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VACLAV HAVEL: 1936-2011 -- There are some men who have the courage, intellect and moral fiber to stand in the face of state-sponsored oppression of the kind once practiced by the Soviet Union and still administered by communism’s progeny in North Korea and elsewhere. Vaclav Havel was one such human being. The dissident playwright who brought down communism in Czechoslovakia died on Dec. 18 at the age of 75.