Copyright 2010 The New York Sun Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:51:49 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Alex Storozynski :: Stories from The New York Sun http://www.nysun.com/authors/Alex+Storozynski admin@nysun.net (Seth Lipsky) webmaster@nysun.com en-us ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/foreign/obama-gives-a-lump-of-coal-to-poland-in-pre/87164/ Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:44:55 EST When the president of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, hung an ornament on the majestic pine in the Oval Office yesterday, President Obama remarked, “It’s the prettiest one on the tree.” But when jet-lagged journalists from Warsaw were then brought into the room, they were disappointed, and surprised, to learn that Poland would not get the gift it was hoping for — a waiver of visas for Poles visiting America. This is the eighth Christmas that Polish soldiers will spend in assisting American GIs in... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/foreign/iraq-war-has-been-good-for-us-polish-president/63354/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST President Kaczynski of Poland yesterday sent a message to critics who say the invasion of Iraq has made America less safe: "The United States is in a better position now than before the outset of the Iraq war." In an interview with The New York Sun, Mr. Kaczynski said European countries such as France and Germany have become more pro-American because of the war. "German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, going back now to the first President Bush, was surprisingly pro-Russian and anti-American... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/opinion/lafayette-is-not-here/62065/ Thu, 6 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST Nicolas Sarkozy had a warm and fuzzy vacation in New Hampshire this summer before cozying up to the Bushes in Maine, causing some to gush over the new love that France has for America. It's a return to the alliance that the two countries have not seen since the Marquis de Lafayette took part in the American Revolution. Or, is it? Mr. Sarkozy told the American press, "I just finished reading a biography of Lafayette, and I wanted to tell President Bush about that." Given that today is the 250th... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/national/nobel-prize-is-sought-for-polish-heroine/47560/ Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST A class project by four high-school girls from Kansas has spurred a grassroots movement to nominate for a Nobel Peace Prize a woman who rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis — a move endorsed last week by the deputy prime minister of Israel, Shimon Peres. A Polish social worker, Irena Sendler, who turns 97 next month, smuggled children out of the Warsaw ghetto and refused to disclose their whereabouts even after being tortured. Gestapo officers crunched her legs in a vice and smashed her... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/foreign/polish-leader-defends-pope-urges-communication/40052/ Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST President Kaczynski of Poland defended Pope Benedict XVI in an interview with The New York Sun, saying the Islamic world was "a little too easily offended" at the pontiff's comments. Mr. Kaczynski said a serious dialogue with the Islamic world should take place but that "there have to be principles of sensitivity that are equal for all sides." The reaction among Muslims to the pope's use of a medieval quotation referring to Islam as a violent religion has caused a worldwide uproar. Recent... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/national/us-poland-military-cooperation-appears-to-improve/39780/ Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST FORT WORTH, Texas — Military cooperation between America and Poland appears ready to take off to a higher level as Prime Minister Kaczynski is to arrive here today to accept three of 48 F-16s that his country is buying from Lockheed Martin. In addition, the Pentagon is negotiating with Poland to place a Star Wars-type missile defense shield on Polish territory that could shoot down rockets fired at America or its NATO allies. Yesterday, as Polish Defense Minister Radek Sikorski climbed out of... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/foreign/polish-troops-take-final-turn-patrolling/36368/ Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EST AD DIWANIYAH, Iraq — The multinational zone in Iraq took another step closer to local control yesterday as the Polish army, which oversees the provinces of Diwaniyah and Wasit, began what is expected to be the final rotation of its troops here. Although President Kaczynski has said he expects to withdraw his country's army from Iraq next year, the exact date for its departure has not been set. Until then, Poland will continue to oversee this zone in central south Iraq, which has soldiers... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/new-york/walesa-honored-for-anti-communist-activities/31726/ Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EST The world took a collective sigh of relief in 1989 when the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Soviet Union collapsed. The Cold War fizzled and nuclear annihilation was avoided. Yet only now, nearly two decades later, are those who were killed by Communist regimes finally being remembered. It was Poland's Solidarity trade union that sparked the peaceful revolution that brought down the Evil Empire. Last night, Solidarity's founder, Lech Walesa, a former president of Poland, was honored by the Victims... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/new-york/waterfronts-problem-said-to-be-transportation/30168/ Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST While the Dubai Ports World deal focused public attention on security issues, those who make their living on the waterfront, and who rely on ships for transport, say the real problem is New York's declining waterfront and the soaring transportation costs and tolls that businesses and consumers pay as a result. