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"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless." Last week on Feb. 10, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation awarded former Polish President Lech Walesa with the Lincoln Leadership Prize. Walesa became
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The man who helped end Communist control of Poland toured a museum dedicated to the president who helped end slavery in America. Nobel Peace Prize-winner Lech Walesa (lek vuh-WEN'-sa) visited the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum on Friday. The former
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Former Polish President Lech Walesa tours the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 in Springfield, Ill. The museum now includes an exhibit highlighting Walesa's life and accomplishments. Walesa is the recipient of the... View Photo »
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We had crowds of labor union members, advisers, politicians, journalists and lunatics pouring into our apartment from dawn until late at night ... Complete chaos instead of a normal home.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Nobel Prize-winning president who helped end communist control of Poland toured a museum Friday dedicated to the president who helped end slavery in the United States. Lech Walesa spent about an hour at the Abraham Lincoln Pr
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Walesa is quick with a smile and a sharp sense of humor... But his tone is serious -- through a translator -- when he talks of global economic problems. local, alan krashesky February 9, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- The man who helped to end communism in Euro
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The Tribune relives the heady days of the 2002 Winters Olympics in pictures — with a daily gallery from the torch relay to the Opening Ceremony, from Team USA’s medal haul to the fireworks-filled finale. Feb. 8 » Just months after the 9/11 terrorist atta
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there comes a time when you have to disclose things, and that is why I have done so.
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In her book The Elephant and the Dragonabout the rise of India and China, author and journalist Robyn Meredith narrates a political joke about Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who is in many ways considered the man who opened up the Chinese economy. In the
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By Chris Ryan on February 7, 2012 1:18 PM ET AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari Che Guevara. Lech Walesa. Abbie Hoffman. What do these men have in common? They were all, in their own ways, revolutionaries. Now we can add Washington Wizards center and undisputed
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Lech Wałęsa (IPA:[ˈlɛx vaˈwɛ̃sa] (help·info); born September 29, 1943) is a Polish politician and a former trade union and human rights activist. He co-founded Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995 (succeeded by Aleksander... Full Article
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Pope John Paul II accompanied by Polish Premier General Wojciech Jaruzelski (C) and the archbishop of Warsaw, Cardinal Jozef Glemp (R) listen to Polish anthem 14 June 1987 at Warsaw`s Okecie airport at the end of the Pope third visit to Poland. In December 1970, Defense minister...
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Poland's former President Lech Walesa (L) and opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski walk past the coffin during the state funeral of former Czech President Vaclav Havel at Prague Castle's St. Vitus Cathedral December 23, 2011. International leaders bade farewell on Friday to Vaclav...
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Poland's former President Lech Walesa (C) and Poland's opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski (R) walk past the coffin during the state funeral of former Czech President Vaclav Havel at the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, on December 23, 2011. Havel, a dissident and playwright who was the...
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Former US president Bill Clinton (C) and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R), and Lech Walesa, Poland's president from 1990-1995, attend the funeral service for former Czech president Vaclav Havel at the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, on December 23, 2011. Havel, a...
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Poland's former President Lech Walesa and Poland's opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, from left, walk past the coffin during the state funeral of former Czech President Vaclav Havel in the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. Havel was the leader of...
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Former Poland's President and the leader of Solidarity movement Lech Walesa (L) and Minister of Culture Bogdan Zdrojewski arrive for a news conference promoting a project of the Lech Walesa institute, in Warsaw December 13, 2011. The aim of the project called Gen Wolnosci (the Gene of...
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Polish actor Robert Wieckiewicz (R) stands next to a giant portrait of country's communist-era Solidarity opposition leader, Nobel Peace laureate and ex-President Lech Walesa during a press conference on November 24, 2011 in Warsaw. Polish film director and Oscar winner Andrzej Wajda...
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Poland's former president Lech Walesa kisses wife Danuta Walesa after unveiling a statue of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan during a ceremony in Warsaw November 21, 2011. Walesa said of his wife's autobiography, titled "Dreams and Secrets", that "People write letters normally and...
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Danuta Walesa (R) stands next to her husband, Poland's former president Lech Walesa, as he speaks to the media after unveiling a statue of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan in Warsaw November 21, 2011. Walesa said of his wife's autobiography, titled "Dreams and Secrets", that "People...
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Former Polish President and anti-communist leader Lech Walesa his wife Danuta attend a ceremony to unveil a statue to former US president Ronald Reagan on November 21, 2011 in Warsaw. Republican Reagan, who was president from 1981 to 1989, is celebrated in former Soviet satellite states...
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Poland's former president Lech Walesa (C) shakes hands with former Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki (L) after unveiling a statue of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan during a ceremony in Warsaw November 21, 2011. The ceremony was to honour Reagan's role in bringing down communism in...
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Poland's former president Lech Walesa speaks to the media after unveiling a statue of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan during a ceremony in Warsaw November 21, 2011. The ceremony was to honour Reagan's role in bringing down communism in central-eastern part of Europe.
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Former Polish President and anti-communist leader Lech Walesa, right, and first Polish post communist Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki stand in front of a just unveiled statue honoring Ronald Reagan for inspiring Poland's toppling of communism, in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011.
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Former Polish President and anti-communist leader Lech Walesa, left, looks up at the statue of Ronald Reagan he just unveiled honoring the late U.S. president for inspiring Poland's toppling of communism, in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011.
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Former Poland's Presidents Lech Walesa (front L) and Aleksander Kwasniewski (front R) attend first session of the Polish Parliament in Warsaw November 8, 2011. Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said he would ask Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Tuesday to form a new government after...
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Former Polish presidents, Lech Walesa, left, and Aleksander Kwasniewski watch from the balcony during the first session of the new Polish Parliament, in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011.
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Former Polish President Lech Walesa (R) shakes hands with with former President General Wojciech Jaruzelski at a military hospital in Warsaw September 24, 2011 in this handout image received by Reuters September 26, 2011. Jaruzelski was hospitalised for pneumonia following chemotherapy...
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Firefighters battle a blaze that broke out at a luxury yacht-making facility in the Gdansk Shipyard compound, famous for being the cradle of Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement, in Gdansk, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. Authorities say nobody was injured, POLAND OUT.
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In this picture taken Jan. 14, 2012 Polish actor Robert Wieckiewicz plays Solidarity leader, electrician Lech Walesa, in a movie about this hero of Poland's road to democracy, being made by Oscar-winning director Andrzej Wajda in Gdansk, Poland. Walesa spearheaded workers' protest in...
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Former US President Bill Clinton, left, shakes hand with former Polish President Lech Walesa as he arrives for the state funeral of former Czech President Vaclav Havel in the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. Havel was the leader of the peaceful anti-communist...
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Polands opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, left, and Poland's former President Lech Walesa, second left, attend the state funeral of former Czech President Vaclav Havel in the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. Havel was the leader of the peaceful anti-communist...
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