Word: warsaw
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...heightened security alert after a bomb exploded outside its embassy in Paris , injuring 10 people. The world's largest Muslim nation, Indonesia has suffered a number of recent attacks on its soil by Islamic militants linked to al-Qaeda. Exit Strategy POLAND Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski said that Warsaw would set a date for the withdrawal of its 2,500 troops in Iraq after an Oct. 15 parliamentary vote of confidence in the government. Szmajdzinski earlier surprised coalition allies by announcing that a pullout would take place by the end of 2005. Surveys show that more than 70% of Poles...
DIED. CZESLAW MILOSZ, 93, Polish poet and essayist whose politically charged writing in the shadow of communism earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980; in Krakow, Poland. Born in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, he spent World War II writing for the anti-Nazi underground in Warsaw. Later, after a stint as a diplomat, he broke from the Polish government and wrote about the plight of intellectuals under communism in his 1953 essay collection, The Captive Mind. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1960, he taught Slavic literature at Berkeley for more than 20 years...
Betting big on one athlete is risky, so companies have learned to diversify their superstar portfolios "like any good financial planner," says Paul Swangard, managing director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon. "Nobody wants to be left hanging with the next Dan and Dave," he says of Reebok's infamous $25 million ad campaign for Barcelona in 1992, which played up the rivalry between decathletes Dan O'Brien and Dave Johnson. After six months of hype, Reebok yanked the ads within minutes of O'Brien's failing to qualify for the Olympic team...
...swimming medal with a silver in the 50-m freestyle, trains at U.C. Berkeley. And Coventry swims at Alabama's Auburn University. "I got to a point at home where I didn't have anyone to race," she says. Of course there were homegrown successes too. Back home in Warsaw, Poland's Otylia Jedrzejczak - who doubled her country's all-time pool haul by taking medals in three events - trains with men. The meet was a bittersweet finale for some fine athletes: eight-time relay gold medalist Jenny Thompson of the U.S., who failed to win the solo gold that...
...apologizing for World War II. He was the first German leader to participate in D-day ceremonies on the 60th anniversary of the Allied invasion in June. Last week, he became the first German Chancellor to honor the estimated 200,000 Poles killed by German troops during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. And this week, the Chancellor makes another war-related pilgrimage, this time to Romania. Sixty years ago, his father, Fritz, a lance corporal in the Wehrmacht, was killed and buried with eight other German soldiers in a communal grave in the tiny village of Ceanu Mare, in the foothills...