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MAILING DATE FOR THE JANUARY EDITION is DECEMBER 30.

The February edition will be mailed late — February 3rd

IN THIS MONTH'S WEB EDITION:

NEWSMARK

• FIVE POLISH SOLDIERS were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan, the deadliest single assault in Poland’s nine-year involvement in the mission.
• WIERZBOWSKA FIRST FEMALE BOARD CHAIR. The Polish & Slavic FCU, the nation’s largest ethnic credit union, has elected Marzena Wierzbowska (inset) as its first female board chair, the credit union announced.
• A SINO-POLISH STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP has resulted from President Bronisław Komorowski’s recent official visit to China.
• MAJORITY OF POLES AGAINST ADOPTING THE EURO. Three out of four Polish citizens are against the adoption of the European currency.
• BE THE BELLE. The Kosciuszko Foundation is looking for debutantes to present to society at the Annual Dinner and Ball.

FEATURE

• Will Roman Catholicism be a Thing of the Past in Detroit?

EDITORIAL

• Happy New Year Wishes; Maybe Warsaw can Teach Washington Something; An Ugly Anniversary; Dr. Burzynski to face another Trial; Helping the Family of a Slain Officer.

BOOK REVIEWS

• STREETS OF CROCODILES: Photography, Media, and Postsocialist Landscapes in Poland by Kamil Turowski and Katarzyna Marciniak
• MALEVICH AND THE AMERICAN LEGACY: essays by Yve-Alain Bois
• REQUIEM: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto by Paul B. Janeczko,
• SMALL, MEDIUM AND LARGE: A Book About Relative Sizes by Emily Jenkins, ill. by Tomek Bogacki
• WAITING TO BE HEARD: The Polish Christian Experience Under Nazi and Stalinist Oppression, 1939-1995 ed. by Bogusia J. Wojciechowska

IN THIS MONTH'S PRINT EDITION

• Calls for Poland’s Inclusion in Visa Waiver Program
  Better the Devil You Know? Sikorski Asks Germany to Step up to the Plate
• Up Through the Ranks: An Interview with Rev. Canon Machalaski
• 100th Birthday Party Held at Polish Embassy. Its “sto lat” for Polonian activist Walter Zachariasiewicz.
• Lipczynski Inducted into Michigan Hall
• Giving Your Super Bowl Party a Polish Twist
• Bishop Bartchak Returns to School
• Maciejewski’s Photographic Still-lifes Exhibited in Las Vegas
• ACPC Board Meets in Boston
• Vikings Touched Poland and North America
• The Changing Face of Panna Maria
• The “Phenomenon of Solidarity” Exhibit
• Downstate NY PAC Donates Demonstration Memento
• The End of an Era: The Legendary Versatones to Retire — Conclusion
• Win one of three Polish cookbooks in our Polish Heritage Quiz!
• Ways to Build Vocabulary
• HOT Culture’s Free Polish App
• Holland’s Underground Hideout
• The Polish American String Band
• The Artwork of Arthur Szyk
• Thank God it’s Piątek!
• Brooklyn’s Polish Vets Remembered
• and more!

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