteenth century, is one of the oldest and most beautiful in the land between the Havel and the Elbe. Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire Or am I really on the banks of that homely river Spree which flows into the Havel? The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Spandau, eight miles west of Berlin, at the junction of the Spree with the Havel, has much historical and military interest. In and Around Berlin “You do not call saving two girls’ lives nothing, my dear–surely?” proposed Mrs. Havel. Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club |
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