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Kureishi has been attracting controversy since his Oscar-nominated screenplay for 1985's My Beautiful Laundrette, about a young, gay British-Pakistani making it - and making out - in Thatcherite London. The discovery that he could shake things up was wonderfully liberating, particularly for the son of a Bombay intellectual stuck commuting from a dreary London suburb to work as a civil servant in the Pakistani embassy. "My parents' generation were immigrants, who nobody noticed, and who didn't want to be noticed," he says. "Then came my generation." The boy who was called "Pakistani Pete" by a teacher for whom...
...they remain fiercely protective of its existence. A "We Love the NHS" Twitter campaign has received thousands of messages of support, including one from Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose eyesight was saved by doctors after a rugby accident as a young man. Conservative opposition leader David Cameron, whose disabled son died earlier this year, also confirmed his commitment to the service...
Exceedingly smart move. Since the summer of 2005, house prices in Sacramento have plummeted by half. Choe and his family - which now includes a second son - watched from the sidelines until the end of last year. That's when the Choes moved back into a home of their own, a four-bedroom they plucked out of foreclosure at a 35% discount from what it had sold for two years earlier. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
...price-to-rent ratios. "It's when you see large divergences that it matters." After all, there are other considerations that go into the decision to buy a house. When Choe bought last fall, he figured the air was still coming out of real estate, but his older son was about to start kindergarten, and he wanted to settle into the right school district. "My thinking was, It's not the bottom, but it's gone down enough," he says. (See pictures of modernist houses available for rent...
...Tatum, for instance, praises a white man for recognizing the “inescapability of his privilege” over blacks. When her son asks her how they—middle-class African-Americans—are underprivileged compared to working-class whites, she tells him, “‘as a young black male, you are underrepresented, and that is a different kind of disadvantage.’” Her assumption that blacks’ representation must match their percentage of the population strips individuals of the ability to make their own choices...