Word: polander
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...decades since the Italians did their collective double take. Cardinal Karol Wojtyla? "Chi e?" they said -- who?s he? The first pope from Eastern Europe. The first non-Italian pope since 1522. A consensus pope, born and forged not in one of the Renaissance cities of Italy but in Poland, the cauldron of 20th-century Europe, where Nazism, communism and the Holocaust had all left their bloody prints during his lifetime. A poet/philosopher/ditch digger/actor/downhill-skier pope whom the College of Cardinals evidently expected -- the man was only 58 years old, after all, and built like a rugby player -- would be leading...
...Dean Hanford suspends a College rule prohibiting personal solicitation of funds in the Houses and dormitories, allowing the Food Relief Committee to collect funds for relief efforts in countries including Greece, Poland and China. The campaign is supported by folk singer Pete Seeger '40, who gives a free concert in Emerson Hall two weeks later...
...letter to the editor of the Boston Herald, John C. Poland of Brookline compared the new library to a "cheese factory," lamenting the library's departure from the prior "hasty but just return to the former and better architecture" demonstrated by the recently built colonial-style Yard dorms...
...junior has also competed for his native Poland in the Davis...
...next generation will believe it's all about money." Yet the plain, if unsatisfactory, truth is that money is the most tangible instrument of compensation that society has at its disposal. Verbal apologies have been proffered in recent years by institutions, and by such nations as France and Poland, but sincere as they may be, they leave no evidence of penalty. Dollars, at least, may pay for a child's education, a mortgage, an operation, a coat...