Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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INTERROGATION. A Polish woman (Krystyna Janda) is arrested and tortured by the state, then bears her inquisitor's child -- a poignant metaphor for a generation of Poles sired in fear. Ryszard Bugajski's political horror movie, banned for eight years, plays like a suicide note smuggled out of the Gulag...
...Stone Professor of International Trade Jeffrey D. Sachs '76 on his plan to quickly convert the Polish economy to capitalism...
...program, Wiener claims, is based on thefaulty assumption that ending inflation and movingto a market economy will lead to economic growth.More likely, he says, it will lead to adepression. "Polish workers were the first inEastern Europe to bring down a Communistgovernment," he writes. "They could easily be thefirst to bring down a post-communist government...
Thirty-five years ago, half a dozen students at Korea University in Seoul decided to deepen their understanding of the world and polish their knowledge of English by meeting to read and translate TIME. The idea blossomed into a more formal organization known as the Time Club. Since its founding, the organization has attracted thousands of members and generated similar groups at more than 50 other universities around the country...
...Polish professor also criticized the American media for unfairly portraying Walesa...