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• Poles Soften Toward Stalin's Hulking 'Gift'

  Published: November 2, 2007, 12:00 am

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  WARSAW -- This booming city has been transformed in recent years by skyscrapers and glitzy steel-and-glass projects. But the skyline is still dominated by an improbable relic of Poland's Cold War past: the Palace of Culture and Science, a hulking, colorless monument to the glories of communism.

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