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...boundaries of acceptable public speech and behavior are pushed ever outward (nice job, Janet and Justin), it gets harder all the time to find the line between frankness and prurience - especially in young-adult literature. British novelist Melvin Burgess was clearly astride it last year with Doing It, an explicit (not to mention popular) story of schoolboy lust that he defended as realistic but many denounced as misogynistic pornography. And Burgess has plenty of company; in fact, with teen-fiction shelves groaning under the weight of cautionary tales about sex, drugs, divorce or delinquency, it's little wonder many young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sharper Image | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...garbage bags and hurl them into space, the Mars project will be essentially a domestic spending program. The bucks will be spent in the good ole U.S., for the most part. They'll be used to pay top-notch technicians, engineers and scientists plus manufacturers--a worthwhile subsidy indeed. Frank L. Cooke Tallahassee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 16, 2004 | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...victim told the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) that she was groped by a male on a bicycle at around 4:30 p.m. on Mount Auburn Street near the post office, according to CPD spokesperson Frank D. Pasquarello...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Groped Near Post Office | 2/13/2004 | See Source »

...Frank Levy, however, an employee at Technical Services, thought the presentation was informative, if not somewhat confusing for someone without a firm grounding in financial terms and concepts...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Library Heads Explain Announced Layoffs | 2/11/2004 | See Source »

...spokesperson Frank D. Pasquarello said an unidentified male, pushing a mountain bicycle, approached the victim from the opposite direction, grabbed her and fled on his bicycle...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Groped on Holyoke Street | 2/11/2004 | See Source »

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