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...PAROLED. KOBE SCHOOLBOY KILLER, 21, who at the age of 14 became a symbol of Japan's youth crime wave when he decapitated an 11-year-old boy in Kobe, Japan; after spending more than six years in a reformatory; in Tokyo. The killer, whose name has never been released, also admitted to bludgeoning a 10-year-old girl to death with a hammer. Upon his release, a lawyer who represented the killer said he "has grown up a lot in a short period of time...
...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 readers scurry off to the fantasy section instead...
...four 90-minute training sessions a week - plus cross-training on alternate days - with the ultimate goal of getting into the ring to beat the hell out of each other in front of crowds. The attraction? Says Lacey, "Death or glory. Boxing is a chance to make their schoolboy fantasies come true." Now the club is set to expand to Germany, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Lacey has had the most requests from Germans (and the German media), though he's not sure why. "Maybe they like seeing other people get hit," he says with a shrug. The Real...
...Death or glory. Boxing is a chance to make their schoolboy fantasies come true...
...years of I Love Lucy and the slow slide into irrelevance with a string of Lucy knock-offs. But I'll bet you didn't know this about Lucille Ball: "She once took an open-cockpit plane up in weather 20 below freezing to effect the rescue of a schoolboy...