The details remain hazy, but it casts a "Chinatown"-size cloud over Ray and probably accounts for the state of his marriage -- which is over -- and the fact that he's sleeping on his dad's leaky sailboat.

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He showed us how he's been sleeping rough.

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In the film, Fawcett played an abused wife who sets fire to her husband's bed as he lies sleeping.

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As if it couldn't get better, as "Linsanity" exploded in Manhattan last week, the news emerged that the point guard, new in town and unsettled at his job, was suffering through that humbling but familiar metropolitan ritual: He was sleeping on other people's couches.

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Then he helped collect the dead men's remains in a sleeping bag.

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He stayed in private homes, first to save money on hotels, then because he liked it and his hosts seemed to as well. (He continues this even now, sleeping in children's rooms, cramped Latino households and even more crowded Amish ones, often riding between them on his beloved Harley.) In November 2004 he won, by 53% to 45%.

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But people are respectful of each other's space, he said, and they rarely spend time together in the dorm room aside from sleeping anyway.

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Mr. Lin had been sleeping on the couch in his brother's living room, uncertain about whether he would be cut from the team, when he suddenly emerged from obscurity and began turning around a losing season.

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Dylan's body was found almost four days later by a walker who noticed what he thought was a child "sleeping in the sand".

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