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...defies the laws of sociopolitical physics: a young man of low birth and no formal education amassing a fortune by answering obscure questions on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Yet Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), a sweet-souled 18-year-old, aces questions about Indian history because he's lived through it--just barely. He's grown up in obscene and criminal poverty with his tougher brother Salim (Madhur Mittal). Jamal wants to stay on the show long enough to attract the notice of his lifelong love, Latika (Freida Pinto), whom he's lost...
...British Justice Minister Shahid Malik notes, the assault on Gaza is causing collateral damage even among non-violent, moderate British Muslims. "There is a real feeling of helplessness, hopelessness and powerlessness among Britain's Muslims in the context of Gaza," Malik told The Guardian. "The sense of grievance and injustice is both profoundly acute and obviously profoundly unhealthy...
...Obamas have descended on Kogelo to celebrate an event so improbable--so audacious, to use their American cousin's word--that, as Malik says, "it's beyond comprehension." The Jor'Obama have gone from barefoot subsistence farmers to the U.S. presidency in two generations. Many still live the life of their grandfather, growing maize, millet and sweet potatoes and tending cows, chickens, goats and ducks. As the first-born son of the first-born son, Malik is the clan head, and at night the men build a fire outside his hut, drink moonshine and talk...
...used had been made and could recite the lives of those who had made them." And so it is. Among the gathering Obamas are cousins Olga and Sasha, whose father married a Russian; cousin John Kennedy, who changed his name when he moved to the nearby city of Kisumu; Malik's brother Sadiq, who has brought his daughter Shami from Britain; and uncles Patrick, Tom and Elly and all their sons and daughters from Kendu Bay, who brew the moonshine behind their huts on the southern shores of Lake Victoria. The Luo, the Obamas' tribe, have no word for cousin...
...Hawaii, where he met and married Ann, a Christian, and had a son--who, at 47, will become the first black President of the U.S. There are so many unlikelihoods in his story that an Obama victory seemed like a fairy tale. As Election Day approached, I told Malik I was getting nervous for him. "Look, my father might have gotten a scholarship to someplace like Brazil, and none of this would have happened," he said. "My brother is not supposed to accomplish even half of what he has. It's meant to be impossible." And yet it happened, says...