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There is a curious postcard on sale at the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art at Medzilaborce, in northeastern Slovakia. It shows the American Pop artist pushing his bike down the town's slushy main street. With his trademark silver-white hair, Warhol looks slightly out of place amid the communist-era low-rises lining the street...
...CHARGED. IVAN LEXA, 41, former Slovak secret police chief, with armed robbery, fraud, kidnapping and corruption; in Bratislava. Lexa, who fled Slovakia in 2000, was detained at a South African beach resort near the port city of Durban as an illegal alien. He was deported to Bratislava where he was arrested...
...lost in the first round. It was the 10th first-round defeat this year for Kournikova, who found yet another loss so galling that when a BBC interviewer suggested that her confidence must be low she threw a tantrum. Kournikova even lost out in the pin-up stakes to Slovakia's statuesque Daniela Hantuchova, recently voted the world's sexiest player in a poll of fans. In 1913 Wimbledon was accorded the title World's Championships on Grass. Though it is the only major championship still played on grass, the tournament remains the one that every player wants...
...home - among non-Roma - has been tepid at best. Indeed, it has been a difficult time for the Roma across Eastern and Central Europe. The end of generous state subsidies for this music eliminated a key source of support, and discrimination is still depressingly common from Romania to Slovakia, where Roma children are routinely sent to schools for the mentally handicapped. During the Bosnian and Kosovo wars, Roma were targeted by both sides. As a people they have suffered discrimination for centuries, and that suffering forms an important part of their music. More than a decade after...
...accession might help resolve the dispute. Once the Czech Republic and Slovakia join, all E.U. citizens - including former refugees in neighboring countries - will have the right to live in their former homelands. The emotional wounds may take longer to heal...