Tens of thousands of Czechs rallied in the streets of Prague April 21 to protest budget cuts, higher taxes and corruption -- the largest protest since the 1989 Velvet Revolution swept out communism.
Lubomir Kavalek | Posted 04.24.2012
The moniker "Mozart of Chess" occurred to me when I was looking for a subhead for Magnus's great game against Sipke Ernst in Wijk aan Zee in 2004.
AP | Posted 04.11.2012
PRAGUE -- Two artists have used wax from the thousands of candles that Czechs lit to mourn the death of President Vaclav Havel to create a large heart...
Lydia Fisher | Posted 03.05.2012
Too old-fashioned? Or, is there a take-away here? Well, let's take a look.
AP | Posted 03.05.2012
PRAGUE — The urn carrying Vaclav Havel's ashes has been buried at his family plot at a cemetery in the Czech capital of Prague. Havel was the d...
Uriel Abulof | Posted 03.04.2012
Vaclav Havel left an indelible imprint on the conscience of the entire world. His 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless, has lost none of its relevance, particularly in the wake of the stormy year that the Middle East experienced.
Parker J. Palmer | Posted 03.04.2012
The notion that social change can be sparked by an inner revolution is not only realistic. It also gives us a gift that conventional "realism" withholds -- a chance to do something that might make a difference.
Lee Bycel | Posted 02.29.2012
The loss was more than that of a past president, but of a man who had provided hope and moral leadership. A man who was so much more than a political leader; he was a philosopher, a dissident, a playwright and a man who stood by his convictions.
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Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 02.25.2012
Whether the protesters recognize it or not, their coming achievements will build on the decisive contributions of Russia's greatest living statesmen, Mikhail Gorbachev.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.24.2012
Last weekend Vaclav Havel died, just at the time when he was most read in Cuba. He left and we can't hear his voice in a classroom of our University, nor listen to his extensive collection of anecdotes about the years of Soviet control.
AP | KAREL JANICEK | Posted 02.22.2012
PRAGUE — Czechs and world leaders paid emotional tribute to Vaclav Havel on Friday at a pomp-filled funeral ceremony, ending a week of public gr...
AP | By VANESSA GERA | Posted 12.22.2011
WARSAW, Poland -- When Czech playwright Vaclav Havel was thrown in prison for his anti-communist writings, life for people across the East Bloc was sh...
Robert Teitelman | Posted 02.21.2012
John Kay has a characteristically graceful little column today in the Financial Times that opens up new vistas rather than slams doors shut. This is rare and worth an end-of-the-year comment or two.
Lubomir Kavalek | Posted 02.21.2012
Vaclav Havel became perhaps the only head of state who played -- and won -- an actual chess game during a ceremonial opening of a chess tournament.
Tereza Nemessanyi | Posted 02.21.2012
Most people who know me know my parents defected from Czechoslovakia, and that its Velvet Revolution changed my life. I went from being "from nowhere" to "from somewhere."
Todd Brewster | Posted 02.20.2012
With the news this past weekend that Vaclav Havel, the one-time Czech president, had died, I found myself recalling a scene back in 1989, when I was lucky enough to spend a week in Prague with the leader of what eventually became known as the "Velvet Revolution."
Andrew Nagorski | Posted 02.20.2012
Looking back at my encounters with Havel, I'm struck by three dominant character traits: his moral courage, his ability to recognize and live with the contradictions of human behavior, and his sense of the absurd.
Reuters | Posted 02.20.2012
(Adds details of procession, quotes) By Robert Mueller and Michael Kahn PRAGUE, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Vaclav Havel's actres...
Julian Baird Gewirtz | Posted 02.18.2012
In the days following the strange coincidence of December 18 -- the deaths of both Kim Jong Il, North Korea's totalitarian "Dear Leader," and Václav ...
John Feffer | Posted 02.18.2012
Kim Jong Il and Vaclav Havel were both in some sense reluctant politicians. Once in power, they managed to stabilize their respective countries during difficult times. But they failed in their efforts at more dramatic transformation.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 02.18.2012
Today we're told that the Occupy movement is too idealistic, too naïve. Naïve? Try Havel's words if you want naïve: "May truth and love triumph over lies and hatred."
Lucas Kavner | Posted 02.18.2012
This past week we lost a writer and a major intellectual, and we lost a brutal, confounding dictator. We also lost a playwright, a rebel, a rockstar, a chain-smoker, a renowned artist, a non-profit leader, and one of the most beloved presidents in history.
Barry D. Wood | Posted 02.17.2012
What a thinker, the man who declared "truth and love will always triumph over the lie and hatred." We're unlikely to see the likes of him again.
AP | KAREL JANICEK | Posted 02.17.2012
PRAGUE — Thousands of Czechs paid tribute to Vaclav Havel on Sunday, braving cold and snow at the spot where the leader of the peaceful anti-com...
Ben Barber | Posted 04.23.2012