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...Middle East and threaten the West. Iran has already been successful in helping humble the U.S. in Iraq, and it will surely pursue its goal of removing all Western influence from the Middle East. Discussing the stabilization of Iraq with Iran would be like discussing the stabilization of Poland and Czechoslovakia with Hitler. Abraham Cohen Thornhill, Canada...
...Russian gas as well as to sell expensive products refined from cheap Russian crude oil to other customers in Europe. If Russia goes ahead with the cutoff, Belarus threatens to hijack gas designated for European customers that run in pipelines through its territory. Immediately affected would be neighbors like Poland and Lithuania as well the Russian Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad...
Wilder was born in what is now Poland in 1906. His writing career first began in Berlin in the late 1920s. After writing as a journalist for the German tabloids, Wilder turned to screenplays. During the rise of Hitler, Wilder, who was Jewish, fled from Berlin to Paris. When he left Paris for the United States in 1933, he landed fortuitously in Hollywood...
...twins' year in power has been filled with controversy. They are staunch social conservatives who would like to see the death penalty reinstated and are intent on purging Polish political and judicial circles of the last vestiges of Communist rule, which they blame for most of Poland's ongoing economic and political problems. Relations with Russia have deteriorated under their governance: a European Union effort to sign a new deal with Russia on energy investment collapsed on November 24 partly because of Polish objections. (Poland wanted Russia to lift a ban on the import of Polish meats and other produce...
...Millennial-year arrival in the Holy Land. Though lacking some of the same flair, Benedict XVI's first four outings beyond Italian soil have largely followed similar pilgrimesque itineraries: warming up to a million young Catholics at World Youth Day in Cologne, paying homage to his predecessor in Poland, trying to turn back a wave of Spanish secularism in Valencia, and returning two months ago to his native German region of Bavaria...