Word: pavelic
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...journalist to feel the heat. Federal Protection Service (FSO) officers assaulted two newspaper journalists covering a Moscow protest earlier that day, claiming they had failed to show their press credentials. Why the heavy hand? "The regime is getting even with everyone they haven't got even with yet," argues Pavel Gutiontov, secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists. "With the elections left behind, the time to observe the niceties is over." - By Yuri Zarakhovich False Start TURKEY A State security court halted the trial of 69 suspected al-Qaeda members charged in connection with the suicide bomb attacks that killed...
Pupendo is not enjoyed; Pupendo hurts. All the same it's a great film. - PAVEL DOSTAL, Czech Culture Minister
...Pupendo is not enjoyed; Pupendo hurts," says Czech Culture Minister Pavel Dostál. "All the same it's a great film." Milos Forman, the émigré Czech film-maker and two-time Oscar winner, hails Hrebejk's ability to speak with "originality, imagination and humor about the dilemma of people trying to survive and have a decent life in a small country dominated repeatedly through centuries by powerful neighbors." Hrebejk's gallows humor makes Pupendo hilarious at times. In one scene, Mára's wife, who makes ceramic piggy banks for a living, switches from pig shapes...
...teachers remember the 18-year-old as a bright, sensitive kid who quickly graduated from a fascination with ants and cacti to a sophisticated understanding of electronics. He repaired calculators, mobile phones and even assembled his own computer. "There were moments when he knew more than his teachers," says Pavel Bílek, director of a grade school Adamec attended in his hometown of Humpolec, about 100 km southeast of Prague. But Adamec was also taunted by his classmates, because his mother walked him to school until he was 13 and because of his weight. He withdrew into himself...
...Jedlicková, 50, burned herself near her family plot at Brno's central cemetery on March 18, the day she checked out of a psychiatric ward where she had been treated for depression. Roman Másl, a 21-year-old student, immolated himself in Pilsen on April 1. Pavel Janícek, 42, unemployed, with a history of mental illness and suicide attempts, burned himself in Velká Chyska on April 8. His partner told police that Janícek had feared a prison sentence he was about to serve. Two others, a 31-year-old psychiatric patient...