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	Václav Havel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Václav Havel, GCB, CC (IPA: [ˈva:ʦlaf ˈɦavɛl]) (born October 5, 1936) is a Czech writer and dramatist.
		Despite increasing tensions, Havel strongly supported the retention of the federation of the Czechs and the Slovaks during the breakup of Czechoslovakia, known as the Velvet Divorce.
		Václav Havel left office after his second term as Czech president ended on February 2, 2003; Václav Klaus, one of his greatest political opponents, was elected his successor on February 28, 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vaclav_Havel (549 words)

	Vaclav Havel hero file
		Havel is elected interim president of Czechoslovakia on 29 December, promising to lead the nation to free and democratic elections.
		Havel is reelected to the presidency on 5 July, remaining in the position until 1992.
		Havel is elected president of the Czech Republic on 26 January.
	www.moreorless.au.com /heroes/havel.html (3335 words)

	Reason: Velvet President: Why Vaclav Havel is our era’s George Orwell and more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Havel, the somewhat shy scion of a bourgeois family (which owned, among other things, the wonderful Lucerna Theatre on Wenceslas Square), was particularly drawn to and awed by the "authentic culture" of unbridled rock music, in a way that recalls the rather prim Orwell’s fascination with Henry Miller.
		Havel, who intuitively grasped the symbolism of the case, was in the courtroom every day to witness and document the judicial farce.
		Havel is a short and rumpled man, even in a sharp presidential suit.
	www.reason.com /0305/fe.mw.velvet.shtml (3548 words)

	Artful Dodge - Original Interviews - Vaclav Havel
		Havel's first published text was a letter to the editor of the new literary magazine Kveten, challenging the magazine's claim that it really had jettisoned the strictures of socialist realism.
		Raised in an educated, upper-middle class family, Havel as a child was steeped in the democratic traditions of the first Czechoslovak Republic, founded at the end of the World War I. Unfortunately, due to his "bourgeois" background, Havel's attempts to enter the university were repeatedly thwarted by the communist regime.
		Havel: When I meet with such famous rock stars, our conversation touches on all sorts of subjects, and in general we talk less about music than we do politics, because their opinion on various events interests me. Of course I belong to a generation upon whom rock and roll exerted a tremendous influence.
	www.wooster.edu /artfuldodge/interviews/havel.htm (3164 words)

	havel.html
		Vacláv Havel was elected president of the new republic of Czechoslovakia.
		Havel's contributions to the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia were extremely important because they broke communism's total control over Eastern Europe and lead to the eventual collapse of the USSR.
		Later, in 1992, Havel was forced to step down as president of Czechoslovakia as a result of tensions between the nation's two major ethic groups, the Czechs and the Slovaks.
	nhs.needham.k12.ma.us /cur/Baker_00/baker_modern/baker_bm_mf_p1/havel.htm (777 words)

	Václav Havel
		Havel had joined Group 42, and after challenging the older generation of writers in their magazine Kveten (May), he was for the first time noticed as a writer.
		Havel was a cofounder of the human rights organization Charter 77 and the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted (VONS).
		Havel's mission in his office was to restore a healthy democracy in his country.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /vhavel.htm (1656 words)

	Interpreting Václav Havel, by Walter H. Capps
		Havel moved in a distinctive direction, keeping faith with the intellectual tradition in which he had been raised and trained, while continuing to combine insights from Husserl and Heidegger, both of whom employed the language of being and felt constrained to come to terms with the transcendent.
		Havel's Stanford University discourse carried the title "The Spiritual Roots of Democracy" and was designed to delineate his understanding of the fundamental crisis in the modern world.
		Havel's May 15, 1996, address in Aachen, called "The Hope for Europe" (The New York Review, June 20, 1996),(28) stands as a provocative survey of Europe's influences, both destructive and constructive, on human civilization, and envisions the role that the countries of the region might exercise today.
	www.aril.org /capps.htm (4942 words)

