Archive of articles - January 2004, page 5

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Dzurinda's options

PRIME Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda is in a rather knotty situation after his former ally, Ivan Šimko, announced he will only support the ruling coalition if Dzurinda leaves his seat.There are numerous courses of development the current situation might take.Option one - give Šimko what he wants and leave office.Dzurinda currently heads the largest ruling party, the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ), which has the right to nominate its representative to the top governmental seat.

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Government hobbled

FOLLOWING weeks of uncertainty, former Defence Minister Ivan Šimko has decided his newly founded Free Forum (SF) party will not enter the ruling coalition as long as PM Mikuláš Dzurinda stays in office. As a result, the current coalition has definitely lost its parliamentary majority."We can only support a cabinet which is not headed by Mikuláš Dzurinda," said Šimko, who is now a member of parliament, on behalf of the SF at a press conference on January 14.

Slovak Beatles head to New York

AFTER last year's summer tour, Slovak band The Backwards, who play cover songs of The Beatles, are taking off for the United States again. At the end of January they will perform at a party organised for Czech and Slovak expatriates in New York City.

Not as fresh as the fish

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In (faint) praise of love

DURING the first half of Jane Campion's latest film, In the Cut, a character jokingly uses the cliché "If loving you is wrong, then I don't want to be right." Said drunkenly by one very heterosexual male cop to another, it is not meant to be taken seriously. Yet, the film, a story about the intense sexual relationship that develops between Frannie, a lonely female English teacher (Meg Ryan), and Malloy, a male homicide detective (Mark Ruffalo) who questions her while investigating a brutal murder, is meant to be taken very seriously.

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Kopčák's bass returns to Philharmonic after 15 years

ONE of the leading bass singers in contemporary opera, Slovak Sergej Kopčák was the highlight of the January 16 concert at the Slovak Philharmonic (SF). It was the first time in 15 years that the long-time guest soloist of the Metropolitan Opera in New York had been on the Philharmonic's stage."I have done quite a lot over the last 15 years. I have worked with top conductors and directors around the world. And I am satisfied," Kopčák said.