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Pawel Dobrowolski'95, a Polish student who attended high school in Australia, says he subscribes to two daily newspapers from Poland over e-mail: the Gazetta and the Donosy...
...proudly calling themselves Jews once more, reviving traditions and cultures long buried in the ashes of Hitler's ovens. ``That now there is the possibility to be a Jew is mystical,'' says 18-year-old Igor Czernikow, one of the founders of a Jewish youth club in Wroclaw in Poland's Silesia. ``It's a historic change, in the history of our nation and the history of the individual...
Meanwhile, more capable Russian military reinforcements were streaming into Chechnya to join the 40,000 draftees struggling to take the capital. Crack marine units and front-line troops arrived from the North Sea Fleet and Kaliningrad -- the slice of Russia between Poland and Lithuania -- while soldiers and even sailors were flown in from Vladivostok in the far east...
Thus he writes and thinks as well as discusses and debates -- even through mealtimes. For the Pope, meals are occasions to bounce ideas off friends from Poland, bureaucrats and theologians who want to discuss policy and liturgy, young seminarians, ordinary people who are invited for his 7 a.m. Mass and breakfast. There is a kind of hierarchy of meals. Says Marek Skwarnicki, a Polish journalist and papal friend: "Lunch is for bishops, dinner is for friends...
John Paul can be moved to wrath -- and not just over theology. In 1985 he defrocked four Nicaraguan priests for not quitting the Sandinista government, including Minister of Culture Ernesto Cardenal, a Trappist monk. That same year the Pope, after returning from his second trip to Poland, was ired by an article in L'Osservatore Romano -- the semiofficial Vatican daily -- that criticized Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement. The article was signed by deputy editor Don Virgilio Levi. Dressed down by the Vatican's Under Secretary of State, Levi proposed to run a retraction. But the official pointed sternly...