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Our ancestors certainly knew how to enjoy life: in 1610 Emperor Rudolf II
held an ice-skating ball on the Vltava river. What people make the best
angels? And -the man who played dead for six years in order to avoid
paying alimony. Find out more in this week's Magazine with Daniela
Lazarova.
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There is no doubt at all as to who is the hero of the day - and even
readers who have scant interest in sports will not be able to ignore the
big news:Sparta's stunning upset against Lazio Rome on Tuesday, a game in
which fans were kept on tenterhooks until the 93rd minute. Marek Kincl
managed to score in the dying seconds of the game and most papers carry
front pages photos of the star just moments after the goal which opened
the door to the next stage of the Champions League in the spring.
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Parliament's passing of next year's state budget including its record 115
billion crown deficit, as well as a street protest by students angry over
the under-financing of Czech universities - both make the front pages of
today's dailies. One of the headlines in reads "Relief for the
government - the budget has passed", while showing a photo of a
visibly pleased Prime Minister Vladmir Spidla.
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A vibrant mix of stories in today's Czech dailies, not least U.S. President
Bush's visit to Great Britain - PRAVO writes that London has been
transformed into a fortress. On the home front stories that dominate
include: a boom in consumer retail sales, a concert protesting the rising
popularity of the Communist Party, and the continuing fever for cell
phones on the Czech market. But we begin first with the sensational story
of a dinosaur bone find - the first ever - in the Czech Republic. As a
result just about every paper features a little dinosaur drawn on its
cover....
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Trade Unions have been stepping up their protests against fiscal reforms
planned by the government. Central Bank governor has encouraged the
cabinet to go ahead with the reforms. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance
said the Czech Republic will show the biggest fiscal deficit in its
history this year. The dominant Czech telephone operator, Czech Telecom,
will lay off 1,800 workers by the end of the year. The Czech foreign trade
balance fell into a higher than expected deficit in July. Every tenth
Czech household defaults on its loans.
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