Word: kaczynsky
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...others insist that declared candidacies are an integral part of any functioning democracy. "It happens all the time. If the mayor of a big city runs for the presidency of his country and doesn't get it, is his position undermined?" asks Piotr Kaczynski, an analyst at the Centre for European Policy Studies, a Brussels think tank. "Unfortunately, secrecy is a natural tendency of E.U. countries. It's hypocritical. If you are running for a position, you should have the courage...
...Still, the treaty is not yet cleared for adoption. Poland's President Lech Kaczynski has refused to sign it until the Irish vote, but is now expected to do so over the next few days. But the biggest potential obstacle is the Czech Republic. Last week, a group of senators there filed a challenge at the country's constitutional court claiming the Lisbon Treaty would violate the Czech constitution by paving the way for a European superstate. Previous complaints to the court have been thrown out, but some fear it could take up to six months before the court rules...
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...
...That presented the Obama team with a second dilemma. Poland is an important ally, with more than 1,000 troops in Afghanistan. On the other hand, Kaczynski broke protocol by releasing details of the private call. What's more, aides say, he mischaracterized what Obama had said...
...ambiguous position from the campaign. "[Obama] supports deploying a missile-defense system when the technology is proved to be workable," McDonough said. In an apparent attempt to soften Poland's embarrassment at being publicly contradicted, Obama had Vice President-elect Joe Biden quietly follow up with a call to Kaczynski on Monday, aides...