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...knack for politics must run in the family. After Jaroslaw Kaczynski led his Law and Justice Party to victory in Poland's parliamentary elections last month, his identical twin brother Lech was elected President last week. The brothers, who talk as many as a dozen times a day by phone ("We have the same family. There is much to discuss," joked Lech in an interview with Time before the parliamentary vote), look set to dominate Polish politics for the next five years. The Kaczynskis' appeal is due in large part to their promises to maintain social programs threatened by their...
...While in the camp, he started writing to Le Corbusier, whose work he had become enamoured of in Warsaw. By the time the war ended, he had been offered a position at Le Corbusier’s architectural firm in Paris, which he promptly accepted.He returned to Poland in 1949 to teach at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, but his modernist attitude was not popular with the post-war Communist government and he was, for a time, not permitted to teach architecture. He came to Harvard in 1959, was given tenure in 1965, served as chair...
...Japan's national sport, which began as an ancient form of religious worship, is muscling its way around the modern world. Today the grand champion of Japan hails from Mongolia, and as U.S. team coach Yoshisada Yonezuka puts it, "Big guys smash into each other" in sumo rings from Poland to Brazil. Elite-level sumo came to the U.S. for the first time in 20 years with a tournament this month in Las Vegas. Now there's the Sumo Ultimate Masters Organization (S.U.M.O.), a new U.S.-based league with global aspirations and the backing of the International Sumo Federation...
DIED. LEO STERNBACH, 97, chemist and inventor of the widely used antianxiety drug Valium; at home in Chapel Hill, N.C. Born in Austria and educated in Poland, he began his career with Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. in Switzerland before coming to the U.S. Sternbach collected 241 patents in his career; he also developed the tranquilizer Librium, the sleeping pill Mogadon, Klonopin for epileptic seizures and Arfonad to control bleeding during surgery...
...automakers didn't have enough to worry about, new competition from the East is revving up. Jiangling Motors Co. (JMC) set up shop in the Netherlands this year, selling 400 cars in its first month. This fall it is moving into Poland as well. And JMC isn't alone. A growing number of China's 100-plus automakers, including Zhongua, which will soon sell cars in Germany, are eyeing Western markets. The Chinese have had great success in selling low-cost automaking tools worldwide, says Jay Baron, president of the Center for Automotive Research; marketing assembled cars is the next...