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Democracy's heroes don't always make heroic Presidents. Lech Walesa toppled Polish communism in the 1980s, but presided over a mediocre government in the 1990s. Many fear the same will be true of Mexican President Vicente Fox. Riding a wave of hope and optimism in 2000, Fox defeated the dictatorial Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled Mexico since 1929. But since then, he's faced mostly legislative defeats and diminished stature. It wasn't until last week, when George W. Bush finally proposed the U.S. immigration reforms that Fox has long urged, that Fox got to savor...
...isn’t exactly an educated man,” Wojciech Kubik ’07 reluctantly says of his birth country’s modern emblem, Lech Walesa, who spoke to a packed house at the Institute of Politics last week. “He is idolized [in Poland],” Kubik says, “he’s idolized, though not as much as in the international community.” Kubik, whose family sought refuge from Communist Poland in 1987, has seen his life intertwined with the political ascent of Walesa. Kubik?...
...past, Castro, 76, managed to neutralize dissidents before they became globally known, like Lech Walesa in Poland or Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. But Paya's celebrity is beginning to rival Castro's. During his visit to Cuba last year, ex-President Jimmy Carter hailed Paya in a speech broadcast to every Cuban household. Paya won the European Union's Sakharov Prize for human rights last December. Vaclav Havel, who led the "velvet revolution" that toppled communism in Czechoslovakia, has nominated Paya for the Nobel Peace Prize. Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival last week canceled its screening...
...Mediocre academic and world-class lech Professor Peter Y. Block has allegedly been holding office hours in his pants. Said student Valerie C. Perry ’05 from within Block’s Dockers, “And they say Yale sucks?...
When politicians leave office, they tend to spend their time flying around the world giving speeches on things like globalization and nation building. In other words, doing pretty much the same stuff they did when they had a job. But LECH WALESA, 59, founder of the Solidarity movement in Poland and that nation's President from 1990 to '95, is turning his nonpolitical hobby into a second career. Starting next month, Walesa will be host of a regular fishing show on Polish public television. But the devoted angler and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner, who is doing the show gratis...