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which has already moved most of the city's maritime industry to the Garden State, is now threatening to shut down the last container port in... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/new-york/kosciuszkos-legacy/27202/ Wed, 8 Feb 2006 00:00:00 EST Every year, millions of New Yorkers travel over the Kosciuszko Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens and the twin Kosciuszko bridges north of Albany. Yet few know anything of the hero these structures were named after. This is a shame, because General Tadeusz Kosciuszko played a major role in the American Revolution, right here in New York. Kosciuszko and his troops built West Point and maintained the huge chain across the Hudson River that kept British ships from sailing up the Hudson and... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/new-york/robert-moses-still-felt-in-brooklyn/26225/ Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST The ghost of Robert Moses haunted New York harbor this week, as a decision that the power broker made in 1962 cast a dark shadow over the last container port in Brooklyn. A Belgian cargo ship named the Freeway, carrying $20 million worth of cocoa beans from the Ivory Coast, was turned away from its usual pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and forced to anchor offshore for several days. On Wednesday night, it finally got permission from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to tie up at a... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/opinion/start-hiring/24385/ Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST It looks like the Transport Workers Union holds all the good cards with its threat to shut down the largest transit system in America. A strike would cause major disruptions for 7 million daily subway and bus riders and cost the city's economy up to $660 million per day in lost business activity. The union plans to hold the city hostage until it gets what it wants - a big raise. But elected officials aren't exactly helpless, either. Governor Pataki can look to President Reagan's example of how... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/new-york/faso-touts-his-strength-with-county-chairmen/23695/ Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST A former Republican minority leader of the state Assembly, John Faso, told The New York Sun yesterday that he expects to gain enough support among New York's Republican county chairmen to become the GOP candidate for governor next year. Mr. Faso yesterday announced that he has hired a campaign team for the gubernatorial race. While December's meeting in Albany of the 62 Republican county chairman from across the state is seen as an attempt by the state's GOP chairman, Stephen Minarik, to anoint... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/opinion/setting-polands-record-straight/23691/ Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST Poland's new defense minister, Radek Sikorski, took a brave step on Friday by declassifying 1,700 Warsaw Pact documents from the Cold War, including a map from 1979 showing that Poland would have been annihilated in a nuclear holocaust if the Soviet Union had pushed ahead with its first strike scenario to invade Western Europe. In a phone interview from Warsaw, Mr. Sikorski told The New York Sun, "The map seems to show nuclear strikes against Western cities. The Russian strikes, the mushroom... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/arts/history-of-polands-jews-to-go-on-display/23554/ Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST The government of Poland and the city of Warsaw have allocated $26 million and donated land in the former Warsaw ghetto for the construction of a new Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Jewish philanthropists have raised about $7 million for the exhibits and are trying to raise another $17 million. The museum's backers are planning two events in Manhattan this week. On Wednesday evening, a reception at an Upper West Side apartment will help raise funds for the museum. And on Thursday, the... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/new-york/lawmaker-calls-for-probe-of-circle-line-park/22268/ Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EST Reacting to a New York Sun article about the Circle Line's apparent misuse of $1.7 million in funds meant for capital improvements at the Statue of Liberty, a U.S. congressman has called for the Department of the Interior to investigate the ferry line's contract with the National Park Service. Rep. Robert Menendez, a Democrat of New Jersey, sent a letter to the department's inspector general, Earl Devaney, that said in part: "The New York Sun article raises some disturbing questions about how... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/new-york/circle-line-facing-questions-on-use-of-funds/22135/ Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EST Circle Line-Statue of Liberty Ferry Incorporated, which next month will ask the National Park Service for permission to raise its fares, has apparently paid for more than $1.7 million of its own operations by using a fund meant to pay for capital improvements at the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. The apparent diversion of funds has been going on against the backdrop of a requirement that Circle Line pay 15% of its gross revenues to the National Park Service, with one third of that being... ALEX STOROZYNSKI http://www.nysun.com/foreign/in-interview-walesa-reflects-on-25-years-ago/20647/ Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:00:00 EST For decades, Poland tried to overthrow the communist system that Soviet troops had imposed on Eastern Europe after World War II. And then 25 years ago, out of nowhere, an electrician at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk jumped up on a wall and turned the "workers of the world unite" slogan on its head by calling for "solidarity" and starting a union. After pulling the thread that eventually unraveled the Iron Curtain, Lech Walesa went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 before becoming the first...