1.   Amid all the brouhaha over the Florida election dispute, the case of Atwater v. City of Lago Vista was argued recently before the Supreme Court.

2.   After the bitterness and strain of last five weeks in the election dispute, he seems to want to be a good loser.

3.   But Powell later acknowledged that it was premature for the governor to begin naming his cabinet until the election disputes are resolved.

4.   But the PRI mayor, Salvador Ramos Salazar, said he did not believe that the election dispute had made the rebels attack the town.

5.   Dole, who has been mentioned as a possible intermediary to settle the election dispute, may simply have been practicing the lines he would use on Al Gore.

6.   Fahlbusch said the matter should be settled in the Florida courts and contended that federal courts traditionally have abstained from intervening in election disputes.

7.   Federal courts are usually reluctant to get involved in election disputes because they generally involve state laws.

8.   Everyone in Denver, where I visited my mother before traveling to Terlingua, was talking about the Bush-Gore election dispute.

9.   For two solid weeks, the Gore campaign has insisted that the election dispute was a matter of Florida law and should be settled in the Florida courts.

10.   Geopolitics becomes a matter of orphaned children and firsthand experience with politicians who settle election disputes through beatings and killings.