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3:15 p.m. Already exhausted, I walk four more blocks through ankle-deep slush to another store for toothpaste. I select some, proceed to a separate counter to a cashier with an abacus, pay the bill, then go back to the toothpaste counter with a stamped ticket to pick up...
There is merit to this argument, but American elections are never quite the low-risk Tweedledee-vs.-Tweedledum contests they sometimes appear to be. It is sobering to recall that even the landmark struggle between Kennedy and Nixon was once widely belittled as an echo, not a choice. As Kennedy...
One set of forms, which the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance stamped at 9:16 a.m., reported campaign expenditures of $6140.54 and a surplus of $507.56 for the months of September and October.
Although the culprits--the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity--were never apprehended, the incident stamped an image on MIT that lingers to this day--pranksters too nerdy to field their own football team.
After providing apparently satisfactory answers to this and other questions, I am waved on, the possessor not only of a newly stamped passport but also of a sense of just how far the final few feet from Mexico to the U.S. really are.