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...with bleach and NIGGER HANG written in lipstick on the wall. When death threats began arriving in the mail, college officials supplied extra locks and an alarm system. This month, as she got ready to move out, she lifted the rug to find DIE NIGGER DIE written in nail polish on the floor. Sabrina collapsed and was hospitalized for "emotional traumatization...
...policy and winning headlines, Walesa has been running what often seemed a shadow government from a second-floor office near the Gdansk shipyards that were his springboard into history. In recent weeks he began criticizing the government for the slow pace of reform. Says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences: "He is having to share a stage that was once his alone, and he doesn't like...
This week Solidarity will hold its first congress since 1981. Walesa will certainly be re-elected leader of the trade union, and that will give him a base to further his political ambitions. That now seems to be what most interests the man who led the Polish struggle to overthrow communism...
While American history was clearly the impetus for yesterday's festivities, recent events in Eastern Europe were the dominant theme of the day. From the singing of the Polish national anthem to the frequent references to last year' dramatic upheavals, current changes in the shape of the world were never far absent...
...well and good to talk about waiting until one's eligibility -- uh, education -- is completed, but when an eighth-grader can sign sponsorship deals worth potentially $1 million a year, what's the real point of further schooling? It might provide some cultural grounding and social polish, but the purpose is plainly not to qualify for a well-paying...