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Sunday, February 02, 2003

Vaclav Havel: Part Saint and Part Sinner, an Extraordinary Character That Moved Us

It was a bitterly cold winter in November of 1989, but it felt like a Sydney’s summer of love in the Czech capital of Prague and the Slovak capital of Bratislava.
There will never be another Czechoslovak President, Philosopher King, like Vaclav Havel. No other leader will become teenage idol and write about the theatre of the absurd. And it is most unlikely that any Czech or Slovak presidents will design a document like the Charter 77.

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