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...first things you will notice in Budapest is that the famous Blue Danube is actually a murky gray. But this will likely be your only disappointment in the Hungarian capital, a vibrant city that is alive with art, culture, history and architecture. With scores of museums, three opera houses and more than a dozen thermal baths, there is much more to Budapest than goulash...
...periods of great prosperity. Thousands of local landmarks were destroyed during World War II or fell into disrepair during communism but Budapest is slowly returning to its former glory. The challenge for those with limited time is deciding which historic buildings to explore and leave time to sample delicious Hungarian pastries in one of the city's elegant...
Desirable Daughters is the tale of Tara Chatterjee, an Indian woman living in San Francisco in the late 1990s. She has divorced her billionaire tech-mogul husband and lives with her teenage son, Rabi, and her Hungarian “mistri,” Andy. Mukherjee carefully weaves among various incidents in Tara’s past and the unfolding drama of her present. Each foray into the past peels away another sari, unveiling heretofore unknown layers of meaning in Tara’s life...
...center named Reka Cserny who could do more than rebound and hit one-foot jump shots; she could drive inside, hit the three, and play great defense. Cserny scored 19 and grabbed eight boards in her Harvard debut, making her year-long sabbatical prior to this season with the Hungarian junior national team well worth the wait...
...September elections. Stoiber is premier of Bavaria, where many Sudeten Germans settled, and his wife is from a Sudeten family. "The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans cannot be justified under any circumstances." In Austria, Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel said the Czech government should voluntarily compensate the Sudeten Germans. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban also joined the fray. Noting that tens of thousands of ethnic Hungarians had also been expelled, from what is now Slovakia, he said: "This was another shameful event in the 20th century where Hungarians were on the painful, losing side...