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Sarah has studied Mathematics in a variety of places, including in Hungary during the fall of her junior year. While there, she happened to pick up some Hungarian on the side. She also spent a summer at Duluth, a tiny city on Lake Superior. For ten straight weeks, every day for Sarah consisted of intense research with a small team of mathematicians. Unfortunately, she failed to come up with a yes or no answer to the problem she was attempting to solve, a question in graph theory. So, she asked the most trustworthy source of information: her 8-ball...
...little girl turned to him and said, "Jesus Christ was killed by the Jews, and because of that, all the Jews will be thrown into the Danube." The child adumbrated Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi bureaucrat who months later took charge of the deportation and extermination of Hungarian Jews...
Andris Grof survived Eichmann and more--including the Soviet occupation of Hungary (out of the Nazi frying pan, into the communist fire) and the abortive Hungarian revolution of 1956. That fall of '56, with thousands of his compatriots, Grof sneaked across the Austrian border in the middle of the night and then sailed to America. In New York City, he Americanized his name to Andrew S. Grove--Andy Grove. This immigrant's story has a gaudily triumphant sequel. In the fullness of the American dream, Grove became one of the founders of Intel (he's now chairman of the company...
...pages; $26.95), an astringently unsentimental memoir that may find its place on a shelf with such works as Angela's Ashes, George Orwell's autobiographical essay "Such, Such Were the Joys" and Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life. There's a touch of The Painted Bird, of a Hungarian Huckleberry Finn...
Early in the war, Andris' father disappeared to the Russian front with a Jewish forced-labor battalion. When he returned, half starved, at the end of the war, he described how Hungarian guards, on a bitterly cold Russian night, forced the Jewish battalion to strip naked and climb trees, "and the guards sprayed them with water and watched and laughed as one after another fell out of the trees frozen to death...