Word: chadli
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...might have been because of the cardboard ballots used in the disputed counties. The machines that tabulate the punch cards often invalidate ballots in which voters have not cleanly broken through the perforated hole. A bit of cardboard chaff clinging to the puncture, officially known as a "hanging chad," is enough to confuse the counting machine, which helps explain how thousands of ballots can register a vote for some offices but not others. Of the more than 600,000 votes cast in Broward County, the machines found no vote for president on 6,686 ballots in a place that gave...
...still a little leery because it's so close," said Chad Perry...
...Leopards' second play of the drive, Yarberough ran by Harvard junior cornerback Willie Alford and senior strong safety Mike Brooks to get open deep, but junior quarterback Chad Ritchie overthrew him on the play. Yarberough beat Harvard deep again on the next play, this time victimizing sophomore free safety Niall Murphy and reeling in the pass at Harvard's 35-yard line...
After jumping out to a 38-7 lead late in the third quarter, the Quakers almost lost control of a commanding lead when an interception by Kenya Allen of the Leopards set up a Chad Ritchie to Stewart Kupfer two-yard TD to bring Lafayette to within ten points. However, Hoffman struck back with an 80-yard scoring drive to end the game. Harvard plays Lafayette next week in Easton...
...held it back. Now that the dictatorship is gone, new plagues - crime, unemployment, AIDS - are hurting the fledgling democracy. But next to the rest of the continent, Nigeria gleams today. Major wars are tearing at Angola, both Congos, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Somalia, and Sudan, while conflicts simmer in Burundi, Chad, Djibouti, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. And the United States is eager to school Nigeria's military in the ways of peace-keeping, at least in part to reduce calls on the United States to send troops to keep the peace in conflict-stricken Sierra Leone and other ravaged nations...