henry copeland: Talk about a telling anecdote. pllqt.it/ocduCk This one's for you @mattwelch. Havel needs a beer By the 1980s, before Gorbachev and glasnost, Havel sensed his growing authority. When the American Embassy in Prague gave parties, visiting writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Albee, and Philip Roth sought him out. When Havel ran out of beer at a gathering in his Prague apartment, the cop assigned to surveil him volunteered to go to a nearby pub to refill his jug. This was when he knew that power was flowing his way. - www.theatlantic.com central-europe communism havel beer Send