Prague is full of statues. Old ones and new ones and medium ones. In the 50s, Prague was home to the largest statue of Stalin ever built. Now, in place of the statue, is a giant pendulum. I have not yet discovered what the meaning of the pendulum is.
Today Jiři Pehe, the director of NYU in Prague and the advisor to Václav Havel when he was PM, gave us a talk on the history of the Czech Republic and its various other forms in the past
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Tomorrow I'm leaving for Praha (czech for Prague)! I'll be there for a number of months. Obviously the entire semester, and then maybe plus some
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