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Enter Jack F. Kemp, Bush's ebullient secretary of housing and urban development and probably the most formidable Republican alive. An also-ran in the 1988 Presidential election, Kemp champions what Republicans need most--and Democrats fear most--in the emerging post-Cold War era: a compassionate, yet conservative solution to poverty and urban decay...
John Turner is Canada's most famous also-ran. The Liberal Party leader stirred up last November's elections with impassioned attacks on the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, but failed to sweep Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney out of office. Last week, conceding the need for "fresh leadership," Turner said he would resign after a date is set to choose a successor. Likeliest prospect: Quebec's Jean Chretien, a former Justice and Finance minister...
...godsend to the Wan White Way of the '80s. With three striking exceptions -- Dreamgirls, Big River and Into the Woods -- pretty much every noteworthy musical of the decade has been a revival, a recycling of old songs, an import (generally from Britain) or a critical smash but commercial also-ran. The current season, which by Broadway's calendar began in May, is more miserable than most. Its first American musical, Carrie, actually a slightly postponed holdover from last season, closed within five performances at a record loss of $7 million. The sole entry since, Legs Diamond, a quirky blend...
...political favoritism began to fly almost as soon as Energy Secretary John Herrington announced that Texas had won the competition for the $4.4 billion superconducting supercollider (SSC), designed to be the world's ! largest and most powerful atom smasher. Led by Arizona's Dennis DeConcini, Senators from several also-ran states protested to President Reagan that "there is a widespread perception that this decision was based . . . on political and other factors." They called for an investigation by both the General Accounting Office and a commission of "nationally respected physicists." Other legislators issued similar complaints...
...length of the basketball season makes it difficult to predict a champion. Over the course of half-a-year, injuries are bound to occur. An injury to a star player--say Michael Jordan of Chicago--quickly can make a contender an also-ran...