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...confirmed the list's authenticity earlier this month, but noted that KGB "reservists" were not necessarily agents, and that the presence of these men in government does not compromise national security. Opposition members are still insisting they step down. In yet another case of "wild," or unregulated, lustration, the Hungarian think tank Political Capital released its own list of 60 alleged collaborators last month, the first of what Krisztián Szabados, the organization's co-director, says are 150,000 Hungarians known as agents or informers. The aim is "to pressure the political élite" to open the files...
...DIED. EPHRAIM KISHON, 80, Hungarian Holocaust survivor and satirist whose novels sold more than 43 million copies in 37 languages; in Switzerland. After surviving the Nazi death camps, Kishon fled to Israel, where he wrote news columns, novels, plays and films. Although he never found a wide audience in the English-speaking world, his works were widely read in Europe and Israel; his 1980 novel, Sefer Mishpahti, is the best-selling book in Hebrew after the Bible. Kishon appreciated the irony of his success in post-war Germany: "It is a great satisfaction for me to see the grandchildren...
...Dirtiest Trick" article [Dec. 20] in general expresses a fair and objective view on the matter, I want to point out that western Ukraine was never in favor of separatism as the article implies. It was, rather, a cultural separation as the western Ukraine was formerly under Austro-Hungarian and then Polish rule, as opposed to central, southern and eastern Ukraine, which were Russian. When Ihor Derzhko, deputy chair of the regional legislature in Lviv, was quoted, saying "the orange revolution has fused us with the rest of the country," he meant that the rest of the country - except maybe...
...help him realize his vision, Seligman invited Ray Fowler, then the long-reigning and influential CEO of the A.P.A., to join him in Akumal. He also invited Hungarian-born psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced cheeks sent me high), best known for exploring a happy state of mind called flow, the feeling of complete engagement in a creative or playful activity familiar to athletes, musicians, video-game enthusiasts--almost anyone who loses himself in a favorite pursuit. By the end of their week at the beach, the three had plans for the first-ever conference on positive psychology, to be held...
After spending the summer before her freshman year practicing English, Hungarian native Reka Cserny ’05 had the language almost down—almost. She could understand when others spoke to her, but she says she often had trouble responding...