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Philosopher-king steps down after 13 years By GEORGE JAHN Date: 02-09-2003, Sunday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday Biographical: VACLAV HAVEL

A GIANT HEART IN PINK neon still shines from Prague's castle, put there by the man who led his nation out of communist bondage and never quite shed the flower child in him. But as Vaclav Havel steps down today after 13 years as president the Czech Republic, his last hurrah looks likely to be a muted one.

Nobody more than this playwright-turned-president symbolizes the breathtaking year of 1989, when the communist regimes of Eastern Europe came crashing down one by one, foreshadowing the demise of the ...

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