Word: warsaw
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...Puumba once," he says, referring to a grade-school interpretation of Disney’s "The Lion King." The role seems odd now. Kaszynski—originally from Warsaw, Poland—is blonde and beaming, hardly a porcine presence...
...welfare payments by making cuts in the bureaucracy. An attempt to form a coalition between the Kaczynskis' Law and Justice Party and Civic Platform failed last week, and the Law and Justice Party was expected to form a minority government, with Civic Platform in opposition. If so, politics in Warsaw will be contentious - if also conspicuously fraternal...
...said. “Enabling students to envision more than the moment and to reach for something beyond themselves speaks volumes to Professor Soltan as an educator, architect, and person.”Soltan was born in Latvia in 1913 and studied architecture at the Warsaw Technical Institute. He was drafted into the Polish army during World War II, captured by German soldiers, and placed in a prisoner-of-war camp for the rest of the war. While in the camp, he started writing to Le Corbusier, whose work he had become enamoured of in Warsaw. By the time...
...Gdansk shipyard, where the trade union movement that helped overthrow communism in Poland was born 25 years ago. In Solidarity Square, named after that movement, patriotism bloomed, too, as crowds chanted "Polska! Polska!" at a ceremony last month celebrating Solidarity's founding. For Lech Kaczynski, 56, mayor of Warsaw and leader of the Law and Justice Party, it was an emotional moment. Lech and his twin brother, Jaroslaw, helped establish Solidarity, and returned to Gdansk for the commemorations. "I was thinking of all those years of underground struggle," Lech told Time last week, sipping a coke in a dimly...
...didn't know it at the time, but when John Paul II stepped into Warsaw's Victory Square on June 2, 1979, he was about to change history. It was only the second of his 104 papal trips, but perhaps the most moving -and momentous. His inspiring, but carefully chosen words were credited by many as opening the first crack in the edifice of communism. John Paul's deft diplomacy and his experience of life behind the Iron Curtain made the Polish pontiff uniquely placed to tackle the defining political issue of the day. But Benedict XVI has assumed...