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...male was of the studious nerd, who was going straight to an enviable university to make his parents proud," novelist Zadie Smith tells TIME in an e-mail. "But a lot of the second-generation kids ... we weren't planning on becoming accountants. We wanted to get stoned, get laid and be cool, like everyone else. When I was 15, Kureishi was the only writer I'd ever read who seemed to be aware of this huge British demographic. He wrote about us not as if we were exotica, but simply as a self-evident part of British life...
...Kokang hill-tribe members fleeing violence in their small enclave in Burma's northeastern Shan state. By late August, the U.N. estimated that some 30,000 refugees had poured across the border into China's Yunnan province, as the Burmese military routed a small rebel force that had laid down its arms for two decades before a cease-fire crumbled in early August...
...that substantially cutting funding for smaller, non-LSC clinics was “an untenable choice” that would have been tantamount to eliminating them entirely.Lisa P. Dealy, assistant dean for clinical and pro bono programs, said that due to the budget cuts, three LSC employees have been laid off—an attorney, a receptionist, and a managing attorney who did not work directly with students and clients. According to London, LSC previously had 25 employees, nine of whom have been moved to Cambridge.Robert Greenwald, a senior LSC clinical instructor who will be serving as the Center?...
...others, and he said, 'O.K., we're going to get so-and-so to do this, and we're going to work with [Maryland Democratic Senator Barbara] Mikulski on higher education to do that,' and sort of divvied it up. He talked to [Connecticut Democratic Senator] Chris Dodd. He laid it out, he weighed in," Kerry says. "If Teddy was in treatment or doing something, Vicki would relay to me what we needed to get done...
...Quite a set of clothes had been laid out for that young man. In his mind and in the eyes of many others, he was flying toward the Navy Cross and, beyond that, a career in politics that would take the first Irish Catholic to the White House. With Joe Jr. gone, John Kennedy put on the outfit. He was a sickly, slight, half-crippled young man, but he managed to swell himself to size through cunning and courage and cortisone. Old-style politics, in the form of Chicago's Daley machine, boosted him across the Oval Office threshold...