4 September 2000 Czech journalists call the dog days of summer "cucumber season," since everyone is off working in their cottage gardens, making it a struggle to fill newspapers and the nightly news. But that explanation only goes so far in explaining how a petty party scandal has come to dominate headlines into early fall. […]

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