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...Hungarian Ambassador to the U.S. András Simonyi said that an opportunity for modernization after 50 years of communist government motivated his nation’s eagerness for E.U. membership. Hungary’s participation in NATO, he said, has initiated a forward drive that he hopes the E.U. will perpetuate...
...patch-wearing Oscar-nominated director best known for the gory horror flick House of Wax (1953), one of the most memorable 3-D movies of the 1950s; in California. Admired and emulated by young directors from Martin Scorsese to Quentin Tarantino, de Toth once described himself as a "Hungarian-born, one-eyed American cowboy from Texas...
...hardly surprising that Hungarian novelist Imre Kertesz, 72, is not well known in the U.S.: only two of his books have been translated into English. But he is also somewhat of a stranger in his native country. His low profile may be in part because of the dense themes in his writing. Sent to Auschwitz at age 14 in 1944, Kertesz was transferred to, and subsequently liberated from, Buchenwald in 1945. He returned to Hungary only to endure communist rule for four decades. In his novels and essays he revisits the Holocaust, pondering, in the words of the Nobel Committee...
...University historian Ezra Mendelsohn, a leading specialist on East European Jewry. The story of Judit Kinszki, now available with 60 other interviews and 750 family photographs at www.centropa.org, begins with her great-grandfather - a journalist and lawyer who was among the first to represent minorities in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire - and ends in the present day. But the focus is on the years just before World War II. With a storyteller's eye, Judit describes an unlikely mixture of worldly and parochial, secular and devout, in 1930s Budapest. Her father Imre was at the top of his class...
...round the Hungaroring circuit three races later to give the team the constructors' championship too, with points totaling more than those of the next three teams together. Ferrari is so far ahead of nearest competitors, Williams and McLaren, that even they are getting bored with it. Interviewed after the Hungarian race, Ferrari's technical director Ross Brawn said, "Unfortunately, it's a bit like playing chess against yourself at the moment." He added, "They'll come back and beat us again, I'm sure." If the rest are to beat the Scuderia, they may have to wait until Schumacher retires...