Posts Tagged ‘round table’

Brits still in the dark

It was there that Solidarity, a highly effective civil resistance movement, sat down at a round table with communist officials and hammered out a transition to free elections and a multiparty democracy. After Solidarity then went on to win the June 1989 elections, it provided the basis for a new government, formed in August, headed [...]

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The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post does have a
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Scott Mendelson: Second Time’s the Charm — When Superior Sequels Surpass Lukewarm Originals 2009-06-04 Scott Mendelson
Andy Borowitz: Cheney Rips “Missed Opportunity” of Obama’s Speech: “That Was the Perfect Time to Bomb Them” 2009-06-04 Andy Borowitz
Steven Waldman: Bush’s Excellent Speech In Cairo — What Might Have Been [...]

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From “Cooptation” to “Negotiated Revolution”

The documents published below are among those
gathered by historians from the Institute of Political
Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the
international conference “Poland 1986-1989. The End of
the System,” held at Miedzeszyn near Warsaw on 21-23
October 1999 and co-organized with the National Security
Archive at George Washington University and the Cold
War International History Project. 1 They [...]

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Krupinski rule number one and two

Don’t you ever send any email to mr Krupinski, because no matter how friendly and personal your email may be – mr Krupinski WILL publish it on open Internet together with a full email address so all the spiders can read it and send you back tons of spam every day.
Example number one
Krupinski rule number [...]

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