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Michael Burry, the provocative fund manager whose bets against the housing market were chronicled in “The Big Short,” appears to be closing his hedge fund, a securities filing shows.

Yet in a provocative new book, The Caste Con Census, scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde warns that the exercise may harden the deeply discriminatory caste system, when the need is to dismantle it.

The only grandson to the late former president JFK, Schlossberg, 32, is best known for his provocative and outspoken political commentary online.

"Their single-minded pursuit of this issue has clouded their judgement," Mr Cheetham said, adding Rose's "very presence was seen as provocative".

Manzo’s death stood out because of his provocative media presence, as he demanded that authorities beat criminals into submission — or kill them.