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...Hajnal Varga, 43, an office manager in the Romanian university town of Cluj-Napoca, isn't complaining though. In the bad old days of communism, Romanian authorities discouraged the use of the Hungarian language in public and banned broadcasts of Hungarian media - even though a quarter of the town's population is ethnic Hungarian. Varga recalls hauling her family's black-and-white TV up a nearby hillside to pick up Hungarian football matches from across the border 150 km away. Last week Varga submitted her application for a Hungarian status card, which resembles a passport with a stylized crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Empire Strikes Back | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

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