Word: motherland
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...quarter-century, papal trips to Poland had been ringing homecomings for its history-moving native son. The man born Karol Wojtyla in a small town outside of Krakow gave some of his most influential - and intimate - speeches on eight trips as Pope John Paul II to his beloved motherland. And he always addressed the crowds, naturally, in his mother tongue. Still, the attention leading up to this week's trip to Poland by Pope Benedict XVI, in only his second papal voyage, has rivaled some of his predecessor's homecomings...
...recently there was very little in this town (pop. 345,000) other than some run-down farms, a distillery that produces mediocre vodka, a big statue of a Soviet rocket-science pioneer and a war-era T-34 tank monument that still bears the inscription FOR STALIN AND THE MOTHERLAND...
...sumo tour two years ago, and in this year's Junior World Sumo Championship in Tokyo he finished second in heavyweight competition. With a small-town boy's big-city dream, he hopes to move from amateur to professional in the sacred rings of sumo in the sport's motherland. "The only place to reach the top is in Japan," he says. For the past two months, the 6-ft. 3-in., 276-lb. teen heavyweight has lived and trained with top amateur wrestlers affiliated with Nihon University in Tokyo. Two of his countrymen have enjoyed sumo success in Japan...
Kemal kerincsiz has a formidable intelligence. At Istanbul's top law school, he graduated with the best grades ever; now he is applying his smarts to a different cause. He is fighting to stop his motherland from joining the European Union. Kerinçsiz's strategy is simple: to try to block the reforms that the E.U. is imposing by rallying Turkish nationalists to his cause. Late last month, by seeking a last-minute injunction, he almost succeeded in shutting down a conference on the mass killings of Armenians in 1915, one of the most brutal episodes in Turkish history...
...have two dreams. One is to return to the motherland and the other is to see democracy in Hong Kong." MARTIN LEE, founding chairman of Hong Kong's Democratic Party, on an invitation from chief executive Donald Tsang to visit China. Lee, like many of Hong Kong's pro-Democracy lawmakers, has been banned from the mainland since the 1989 Tiananmen massacre...