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What did troops from other nations do in the war? For the most part, their jobs were supportive. Yet it seems certain that some of them will return home feeling that they had upheld national honor. A 225-strong Czechoslovak team of medical and chemical-warfare specialists flew their colors with special pride. Its members resisted outside help to the point of refusing desert-camouflage fatigues, resting content with green winter uniforms and caps complete with earflaps. Asian Muslims -- including 11,000 Pakistanis, 2,000 Bangladeshis and about 310 Afghan mujahedin guerrillas -- were assigned to guard Islam's shrines...
...left Czechoslovakia for Canada after Soviet tanks put an end to the Prague Spring of 1968, displays a leisurely, literary sensibility, as if words on a page could still hold their own among sound bites and photo ops. Worst of all, the book's subject -- the lives of ordinary Czechoslovak citizens under the unpredictable pressures of Soviet occupation -- is already, given the torrential crush of current events, an outdated story. The tanks are long gone, and a playwright serves as the elected President of Czechoslovakia. Now what...
...jaundiced eye on the weird world of his birthright: a subjugated land where peasants bump elbows with intellectuals and the new dogma of communism has declared war on old Roman Catholic beliefs. Consigned in 1948 to teach the wisdom of Stalin at a vocational school in the rural Czechoslovak village of Hronov, Danny fights off a venereal disease contracted earlier and, rather unsuccessfully, the temptations of his female students. While he attends Mass with Vixi, one of the more importunate of his potential seducers, in the local church, a presumptive miracle occurs. Danny does not see it, but Vixi...
...unfortunate, therefore, that the Crimson reporter who interviewed me for the February 4 article ("E. Europeans Visit Med School") entirely missed the point of the project and misrepresented our motivations for inviting our Czechoslovak counterparts to this country. I was quoted as saying, "They basically said. 'We need help. We've been stagnant for 40 years.'" Our group of 15 second-year students at Harvard did not spend one year raising $10,000 to bring them here out of a sense of pity or beneficence, as that misquotation implies. We did it because they let us know that they were...
...reporterial inattention. Our guests were polite enough not to mention the insult. Your paper must. Nathanial Hupert '87-'88 Zoltan Arany '89 James Morris Andrea Cheville Mike Murphy Carey Farquhar Peter Nigrovic Melissa Gilliam Curtis Page Bill Grobman Sara Szal Matt Menard Caroline Tsen Jose Morales Jessica Wu Czechoslovak Project...