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Renting a bunk in a half-empty fraternity house or sleeping in motels, Greg wandered the streets and sometimes attended classes in a daze. "One day in class I decided that President Bush was about to launch a nuclear attack against Russia to confuse the space aliens," Greg remembers. "I rushed out to a phone booth to tell Bush not to do it. I didn't get through." By April, Bob Aller was so concerned that he stormed into the research clinic and confronted Gitlin: "There's something wrong with your methodology. Gregory's sick! He needs help." According...
...fortune for all of his investors. Instead, once he arrived in New York, the snakeheads disappeared and he was left to fend for himself. He has no documents to certify his stay here. He lives in a one-room basement apartment with five other men, sleeping on three-tiered bunk beds. Anyone who can't pay the $100 rent each month is kicked out. He says he has only one goal for the future: to survive...
...Bibles kept by the door. The chapel crackled as flames consumed hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of equipment from the messiah's rock-'n'-roll band and the wooden pew-like bleachers for his audience. Table after table in the cafeteria burned, and rows of children's wooden bunk beds upstairs, as the flames spread faster, through the attic that ( ran the length of the building like a wind tunnel. It burned fast because it was built on the cheap, a tar-paper, yellow-pine and plasterboard crematorium...
...lesbians, military service means a life of unflagging vigilance and tactical deception. The adversary they fear most does not speak a foreign tongue. Rather, the enemy lies as close as the next bunk. At military bases across the country, homosexuals describe an existence that at best is tentative, guarded and supported by discreet networks. At worst, it can mean snickering colleagues, witch hunts and dangerous "blanket parties," during which the victims are held beneath covers, then beaten senseless. Until now, the military's homosexuals have had to live with the uneasy knowledge that exposure of their secret could mean expulsion...
...flinty violence that made Eastwood famous. Frontier life was no idyll; it was filth and boredom punctuated by dumb gunplay. Manhood: why, that's just male vanity, and women can be mutilated for mocking it. The idea of straight shooting as an earnest of heroism -- that's bunk too; it was mostly drunks killing drunks. Unforgiven even gets you musing about death in the movies. "It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man," Will tells a young hombre (Jaimz Woolvett). "You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna." The punk says, "I guess...