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Barred from teaching in his native Poland six years ago, Janusz Lewandowski has come to Harvard to learn more of the ideas that first got him censored...
Well before the radical changes in the political landscape of Eastern Europe last year, Lewandowski was one of a handful of Polish economists openly advocating privatization of his country's economy...
...Lewandowski lives in Gdansk, where the Solidarity movement was born during widespread strikes a decade ago. An early activist in the movement, Lewandowski describes himself as a top advisor on economic policy to Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa until he began his own political party, a splinter party of the Solidarity movement which will support Walesa in the November elections...
...Lewandowski, who will stay at Harvard for four weeks, said yesterday he believes the Polish economy can rebuild itself through the strength of its labor force, despite the shadow of more than four decades of Soviet domination which hangs over the country...
...Lewandowski telephoned Hayward at 5 o'clock on a Sunday morning; her alarm bells were already ringing. "Steve was trying not to cry," she says. "I knew right then that Concession was dead." The cause of the fire is an uneasy mystery, though a sprinkler system had been disconnected in the cold. About all Lewandowski could tell her was, "There's been a fire at the barn. There'll be some papers to sign." He recalls with admiration, "She asked how I was doing. Katrina's smart, realistic. She understands the track...