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Jesse says he plans to write in Simpson's character "Sideshow Bob" this November...
...GLOBAL FORUM, Flamengo Park and other city sites, Rio, June 1-14 The largest sideshow will be an ecological Woodstock for an estimated 12,000 people from "nongovernmental organizations," including environmental groups, human-rights movements, religious communities, women's caucuses, youth associations, trade unions and alliances of indigenous peoples...
...efforts to raise incomes and educational levels for the poor will have the side effect of lowering population growth. In the fastest-growing countries, however, population increases prevent development by sopping up investment capital that might otherwise improve lives. If the summit is to be more than a bureaucratic sideshow unrelated to ( the forces threatening the globe, it will have to do more than offer camouflaged references to the population explosion...
...only state where people could actually talk to the candidates in settings other than staged photo opportunities. Frightened by the middle-class recession, voters demanded of the candidates I-have-a-plan economic specifics and refused to be diverted from their high-minded commitment to issues by sideshow scandals...
...York's Jeffrey is bemused by the nominal confusion, saying it's "an annoyance more than a real problem." Harvard's Jeffrey, though, is not laughing. He says this has become a sideshow that distracts from serious matters at hand...