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As the 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...
It was Martha Stewart, in all her tarnished glory, who drew the news cameras, the spectators jockeying for good seats, the visit from Rosie O'Donnell. But it was the slight, soft-spoken 28-year-old Douglas Faneuil, in his plain gray suit and tie, who last week owned the...
Was it the dream of playing in a half-full Harvard Stadium? Was it the desire to have epic tales of Harvard-Yale games past to pass along to the grandchildren? Or was it the hope of participating in and winning the I-AA playoffs?
But Southernness not only stands for moderate, red-state politics. It also carries a cultural meaning, one that Clark hints at with his sad Mama tales: We're average people. In Edwards' new book, Four Trials, people are never just people--they are always "regular people" or "decent people" or...
Tales of machine-shop graft make clear that Saddam had a variety of secret ambitions, and, Kay said repeatedly last week, the Iraqis were doing all kinds of things in violation of international law. But the unspannable gap between the Administration's vast prewar claims and a thin postwar reality...