By Elaine Donnelly
Extending sexual misconduct to combat units
Independent voices from the TWT Communities

With Friday's release of the final film in the franchise, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2," Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson bid farewell to the worldwide fantasy sensation but not to the tabloid attention they garner wherever they go.
Finally _ finally! _ the "Twilight" franchise embraces its own innate absurdity with the gleefully over-the-top conclusion, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn _ Part 2."
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson sit side by side on a sofa at the Four Seasons hotel, discussing the end of the five-film project that made them famous and brought them together.
Various Artists, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn _ Part 2 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" (Summit Entertainment/Chop Shop/Atlantic Records)

Mitt Romney begins the general election campaign at a disadvantage among female voters. Mr. Romney's trouble with female voters is explained in part by his inability to win over conservative women. To attract their support and votes, Mr. Romney should follow Rick Santorum's example.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania suspended his presidential campaign Tuesday, removing the final major hurdle for Mitt Romney to win the Republican nomination and marking the unofficial beginning of the general election battle with President Obama.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania put his presidential campaign on ice Tuesday, removing the final major hurdle for Mitt Romney to win the Republican nomination and turn his full attention to a general-election bid against President Obama.
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum's hospitalized daughter could be released soon, his campaign said Monday.
E.L. James' "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy, a word-of-mouth romance smash so erotic it's sometimes labeled "mommy porn," has been signed up by a paperback division of Random House Inc.

Some wag once observed that no one ever joined the chess team in high school to meet girls, but for this, our Valentine's Day column, we'd like at least to try to make the case that chess and romance can prove a potent pair.
There is a vast amount of flesh _ clear and smooth or wrinkled and mottled _ on display in the latest show at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, a retrospective of the work of Lucian Freud.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Sunday his daughter Bella remains in the hospital with pneumonia but is recovering after a rough 36 hours.
"The Twilight Saga" has staked out another huge opening with a $139.5 million first weekend domestically and a worldwide launch of $283.5 million.

There I was, thinking I'd never get to see a movie about a psychic, blood-drinking, half-human superbaby. And then I saw "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1."
Jackson Rathbone, a star of the "Twilight" movies, likened the wildly popular series about love between a human and a vampire to the story of Romeo and Juliet, as the next-to-last film in the saga was screened Sunday at Rome's film festival.
Santorum spoke with Florida supporters by telephone from 3-year-old Bella's hospital room and said doctors hope she can go home in the next few days.