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...spat spiked Wednesday when Secretary of State Condi Rice verbally slapped a top Russian general for saying that Moscow might have to aim some of its missiles at former fellow Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic and Poland if they host U.S. missile-defense bases. Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov, head of Russia's strategic missile forces, had said Monday such targeting would be an option if those two nations agree to a U.S. proposal to base 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic. "I think that was an extremely unfortunate comment," Rice said during a stop...
...restaurant. In reality, he sweats over a wok at someone else's takeout joint, six days a week. Nor does he own a house, as Little Lin believes. Instead, Big Lin lives in a small room in a Cambridge boarding house along with other migrants from Indonesia, Malaysia and Poland...
...learned that his father was not, as he had always believed, an English immigrant. He was a Polish Jew who had fled the Holocaust. "Being a white here," Godwin's father observes, dismayed at the rising chaos, "is starting to feel a bit like being a Jew in Poland...
...asked to curate her evening, she began by looking in the catalog, and was surprised to find so many Polish works.“The show was obscure for an American audience,” Lajer-Burcharth says. “You look for 1970s experimental video art in Poland, and there you have it.”The exhibit collects works solicited from local artists in each host city, which explains its somewhat quirky contents. As a result of the collection’s organic growth process, its contents do not reflect a “Who?...
...Europe as a theater of the absurd: the jaunty optimism of soldiers setting off to World War I (home by Christmas!), the apocalyptic hope of the survivors (the war to end all wars!), and the heartbreaking irony of victims unaware (one letter from a Jewish transport car to Poland: "We've stopped at Auschwitz, we have to get out. It's a big factory town with lots of smokestacks everywhere...