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		Havel, a leading figure in the human rights group Charter 77, has spent five of the last 20 years in prison on political charges; his plays, banned in his country, are widely performed in the West.
		Havel's 1979-82 letters from prison to his wife, Olga; published in the United States in 1988 in a translation by Paul Wilson], you described the play you were working on.
		Havel: It's difficult to answer briefly, but in general, there are some interesting theaters and some interesting productions, but all of them are on the periphery of the official culture, not in the center of it.
	pirate.shu.edu /~deyrupma/havel.html (1970 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Havel surely has detractors: the "lost generation" of pensioners and workers who could not cope with the dizzying cultural changes and the rising cost of living; leftists who still resent the collapse of Communist ideology; right-wingers who find his economic thinking fuzzy and his speeches naïve and too philosophical.
		Havel was sui generis to the end: he did not form a lasting party or movement; he had admirers, he had aides, but he has no real inheritor.
		Havel was a playwright and essayist who wrote as if censorship did not exist; when he became a politician, he behaved as if his country, small as it is, were indispensable to the reordering of Europe.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content?030217fa_fact1 (5397 words)

	HTML PAPER 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Havel felt that the reformers had turned a blind eye to the effects their actions could have on Czechoslovakia's relations with the Soviet Union: "Captives of their own illusions, they continually kidded themselves that they could somehow explain all this in private to the Soviets, that the Soviets could be mollified with promises.
		Havel defined his role in the affair as a leader of the opposition, and proceeded to make use of his contacts and authorial prowess to conjure up interest in the affair and stimulate action in support of the accused.
		Havel mentions that signing the Charter was not easy for everyone many had to overcome their ancient inner aversions (in favor of Communism) but everyone was able to do it, because they all felt that no matter how the Charter turned out, it would be impossible to wipe it out of the national memory.
	www.is.rhodes.edu /modus/97/2.html (7532 words)

	Havel era ends in Czech Republic \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Havel was thrust into the center of a revolution led by artists and actors.
		Havel had no political or diplomatic training and, as a result, the first years of his presidency were marked by a charming unorthodoxy.
		Havel resigned the presidency of Czechoslovakia to protest the country's breakup, which was orchestrated by Czech and Slovak nationalist politicians in 1992.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0131/p06s01-woeu.html (1121 words)

	VACLAV HAVEL - Radio Prague
		Havel was one of the strongest supporters of NATO membership and alliance leaders hinted that his international moral authority was one of the factors in deciding to admit the Czech Republic.
		Havel was active in the discussion that led to the writing of the manifesto "Ten Points" in July and August 1969.
		Havel was there, and although he was no master of public speaking, it was soon clear that he was able to unite the diverse forces that had come together to call for change.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/36022 (4438 words)

	Central Europe Review - Pricking Havel's Bottom
		It seems that Havel spoke the truth when he was a dissident, but the moment he became President, he became economical with the truth.
		In December 1991, you say, Vaclav Havel privately told Jan Kavan in the company of some of his dissident colleagues and friends that he knew or was convinced that Kavan never worked for the secret police, but that he could not say this publicly and that he actually forbade Kavan from mentioning this to journalists.
		The self-distancing of Vaclav Havel is the quality of the current presidency, though you could be forgiven for thinking that - particularly in the treatment of the last few years - the direct voice of Vaclav Havel seems to fade away.
	www.ce-review.org /99/15/culik15.html (2887 words)

	havel-iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Havel's final one to Washington before his scheduled retirement in January.
		Havel's last official acts will be to preside over a NATO summit in the Czech capital in November that is expected to sharply change the alliance.
		Havel said NATO enlargement is critical to stabilizing Eastern Europe and would lay to rest an ugly chapter of European history.
	www.meaus.com /havel-iraq.htm (529 words)

