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...snowy woods of central Wisconsin, "Blankets" tells the story of Craig Thompson's coming of age in the austere world of a fundamentalist Christian family. Blankets of various kinds become the book's motif, starting with the opening scene. As a boy Craig must share his bed with his younger brother Phil, causing an argument over the blankets. Their stern father thumps up the stairs and looms over them like a giant, forcing Phil to spend the night in the dreaded "cubby hole" under the stairs. The guilt that Craig feels over not protecting his brother becomes even more acute...
...Holworthy residents said they realized they had been burglarized in the early morning when Vikas Patel, who lives in one of the two suites, awoke at 8 a.m. to prepare for class. The last suite resident had gone to bed at approximately...
...Virginia, the colony that had proposed the resolution. His four colleagues had other committee assignments that they considered to be more important, and none of them realized that the document would eventually become viewed as a text akin to Scripture. As for Franklin, he was still laid up in bed with boils and gout when the committee first met. Besides, he later told Jefferson, "I have made it a rule, whenever in my power, to avoid becoming the draughtsman of papers to be reviewed by a public body...
...throw out a Texas law prohibiting private homosexual conduct. The Texas case arose in 1998 when a neighbor with a grudge called the Houston police to investigate what he claimed was a disturbance next door; the cops arrived to find John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner in bed together and arrested them under Texas' antisodomy laws. The men were each fined $200 and spent the night in jail. Once the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, hopes rose among gay activists that maybe some of the Justices were ready to reconsider how far the right to privacy extends...
...Cost of a bed-size burial plot in downtown Tokyo's Aoyama Cemetery...