14 January 2003 BRATISLAVA, 14 January (SME)–In both our personal lives and political careers we tend to mystify and explain away every failure or mistake of ours ad hoc–as long as they did not lead to a catastrophe. I once missed both the train and my final exam. However, at the train station I met a girl who turned out […]

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