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...Fidesz might be the big winner - the party goes into the second round of the elections on April 25 within grasp of the two-thirds parliamentary majority required to make constitutional changes - but it is Jobbik's strong showing that has shocked many political analysts and ordinary Hungarians. The party, which espoused nationalist and anti-Roma rhetoric during the campaign, has proved it is now a force in Hungarian politics, though how it will factor into any future government remains unclear...
...community elsewhere. Perhaps we are so desperate for real familial connections, and yet lacking in the time to form them, that we attach the word “brother” or “sister” to people we’ve just met, in a vain grasp for the unconditional security of family...
While in Armenia, Sayegh, Bechthold, and their students met with an array of people, including Armenian students, professors, descendents of survivors, and government officials, to try to grasp the complexity of the event’s legacy...
...students, it opened up...a complexity which they probably were not able to grasp before the trip,” Bechthold said. “The denial is like a thorn in the flesh that is just not going away...
Mooney first grabbed at his pocket to silence the jingle, but his subtle grasp did not turn off the noise...