Two other stories in this section, "The Scarf" and "Secret, Silent," offer frank redemption.
But amid the scripted answers and silences, many officers opened up to offer frank and graphic accounts of policing the riots (with Liverpool police proving particularly forthcoming).
Some of the retired military leaders whose blunt statements about war strategy have rankled the Pentagon defended their right yesterday to offer frank assessments about military progress.
However, it is important to strike a balance between the benefits of transparency and protecting the ability of officials to offer frank advice.
Lena Dunham, the writer and star of the HBO comedy "Girls," landed a multimillion-dollar deal this month to write a book that will offer "frank and funny advice on everything from sex to eating to traveling to work".
Other policies Method started to maintain harmony between employees include a "come clean survey," in which employees offer frank answers to a variety of survey questions the company publishes anonymously and distributes company-wide.
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This plan includes access to confidential testing, counseling, and youth-friendly health services that can offer frank information about how sexually active young people can protect themselves and their partners.
In long letters (addressed to "My Dear Friends" or "My Dear Sister"), Mrs. Fay offers frank opinions of everyone she meets, and every place, while portraying herself as the plucky heroine of her own epistolary novel.
Meanwhile, out on the outskirts of the universe, China Miéville's Embassytown (Macmillan) is set on the planet of Arieka, where humans coexist with alien hosts; and behind bedroom doors back on Earth, Alan Bennett offers frank and funny tales of sex in middle life with Smut: Two Unseemly Stories (Faber/Profile).
