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Turnout in Polish elections has been declining since the end of communism as voters have grown increasingly disillusioned with their politicians. On Sunday that disillusionment became a spur as hundreds of thousands of mainly younger voters turned out to repudiate the populist political style of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, whose Law and Justice Party (PIS) was defeated after just two years in office. The turnout was especially high in larger cities such as Krakow, Gdansk and the capital Warsaw (where it reached 70%) and in the huge 1.2 million strong Polish diaspora in Britain and Ireland; it was correspondingly...
...from the mid-Atlantic, Harvard dropped four of five, obtaining its only victory against the Navy B squad.“At this point in the season, no major changes are going to happen,” co-captain Chris Ludwick said. “We just have to polish everything, make those passes that are just a half-second late better, and get ready for the final part of our season.” Looking ahead, Harvard must recover quickly from its tumultuous weekend when it takes on bitter rival Brown on Thursday at Blodgett Pool. The Thursday night...
...Jaish al Mahdi and Hakim's Badr Corps, a new group has recently surfaced in the city called the Brigade of Hussein, named after the 7th Century Shi'ite martyr Imam Hussein, the central figure of Shi'a Islam. The group claimed responsibility for the recent attack on the Polish ambassador in Baghdad, a coordinated ambush that included a series of timed explosions and pre-planned gunfire that wounded the ambassador and killed one of his security guards. In Diwaniyah, locals say these armed groups may focus their attention on the local Polish base in the city in an effort...
...violence. Two incidents this week have ratcheted up their concern. On Wednesday, seven Iraqi police officers were killed by a bomb in the nearby village of Afak. That followed bloodshed on Monday, when at least six civilians were killed and dozens wounded in a mortar barrage on the Polish-run Coalition base in town...
...players is being drawn from youth squads in cities farther north. And, although less has been made of it than during France's victorious 1998 soccer World Cup campaign, the fact that the rugby team includes three African-born players and host of names resonant of Spanish, Italian and Polish origin demonstrates the game's role of integrating immigrants and their children...