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...August for actions that "presage tolerance of organized crime" and "suggest a desire . . . to cloak corruption in secrecy." The judge blasted Carey's record on eliminating corruption as "pathetic." Since then, the battle has only got worse, with Carey now comparing U.S. involvement in the Teamsters with the Polish government's attack on the Solidarity union in the early 1980s. "((Carey)) is basically an insecure guy who does not want anybody supervising what he's doing," says Lacey. "It's the same dance, but with different partners. Instead of McCarthy, it's Carey. But at least it's done...
Friends said yesterday that Kadziewicz was an involved member of Harvard's Polish-American community, even while he worked overseas...
...Harvard, Kadziewicz exposed many people to Polish music through weekly radio programs at WHRB, the campus radio station. Marek Zebrowski, a New England Conservatory alumnus who worked with Kadziewicz at the station, remembered Kadziewicz searching through the city for rare Polish records...
...dual identity" as a Polish-American was one of the qualities many of his friends remembered. His job at Radio Free Europe, which broadcasts Western news and entertainment to Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union, marked the culmination of a career in Polish-American relations. Kadziewicz also worked as an interpreter for the U.S. embassy in Warsaw from...
Beneath the irony and polish, Barnes' seems to be enormously vulnerable. He reminds me of one of those boys you knew in high school, not exactly shy, but coolly appraising and refracting experiences through the prism of detachment, hampered by their cleverness. But you did not dismiss them because you realized the enormity of their potential...