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When my host sister Kinga and I walked outside after dinner, however, the sky in front of us was graced by one of the brightest rainbows I'd seen in a long time. The entire arc and a fainter, second arc were visible against the clouds above the open fields that stretched from the edge of town. One end terminated near a red-brick church spire atop what might be the town's tallest building—over six hundred years old, according to Kinga...
...turned to Kinga and asked if she knew the legend about rainbows. She didn't, which was unsurprising. Although Winnie-the-Pooh and Disney princesses are popular, American legends like the one about leprechauns apparently haven't made it here...
...explained leprechauns and pots of gold to Kinga, I saw the rainbow end distinctly at the edge of a forest that might have been a kilometer away. I wondered whether to go after it, but I reasoned that leprechauns probably don't hide their gold in places where no one has heard of them. So instead, I just watched the rainbow slowly fade into the evening sky—not the same as a fireworks display, but still a pretty good show...
Polish sociologist Kinga Dunin, writing in the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, described the difference between the two groupings by invoking potatoes, again. If the Kaczynskis are plain old tubers, she wrote, the Civic Platform politicians are French fries. The cut is different and their appearance may attract more consumers, but "the thing is that French fries are made of potatoes and it is not possible to hide it." To be sure, some things will change. What critics regard as Jaroslaw's preference for loyalty over competence - evidenced, they say, by key appointments in his Cabinet - may not be repeated. And some...
Hungary continues to insist the effort is benign. Kinga Gal, a senior official helping to oversee the program, says Budapest's main concern is illegal immigration from poorer neighbors once Hungary joins the E.U., as is expected by 2004. Providing a leg-up to ethnic Hungarians in countries outside an expanded E.U., she says, might dissuade them from rushing the border in years ahead. But analysts point out that Hungary may also be using the law as a way of importing cheap labor to make up for a shortage of skilled workers...