Word: tumultous
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...Waiting for change? Don't hold your breath For all the grousing about the current situation, and the tumult it so memorably precipitated over the weeks following the election, most constitutional scholars agree that sweeping changes are unlikely. We're a nation fond of tradition - particularly our own - and while we're probably ready for some serious overhaul to the ballots themselves (perhaps in the form of federalized voting standards - no more chads!) it won't be easy to convince the political establishment to vanquish a voting methodology as old as the country itself...
Pusey left Harvard a little over a year after the tumult, citing a need for a new president from a younger generation to begin the "fresh chapter" that was starting in the University's history. He would not have reached the mandatory retirement age, until which many had expected him to serve, for another three years...
...comfort from the knowledge that most other advanced nations have voting methods at least as shopworn as ours. All of Japan uses paper ballots on which voters write in candidates' names themselves. On the other hand, sometimes the old methods have their points. The ancient Greeks, who invented the tumult of democracy, voted by tossing stones into a bowl: white for yes, black for no--hence "blackballed." There is no recorded problem of "hanging chads," though chipping might have been an issue. Best of all, it was cost effective. Rocks can be reused every year...
...lead a popular revolt. He did. Kostunica didn't want events to be settled in Belgrade's streets, but once the revolution started, his simultaneous exhortations for freedom and peace helped ensure that it remained bloodless. True to form, Kostunica displayed little emotion during the tumult. And as the uprising abated, he assumed the duties of head of state with such purposeful dispatch that an inauguration seemed anticlimactic. Analysts in Belgrade termed the overthrow of Milosevic "a miraculous event," but the ease with which Kostunica embraced his historic calling was something of a miracle...
...spirals of retribution will only lead to greater loss of life. Almost 100 people have died over the past two weeks, near 90 of them Palestinian. The ensuing anger on both sides makes peace seem ever more unrealistic. But these deaths, especially those of children and bystanders to the tumult, remind us of the high price of failure...