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...months later, I sometimes feel like William Holden in Sunset Boulevard floating facedown in the pool with a bullet in his back. "The poor dope," he says, narrating from the afterlife. "He always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool...
...Craigslist Boston. Next: the installment of condom boxes at the reserves desk. Leave it to Harvard students to make a student center out of a study space. Lamont is not even efficient anymore, because its inhabitants are going insane. Not only do they not sleep (unless you count drooling facedown on a desk as sleeping), they have slim contact with the world outside the library. Sexual and social frustration is so thick in Lamont’s reading rooms that even the most chaste study-worm feels violated. Harvard students, liberate yourselves. Swing open those heavy doors and take...
Noah, her firstborn, was the last to die. The 7-year-old left his half-eaten cereal on the kitchen table when Andrea summoned him. Walking into the bathroom, Noah saw his sister facedown in the water, her tiny fists clenched. He asked, "What's wrong with Mary?" and then, according to the account Andrea would give police, he tried to run away. His mother chased him down, dragged the wailing boy to the bathroom and forced him facedown into nine inches of cold water in the tub, his sister's body floating lifeless next to him. Noah came...
...homeless man camped outside of the Quad Library, partially unclothed and brandishing a three-inch knife, landed himself an arrest last Thursday night after he was discovered laying facedown in a bush...
...Your Katrina photo-essay "Ghost Town" [Sept. 19] featured a reprehensible picture of a lifeless body floating facedown in the contaminated muck of New Orleans. That was disrespectful to the dead and their families. You may have intended to show readers the horrors of the aftermath of Katrina, but it was shock journalism. Michael Yonker Portland, Oregon...