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From: radek szulga <rsszulga@gmail.com>
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	Content preview: So my boss (dept. head) came over to England while I'm
	running my program for roughly unrelated reasons and we went out for
	lunch together. He's sort of a typical American academic - smart, well
	educated, curious, down to earth (this is the American part) and pretty
	clueless about anything to do with Eastern Europe (well - I should be
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	ago). And then he started asking me about Katyn. Apparently (and I'm
	sorry if you guys know about this already) Berlusconi raised a bunch of
	hoopla about Wajda's film and how it should be "shown in every Italian
	classroom". The British picked up on this somewhat and now, in my
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	Content preview:  So my boss (dept. head) came over to England while I'm
	running my program for roughly unrelated reasons and we went out for
	lunch together. He's sort of a typical American academic - smart, well
	educated, curious, down to earth (this is the American part) and pretty
	clueless about anything to do with Eastern Europe (well - I should be
	fair, he's actually done some work on the Soviet economy like 20 yrs
	ago). And then he started asking me about Katyn. Apparently (and I'm
	sorry if you guys know about this already) Berlusconi raised a bunch of
	hoopla about Wajda's film and how it should be "shown in every Italian
	classroom". The British picked up on this somewhat and now, in my
	understanding, the movie is being re-released with better publicity and
	better promotion. My boss read about this in a British paper while here,
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So my boss (dept. head) came over to England while I'm running my
program for roughly unrelated reasons and we went out for lunch
together. He's sort of a typical American academic - smart, well
educated, curious, down to earth (this is the American part) and
pretty clueless about anything to do with Eastern Europe (well - I
should be fair, he's actually done some work on the Soviet economy
like 20 yrs ago). And then he started asking me about Katyn.
Apparently (and I'm sorry if you guys know about this already)
Berlusconi raised a bunch of hoopla about Wajda's film and how it
should be "shown in every Italian classroom". The British  picked up
on this somewhat and now, in my understanding, the movie is being
re-released with better publicity and better promotion. My boss read
about this in a British paper while here, got interested and started
doing some research. He mentioned "our" Wikipedia article - as in, "I
read on Wikipedia that... is that correct?"

I actually got a bit scared - if he looked at the talk page my name's
all over there, there isn't that many radeks around (even in Poland)
and he's smart enough to put 2 and 2 together. And then he could click
on my name and see the contributions, restrictions etc. I'm actually
not worried about the content that much - he's a good guy and pretty
level headed and we ge along very well - but I was scared that he'd
end the conversation with something like "you need to stop playing on
Wikipedia and focus more on publishing for tenure" (getting tenure in
Econ can be pretty brutal though despite my Wiki addiction I think
I've managed to stay on track so far).

Anyway. For one thing, it's nice to see that our articles actually DO
matter, and in a way this underscores that they matter a lot. For the
other, if I ever do the disappearing thing, I'm totally going for more
anonymity. Even though that's sort of wussy.

Oh, and personally I actually didn't like the film that much (probably
because I don't like Wajda in general that much)

Radek

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