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...always have someone stealing your car, you'll always have a housebreak, and domestic violence," Pasquarello says...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Targets Pockets of Hidden Violence | 4/19/2000 | See Source »

...resident of Francis Avenue reported a housebreak...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

Even in the Peabody neighborhood, where housebreak-ins rose nearly 77 percent last year, thesubject of the community meeting two weeks ago waswhat residents termed a more pressing concern thancrime: zoning...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Community Policing Drive Faces New Obstacles | 3/24/1999 | See Source »

...wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker, evoked a "proliferation of songs glorifying rape, sado-masochism, incest, the occult and suicide by a growing number of bands." Zappa announced that "the complete list of P.M.R.C. demands reads like an instruction manual for some sinister kind of toilet-training program to housebreak all composers and performers." Nebraska Democrat J. James Exon suggested ominously that "unless the music industry cleans up its act, there might well be legislation." Singer Dee Snider showed up in tight jeans and a cut-off T shirt and fought past his nervousness to tell everyone that the band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock Is a Four-Letter Word | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...born in 1918. "I got myself in the habit," he recalls, "to top my own father, a notable teller of tales." The psychoanalytically inclined may draw their own conclusions. But it is fairly clear that Legman enjoys a magnificent case of outraged moralism and is trying to housebreak his readers by rubbing their noses in libidinous filth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Japes of Wrath | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

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