Word: jakes
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America has become a society that makes too much of its living by marketing its own Impure Thoughts: a corrupt dynamic. Secular realists reply to the idea of abstinence with some snorting variant on what Hemingway's Jake Barnes told Brett Ashley at the end of The Sun Also Rises: "Isn't it pretty to think so?" (Jake's problem was not sexual indulgence, of course, but the reverse--grim chastity enforced by a war wound.) Get real...
...defensive weapons to its arsenal; the Lions lost only two defenders to graduation. Defensive tackles Eric Keck, a first-team All-Ivy selection, and Frank Congiusta once again anchor the Lions' crucial defensive line, while Rory Wilfork, who had a team-leading 127 tackles in 1994, and Jake Lill both return at linebacker...
Ralph Waldo Emerson's statement "To be great is to be misunderstood" was made for Dole. For that reason, it was nice to read your balanced report about him. After studying Dole for years, I'm ready to follow the man across the Pacific in a leaky rowboat. JAKE M. COLLINS Rochester, New Hampshire...
...closely watched case of a University of Michigan student who published a violent sex fantasy on the Internet and was charged with transmitting a threat to injure or kidnap across state lines, a federal judge in Detroit last week dismissed the charges. The judge ruled that while Jake Baker's story might be deeply offensive, it was not a crime...
...federal judge in Detroit dismissed charges against Jake Baker,the former University of Michigan sophomore who was expelled and arrested for publishing a rape-murder fantasy about a fellow student on a computer bulletin board. The chance that Baker, 21, would serve five years in prison for "transmitting a threat across state lines" (electronically) had frightened other online provocateurs and promised to be a test-case for censorship in cyberspace. TIME's Wendy Cole, who has interviewed Baker, says he severely regretted naming the other student in his fiction. Judge Avern Cohn, in his dismissal order today, noted that...