Word: polander
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...hunch who was to blame. “Me and the social chair were the only ones who weren’t Eastern European,” he says. As he saw it, students from places like Romania, Poland, and Bulgaria had turned Woodbridge into a cultural society all their...
...another kind of ambivalence about V-E day in those states that were once part of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact; many viewed the defeat of Nazism as simply a change of occupier. "We cannot pretend that May 9 was a day of liberty and independence for Poland," said Donald Tusk, leader of Poland's center-right Platforma Obywatelska. "For Poland the fight against Hitlerism and communism ended only in 1989." Rather than V-E day, Poles are more likely to recall the 1940 massacre of over 21,000 Polish officers at Katyn, in western Russia, a crime...
...Resist the impulse to offer a “live tour” of Harvard academics: “seven to ten pages on the moral problems of capitalism in 19th century Poland. GO.” That is, unless your prefrosh is Polish. In which case, deadline is Monday...
...after he died, I lit a candle as a tribute to his 26 years of service. When I put it in the window of my flat, I saw hundreds of other candles in neighboring buildings. The Pope was instrumental in ending communism in the 1980s, and thanks to him Poland became a much better nation. That is only one of many reasons we loved him. Witold Pluta Bilgoraj, Poland The Pope is still living among Christians all over the world. It was overpowering to see how his death affected people. Perhaps those most moved are in Latin America, where...
WITOLD PLUTA -- Bilgoraj, Poland...