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...prolong the length of their little boy's "innocence," my parents stooped to spectacular deceit on Christmas Day 1985. Having already safely planted the presents and consumed the milk and cookies, my parents procured a dollop of cotton from the medicine cabinet, and affixed this to a partially-ajar fireplace door. Catching sight of this bit of "evidence" the next morning, I was aghast. I approached the fireplace gingerly, treating the vicinity like a crime scene. I barely wanted to touch the cotton, for fear of disrupting the original confirmation of this landmark discovery. My parents suggested that Santa caught...
...must remain on the floor of the convention stage at all times? Otherwise, who is to say a presidential nominee and spouse will not try to top the passionate Gores in summer, 2004? With what result? No point in saying that politicians making out have to leave the door ajar, and the lights on. In Los Angeles, the global door was open and the lights were blinding. Al and Tipper's performance was the work of a society relentlessly evolving beyond the need for privacy (and maybe for reticence...
...HUPD officer observed an unoccupied car parked with a door ajar. Fireworks and marijuana were found...
...Police found a door to Lehman Hall ajar. Two units checked and secured the building...
Detective Kate Battan still sees it in her sleep--still sees what she saw that first day in April, when she was chosen to lead the task force that would investigate the massacre. Bullet holes in the banks of blue lockers. Ceiling tiles ajar where kids had scampered to hide in the crawl space. Shoes left behind by kids who literally ran out of them. Dead bodies in the library, where students cowered beneath tables. One boy died clenching his eyeglasses, and another gripped a pencil as he drew his last breath. Was he writing a goodbye note...