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MORE THAN 60 YEARS ago, a Polish Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin fled Nazi-occupied Europe, arrived in the U.S. and invented a word that he thought would change the world. Lemkin believed that genocide-- from the Greek geno (race or tribe) and the Latin cide (from caedere, killing)--would carry such stigma that states would be loath to commit the crime--or to allow...
...artwork, attractively printed in blue ink on an off-white ground, has polish and clarity. Unfortunately, the experiences of "A Few Perfect Hours" do far less for us as readers than they evidently did for the author. The book's episodic nature defeats the raison d'etre of a travel book - to learn something new about the world. Neufeld never stays in one place long enough to give us a depth of understanding about the environs or people in the places he visits. "A Few Perfect Hours," ultimately reads more like autobiography set in exotic locals. But without the neurotic...
...focusing on the issues and actually doing something to address them. It's especially discouraging when you consider what good might be done with the funds that are used to wage misdirected political wars. Scott A. Farber Boston Prisoner of the Nazis I was stunned to see the term "Polish labor camp" in the Milestone on the death of Navajo code talker Frank Sanache [Sept. 6]. The Nazis organized and ran the German concentration, labor and POW camps of World War II (including the one in what is now Poland where Sanache was imprisoned). We need to preserve the truth...
...that could no longer be driven, but with E.U. regulations ending the restrictions, nearly 400,000 used cars entered Poland between May and August - 25 times more than in the first four months of the year. With car-repair costs around four times lower in Poland than in Germany, Polish buyers can import a damaged car and fix it up. "Long term, it will cause turmoil in the car market," grumbles Poznan-based car salesman Jacek Pietrzyk. The government fears losing revenue: imported cars are still subject to a tax based on their declared value, but buyers and sellers understate...
...city which legend said would never be conquered, but that they would come within a hairs breadth of conquering Europe itself. Few realize how close the Turks came to breaking into the very heart of Europe. If it was not for the arrival of Jan Sobieski and his Polish cavalry history would have taken a very different turn. The Turkish menace, which ultimately was defeated before the walls of Vienna at a cost of thousands of lives, could have been crushed at far less cost had the West acted earlier...