	Havel, Vaclav. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The most original Czech dramatist to emerge in the 1960s, Havel soon antagonized the political power structure by focusing on the senselessness and absurdity of mechanized, totalitarian society in plays that implicitly criticized the government such as The Garden Party (1963, tr.
		As a leading spokesman for the dissident group Charter 77, he was imprisoned (1979–83) by the Czechoslovak Communist regime, and his plays were banned.
		Havel was the principal spokesman for the Civic Forum, an opposition group, when it succeeded in forcing (1989) the Communist party to share power, and he became interim president of Czechoslovakia.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ha/Havel-Va.html (300 words)

	The Prague Post Online
		Havel is the holder of dozens of international peace and human rights prizes and honorary degrees from universities worldwide.
		Havel's public criticism of the post-World War II deportation of 2.5 million ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia's border regions in retaliation for their support of Hitler's invasion angered many Czechs.
		Havel is widely admired not only for his strong moral stands but also for his fairness and strong sense of humor -- and even a tendency toward self-mockery.
	www.praguepost.com /P03/2003/Art/0129/news1.php (1467 words)

	Texas Monthly September 2000: Art • Joseph Havel
		To use a sports metaphor, it was as if the 46-year-old Havel had been named to his first all-star team and had his number retired in the same week.But the public exposure shouldn't obscure an equally remarkable behind-the-Curtain success story.
		Hanging from wires in Havel's studio, the curtains are saturated with wax and shaped into the kind of voluptuous folds and whorls that animate the drapery in so much Renaissance and Baroque art; the wax-stiffened draperies are then cut into fragments to make complicated sets of silica bronze-casting molds.
		Havel cut the number of residents but gave each a respectable studio and stipend, and he doesn't drop in for grad-school-type "studio visits." More recently he has brought in rising young curators and critics, with the expectation that they'll spread the word that Texas is a place where important art gets done.
	www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/2000-09-01/feature14.php (1292 words)

	Encyclopedia: VÃ¡clav Havel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vaclav Havel, from an official government site File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
		Vaclav Havel left office after his second term as Czech president ended on February 2, 2003; Václav Klaus, one of his greatest political opponents, was elected his successor on February 28, 2003.
		Havel, his memories and the world (http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/10/21/news/havel.html)- International Herald Tribune (21 October 2004)
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/V%e1clav-Havel (1445 words)

	Online NewsHour: Conversation with President Vaclav Havel -- May 16, 1997
		This week, as Havel arrived in the U.S. for a private visit, President Clinton announced that NATO and Russia had finally struck a deal to address Russia's concerns over NATO expansion.
		Havel is a renowned playwright who's been fighting for a free and independent Czech land for decades.
		And on December 29, 1989, Vaclav Havel was elected President.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/europe/jan-june97/havel_5-16a.html (650 words)

	Havel on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the Soviet blockade of Berlin (1948) the Havel was used as a runway for amphibian aircraft.
		Vaclav Havel le 9 septembre Physiquement lui aussi diminué, Vaclav Havel, 67 ans, personnage aux multiples facettes, pourr.
		Vaclav Havel le 1e janvier à Prague La dernière journée présidentielle de Vaclav Havel a été consacrée dimanche à diverses.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Havel.asp (773 words)

	Václav Havel
		Husak resigned two days later, and after a stirring speech by Havel at another mass demonstration on Wenceslas Square, Havel was the clear choice as leader of their new government, without even declaring the intention to run.
		Havel had long been a fan of Zappa's music and even credited his music as part of the inspiration for the anti-communist revolution.
		Whenever I feel like escaping from the world of the Presidency, I think of him." -Václav Havel, playwright and President, Czechoslovakia From the webpage at: http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2000-01-19/riffraff.html On May 15, 1997, out-there experimental saxophonist John Zorn was in the middle of a set at New York City jazz spot the Knitting Factory when he abruptly stopped.
	globalia.net /donlope/fz/videography/Vaclav_Havel.html (843 words)

