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...Last month, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder publicly expressed his opposition after media reports that 26,000 German butchers had lost their jobs when Polish subcontractors imported East Europeans to work for a fraction of German butchers' wages. The numbers may have been exaggerated, but the issue came up again last week, just before Schröder met political opponents at a "jobs summit" in Berlin. "We cannot allow service freedom if this leads to social dumping, and if it disregards the protection standards of employees," Schröder thundered...
...tell them that he had never actually worked on a real live economy. But he soon left for Bolivia and made good on his word, stabilizing the currency. His work for the developing world had begun. He would later develop a radical economic program for the Solidarity-led Polish government that helped the country create a market economy. But he hit a wall as an adviser to Boris Yeltsin's Russia, where kleptocrats helped undermine his program. Disappointed, he resigned after two years...
...DIED. ZDZISLAW BEKSINSKI, 75, leading Polish surrealist painter; from multiple stab wounds; at his home in Warsaw. Renowned for his disturbing depictions of death and decay, Beksinski was also a prolific photographer and in recent years expanded his work to include computer graphics, producing unsettling images of monstrous, disembodied faces. Two teenage relatives of the artist's longtime aide have been arrested and charged in the murder...
...best in his “Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect”—performed near the end of the set—when the narrator of that song, like Meloy himself, becomes lost in intricate fantasies of being a soldier in a perfumed Polish town, an accomplished builder of balustrades, and a womanizing Spanish puppeteer, but seems most comfortable when conveying his real emotions by describing these unrealities in song...
...secret weapon is the law. The U.S. may have changed the regime in Afghanistan, but the E.U. is changing all of Polish society, from its economic policies to its property laws to its treatment of minorities. Each country that joins the E.U. must absorb 80,000 pages of new laws on everything from gay rights to food safety. Once drawn into the Eurosphere, countries are changed forever - and they never want to get out. The U.S. can impose its will almost anywhere in the world, but when its back is turned, its potency wanes. The elections in Iraq and Afghanistan...