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...extricate his own mother. He writes of the outright racism that the Sikh experiences at Nairobi Airport, where British Asians are denied entry into Kenya without a visa despite every other British citizen being given free entry. Similarly vivid is Naipaul’s encounter with a Kenyan shoeshine boy who displays both an entrepreneurial bent and a streetwise cunning in trying to cheat the author. The book’s political analysis is as incisive as the best political journalism, and Naipaul presents the causes of Africa’s problems with rare balance and simplicity...
...enthusiasm, referring to the political state she's lived in. She's the sort of person who, if confronted with the anti-immigrant sentiment "Why don't you just go home?" would naively attempt to give an earnest answer, explaining about the limited educational opportunities for her smart teenage boy Fadi (Melkar Muallem) in West Bank, or how long her commute to and from Bethlehem became after Israel stepped up construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier. Or maybe she'd elaborate on what it felt like every time she bumped into the far prettier and thinner woman...
...pages of this magazine for doing something spectacular: choosing to be a renter. At a time when real estate riches were Topic A ("Home $weet Home," read the TIME cover line), the engineer, from Sacramento, Calif., decided to sell his house and move with his wife and baby boy into a rental. "Compared to owning, rent is cheap," he said back then...
...move forward without the Gang of Six? From the onset, many Democrats imagined a certain Central Texas boy twisting arms for Medicare and Medicaid. For them this president is all hat and no cattle...
Victims held captive for brief but intense periods aren't the only ones to display curiously positive feelings for the perpetrators. Shawn Hornbeck, a Missouri boy kidnapped and held captive by pizzeria worker Michael Devlin in 2002 for more than four years, identified himself as Shawn Devlin when he contacted the police to report a stolen bike just 10 months after his abduction - using his captor's name and giving no hint of what had happened. In an interview aired on CBS the year after Hornbeck was freed, the reporter noted that the boy's parents had requested that Shawn...