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Saturday, June 16, 2007

This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.

Bret Stephens: Bohemian Rhapsody - Vaclav Havel on cigarettes, and the continuing struggle between conscience and tyranny - '...Living in truth also underpins Mr. Havel's attitude toward the global campaign for human rights and democracy. "I think we can talk to every ruler but first of all it is necessary to tell the truth." Turning his attention to Russia's president--whom Mr. Havel rather gleefully calls Ras-Putin," picking up on a joke made earlier in the conference by an Iranian dissident--he says "with me, he gets more and more suspicious. We have to tell him plainly what we think of his behavior. [Former President Boris] Yeltsin was what he was, but he wasn't Rasputin."...'

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