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...note puffed on it; or when Nemo, now in an urban setting, is pursued by apartment building on long metallic legs; or when he, Flip and Imp get lost in overgrown weeds - the eyebrow of Nemo's grandfather. In a strip that ran on New Year's Eve, 1905, Father Time leads Nemo through a celestial hall of file cabinets. When the lad holds any large number - 9, 15, 25, 48 - he instantly becomes that age, until he's a creaky 99-year-old. That wakes him up in no time...
...Mexico City suburb of Michoacan, Javier Navarrete is still stretching his logging company wages to provide for his wife and the four children, including Mario, who remain at home. College, he told his progeny, was too much of a stretch. "Sorry, but there's no money," Mario remembers his father saying. He also remembers his father's amazement when told that, yes, there was money. "He didn't cry. I wanted to but I held it back," Mario says...
...much as premises go, but under Michael Lehman's relaxed but not inattentive direction, it'll do, especially as there are some nice little turns in the story. Johnny has an attractive father (Stephen Collins), who's capable of igniting a spark in Daphne, which at least relaxes some of her tension. One of Milly's sisters is a psychiatrist with a funny patient. There's even an unsolved mystery: What went wrong in Daphne's relationship with the girls' father? It must contain an explanation for her being such a busybody and it may have something to do with...
...seeking to find a successor to the aggressively pious Increase Mather, Class of 1656, the Corporation finally ended up in 1708 with John Leverett, Class of 1680, Harvard’s first lay president and its first lawyer. Cotton Mather, Class of 1678, who had hoped to succeed his father, was so furious at this rejection that he combined with like-minded dissidents to found a college in the Connecticut colony which would eventually settle at New Haven. The last clerical president, the Reverend Thomas Hill, Class of 1847, who resigned in 1868 to accept a better-paying...
...same can't be said for others. "Obama's mother is of white U.S. stock. His father is a black Kenyan," Stanley Crouch recently sniffed in a New York Daily News column entitled "What Obama Isn't: Black Like Me." "Black, in our political and social vocabulary, means those descended from West African slaves," wrote Debra Dickerson on the liberal website Salon. Writers like TIME and New Republic columnist Peter Beinart have argued that Obama is seen as a "good black," and thus has less of following among black people. Meanwhile, agitators like Al Sharpton are seen as the authentic...