Word: polishers
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Paul Tsongas is not a completely changed man, however. There were moments--such as when he coughed directly into the microphone and took excruciatingly long pauses in his speech--when Tsongas seemed to lack the polish of an ordinary presidential candidate...
...play depicts a nouveau-riche family, the Tarletons, who has made its fortune selling underwear. When the Polish aviatrix, Lina Szczepanowska, drops out of the sky and into their home, their apparently banal existence is disrupted. Besides a few tangential plot twists--such as the miscellaneous antics of a son bent on revenge, an oversexed daughter and an amorous Lord--the play is a drawing-room comedy and consists mainly of idle conversation...
...hell-bent entrepreneurs, that just calls for more persistence. When former AT&T sales executive Mary Poldruhi wanted to open a restaurant serving East European fare in Parma, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb, she turned to the telemarketing skills she had acquired at the telephone company. Poldruhi, who is of Polish descent, made cold calls to all the doctors and lawyers listed in the phone book whose surnames ended with such suffixes as -ski and -cz. She raised $240,000. "I would have called every -ski in the U.S. and Poland if I had to," she says. Her new restaurant...
...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...