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| Vaclav Havel dead |
| 2011-12-18 |
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| Posted by:Frozen Al |
| #6 Clearly the stress from the "gutsy decider's™" vacation was too much. I credit Oblahblah |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-12-18 22:37 |
| #5 TOPIX > NORTH KOREA SAYS ITS LEADER KIM JONG-IL HAS DIED, at age 69 from complications of heart disease + diabetes according to a "special broadcast" announced ala State TV. STORY/ARTIC appears to be breaking as it was not mentioned in the MSM-Net [e.g. CNN, Fox] this Guam AM. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-12-18 22:29 |
| #4 Well, they say deaths come in threes. Christopher Hitchens, Vaclav Havel, and .... Kim Jong-Il. I wonder how Aric Bardwin and Hans Brix are taking that last one. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2011-12-18 22:16 |
| #3 It would be a great gesture if the Plastic People of the Universe and the Velvet Underground were to do a concert together in his honor. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2011-12-18 15:34 |
| #2 I shed a few tears when I heard he had died. A great man. The world is diminished with his passing. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-12-18 12:49 |
| #1 This is sad. Havel did two things that should long be remembered. The first is highly unusual for a leader, to recognize that the Czechs and Slovaks desired different futures, and agree to divide Czechoslovakia without violence or acrimony. It makes you wonder about Abraham Lincoln. But it still is a huge victory for the idea of peace without violence, and self-determination over ego. And neither the Czech nor Slovak people curse him for it. The other think Havel did was to objectively look at the ruination and pollution the Soviets had inflicted on his once beautiful and forested nation, and ask, "How can we economically recover?" His solution was to make the Czech nation a center of entertainment and media production, followed by repair and redevelopment and tourism. It worked. Despite problems from their links with Europe, internally their economy has grown tremendously, and their long term plan is economic sustainability. Havel, for whatever faults, will long be remembered as a poet and playwright who led his nation from darkness back into the light. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-12-18 11:08 |