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Rarely has a translator's voice said so much. For more than a quarter-century, papal trips to Poland had been ringing homecomings for its history-moving native son. The man born Karol Wojtyla in a small town outside of Krakow gave some of his most influential - and intimate - speeches on eight trips as Pope John Paul II to his beloved motherland. And he always addressed the crowds, naturally, in his mother tongue. Still, the attention leading up to this week's trip to Poland by Pope Benedict XVI, in only his second papal voyage, has rivaled some...
Who’s looking at a dude wearing a navy, yellow-striped bow tie with a bottle of raspberry-lime Poland Springs nestled by his hip? Location: Widener. Atmosphere: Pretentious...
...Cannes, a Riviera resort town just down the road from Nice and Monaco, was to have its first festival in September 1939. Germany's invasion of Poland cast a pall over Europe, and the festival was postponed until 1946, the year after the end of World War II. It took a break in 1947 and resumed the following year, now in May, now an annual event. (The 1968 edition was aborted midterm, in response to the Paris street revolts.) In its early days Cannes and Venice were the only major film festivals; now every town larger than Podunk...
...Holsbeeck, killed in Brussels' central train station by two assailants who were after his MP3 player. For days, witnesses told the media that the perpetrators had been youths of North African origin. But after ten days, police fingered two Poles for the murder, one of whom has fled to Poland and awaits extradition...
...industry is also starting to consolidate. Last month, Pyaterochka agreed to merge with rival Perekriostok to form Russia's biggest food retailer, with almost 900 stores and sales of $2.4 billion. What's happening in Russia is very different from the experience in East European countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic. There, Western retailers rushed in as soon as they were allowed and trampled the local competition. But Western firms have largely been wary of Russia's political and economic instability during the 1990s; their hesitation has allowed a domestic retail industry to grow...