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Gyorffy's track history began when her father took her to the track when she was 10 years old. Since then, Gyorffy has been rapidly climbing the international ladder. She is a member of the Hungarian Olympic team for the year 2000, after her efforts to join the squad for the Atlanta Games last year were a bit too late...
...huge donation left American diplomats elated and at the same time somewhat embarrassed. Soros, a Hungarian-born philanthropist who has already poured $260 million into Russia since 1994, will now be sending more foreign aid to the country than the U.S. government. "He has been doing what we should have done but did not have the capacity or imagination to do," admitted a State Department official...
Born the son of a Hungarian Jewish lawyer in 1930, Soros was a boy when the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944. They rounded up all the Jews they could find and murdered most of them in concentration camps. Soros survived only because his father--who had lived through the Russian Revolution--knew that this was a time to disobey orders. He bought the family false identity papers and places to live and hide...
When Reich tried to expose the pretentiousness of bold-type names at play, he chose an evening at the house of then AFL-CIO chief Lane Kirkland and his wife Irena, and got just about everything wrong: the Kirklands aren't high society, and Irena is not a snooty Hungarian but a Czech survivor of the Holocaust who does her own cooking. She did not shout "No!" at Reich, grabbing his wrist to keep him from misusing the mint jelly, causing the table to go still, appalled by the "country bumpkin...
America is best represented in the entertainment industry. All over the city, the upcoming concert schedule is plastered: Joan Baez, Sheryl Crow, James Brown, Earth, Wind and Fire. Music stores sell and play American tunes. On Vorosmarty Ter, the main square downtown, tourists sit and soak in the "authentic" Hungarian atmosphere with Toni Braxton's "Another Sad Love Song" in their ears, piped in by an outdoor cafe. Television is a hodgepodge of local programming, English-language shows on The Cartoon Network and CNN, and a host of American programs, from "Saved by the Bell" to "Married With Children," dubbed...