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...Florida court's ruling amounted to the creation of a new law after the election--a breach of the federal Electoral Count Act of 1887, a law previously untested in court and exhumed recently by G.O.P. archaeologists. The law was written about a decade after the last truly chaotic American election, the Rutherford Hayes-Samuel Tilden race of 1876, when Hayes became President after the wheeling and dealing of competing slates of Southern electors...
Several directors say that despite PBHA's perennial struggles to fund the summer programs, they run relatively smoothly after directors finish the chaotic fundraising...
...ambivalence. We end by looking at a split screen, like one of those old campaign buttons that shows you one image (Gore) if you look at it from one angle and a different image (Bush) if you tilt it slightly. I seem to see Clinton enter smilingly upon the chaotic scene: "Say, if y'all can't make up your minds, why don't we just...I mean, if it ain't broke...
Hand recounts are "arbitrary and chaotic" and should not be included in any final count, he said...
Protestors hawked their balloons among the chaotic mix of students rushing to class and the vociferous vendors of Yale-bashing T-shirts...