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...size of a planet, and what does he have me doing?...answering the phone." It was a playful reference to the sci-fi cult classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In his home, police found fuses, blasting caps and three gallons of nitric acid in a cardboard box labeled DANGEROUS: DO NOT MOVE. McDermott had a firearms-identification card for rifles and shotguns that expired in 1999. Neighbors remember him as an unsmiling presence, but by Christmas he seemed to be in good spirits. "I've never seen him cheery, but he was acting cheery on Christmas," says...
...hate mail and death threats when he substituted for the Steelers' Terry Bradshaw for six games in 1974; of an apparent heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn. Forced off the team after two seasons because of drug problems, he pawned both of his Super Bowl rings and lived in a cardboard box before ending a two-decade struggle with substance abuse and becoming an addiction counselor...
...first-hand in Florida that turnout isn't everything. Thorough "get out the vote" drives produced record turnout thanks to first time voters, many of whom found themselves either fallen through the system's large cracks or somehow bewildered by the instructions that told them to punch through the cardboard and pick out the chad so the machine can read their vote...
...another contrast to last year, the candidates used fewer financial resources, concentrating more on "freely available resources"--those materials, such as cardboard and condoms, which the commission decides are available free to all undergraduates...
...seemed to bother Scalia was voter responsibility, as he hinted when he voted for the stay to halt "the counting of votes that are of questionable legality." The rickety old Votomatics are just hole-punching aids; if the voter has neither sufficient passion to puncture a piece of perforated cardboard nor sufficient intentness to follow directions and clean up his chads on his way to the to-be-tabulated pile, maybe magnifying glasses are too good for him. We make a voter make his way to the polls; do we demand so little of him from that point...