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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...
...violence that started in the French suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois and spread to over 30 towns and cities has led the French government to temporarily impose a curfew and ban public gatherings. After weeks of rioting in the French Arab and African communities, the situation appears to have calmed down. But the calm is illusory, as the main underlying causes of the riots will most likely remain unaddressed...
Harvard students studying abroad in France say that they have been generally unaffected by the recent rioting in the suburbs of Paris and cities across the country and have found themselves reassuring worried relatives back home. The reason, many said, was that they live and study in central Paris, which was left largely untouched by three weeks of violent confrontations between rioters and police. “I haven’t seen major panic in the Parisian streets, maybe because I live rather far away from where the disturbances that are taking place.” said Glenda Aldana...
...town of Hamden, Conn. has little, if any, of the hustle and bustle of 5th Avenue. A far cry from the East Side, Hamden is a quiet suburb, easing the transition from urban New Haven to rural Chesire. Most of Hamden was originally a farm whose vestiges still linger on as stone walls in backyards and undeveloped fields. At its outskirts, Hamden is a liquor store and a gas station with barely paved roads and population densities approaching zero. Near New Haven, Hamden is schools, large colonials, and parks interspersed with restaurants and bars. But most of Hamden lies between...
...naturally, when people criticize my suburb for its defining simplicity, it stings a little. When New York friends tell me they have “suburban day” at their high school when they dress the same, unfashionable way or when people criticize Boston as a diet city, it makes me question whether I want to live in New York and adopt that perspective...