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Young-adult novels, as the genre used to be called, still center on disenfranchised adolescents who could be direct descendants of Holden Caulfield. Now, though, says Stephen Roxburgh, president and publisher of Front Street Books, "the heat has been turned up." Front Street helped bring so-called bleak books to early teens in 1997 when it published one book set in a juvenile-detention facility (Adam Rapp's The Buffalo Tree) and another in which a 13-year-old sleeps with her mother's boss (Brock Cole's The Facts Speak for Themselves). They were followed by Melvin Burgess...
Jeremy Harris of the British Broadcasting Corp., Ian Glover-James of Independent Television News and Angus Roxburgh of the Sunday Times of London also were given two weeks to leave the Soviet Union, Lyne said...
...Roxburgh said he and the other British journalists were told by Braithwaite that the Kremlin had ordered them and the diplomats to leave "because we had engaged in impermissible activities...
...Needless to say, I find the accusation ludicrous, almost too silly to comment on," Roxburgh said...
...With 8:38 left, McGill's Dave Roxburgh added a third goal and teammate Pete Burgess scored directly off the next face-off to cut the Crimson lead to 5-4, Harvard, lapsing offensively and careless on defense, was suddenly in a hockey game again...