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...around the country, more kids find themselves shuttling between quietly seething--or outwardly warring--parents. Mom has to raise her darling baby boy with her bitterest enemy. Dad has to negotiate ballet pickups and preteen dating policies with an ex he would rather forget. According to Isolina Ricci, author of the groundbreaking book Mom's House, Dad's House: Making Two Homes for Your Childpublished in 1980, shortly after joint custody entered the legal system10% to 12% of divorcing parents continue to be hostile after their marriage is over. Today, she says, "learning how to navigate joint custody has become...
...Room,” this Open Mic night seems an awful lot like those of yore. Rather than being disappointed, though, let’s be encouraged. In a month that celebrates awareness and promotes acceptance, recognizing that BGLTSA students at Harvard are so similar to a bunch of preteen rock star wannabes leads to further realization that we may all be more alike than we thought...
Despite living the preteen dream, the cast members grow restless. In between chatting up devoted fans, Randy doodles beards and breasts on promotional pictures of fellow cast members. Cameran gets up close and personal with a poster of Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady from the JAMN 94.5 table. “Children, children behave,” Craig Goldstein, a promotional consultant for the event from Universal Consulting Group, sternly warns...
...their less evolved forebears, comic books, and if that's not bad enough, they have been saddled with that awkward name. (Maybe it would help if we called them tragic books?) They get sold in comic-book stores or shelved in that corner of Barnes & Noble that buzzes with preteen X-Men fans, a place where self-respecting adult readers fear to tread. No wonder Pekar wrote American Splendor for 27 years before mainstream America finally took notice. The graphic-novel business is reportedly worth about $100 million a year, but it still has no honor in the country that...
...career.) Murakami purposely engineers a neo-Pop Art universality to his work, making his art both effortlessly accessible and intellectually provocative?an ingenious feat. His sometimes sincere, usually ironic, often disturbing plays on the empty smiles and bright colors of cartoon cute are designed to appeal to the preteen in Tokyo who just wants a cell-phone strap with an adorable character on it, while also attracting the attention of the doctoral student in Frankfurt forever hunting for subversive subtexts...