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With both cups full it is difficult to walk, laugh, or even talk without spilling. "They should make it so you don't have to move like you're walking with a stack of books on your head," says Timothy Mangus...
After the distribution of 1 votes, candidates' surplus votes are distributed to the second choice on particular ballots. For example, if Alice Wolf's quota is 3000 votes, and she receives 3500, 500 random ballots are pulled from her stack. Then, each ballot is placed in the pile of its 2 candidate...
Gabianelli will look to All-Ivy split end Scott Truitt for help, and may get some. But the Big Green backfield is weak, and the line, despite some frightening size in guys like tackle Slade Scuster (6-4, 270-lbs.), may not stack up against Harvard in the trenches...
...hullabaloo this week about a fancy new plan to require a balanced budget, I renewed my quest to track down the National Debt. You'd think it would be a cinch to find, big as it is. Remember Ronald Reagan's describing it in February 1981 as being a stack of $1,000 bills 67 miles high? I joked that they might have it piled on the Mall to scare tourists...
Excitement grew. Last Wednesday I hailed a cab and set off for the Bureau of the Public Debt, division of public debt accounting. I passed the Washington Monument, tall and splendid in the morning light, but only one six-hundredth as tall as Reagan's stack of $1,000 bills. Pressed on around the Department of Agriculture. What pikers! They have only 240 million bushels of surplus corn stored away. A nod down Independence Avenue to NASA. It would take one of their space shuttles nearly a year and a half in orbit reeling out end-to-end dollar bills...