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...Budapest, an eerily familiar time of economic troubles when store clerks fret about losing their jobs and customers are kings, She Loves Me is based on a Hungarian play that also inspired movies: The Shop Around the Corner with Jimmy Stewart and In the Good Old Summertime with Judy Garland. Its situation is delicious: two employees of the same cosmetics shop "meet" through an equivalent of a personals ad and write passionate letters without | any idea that they know -- and despise -- each other. In daily life they are dull and ordinary. Setting pen to paper, they are romantic dreamers. They...
During World War II in Budapest, the Soros family, Hungarian Jews, became fugitives from Nazi persecution, living under assumed names and at times hiding out in a basement. Soros, his parents and his brother barely survived the war, only to see Hungary fall under the fist of the Soviet Union. It was a harrowing time, yet, in retrospect, a positive one for the young Soros. "Nineteen forty-four was the best year of my life," he maintains. "I was 14 when the world intruded on my life. I was old enough to be aware of what was happening, and young...
Stopping first in Budapest, Vasiljevic claims, he picked up $1 million of his own cash from a safe-deposit box and brought it in a suitcase to Israel. He went there, he says, to meet with lawyers and visit a Jerusalem youth village that has taken in Serbian refugees. He accuses the Milosevic government of looting $4.5 billion from Yugoslav depositors...
Participating restaurants include Cafe Budapest in Boston, Icarus Restaurant in the North End, The Pillar House in West Newton and The Publik House in Boston...
...easier than shopping in Austria," says John Reed, a Vienna-based expert on the Polish economy. "It's the wild, wild East, with shops open at all hours and a range of goods one could never find in Vienna." In Hungary, too, says Charles Huebner of the Budapest-based Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund, "you can get just about anything." Parents can now buy a Hungarian-made brand of disposable diapers, and the producers "can't make them fast enough...