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...Western world today, we are experiencing a wave of drastic new enlightenment ? of secularization," Pope Benedict XVI said recently. "It is becoming more difficult to believe." But in parts of Eastern Europe, religious politicians are pushing back, demanding that traditional beliefs be taken seriously in the political domain. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the new Polish Prime Minister from the ardently pro-Catholic Law and Justice Party, prefers Catholic pilgrimages to football games. The government is proposing a new constitution that will begin "In the name of God Almighty" and describe Polish independence as a "gift from God." Still, however much Christians...
Eliot House: 1. Where unabomber Theodore J. Kaczynski ’62 spent his formative years. 2. Home of the Fête, the best formal at Harvard. 3. Its clock tower has probably had a better movie career than Matt Damon...
Poland's combative Kaczynski twins are not shy about picking a fight. The President, Lech, and his brother, Jaroslaw, the Prime Minister, have squared off with the country's central bankers, as well as its foreign-policy élite. But a new bill passed by the Polish Sejm in late July may [an error occurred while processing this directive]be their most contentious move yet. The law fulfills the former dissidents' campaign promise to root out anyone associated with the old communist regime, but goes much further than most Poles expected. Previously, only someone who wanted to serve in public...
...seeing double. Lech Kaczynski, far left, is the President of Poland, and he recently chose his twin brother Jaroslaw to serve as Prime Minister. Critics cried nepotism. But naming relatives to positions of power isn't new--and in monarchies, it can be automatic. Even in lands without emperors or kings, though, there's a long history of keeping the power in the family. Here are a few examples...
...Although Moussaoui won't get to mingle, he will be near other notorious inmates at ADX Florence including Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, attempted shoe bomber Richard Reid, 1993 World Trade Center mastermind Ramzi Yousef, 2000 Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph and FBI agent turned Soviet spy Robert Hanssen...