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...firearms--routine in these times of terrorist threats. But the border cop in his bulletproof SWAT uniform took one look inside her car and immediately seized the contraband held by Sigalla's 8-year-old daughter: her lunch leftovers. "He looked slightly embarrassed, but he confiscated my McDonald's trash," Sigalla says with a chuckle. "Of course, you notice that I wasn't afraid to purchase a McDonald's hamburger, even in Canada...
...aged, overweight man who may be a "major supplier" of weapons to the insurgents. The room falls silent as Winston outlines evacuation procedures in the event that the troops encounter resistance at the house. Since Colgan's death, Winston says, the platoon's anxiety has grown. Every piece of trash now looks like a hidden bomb. "Everyone is afraid," he says. "If they're not, they're lying. People are cringing." Some soldiers have turned to God. Whiteside reads Scripture and recites the Lord's Prayer before leaving the gates. On the day of Colgan's death, Kamont, a lapsed...
...Rutgers players weren’t pleased either, as they complained throughout the game about the officiating, but their talk turned to a different target at the end of the game. Harvard’s players were seen off the court by trash talk from their opponents, a common feature in some leagues...
DESIGNING WOMEN: Painter John Currin knows how to sell his vision of art and trash...
Currin isn't the first artist to work at the intersection of art and trash. The kitsch shenanigans of Jeff Koons have been a major inspiration for him, and so has the later work of Francis Picabia--those painstaking oils from the 1940s that Picabia copied from naughty photographs. But in the mid-'90s Currin began to introduce old master borrowings into his work, at first conflating them with soft, pillowy porn, then working them into more conventionally scaled nudes and lately scattering them into satires of life among the well dressed and well fed. His art-history references come...