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...earlier this week, Henrietta’s had sold 505 Strawberry Teas and Noir had sold 174 “Femme Fatales.” Boloco had raised $547 through the sale of smoothies, and The Carriage House salon had sold about thirty bottles of pink nail polish...
Poland's combative Kaczynski twins are not shy about picking a fight. The President, Lech, and his brother, Jaroslaw, the Prime Minister, have squared off with the country's central bankers, as well as its foreign-policy élite. But a new bill passed by the Polish Sejm in late July may [an error occurred while processing this directive]be their most contentious move yet. The law fulfills the former dissidents' campaign promise to root out anyone associated with the old communist regime, but goes much further than most Poles expected. Previously, only someone who wanted to serve in public...
...Croats and others. As the empires were carved up at the end of two world wars, new nations took shape. The state of Israel, to be sure, was created on someone else's land (whose is a matter of debate), but it was hardly alone in that. Today's Polish towns of Wroclaw and Bydgoszcz, for example, went by their German names of Breslau and Bromberg not long ago. Israel's case differs from that of other new nations mainly because many have never reconciled themselves to its existence...
STALOWA WOLA, POLAND—Polish cuisine is a constipating conglomeration of cured meats, potatoes, cream sauces, fried potatoes, blueberries, and potato chips. I first encountered the Polish potato about two hours north of Warsaw, at a school for children with special needs. I was stationed in a small town in order to learn a little Polish. My potatoes were stationed next to my inevitably fried pork product and mound of shredded cabbage—ostensibly, in order to ease digestion. I remember my first Polish potatoes: simply boiled and garnished with dill. Little did I know how many possibilities...
...meeting of the world's industrial democracies." Reunification Other neighbors are uncomfortable, too. Russia and Germany agreed in the final days of Gerhard Schröder's Chancellorship to build a pipeline bypassing Poland - thus making it possible to turn off energy supplies to Poland without affecting Germany. Polish Defense Minister Radek Sikorski likened the deal to the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact carving up his country on the eve of World War II. He was more diplomatic in an interview with Time last week, saying: "I'm glad Russia has put energy security on the agenda...