Under the headline "America discovers Bohemia again" the story points out that last year 340,000 Americans visited and this year 100,000 more are expected. For a country like the Czech Republic to become the host of such an event takes many years of lobbying among travel agencies.

So will the Czech Republic experience a flood of Americans as in the beginning of the '90s? Maybe. Back then, Prague was called the "Paris of the East," inspired by romantic descriptions of its bohemian capital. And one of the biggest American expat communities in the world was established in Prague.

On the other hand, Prague has lost a bit of that image, in some cases because of corruption and overpriced services. Travel agent Brenda Anderson from Houston had a negative experience with taxi drivers. Others think that Czechs should be better trained in the tourism industry and should also speak foreign languages better.

Still, things are looking up overall. In recent years the fear of terrorism has discouraged Americans from traveling. Travel agents are now exhorting them to feel safe in the Czech Republic.

A certain Mrs. A.J. from the United States suffers from a newly discovered condition called hyperthymesia. She can recall even the most trivial details of everything that happened over the past 25 years. We can only feel sorry that this woman had no part in the fall of Investiční a Pošťovní banka, writes Pavel Verner in Právo March 27.

With her help we would learn all the details, while without it we know very little.

On the other hand, perhaps we know so much that it makes us dizzy. It's not really that all those involved in the IPB fall have lost their memory. The problem is that everyone recalls a different story.

Czech taxpayers are eagerly awaiting the verdict of the international court. Will it find that the Nomura investment bank must pull tens of billions of crowns out of its pockets, or that Nomura will have to pay just as much to the Czech Republic, or that no one must pay anything?

That's the main concern of the taxpayer. The Czech voter is breathless. The Nomura ghost has risen from the grave and turned into a weapon used by both major political parties, the Social Democrats (ČSSD) and Civic Democrats (ODS), to beat political opponents in an attempt to blame them for the affair.

The choice was fairly wide on public television's Sunday political debate. The audience could chose who is the main culprit: the Central bank, the ODS government of Václav Klaus or the ČSSD government of Miloš Zeman.

The problem is, instead of a clear analysis of the situation, the channel once again offered a quarrel filled with personal attacks. One wonders whether it makes any sense to take on such complicated issues in these "debates." I couldn't care less which of the politicians left the studio looking more dirty. I expected some reliable information and got nothing of the kind, Verner writes.