Word: tinkers
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Given Florida's tough laws governing absentee ballots (instituted in 1998, after fraud led to the removal of a Miami mayor), it seems dubious to let party operatives tinker with signed ballot applications. But the proposed remedy--throwing out all 15,000 ballots--seems extreme. The Democrats "have a strong case if we insist on following technicalities," says University of Miami law professor Mary Coombs. "But ultimately the application went out to the right person, who ended up being able to vote for whom he wanted. Tossing out the ballots seems to be a very peculiar remedy for the harm...
Dennis Green is a lunatic. The Minnesota Vikings' head coach sat down last off-season to tinker with a football team that had made the play-offs eight straight years, featured explosive wide receivers Randy Moss and Cris Carter and running back Robert Smith, and had as good a chance as any other team to get to the next Super Bowl. Just adjust the dials a bit, right? Not by Green's logic. He went for a thorough overhaul. Dispense with the veteran leadership of Jeff George and Randall Cunningham at quarterback, and give the ball to a second-year...
...whether these undervotes were even legal votes at all. Clearly they had some further questions about the Florida Supreme Court's second shot at reading (and, arguably, writing) Florida law, and clearly they didn't like what that decision had wrought. And they seem poised to do more than tinker with the details...
Lonnie Johnson had come home to tinker again. In 1982 the young nuclear scientist spent his days developing advanced space systems for the Strategic Air Command. At night, while his wife and kids slept upstairs, he used mathematic and scientific formulas to launch his own dreams from the basement. He had built a model of a heat pump that used water instead of unfriendly Freon. Attaching a homemade nozzle to the end of tubing and connecting it to his bathroom sink, he carefully turned on the water. It shot out a stream so powerful that its air currents ruffled...
...meeting Wednesday, now in a whole different context than anybody expected. The Fed won't move, but it may tinker with its bias, and in the current Washington vacuum, Alan Greenspan's voice could have strange reverberations...