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Last week 38/09

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Last week 38/09
Autor: Pavel Resienauer
Last week 38/09
Last week 38/09 Autor: Pavel Resienauer
Last week 38/09
Autor: Pavel Resienauer
Last week 38/09
Last week 38/09 Autor: Pavel Resienauer
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Austrian Emperor Franz Josef I returned to Velké Meziříčí after 100 years for a commemorative military field day. The Indian summer dissipated. Car manufacturer Škoda Auto announced big layoffs. Finance Minister Eduard Janota sent the budget for next year to the heads of all the political parties with a record deficit of 231 billion crowns; a deficit that came about thanks to the unwillingness of political parties to make budget cuts and that Janota has already denounced as a step towards state bankruptcy. Eight years passed since September 11, 2001. Mladá Boleslav's Festival evropských filmových úsměvů (Festival of European Film Smiles) began.
"This approach gives the impression that the constitution will continue to be valid, but next week it won't and we are using a different method only for next week," said Pavel Rychetský, head of the constitutional court, explaining why his institution annulled a recently ratified constitutional law which shortened the parliamentary period and which representatives hoped to use to achieve early elections. The town of Humpolec gave honorary citizenship to Ivan Martin Jirous. Burčak was tasted in Mikulov. Advertisers informed the public that car prices have never been lower. Parliament postponed the implementation of graduation exams for the year 2011. During a regional football match between Pchery and Knovíz, visiting defender Michal Ježek accidentally headed the ball into his own net then suffered a fatal cardiac arrest on the pitch. "The Czech economy could grow by half a percent next year," said Prime Minister Jan Fischer during his recent visit to Asia.
"I can imagine it is. Certainly the question is ‚what good is it?,‘ and it must be a detriment to the daily routine - even though in Sting's home there must be people who take care of the ironing, shopping and other trifles," said sexologist Hana Fifková in reply to Mladá fronta Dnes's Ona Dnes magazine's question, "The singer Sting, tantric sex practitioner, claims that sex with his wife lasts five hours. Is that even possible?" Detectives in Brno began searching for unknown perpetrators who, in 1945, shortly after the end of World War II, killed 15 Czech citizens of German origin with hoes and pickaxes in a meadow in Budínka u Dobronína. The Czech Republic resumed diplomatic relations with Liechtenstein. Macy Gray sang at the SaSaZu club in Holešovice. Prague's regional court initiated the process of deciding whether the crimes of the officials who, in the 1950s, carried out violent collectivization, seizing farmers' properties, are beyond the statute of limitations or not. Thousands of people from across the Czech Republic attended the traditional Communist Party (KSČM) meeting at Kunětická Hora.
"I was among those who hoped that this crisis might change people's inclination towards living in debt for the better, but it looks like nothing is happening. The crisis not being so long is perhaps a mistake," well-known economist Gabriel Eichler said in an interview for Hospodářské noviny. The high court of appeals in Prague decided that Prague's zoo can't use the Przewalski's Horse logo created for them by graphic artist Michal Cihlář. Prices of flats dropped radically, by around 30 percent. A hospital in Nové Město na Moravě stopped removing tonsils. The Dalai Lama and the apparent leader of rebelling Chinese Uyghurs, Rebiya Kadeer, visited the Czech Republic amid strong protests from the Chinese Embassy.
"No large commission goes through without emotion," Robert Doubek, head of the American Friends of the Czech Republic, commented on a fight at Prague's main train station (Hlavní nádraží), during which sculptor Michal Blažek knocked sculptor Oldřich Hejtmanek to the ground for criticizing the freshly installed maquette Blažek had prepared for a sculpture of US President Woodrow Wilson. The Czech national football team drew 2–2 with Slovakia and beat San Marino 7–0. Former President Václav Havel encouraged citizens to vote for the Green Party (SZ) in the upcoming elections. The number of people out of work here reached half a million. In an attempt to exhaust potential vandals the municipality of Bystřice nad Pernštejnem has, in three locations, installed "whacking dolls" - wooden logs with reliefs of human faces carved in them and baseball bats to beat them with. The apple harvest began. Experts announced that the price of electricity will fall by 6.5 percent next year. A research team from Charles University (Univerzita Karlova) discovered that five percent of men and over 80 percent of women cook regularly in Czech households. Maria Theresa visited municipal celebrations in Nový Jičín. The regions began to prepare for winter snow.

Translated by Matthew Blood-Smyth.


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