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...could not locate in the text a single word about the most famous electrician in history, Nobel Prize winner Lech Walesa, and his role in dismantling the Soviet empire, or about the first noncommunist Prime Minister in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, Tadeusz Mazowiecki. It all started here - in Poland. That is what I am teaching my kids, and that is what I expected to find in my favorite weekly. Christopher Komornicki, Wojtowice, Poland...
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned that the detention of an Australian mining executive in Shanghai on espionage charges has the potential to upset China's trade relations with his nation and the rest of the world...
...Indeed, Estemirova's determined efforts over the past decade to uncover and document extrajudicial killings, torture, disappearances and kidnappings in Chechnya had made her many enemies, including Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, the republic's Kremlin-backed President. She had also become a thorn in the side of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who as President presided over the Second Chechen War, which began in 1999 and ended in 2002. (See pictures of Putin...
...work, I mentioned the calendar to one of my colleagues. She wasn’t the least bit surprised, mentioning that some of her friends thought Mussolini wasn’t half bad (she, of course, completely disagreed with them). She reminded me of something Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said in 2003. In an interview with English magazine The Spectator, he was quoted as calling Il Duce a “benign” dictator, saying “Mussolini never killed anyone” and “Mussolini just sent people on holiday to confine them...
...course, many Italian politicians responded with outrage. They pointed out that Nazi concentration camps were no vacation spot. Yet, the leader of Italy’s Jewish community, Amos Luzzato, said he was “not surprised, just saddened” by the Prime Minister’s remarks...