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Less than a year after Horthy's reburial, the parliamentary elections swept the conservatives out of office and brought back the "moderate" wing of the former communists, now called Socialists, who promised economic reforms. But on a visit to Budapest this past summer, all I heard were complaints: the gap between rich and poor was widening, and most people felt closer to the latter than the former. One woman in her forties, who works for a new "capitalist" enterprise, told me: "I come from a working-class family. Before 1989, my parents and I could count on several weeks' vacation...
...dollars away in a culture that's completely alien to them and weakens them," he says. The established media were betting that all roads pointed online; what's more likely is that online media will merely take a place alongside more traditional outlets. Radio didn't disappear when television swept America, after all. Online journalism may well end up as "class" rather than mass media. The Journal has already shown that Net folks will pay for special-interest feeds...
...Braves' hitters woke up. For the first 7 games of the playoffs the Braves hitting was nonexistent. Although the Braves swept the Dodgers in the divisional round, that victory can be attributed to the pitchers. Even the Braves' hurlers, however, could not be counted on to continue to deliver wins with only two or three runs to work with...
...Harvard women's volleyball team swept its three matches over the weekend, boosting its record to a respectable (5-6 overall...
...away two groups of Chinese protesters intent on reaching the disputed specks. Last week the Chinese got their first martyr--a Hong Kong activist who drowned after leaping overboard to symbolically claim the waters for China. Beijing, which had encouraged the confrontation to tweak Tokyo, now worries about being swept up by the populist fervor...