Word: expression
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When Anna Pas graduated from college last year, she figured her employment options were limited. "There weren't that many offers for someone in Poland with a philosophy degree," she explains. So Pas moved to Ireland and within a few months found herself launching, editing and co-owning Polski Express, a Polish-language fortnightly glossy magazine published in Ireland. It has been a whirlwind year. "I can't imagine this would be happening in Poland," gushes...
...Ireland's information-hungry immigrants, the publications serve a vital need, with advice on applying for government benefits, employment law and finances. Readership is not huge; Polska Gazeta claims 7,000, and Polski Express gives away its 5,000 copies in places like supermarkets and Polish pubs. But Pas is proud of some of her paper's scoops, including an exposé on the exaggeration of figures for Dublin's homeless Polish population by some authorities and media. "Our readers want to know about what is going on in the Polish community here," says Pas. "The Irish papers are all about...
Before Travelers, Weill had built a small New York brokerage firm into the second biggest in the land, Shearson Loeb Rhoades, which he sold to American Express in 1981. Boxed in at Amex, he quit and later started over with Commercial Credit, a Baltimore consumer-finance company. To that he added Smith Barney, his old firm Shearson, Salomon Brothers and Travelers insurance...
...must be asked after the University of Delaware announced last Friday that it would suspend its diversity training program for first-year students. Since its inception in August, the program has drawn heat at the university and nationally because of its controversial content. Many first-year students at Delaware expressed intense discomfort with the program on account of its divisive mechanisms. Students were forced to publicly state stereotypes they held and their views on divisive issues like race and gay marriage, making students uncomfortable just as they were settling into their new homes. Not only did the program make many...
...really juicy tidbits that have been entrusted to him from the barber's chair over the years. "You hear so much, it's hard to remember everything they say," he adds diplomatically, with a revealing twinkle in his eye. In fact, the reason his clients feel so free to express themselves may be that the whatever they say is carefully swept up with the hair clippings and discarded...