Word: pawel
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...Poland, where relations with Germany have rarely been cordial and where ties have deteriorated in recent years, the news was seized on by leading right-wing politicians to condemn him. Grass last year wrote Walesa and the mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamwicz, to explain why he had taken so long to admit the full details of his war record. He said it had taken him until his later years to find the right formula to discuss his decision. "It's only now, with age, that I have found a suitable way of talking about it from a wider perspective...
...Michal Kalwasinski, a young manager at a Vodafone outlet outside Dublin, goes home to the southwestern Polish city of Wroclaw, he no longer bothers to look up his old friends. What would be the point? "They've all left for Britain," he says. With good reason. Polish migration expert Pawel Kaczmarczyk, of Warsaw's Center of Migration Research, says that for a typical Polish villager, "it has become no more difficult to get work in London than in Warsaw--it may even be easier...
...national interest. One of its Pulitzers this year was for its reporting on last fall's wildfires in Southern California. The Metro section, which had been a confusing mix of local news for different editions, was reformatted into a California section that carries local and state news. (Miriam Pawel, who spearheaded the changes in California coverage, was replaced in a recent internal shuffle.) The California focus is also reflected in new feature sections on health and the outdoors, and in the creation of an automobile column, for which car critic Dan Neil won a Pulitzer this year...
...tried to subvert one of our freshman year parties into a UC election stump speech,” says Pawel A. Swiatek ’99, O’Mary’s longtime college roommate. “Halfway through he started talking to people about running...
...grew up in communist Poland, where the internal-security bureau had virtually no restrictions on investigating individuals or groups that were antigovernment. Is this the sort of country we want to live in? PAWEL BIEGUNSKI Naperville...