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...race will now enter a chaotic phase. Democratic leaders have stacked many primaries and caucuses in early March to create an artificial stampede for a consensus nominee. But this frantic schedule means that just when the candidates should be gradually introducing themselves to most voters, they have to embark on a merciless two-week media-market march through 14 primaries and 10 state caucuses, climaxing with 11 contests on Super Tuesday, March...
...probably overrated, and the disadvantages -- repression, numbing conformity -- are widely ignored. But the myth that racial homogeneity engenders unity is the root of discrimination against anyone who is not Japanese. Accustomed to the efficiency and uniformity of their own country, the Japanese are frightened and shocked by the seemingly chaotic nature of American society. They tend to believe that America's racial and cultural diversity are weaknesses, not strengths...
...became chairman of the state Democratic Party, a post that required him to devote himself to shaking down fat-cat contributors. In less than two years he raised $2 million -- but spent much of it on an outsize personal staff and other infrastructure at the party's chaotic office in San Francisco. That performance seems to clash with Brown's current lecturing. "Only last year he spearheaded an effort to throw out contribution limits. He was against many of the things he now says he's for," says Susan Estrich, Michael Dukakis' campaign manager in 1988. Concurs Republican political consultant...
Gomes has been a minister of Memorial Church since 1970, and from the pulpit he has seen the University pass through an often chaotic two decades. All the while, he says, the University has remained, as the last lines of "Fair Harvard" would have it, "calm, rising through change and through storm...
With about 60 parties fielding candidates, the run-up to Poland's first truly independent parliamentary elections next weekend has been chaotic. But at least emigre businessman Stanislaw Tyminski, founder of Party X, won't be there to kick the electorate around anymore. Earlier this month he flew home to Canada, disheartened because Party X, which claims 4 million supporters, was denied a place on the national ballot on account of signatures on its qualifying petitions that were discovered to be false...