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Such writers as Hanif Kureishi have pushed immigrant longing against the liberations of rock 'n' roll before, but never with the sweetness and forgiving candor of Manzoor. The night he discovers Springsteen, thanks to his Sikh buddy, he had spent the evening massaging his father's feet. The effect of "The Boss" is so galvanic that his pal actually shaves off his beard and abandons his ritual turban. But Manzoor himself never has the heart to turn his back on his parents entirely, noting with typical wryness: "By high school my friends were starting to drink and I was starting...
...Bush spent half his time at lunch listening to Senators like Sessions complain and the other half making an impassioned plea, telling Senators that the immigration problem has become one of national security. He also told the room about Marc Mares, the president of the Coast Guard Academy class of 2007, where Bush delivered commencement remarks on May 23. Even though Mares' grandfather might well have entered the country illegally, his grandson was well on his way to a life of distinguished public service. (It is a story Bush has mentioned in several speeches about immigration since...
...still considered a war hero. Initially, Mladic found protection under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic, but even after he was forced from office in 2000, Mladic continued to receive a pension from the Serbian military. The general was last spotted in public in Belgrade in 2005, where he had spent several years moving from one apartment to another to escape detection...
Both Blair and Caroline Hoxby lived in Eliot House as undergraduates and attended Oxford on Rhodes scholarships. Blair Hoxby, who has spent most of his career at Yale, served as a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center in the 2004-2005 academic year...
Since Hoxby first arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1984, she has spent virtually her entire adult life in Cambridge. She received her doctorate from MIT in 1994, four years after returning from Oxford, and was immediately hired by Harvard as an assistant professor...