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5 Oct 2021, 8:21 am
Professor of Law & Director of Clinical Legal Education, UC Davis School of Law--Robert Cover as Critical Race Theorist Mark Graber, University System of Maryland Regents Professor, University of Maryland Carey School of Law & Sandford V. [read post]
5 Aug 2017, 11:30 am
When I was covering the East European Revolutions of 1989 for The Independent, I read a wonderful essay about the power of the powerless by Václav Havel, the Czech dissident-turned-president. [read post]
11 Feb 2017, 10:52 am
Imprisonment preceded national office for leaders ranging from Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah and Cuba’s Fidel Castro in anticolonial struggles to Czechoslovakia’s Václav Havel and South Korea’s Kim Dae Jung in the post-Cold War era [‘Mandela actually saw Algeria’s first president, Ahmed Ben Balla, welcomed back from prison after he was released and before he became independent Algeria’s first premier. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 7:12 am
VONS is the Czech acronym for Výbor na obranu nespravedlivě stíhaných (Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Persecuted): “The committee was founded on April 27, 1978, by a group of Charter 77 signatories [among whom were Václav Havel and Jan Patočka, the latter having died of a stroke ‘after a long and intense interrogation by the secret police’ before the committee was formed] with the aim of following… [read post]
28 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm
Johnson and United States v. [read post]
17 Jun 2015, 8:05 am
Senator and Irish peace negotiator 1997 CNN International 1996 King Hussein I of Jordan and former Prime Minister of IsraelShimon Peres 1995 Sadako Ogata, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1994 Václav Havel, President of the Czech Republic 1993 F.W. de Klerk, President of South Africa* and Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress* 1992 Thurgood Marshall, U.S. [read post]
20 Aug 2012, 9:35 am
I think about someone like Tomaz Stanko living in communist Poland, for whom the sound of freedom was American jazz, or how Václav Havel heard the same thing in the music of the Velvet Underground. [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 3:47 am
The latest, Havel v. [read post]
19 Feb 2012, 6:01 am
It sounds harsh, but maybe people in the middle class need to decide to take a pay cut. [read post]
18 Feb 2012, 9:04 pm
It sounds harsh, but maybe people in the middle class need to decide to take a pay cut. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 12:01 am
Paul Wilson, translator of several of Václav Havel’s works, including his celebrated Letters to Olga (1983/1988), and one-time member of the underground band, The Plastic People of the Universe, has an eloquent and moving remembrance in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books: [….] [read post]
17 Dec 2011, 9:00 pm
I first met Bishop Gumbleton (read his homilies here) over the phone in arranging for him to be a defense witness in the 2000 Plowshares v. [read post]
17 Jun 2008, 11:00 am
Václav Havel (b. 1936), Czechoslovakian playwright, president. [read post]
