Archive of articles - March 2005, page 3

A worthy Baby

CLINT Eastwood has long been linked with cinematic violence. He has certainly made different types of movies - the twilight romance of The Bridges of Madison County and the Burt Reynolds-aping action comedy of Every Which Way But Loose - but many of us will always think of him as the punk-killing cop of Dirty Harry and the silent, stone-faced vigilante of Sergio Leone's westerns.

Judge: Special Court needed

JÁN Hrubala's luck finally seems to have changed. After losing a vote in parliament to the post of ombudsman in 2002, he was rejected for the post of Special Court judge by the Judicial Council in 2004

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No Slovak victims of Indonesian quake

Roma projects' fund proposed

Lisbon: Slovakia gets mixed results

Consortium to advise on airport privatization

Drink 10x problem of soft drugs

Slovak's hardest lesson

THE MORE Slovak I learn, the worse I feel. At least, that is how it seems on a tough day. Such was the case a few nights ago when, my mind heavy with a drink or two and a deluge of half-understood conversation with Slovak friends, I found myself on the street, shouting to them "nerozumiem všetko, a nikdy nebudem rozumiet všetko!" - "I don't understand everything and I'll never understand everything!" - to which one friend replied "No, konečne!" - "Finally!"

Thousands of ex-pat Slovaks receive pension

Slovakia holds mighty Portugal

Hronský Beňadik

FOR more than a 1000 years, the Benedictine monastery in Hronský Beňadik has stood where the river Hron leaves the mountains. The massive monastery complex earned its money from its huge estates, as well as from tolls from rafts travelling down the Hron.

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Smer leading polls

Juveniles drinking more

Look, but please don't touch

EVEN though it may sound strange, Bratislava's notorious "concrete jungle" - Petržalka - is home to some virtually untouched national treasures. One of them - Starý Háj - is situated just behind the Communist-era paneláky apartment blocks.

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