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Among the other women who walk the corridors of power in Eastern Europe, Malgorzata Niezabitowska, the official spokeswoman of the Polish government, was attracted by the prospect of fundamental change. A free-lance writer in Warsaw, she was electrified in 1980 by the rise of Solidarity. "Freedom was suddenly possible, and you had to help fight for it," she recalls. Like many previously quiescent East European women, she flung herself into active opposition to the Communist regime. The political education she received as the trade union rose and fell, and the relationship she developed with Tadeusz Mazowiecki, later to become...
Women like these remain exceptions in the East. The number of women in the Hungarian and Polish parliaments is minuscule. In East Germany only 20.5% of the Volkskammer were women. Eventually, some striving female politicians, like Hungarian Klara Ungarn, 32, a cheerful and dynamic leader of the small Federation of Young Democrats, may rise higher, but for now their activism is their greatest claim to power. Ungarn's party holds only 21 seats in the parliament, but she is confident its influence is growing. "We will control the government in 10 years," she says, "but not before." With rare wisdom...
...This weekend really foreshadows the future," Ambinder said. "Next year we are looking for an NCAA-bid. Right now, I'm just going to polish my Ivy ring...
Volunteers from the Harvard Club have been tutoring Polish and Mexican immigrants in English, and helping students throughout the school strengthen their math skills...
...government's action came a few days after former Interior Minister General Miroslaw Milewski, who was the Politburo member responsible for the state-security police in 1984, was apprehended on charges of corruption. According to authorities, Milewski masterminded a network of Polish agents in Western countries who stole, brought to Poland and then divvied up valuables and jewelry, plus more than 2,000 troy ounces of gold valued...