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...Truszkowska, who comes from a multi-ethnic Polish-Mexican background and only began learning English when she was six, such a thesis offers ample opportunity for personal reflection. Indeed, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. professor of Romance Languages and Literature Doris Sommer, also Truszkowska’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship mentor, notes as much in an e-mail. “Along with her sheer intelligence, Natalia’s complex cultural background… stimulate her mental and social agility,” she writes...
...trying to crack down. Bulgaria, one of the world's biggest counterfeit havens, has broken up 13 euro print shops in the past 12 months. Serbian police closed down three rings over about the same period - "mostly medium-quality forgery" shops, according to Zoran Stajic, the lead investigator. And Polish police, relying on tips from their German counterparts, shut down a major operation in February in central Poland, confiscating €200,000 in fake notes. Investigations continue in all these countries, and police say new operations have sprung up in Lithuania, Moldova and Belarus. Counterfeiters have started operating in Western...
Together with Robert Blackwill, a veteran diplomat who is Rice's point man on Iraq and had been visiting Baghdad, Bremer flew to Washington. So urgent was his trip that he blew off a meeting with Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller, whose troops make up the third largest contingent in the occupying force in Iraq. The two days of meetings in Washington that followed turned out to be fateful. Although Bremer was not directly blamed for the occupation's troubles in Iraq, it was plain that his halo had slipped. The message that Bush gave his fellow gym rat last...
With the skills assembled and the body honed, a finishing polish was all that was left to be applied...
...conundrum for friends,” Dean Hunt, Schoenhof’s Foreign Books employee and long-time language maestro, admits with a chuckle. Because, despite the fact that Hunt knows French, German, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Ukranian, Finnish and a smattering of Slavic languages, he hasn’t ventured off this continent in 18 years. “I hate flying,” he says, at home with the store’s obscure volumes and multilingual clientele. Hunt leans back decisively in his swivel chair, his bespectacled eyes crinkling into...