	The Prague Post Online
		Havel publicly announced the project the next day during a wide-ranging interview with Czech journalists, his first such meeting since leaving office in February 2003.
		Havel will also likely talk up the project during an upcoming three-month sojourn to the States, but Hladik said he will not have a day-to-day role in creating or running the center.
		Havel told reporters he would like to visit some presidential libraries during the U.S. trip for inspiration, but Hladik said that would depend on the 67-year-old ex-president's physical condition.
	www.praguepost.com /P03/2004/Art/0226/news5.php (1109 words)

	Havel Scissors
		Havel double curved scissors for machine or hand embroidery projects.
		Havel's seam ripper for serged or regular seams.
		The scissors are curved like the Havel machine embroidery scissors to reach down into a hoop to clip without removing the hoop from your machine.
	www.discountembroiderysupp.com /en-us/dept_119.html (194 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Disturbing the Peace : A Conversation with Karel Huizdala (Vintage) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Havel discusses his transformation from absurdist playwright to activist to president of Czechoslovakia in interviews conducted during 1985 and 1986 by exiled journalist Hvizdala.
		Havel reaches his own conclusions founded in Czech literature and his own experience, with respect to the urgency of restoring the kinship and human connections that used to drive politics, economics, and other aspects of organized living.
		It was published as Havel's responses to a series of written interview questions smuggled to him while he was under watch in the 80s.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679734023?v=glance (2156 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Open Letters : Selected Writings, 1965-1990 (Vintage) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although some of the pieces were already published in Vaclav Havel, or Living in Truth (LJ 8/87), such as the influential essays on the nature of totalitarianism ("Power of the Powerless") and on the global crises of human responsibility ("Politics and Conscience"), this is an important book that belongs in both academic and public libraries.
		Vaclav Havel has been called "the greatest moral thinker of our time" and "a sort of EuroGhandi." While most noted as a playwright, Havel's most important works have been of prose; essays such as "Power of the Powerless" and his "Open Letter to Gustav Husak" allowed his nation to retain hope under brutal conditions.
		The most impressive of Havel's essays would have to be "Power of the Powerless" which was written in only a few days during the mid-1970's at the urging of a Polish dissident.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679738118?v=glance (946 words)

	Social Research: The Politics of Hope and Optimism: Rorty, Havel, and the Democratic Faith of John Dewey - .Vaclav ...
		Rorty also lauds the thought of Vaclav Havel for similar reasons: Havel's writings appear to offer a similar condemnation of certainty as that offered by Dewey, and also holds the appeal of "substituting groundless hope for theoretical insight" ("The End of Leninism"; 1998, 236).
		Given this feature of Havel's thought, Rorty's re-titling of his 1998 essay in order to highlight Havel is, in fact, quite surprising.
		Rorty is attracted to Havel's use of the word "hope," and designates this form of "groundless hope" as the only form of positive aspiration that should be available to the post-Marxist Left.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2267/is_2_66/ai_55806413 (635 words)

	>Online NewsHour: Conversation with President Vaclav Havel -- May 16, 1997
		A background report on Vaclav Havel's past and rise to power.
		PRESIDENT VACLAV HAVEL: (speaking through interpreter) Yes, I believe that nobody can perceive the kind of agreement between the alliance and Russia as some sort of negotiation about us, without us, like some great powers, dividing spheres of influence between themselves, or deciding the fate of smaller nations.
		PRESIDENT VACLAV HAVEL: (speaking through interpreter) In my view the Czech Republic of today is basically moving in the direction which most of our people wanted it to go in those days when we rose against Communism, that means we are building democratic institutions, so we have freedom of expression.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/europe/jan-june97/havel_5-16.html (1285 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Havel eyes return to literature
		Former Czech President Vaclav Havel could be about to resume his literary career, an aide has said.
		Mr Havel is preparing to take a two month break in Washington to study at the US Library of Congress.
		Mr Havel has published dozens of plays, books and political essays since the 1960s, but put his career on hold to serve as president.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/4384663.stm (189 words)

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