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Dates: during 2000-2009
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"Eventually we [Solidarity] won, not thanks to a bloody slaughter but to the Round Table negotiations," Kutz argues. "It was a great phenomenon." He also praises Jaruzelski's efforts to explain motives and circumstances behind the martial law. Having stepped down in 1990 after serving as president of Poland during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redemption for the Polish Leader Who Crushed Solidarity? | 11/29/2008 | See Source »

So I've been searching for valedictory encomiums. His position on immigration was admirable and courageous; he was right about the Dubai Ports deal and about free trade in general. He spoke well, in the abstract, about the importance of freedom. He is an impeccable classicist when it comes to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Last Days: The Lamest Duck | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

Do pedophiles have human rights? Poland’s answer is a resounding “no,” as legislation debated last month in the Polish parliament set to enforce compulsory chemical castration for convicted pedophiles. The proposal garnered 84 percent support from Poles, but it has been...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Human Rights for the Inhuman | 11/23/2008 | See Source »

Those of us of with gray hair have seen things we once never thought possible. As a teenager in 1960s Britain, I remember once looking at a Düreresque woodcut of the steeples of Prague - which then seemed on the far side of the world - and thinking, "How sad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Road Ahead | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

To make the point, the Kremlin has been turning its gas pipelines on and off. That got the attention of Ukraine, Belarus and the Czechs. To cow Poland it slapped an embargo on meat imports, pitting the angry Poles against their not-so-supportive Western neighbors. The most recent gambit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Russia Problem | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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