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...proved unable to gain a consensus for economic reform. Indeed, Jobbik's gains among rural voters appear to have come at the expense of the MSzP, formerly the champion of the lower class. Many of the party's supporters have been attracted to its extremism. Jobbik's leader, Gabor Vona, is a founder of the Magyar Garda (Hungarian Guard) paramilitary group, whose anti-Roma rhetoric and adoption of nationalist symbols also used by World War II-era fascist groups have triggered alarm across Europe. The Hungarian Supreme Court banned the group last year, but while it was still active, many...
...name derives from job, a word meaning "right" or "better" - garnered 14.8% of the votes in the country's European elections with a campaign themed around the Arpad stripes, the nationalist flag that was co-opted by Hungarian fascists in the 1930s and 1940s. The party's chairman, Gabor Vona, 30, also chaired the Magyar Garda - or Hungarian Guard - a private militia that appeared at Jobbik rallies and marched through scores of Hungarian villages as part of its self-proclaimed mandate to protect "ethnic Hungarians" against the 6%-10% of the population of 10 million that are ethnically Roma...
...simple: it is distrustful of outsiders, opposes foreign ownership of agricultural land and is proudly Christian. After the group was founded in 2003, it erected crosses across the country in protest against the foreign commercialization of Christmas. "We provide the most authentic and clearest answer for problems," says Vona. "And we express the wish of a lot of people that Hungary should belong to Hungarians." (Read: "Murder Mystery: Who's Killing Hungary's Gypsies...
...Harvard--Jamie Ames (4), mike Porter, Mike Agrillo, Chip Linehan; NH--Eric Presbrey (3), Chris Geier (3), John Daley (2), John McConaghy (2).A: Harvard--Porter (3), Agrillo, Paul Faust, Dan Nicklas; NH--Presbrey (2), Daley (2).S:Harvard--Chris Miller 14; NH--Brian Vona...
...dash--1. Jones (H) 48.27.2 Garrick (BU): 3. Garrant (BU): 4. Martin (BU): 5. Aldridge (H). 600-yd. dash--1. Ward (BU) 1:11.39: 2 Kirk (BC): 3. Murrer (H): 4. Higgins (NU): 5. Ward (NU). 880-yd. run--1. Bunney (H) 1:52. 18:2. Vona (BU): 3. MacKinnon (NU): 4. Higgins (H): 5. Curtin (Brandeis). 1000-yd. run--1. Fischer (BU) 2:11:32. 2. Sargeant (NU): 3. Sheehan (H): 4. Walter (BC): 5 Kovach...