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...Compare that with the way Indians embraced Arundhati Roy after she won the Booker Prize in 1997 with her debut novel The God of Small Things. Sure, Roy wrote in English, but she lives in New Delhi not New York and is therefore considered a worthier Indian writer - as if geographic location is the only true measure of ethnic and cultural fidelity. "Can it be true that Indian writing, that endlessly rich, complex and problematic entity, is to be represented by a handful of writers who write in English, who live in England or America and whom one might have...
...Dartmouth 14PRINCETON (2-1, 1-0) VS. NO. 21 HAMPTON (3-1)Factoid courtesy of football beat writer Brad Hinshelwood: This is only the second matchup between an Ivy team and a squad from a historically black college, and the first in 23 years. Hampton (most famous alum: Booker T. Washington) boasts a lot of offensive firepower in quarterback T.J. Mitchell and receivers Jeremy Gilchrist and Kevin Teel, while the Tigers are more subdued offensively (second in the league in rushing attempts). It’ll be an interesting contrast in styles and probably the most competitive game...
...mostly Ivy League-educated law school graduates, under the age of 50. They preach a message of optimism and unity. This new generation of young black mayors, governors, congressmen, and senators includes 2006 senatorial candidate Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee, Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78, and Alabama Congressman Artur Davis...
...While all Democrats, these men tend not to fit the typical Democratic mold. Booker supports school vouchers, Obama champions tort reform, and Ford and Davis oppose same-sex marriage. Unlike many of their African-American predecessors, the mayors appointed non-black public schools chancellors (Fenty) and police chiefs (Booker) to govern majority-black cities...
...seemed like a perfect union of literary acclaim and Bollywood glitz. He: a Booker Prize-winning author and one of India's most acclaimed literary exports. She: a gorgeous model-turned-actress turned cooking-show host. Little wonder then that this week's announcement that Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi are splitting after just three years of marriage is front page news across India, the country of their births if not their main residence...