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...kids' novel about a plucky orphan who is not Harry Potter? What awful timing! Happily, though, Curtis (a Newbery Medal honoree) has conjured a hero just as mesmerizing but grittier. Ten-year-old Bud Caldwell ditches his foster home in Depression-era Flint, Mich., and heads for the jazz clubs of Grand Rapids in search of his long-lost dad. A gentle diva, based on Flint's own Betty Carter, shows Bud that a family exists whenever folks decide to stick together. Kids will take to Bud's hilarious advice for "becoming a better liar." But be warned: they...
...HUPD Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley said yesterday that, as the campus's top law-enforcement officer, his priority will be to inform students about the dangers of the drug...
That includes wacky Uncle "Pull my finger" Bud. "You've gained weight!" he'll say by way of greeting. You will engage in long conversations with people you've never met, about people you'll never meet...
Association officers said they have yet to present Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley with a mission statement and proposal for a labor management committee, as the ad said the association would...
...gloom-and-doom scenario, the Federal Reserve Board will not be satisfied with such modest rate hikes. In order to nip in the bud any renewal of inflation, the Fed will begin an aggressive tightening of credit and deliberately push interest rates much higher still. That will cause a chain reaction. It will knock stock and bond prices much lower, make consumer buying and business investment more difficult to finance, and maybe put a stop to what is about to become the longest economic expansion in U.S. history...