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...Overheardinnewyork.com: Get the real NY experience without having to deal with the crazy Fung Wah ladies...
...Harvard men’s swimming team saw flashes of red this past Saturday at Teagle Hall in Ithaca, NY as the Crimson (2-1) defeated Dartmouth and lost to Cornell in a double-dual meet. Looking to build upon last week’s victory against Penn in its season opener, Harvard struggled in the shorter-distance events, winning only three races under 500 yards. The Crimson won 5-out-of-16 races at the meet, besting the Big Green in points 230-65, but ultimately falling to an impressive Cornell squad 131-167. Two juniors led the charge...
...thousand lives. The proximate cause of the most recent rioting, which left over a two hundred people injured and turned large sections of the capital city into a “battleground,” was the leaking of tapes in which the socialist prime minister, Ferenc Gyurcsány, admitted that he and his party lied “morning, noon and night” in order to get reelected in April’s elections...
...spark” that will lead to some sort of generalized European civil disorder a la 1848, or even because Hungary itself is that critical of a place, but because it is a perfect illustration of the dangers of shortsighted political leadership. Prime Minister Gyurcsány seems hell-bent on staying in power despite losing 18 of 19 counties and 15 of 23 cities in the just-completed local elections, and despite President Laszlo Solyom’s public, and not very veiled, suggestion that parliament oust...
...first it seemed clear-cut: when a tape recorder caught Hungary's Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány saying his party had "lied morning, evening and night" about the state of the economy to win re-election in April, protests - many of them violent - broke out across the country. Commentators around Europe attributed the eruption to the passion of outraged [an error occurred while processing this directive] citizens of a former dictatorship who expected more from their elected leaders. But according to Gyurcsány's supporters, there's a more partisan root to the clashes as the country...