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Fakt (Polish for "fact") is a Polish tabloid-style daily newspaper and the biggest-selling paper in the country, with a circulation of more than 500,000 and an estimated readership of 7 million. The paper was launched in October 2003 by the Polish outlet of the German publishing company Axel Springer AG, Axel Springer Polska, and modeled on Springer's German tabloid Bild, the biggest-selling newspaper in Europe. Like its German counterpart Bild, Fakt is characterised by its downmarket, often sensationalist journalism with a populist appeal. However, politically it is by and large centrist. More recently, it has supported former prime minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz's policies; Marcinkiewicz also regularly contributes invited comments. Other regular contributors of op-ed pieces include Tomasz Lis, a prominent television journalist with political ambitions, TVN anchorman Kamil Durczok, and former Rzeczpospolita columnist Maciej Rybiński.
Untypically for a tabloid and in contrast to its usual content, Fakt has a weekly supplement entitled Europa which contains high-brow (non-original) essays by scholars and public intellectuals, which in 2006 have included Niall Ferguson, Francis Fukuyama, Jürgen Habermas, and Robert Kagan.
ELPHABA:
(spoken) Come with me. To the Emerald City.
TOURISTS:
One short day
In the Emerald City
GLINDA:
(spoken) Oh, I've always wanted to see the Emerald City!
TOURISTS:
One short day
In the Emerald City
One short day:
In the Emerald City
One short day
Full of so much to do
Ev'ry way
That you look in the city
There's something exquisite
You'll want to visit
Before the day's through
ELPHABA:
There are buildings as tall as Quoxwood trees!
GLINDA:
Dress salons!
ELPHABA:
Libraries!
GLINDA:
Palaces!
ELPHABA:
Museums!
BOTH:
A hundred strong
There are wonders like I've never seen
GLINDA:
It's all grand
ELPHABA:
It is all green!
BOTH:
And I think we've found the place where we belong!
I wanna be
In this hoi polloi
ELPHABA:
So I'll be back for good someday
BOTH:
To make my life and make my way
But for today, we'll wander and enjoy:
ALL:
One short day
In the Emerald City
One short day
To have a lifetime of fun
One short day
BOTH:
And we're warning the city
Now that we're in here
You'll know we've been here
Before we are done!
GLINDA:
(spoken) Elphie - come on - we'll be late for Wizomania!
WIZOMANIA CHORUS:
Who's the mage
Whose major itinerary
Is making all Oz merrier?
Who's the sage
Who's sagely sailed in to save our posteriors?
Whose enthuse for hot air ballooning
Has all of Oz honeymooning?
Woo - oo -oo
Wizn't he wonderful?
(Our wonderful Wizard!)
AUDIENCE WIZOMANIA CHORUS
One short day Who's the mage
In the Emerald City Whose major itinerary
One short day Is making all Oz merrier
To have a lifetime Whose the sage who
Of fun Sagely sailed in to save
What a way Our posteriors
To be seeing the city:
ELPHABA AND GLINDA
Where so many roam to
We'll call it home, too
And then, just like now
We can say:
We're just two friends
ELPHABA
Two good friends
GLINDA
Two best friends
TOURISTS
Sharing one wonderful
One short...
GUARD
(spoken) The Wizard will see you now!
ALL: