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...while he was on the other side of Rome when the attempt was made on the Pope's life, Giansanti was among the photographers at Rebibbia prison when John Paul went to forgive his would-be assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca. Giansanti's large portfolio of images of the Polish Pope at work and prayer in the Vatican were integral to TIME when the magazine made the Supreme Pontiff its 1994 Man of the Year. (See Giansanti's 1994 photograph of John Paul...
...street markets of Warsaw and Prague in those early years of freedom, the symbols of communism - badges, pins, posters - were sold off, their proceeds helping folk survive in the wild and freewheeling free market. But there was also a knowing embrace of the absurdity of it all. A popular Polish cartoon showed a man clutching a Polish flag stepping out of the jaws of a vicious-looking fish labeled Socjalizm and straight into the open mouth of an equally angry-looking fish labeled Kapitalizm...
...double thirds at the beginning were no obstacle to the pianist, who zipped through the chromatic introduction to settle into the stately main theme. In the military march, accented with crisp dotted rhythms and a precise backdrop of octaves, Lang brought out Chopin’s desire to incite Polish patriotism, though the pianist adopted a much faster tempo than is customary.In appreciation for the double curtain calls after every piece and the standing ovation at the end of the recital, Lang played Chopin’s delightful Etude, Opus 10, No. 3 as an encore. Again, the tempo...
...also began producing armaments for the Nazis such as antitank weapons and aerial bombs. Schaeffler and his younger brother Georg, who would marry Maria-Elisabeth in 1964, fled Kietrz in 1945 as the Red Army advanced. Wilhelm was arrested by U.S. forces and served more than four years in Polish prisons after the war. (Schöllgen points out that none of the current allegations were ever brought up in Wilhelm's trial.) The Schaefflers later settled in Bavaria and rebuilt the company, founding the textiles company INA, out of which grew the modern-day Schaeffler Group...
...downturn is playing havoc with Eastern Europe's currencies. Since last summer, the Polish zloty has lost 48% against Europe's common currency the euro, the Hungarian forint 30% and the Czech Krona 23%. That makes euro-denominated debt, which has risen dramatically anyway in the past few years, much harder to pay back. In Poland, foreign currency debt held by households has tripled in three years to 12% of the GDP last year, with some 70% of mortgages taken in foreign currencies. In Hungary, foreign currency loans make up 62% of all household debt, up from 33% three years...