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...death of a Polish soldier in the southern city of Diwaniyah Friday was a reminder that militants will still find ways to strike - and that Americans aren't their only targets...
Senior Cpl. Andrzej Filipek, a 31-year-old father of two who was just beginning his third tour with the Polish force in Southern Iraq, was killed by a powerful roadside bomb Friday morning near a joint Iraqi-Polish outpost in this tumultuous city deep in Iraq's Shi'ite heartland. He was the 22nd Polish soldier to die in Iraq since the autumn of 2003, when Poland first sent troops into the country. He was the first Pole killed in action in more than six months and his death comes at a delicate time for a newly elected Polish...
...half-Cuban, half-Polish father-in-law - he's one part que pasa, one part kielbasa - loves their cancer-surviving, Castro-despising, Cuban-American third baseman, Mike Lowell. And I can see why. He's as humble a World Series MVP as there has ever been...
...Zabkowska Street, soon to be turned into expensive lofts. The factory's vast warehouses are now a haven for art. The Luksfera gallery sells the works of local photographers, tel: (48-22) 619 91 63, www.luksfera.pl. At the Magazyn Praga store you can buy carpets, lamps and furniture by Polish designers, tel: (48-22) 670 11 85, www.magazynpraga.pl. The Bochenska gallery (tel: (48 22) 670 21 90, www.bochenska gallery.pl,) and the Wytwornia Theater (tel: (48 22) 741 23 05, www.teatrwytwornia.pl) both promote young Polish artists. You can also stop by a kiosk in the old factory that offers a large...
...former factory turned into an arts center at Fabryka Trzciny, 14 Otwocka Street, tel: (48 22) 619 17 05, www.fabrykatrzciny.pl. The place used to manufacture marmalade and shoes; now it houses an elegant bar and a fine restaurant - with outside seating in good weather - featuring such classic Polish fare as stuffed cabbage, and pierogi filled with sweet cottage cheese. A meal like that is one great way to crown a day sampling Praga's artful...