We drove past my old high school: there were bars on the windows where there hadn't been before I went to prison, armed uniformed guards out front where be-fore there'd been old-lady hall monitors with whistles, and I imagined that the bars and the guards were there to protect the students from me and not some teenage crazy in a trench coat stuffed with home-made ordnance.

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"There was a lady in some distress because she'd done a 180-degree spin and ended up across our driveway, " he said.

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Likely working in its favor: host network CBS strived to bridge generations (and capture a broader audience) with a series of duets, including Lady Gaga and Elton John and Taylor Swift and Stevie Nicks, as well as a 3-D tribute to the late Michael Jackson.

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