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...take more satisfaction in the growth of faith in the Virgin -- or feel more unease at some of the pathways it has taken -- than John Paul II. Devotion to Mary was ingrained in the Pope in his Polish homeland, where over the centuries the Madonna has been hailed for turning back troops of the Muslim Turks, Swedish Lutherans and, in 1920, Soviet Bolsheviks. The precious Black Madonna icon was a mobilizing symbol for the country's efforts to throw off communism, and is still a unifying image for the entire nation...
THIS CONTROVERSY could waste a lot of time. IOP pols have to polish their quotes for The Crimson, ace reporters Ira E. Stoll '94 and Joanna M. Weiss '94 have to do a four-part series on said IOP pols, President Rudenstine has to write a thoughtful yet sensitive open letter to the community, the Dems and Republicans have to play less-Nazi-than-thou, someone around here has to write a wryly-disapproving-but-above-it-all staff editorial, countless well-meaning souls have to flood The Crimson with countless well-meaning letters to the editors, the Black Students...
...kind of entrepreneur has talked up the emerging opportunities in the new Eastern Europe, but now Colombia's powerful CALI DRUG CARTEL is exploring the possibilities. In October, Czechoslovak authorities seized 100 kg of cocaine hidden in a truckload of Colombian coffee. After the coffee was traced to a Polish ship that had stopped in Colombia, Polish police uncovered another 100 kg in the rest of the shipment, which was sitting in a Warsaw warehouse. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials speculate that the cartel hopes to take advantage of the legal chaos in the region to transship narcotics to West...
Vladek tells how he adjusted to camp life and helped learn to survive by teaching English to a Polish kapo, or head prisoner--Poles are pigs, Germans cats, Americans dogs and French frogs in the cartoon world of Maus. The reader also learns of Vladek's attempts to help his wife, who was imprisoned in Birkenau, a much larger camp near Auschwitz. "There it was just a death place with Jews waiting for the gas," Vladek says...
...special for me about the Borrows stories is that for the most part they exist within the barbed wire and nowhere else, there's hardly a before or after. There's only the concentration camp universe, and as a writer, even in translation--I can't read it in Polish--this guy really writes. I mean, by any standards one doesn't have to make any dispensation for the fact that this person survived something to appreciate it as writing...