| This is when Vaclav Havel came to speak to Congress just after the fall of the Soviet Union. |
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| Anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis knows I'm a big fan of the Bohemian philosopher king, Vaclav Havel. |
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| Havel was allowed by czechoslovakian prison authorities to write one heavily censored letter a week to his wife, Olga. |
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| The Studios were originally built in 1931 by Havel brothers, family members of the former president of the Czech Republic Václav Havel. |
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| As a prominent dissenter against Soviet control of his homeland, Havel used the theater as a platform to attack totalitarian regimes. |
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| Havel was a hero who shrugged off the title, understandably uncomfortable with the assumptions of stony perfection. |
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| After Germany reunited, Václav Havel, the Czech president, called for Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary to enter Nato. |
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| Later that year, Havel was to rise to power as the leader of Velvet Revolution that toppled Czechoslovakia's communist regime. |
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| They are gazing on with some measure of admiration as Havel speaks, wearing a parka, on the way from prison to the palace. |
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| Both party leaders regard Mr Havel as a moralising and interfering old fogey. |
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| In Prague, it was the opposition movement Civic Forum led by author and dramatist Vaclav Havel that spearheaded the Velvet Revolution. |
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| Vaclav Havel, who had led the negotiations with the communist government, became president. |
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| In late December, Vaclav Havel is elected President of Czechoslovakia by the Parliament. |
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| But given the partisanship and intense provincialism of the Czech Republic, any president who bucks the system and is as cosmopolitan as Havel would face difficulties. |
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| Husák resigned in December 1989, and Havel was chosen to succeed him as Czechoslovakia's first noncommunist president in more than 40 years. |
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| Instead, he is a prolific editorialist and meets with local politicians, as well as the likes of Václav Havel. |
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| Even on that festive occasion, Havel did not mince words about the negative aspects of the new Czech capitalism. |
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| If Kim Jong-il was dictatorial, sociopathic, and inhumane, Vaclav Havel was a freedom-loving, warm-hearted humanist. |
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| As president, Havel led his country's transition to multiparty democracy, and he remains a deeply admired figure internationally. |
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| Mr. Dewar pointed out that this is not an easy thing to do, as Havel found out in his own country. |
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| Vaclav Havel said in this Chamber, and Commissioner Barnier quoted him recently, that he wanted to see a European constitution which could be handed out to, and understood by, every eleven year-old in Europe. |
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| Havel was the first to reject this division. |
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| Former president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel and Nobel Peace Price Laureate the Dalai Lama were among those who supported the nomination of Liu Xiaobo for the 2010 award. |
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| It is interesting that Havel is a poet, Mr. Dewar noted, because poets are known for putting into succinct words ideas that people did not know they had until they read them. |
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| As noted by the Honourable Vaclav Havel and Bishop Desmond Tutu, the time has come for the SPDC to be held accountable and be presented with binding obligations to achieve national reconciliation. |
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| We noted that these specific issues were also raised in the report by Mr. Havel and Archbishop Tutu, and our own analysis of these issues is similar to those reflected in the report. |
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| Vaclav Havel made the same observation a decade earlier in Czechoslovakia. |
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| One other factor was added: the election on 29 December to the Presidency of the free Czechoslovakia of the writer and resistance fighter Václav Havel. |
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| If the Czechoslovaks didn't want him, they would make him king of Poland, to be crowned at the Wawel castle in Cracow. Havel confounded those who thought he was too dilettantish to be a proper president. |
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| I suspect that even President Havel would have second thoughts about that statement now that the one effect of Kosovo has been that a very large part of Serbia has in effect been handed over to the Albanians in Kosovo. |
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| For Havel, the insidiousness of ideology resides in its playing with a person's desire to be rooted, to be given answers, to return from existential exile. |
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| A lustration law passed in 1991 in the then-Czechoslovakia was more sweeping than similar laws elsewhere, and was opposed by Václav Havel, the then president, and the Council of Europe at the time. |
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| In 1988, the Berlin Wall was still standing, and Mr Vaclav Havel was still a political prisoner in the country of which he was to become President. |
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| Branching off from the Havel near Liebenwalde and flowing into the Oder at Niederfinow, the canal was 38.6 km long and equipped with 11 chamber locks. |
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| Czechs were also signing condolence books to pay tribute to Havel in Prague and many other places all across the country, as well as in the Slovak capital of Bratislava. |
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| Mr Schwarzenberg, gently browning the breadcrumbs for his asparagus, is an exception: a former chief of staff to Mr Havel, and then foreign minister. He is an exception in another way too. |
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| When Havel wanted to take him as a guest-performer to Bill Clinton's White House at the height of the Monica Lewinski scandal, aides paled at the prospect. |
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| Who is left to prize the fevered delusions of Sartre and Pound, the selective political blindnesses of Aragon and Shaw, when there is the clear-eyed example of Havel? |
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| And in a speech in Strasbourg in 1990, Vaclav Havel saw the 12 stars also as a sign that every now and then one has to have the courage to reach for the stars in order to make the world better. |
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| The Soviet system Havel protested against as absurd was something Hitchens was inclined to romanticise from the safe distance of his perch at the Nation. |
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| Havel posed for snapshots, accepted advice and best wishes — sometimes with pleasure, sometimes with a grimace usually reserved for a periodontist. |
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| The death of Vaclav Havel this month inspired eulogies around the world to his moral courage. |
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| After 1989, when Havel became the first president of the Czech Republic, his art took a back seat to his public position, but that doesn't mean he absented himself from the arts. |
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| Those people included a unique person the late Vaclav Havel, a playwright and dissident born under a communist dictatorship who went on to be President of a free Czechoslovakia. |
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| This issue contains reflections by prominent thinkers such as Desmond Tutu, Paul Ricoeur, Wole Soyinka and Vaclav Havel, as well as the complete text of the Declaration of Principles on Tolerance. |
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| It is an awesome, positive answer to the challenge laid down in this very forum just under a decade ago by Václav Havel, whom I had the great pleasure of welcoming to Dublin last week. |
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| Havel came in early on Sunday afternoon, to avoid detention. |
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| Woods' thesis is that Havel was censored in the English-speaking world because the response to his plays in Blackwell's translations was less than enthusiastic. |
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| In 1989, everything changed for Vaclav Havel and his country. |
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| The TriVista team congratulates Havel for earning this honorable award. |
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| And he is lionized in bien-pensant circles in Western Europe and North America, almost as a secular saint in the mold of a Vaclav Havel or a Desmond Tutu. |
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| Mourners arrived at Prague Castle to mourn the loss of the shy but iron-willed Havel, endowed with a playful sense of humor and a powerful moral compass. |
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| Each paid homage to the late Vaclav Havel, a hero of the 1989 Velvet Revolution that toppled totalitarian Communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia. |
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| It is important to recall that Havel was a major player in the struggle to end communism in Eastern Europe and that the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia was peaceful. |
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