The "girl" in all these books is Lisbeth Salander, an independent young woman with a very dark and secretive past.

VOA: special.2010.08.18

Where had she been. The young man's kind eyes looked deeply into Sylvie's own dark gray ones.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

By the time he gets home, it is dark and his young children are in bed.

ECONOMIST: On the edge of town

Iurie, a young man with dark stubble on his face, looked tough enough to take care of himself.

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While Anonymous is often characterized as a group of malicious cyber-terrorists, they struck me more as a group of earnest young protesters with a dark sense of humor and a brilliant knack for viral marketing.

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