Word: budapests
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...clad multitude waved banners decorated with the heraldic device of a prancing horse, a tumult of braying horns hailed the king as he sallied forth. But instead of a bloodstained battlefield the crowd filled a different kind of combat zone, the track at the Hungaroring near Budapest, to celebrate the latest victory of Michael Schumacher, monarch of every race circuit he surveys. The homage was fitting for the driver who has dominated Formula One racing for the past seven years. Despite occasional reservations about his tactics on the track, Schumacher is recognized as the best there is. His emphatic...
...command. Her uncle, Raoul Wallenberg, the diplomat who saved the lives of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, disappeared in 1944, the year she was born. Although she never knew him, "the absence of Raoul was always present in my life," she says. "His last letter from Budapest was to congratulate my mother, his sister, on my birth...
...benefited more from the steady erosion of that divide than those who lived on the other side. "Growing up in Hungary, you tended to think of Westerners as better than you were, but that feeling of inferiority has been overcome," says Balint Nemeth, 24, a Budapest native and student at the London School of Economics. "You don't feel you have to prove anything anymore...
...DIED. GYULA OBERSOVSZKY, 74, Hungarian poet and journalist who played a leading role in the failed 1956 revolt against Soviet rule; in Budapest. On the second day of the uprising, Obersovszky founded an independent newspaper, Truth, and after the revolt's repression launched a samizdat called We Are Alive. Sentenced to hang for organizing demonstrations against the Red Army, Obersovszky was saved after the intervention of Western intellectuals, including Bertrand Russell...
...nastier. When Marina, a 25-year-old from Chisinau was met in Budapest by a stocky Bosnian calling himself Ivo, he told her she was too ugly for prostitution and might have to be sold by the kilogram for her organs. Ivo then took her and a friend to a hideaway in northeastern Bosnia and raped them repeatedly over the next two days, introducing them to prospective buyers in the intervals. In Montenegro and Serbia, several women describe being lined up naked in the hotel room where they were held, in a kind of inspection line for slave shoppers...