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...start of Jane Smiley’s latest novel, a Hollywood director tells his girlfriend he wants to make a movie in the bedroom, about the bedroom. He would call it “My Lovemaking with Elena” (like “My Dinner with André”). It would be dominated by pillow talk about the Iraq war, and it would be art.Elena tells Max, “I don’t think that people would see it like that. Don’t you think the penetration would be the news, and that...
...Cheryl Lynn Noel, a church-going mother: Shot and killed after grabbing her legal handgun when masked intruders—a SWAT team—stormed into her bedroom in Baltimore. The justification for the assault? Police investigators had found marijuana seeds in the family’s trash...
...University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds points out, bringing battlefield tactics to the bedroom blurs the line between "soldiers" and "police." Soldiers are trained for "killing people and breaking things," which is incompatible with the police’s (theoretical) commitment to maintaining law and order with as little violence as necessary. When the police are breaking down doors as if Boston were Baghdad, it gets hard to distinguish the armed forces from the public servants...
...Hills, N.Y., was found in the apartment alive and transported to Mass. General Hospital, where he remains in critical condition, according to Steve MacDonald, a spokesman for the Boston Fire Department (BFD).The cause of the fire was determined to be a candle burning in a bedroom that came in contact with combustible material, MacDonald said. The fire built up such force that it burned through the roof, causing an estimated $1 million in damage. “It’s a terribly tragic thing for the university community and for the family and friends of the individuals...
...ground by thanking and kissing her wife: "I was kissing her because that's what you do. You kiss your loved one when you win an Oscar." She also reveals where she'll keep her Oscar: "This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom...