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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After the dance, Kaszynski is given a monologue and delivers his lines clearly and forcefully, Polish accent and all. Then comes the singing. Kaszynski does not have a song prepared, so is given the notes and lyrics to "Maybe This Time" from "Cabaret...

Author: By Mary A. Brazelton, Patrick R. Chesnut, Lindsay A. Maizel, and Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Stage Bound | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

Whether it is because of his awareness and his gratitude or something else, Shell has taken his miracle of language and made the most of it. Shell speaks numerous languages, including English, French, Yiddish, Polish, and even the Native American language Cree...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shell Slowly Shed Childhood Stutter | 2/22/2006 | See Source »

...directive, aimed at creating a single market for the E.U.'s j8 trillion service sector. The law will allow a service provider to comply only with the laws of his or her home country when doing business in another E.U. member state. It was this plan that made "the Polish plumber" the symbol of France's fears at the time of the referendum last year, and which brought 60,000 protesters onto the streets of Brussels last March. Labor unions and their supporters see this week's vote as critical, and plan massive demonstrations outside the Strasbourg Parliament. Monica Frassoni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man and his Times | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...Arcy, the British TV producer who comes up with the idea of the reality show, is regularly described as a manic elf, with “spikey hair dyed royal blue on top with a pink tinge around the sides, gold earrings, and royal blue fingernail polish.” He is Perkins’ idea of a TV’s Austin Powers...

Author: By Yan Zhao, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Capitalist Tackles Romance | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

...first year that former Wall Street Journal editorial writer Bill McGurn has run the speech operation. But former speechwriting pointman Mike Gerson, now a counselor to the President and one of the architects of Bush?s ?compassionate conservatism,? has been brought in to help give the address added polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Makes His Case | 1/30/2006 | See Source »

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