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...Boondocks” began its life as a comic strip, and its animated counterpart shares a plot setup: Huey Freeman (voiced by “Ray” girl Regina Hall) is a 10-year-old who lives with his brother (also Hall) and grandfather in a largely-white suburb of Chicago. Huey is unhappy with that particular aspect of the situation, and is the series’ narrator and social commentator...
...black street person,” says Young, “haunted by dreams of the father who never accepted him”—to battle Reagan’s forces. He takes up the superhero moniker Blackman, joins up with a counterpart named Rushon (a campy reference to Batman and Robin) and George W. Bush as The French Tickler, and the trio ultimately puts Reagan back to rest. “I wanted to see what would happen if I introduced two poor black street people into the mix,” says Young. With a troop...
...quick exchange of goals in the final period broke a lengthy scoreless lull.HARVARD 1, BROWN 1For all but a brief minute-and-a-half long span in the third period, Brown and Harvard found themselves locked in a defensive duel. Crimson netminder Ali Boe went toe to toe with counterpart O’Hara Shipe for the opening 43:25 of the game before she was beaten on a one-timer by Kim McManus and the Bears third line. But Harvard’s own young tertiary offensive unit answered back only 92 seconds later when freshman Jenny Brine forced...
Dissenters (many of them failed Ferberizers) are often drawn to his night-and-day counterpart, Dr. William Sears, another best-selling pediatrician. Sears' ideology of "attachment parenting" has achieved cultlike status among earthy mamas who wield their babies in slings, eschew pacifiers, breastfeed on demand and, at night, curl up with their babies in their (preferably king-size) family bed. Co-sleeping adherents believe Mom and Dad should actively parent into the wee hours, if a sleepless baby so desires. Opponents accuse the Attachmentites of sacrificing adult independence to infant whims and ask what happens when the grownups finally decide...
...through a process to ensure that the country would stay together." Moments before, an American reporter's eagerness to be called on provided a light moment during a serious and even tedious session. White House press secretary Scott McClellan, standing in the wings with his South Korean counterpart, called on Caren Bohan of Reuters to ask the second question from the U.S. David E. Sanger of The New York Times, the press corps' leader in covering North Korean nuclear issue, was so intent on asking a question that he accepted the microphone when it was handed to Bohan...