Word: polisher
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...read, a hush fell over the mourners who had gathered in Warsaw's St. Stanislaw Kostka Roman Catholic Church last week. Then they burst into applause. The funeral was for Grzegorz Przemyk, 19, a high school senior who died of injuries received from a severe beating by Polish militiamen. His death quickly became a rallying cause for Poles who hate the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
...services and joined in the hour-long procession to the cemetery. Fastened to the front of the casket was a red-and-white Solidarity banner. At the graveside, mourners tossed flowers on the casket and then raised their fingers in the V sign that has become the symbol of Polish resistance to authorities. Many wiped away tears as Przemyk's teacher declared: "Greg, I regret that I didn't have time to prepare you for the brutality of life before it struck you in such a cruel...
...represent the alleged kingpin of a truck hijacking operation. "My client looked as if he broke legs for a living," she says, and the court clerk quipped that the fellow had a shot at acquittal "only if he wears a sheet over his head." Klieman set out to polish her client's image. She ate breakfast with him in the court cafeteria, so members of the jury could spot them chatting and relaxing. In the courtroom she touched him constantly and allowed him to carry her briefcase. Coupling this effort with a thorough defense, she won an acquittal. Credibility...
...does no good to argue that these wars failed to crush Polish or Argentine or Palestinian nationalism. A general's dreams are never the same as his intentions, which in these campaigns were more limited: to make possible things that were once thought impossible, to rearrange what the Soviets call the correlation of forces, to change the terms of reality, debate and thus ultimately negotiation. Far from excluding negotiations, a primary purpose of these wars was to alter their terms. When Jaruzelski talks to Walesa, Britain to Argentina, and Israel to the Palestinians, as in the long run they...
...disrespect that we say that Derek Bok, in looking for a replacement for Henry Rosovsky, should not be looking for another Henry Rosovsky. The dean has been a dedicated curator, but his successor should have an interest in the parts of Harvard's "national treasure" that Rosovsky neglected to polish...