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...evening not long ago I was sitting in an outdoor restaurant by the water. My chair was almost identical to the chairs they have in restaurants by the Vlatva River in Prague. They were playing the same rock music they play in most Czech restaurants. I saw advertisements I'm familiar with back home. Above all, I was surrounded by young people who were similarly dressed, who drank familiar-looking drinks, and who behaved as casually as their contemporaries in Prague. Only their complexion and their facial features were different--for I was in Singapore...
...years ago to dispense with formality and send him their thoughts via E-mail. Then he instituted a dress-down policy and had IBM take out 50,000 subscriptions to Wired magazine, the chronicler of online culture. This year he paid for irreverent TV spots, including one showing one Czech nun telling another that IBM's OS/2 Warp software "sounds pretty...
Once the degrees have been granted, Rudenstine and Czech President Vaclav Havel Will deliver addressesat the afternoon ceremony which starts at 2:15p.m...
...University will confer honorary degrees today on 10 people, including Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, Who will deliver the Commencement address, architect I.M. Pei, Painter Jacob Lawrence and former University Chicago President Hanna H. Gray...
...renowned dissident who became president ofthe Czech Republic in 1989, Havel's writingshelped spark the democratic uprisings thatproduced Communism's collapse in Czechoslavakia...