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...said. But other students at the event said they were more interested in Yoon’s positions—such as a promise to bring more transparency to Boston government—than his ethnicity. Yoon said he had been prompted to run for the council during an effort to secure land for low-income housing in Chinatown. “I asked myself, ‘what if there had been just one Asian at City Hall or in the State House?’” Yoon said. During his speech, Yoon yielded the floor...
...nudges them towards European norms of democracy, open markets and the rule of law - is also jeopardized by the crisis. "When E.U. member states themselves are entering dire straits, it will also be increasingly difficult to commit more E.U. funding for the neighbors," says Nicu Popescu from the European Council on Foreign Relations. (Read: "How One Man Plans to Sink the European Union...
...Bencze's contention that the killer or killers plan their attacks and escapes carefully. By positioning themselves on the outskirts of the community, Koka's killers were able to lie in wait unobserved, and slip away without witnesses seeing their vehicle. According to a source in the Roma National Council, Koka's killers were careful not to leave a shell casing behind as evidence...
...investigation drags on, Roma leaders fear that anger within their community could lead to reprisal attacks. "It is important to know that it is hard for us to keep holding our people back," says Mihaly Balogh, local leader of the National Roma Council in Tiszalök. "I tell everyone that we have a police force that is there to protect us ... But if the murders are not solved soon, it will be very difficult to stop people from acting...
...have "terrible consequences" in a country that has become a racial powder keg and has been hit hard by the global economic crisis. "There are parties that are saying that the Roma [are] to blame for the problems in the country," says Orban Kolompar, president of the National Roma Council, who believes the economic downturn will lead to increased support for far-right parties with anti-Roma platforms in both European parliamentary elections this year and Hungarian national elections next. "Voters who are disillusioned [by the crisis] may join them...