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...communist past. Or did she? Today, that break looks a lot messier. Niezabitowska, 56, is one of tens of thousands of Poles who, in the past few months, have been accused of collaborating with the communist secret police (SB) in the 1980s. The accused include top politicians like Jozef Oleksy, who resigned from the post of parliament speaker after being found guilty of lying about his collaboration, and countless senior bureaucrats and academics. Even Lech Walesa, the ex-Solidarity leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, was accused of informing on his colleagues while a young man in the early 1970s...
...lasted just 1 min. 33 sec., but he didn't come out feeling like a loser. The 25-year-old judoist, the first from Niger ever to compete at the Games, crashed out in the first round of the 66-kg weight class, in a bout with Slovakia's Jozef Krnac that resembled a very fast two-man game of Twister. "Of course in my heart, it hurt to lose," Alassane says. But the point of this trip for Alassane - and for Olympic Solidarity (OS), the scholarship program that has given him more than $20,000 for training and travel...
...Under accounting rules the firm will have to write off the difference of about €2.1 billion. The main culprit was the group's insurance operations, whose investments have been ravaged by the cratering stock market. "We've not seen such volatility in the history of the world," says Jozef de Mey, chief executive of the Fortis AG insurance subsidiary. Wait a minute - aren't insurers supposed to be the stodgiest, most conservative investors around? Even if they can't forecast the future, they are, after all, the companies that other people turn to for protection against risk. Like Fortis...
Money was not always a problem for Sapir, who is 70 and lives in one room of a genteelly fading three-story house in Queens, New York. She was, she recalls, "a child of privilege" in Warsaw, where her father Jozef owned an investment bank. She and her brother and sister attended private schools, and the family traveled to the great European resorts for bathing in the summer and skiing in the winter. To ensure the family's future in uncertain times, Jozef Sapir regularly deposited his profits in banks in Switzerland, $30,000 to $40,000 at a time...
...leader Major Pierre Buyoya lifted restrictions on the parliament and political parties. The constitution, however, remains suspended, and Buyoya is balking at talks with Hutu rebels. Meanwhile, Rome mourned the death of the man Pope John Paul II called a "generous minister of God." The pontiff will send Cardinal Jozef Tomko, head of the Vatican's office for missions, to celebrate a memorial service--or a funeral, if the corpse is recovered. That will probably never happen. The killers almost surely threw the archbishop's body into the nearby Mubarazi River, the way they have disposed of countless other victims...