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...house with 31 other Pakistanis, sleeping in shifts. When his family was finally able to make the long trip over to England, his wife had all of five rupees in her purse and not a word of English. It's no surprise, perhaps, that the youngest Manzoor boy, Sarfraz, grew up in a household that stressed self-reliance and hard work, with no thought of pleasure. It's equally unsurprising that Saf, as he styled himself, growing up in unglamorous Luton, just wanted to have...
...manages to stake out his own life, more hopeful than his parents', not by becoming an assimilated Englishman, nor by turning to radical Islam, but by becoming, of all things, a Springsteenite. In the songs of the Catholic Bruce Springsteen, from New Jersey, the keema aloo-loving boy in working-class England finds a way to grasp his parents' dreams while also claiming new dreams of his own. From Springsteen, he breathes in a distinctly American sense of possibility, and the freedom of self-reinvention. Amid the regular guys and waitresses of a Springsteen concert, he also finds a community...
...once-great Paris restaurant Gusteau's. Here, the new Pixar movie Ratatouille tells us, he will be able to create superb dishes--if only he can find a human ally. His desperate choice: a callow scullery lad named Linguini. Remy, in the logic of animated features, understands the boy's words, but Linguini can't speak rat; so the two communicate through Remy's nods and brow furrowings. Somehow, the kid gets the message. "I can't cook ..." Linguini says, and the rodent shakes his head no. "But you can?" Remy answers with a Gallic shrug so eloquent it says...
...faces of NASCAR began to change. Even if some of the sport's beer-bellied fans didn't take to pretty boy Jeff Gordon, France thought Jeff was fine, as did lots of moms, daughters and little kids with poster-bedecked bedrooms. More interesting than Gordon's looks was his heritage. Born in California, he was a teen in Indiana. In an earlier time, such a kid would have dreamed of racing in the Indianapolis 500, maybe, but wouldn't have given NASCAR a thought. Now NASCAR was the big leagues, recruiting coast to coast, and everyone wanted...
ORIGINAL KID SLEUTHS The crime-solving chronicles of Frank and Joe Hardy, boy heroes in the Hardy Boys book series, were launched in 1927. Nancy Drew, who always found a mystery to unravel, also made an early literary debut with her series...