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That innocent remark can serve as a metaphor for Jackson's ill-focused California primary campaign. Jackson's challenge to Michael Dukakis is at best a sideshow to the "real" campaign between the Massachusetts Governor and George Bush. As Jackson scurries around California, he gives the appearance of a candidate who has rhyme but not reason to keep going. He flits from issue to issue, earnestly discussing relations with the Soviet Union, denouncing crack- dealing youth gangs and even trumpeting plans for the exploration of Mars. The closest Jackson has come to finding a focus for his diffuse California campaign...
...bureaucracies who routinely play out roles in public drama, ignoring any number of weighty female public figures. Carla Hills, Juanita Krepps, Anne Armstrong, Nancy Kassebaum and even Massachusetts' own Margaret Heckler have escaped Harvard's notice. One exception is Anne Gorsuch-Burford. But never mind, hers is just a sideshow in the public drama starring William Ruckleshaus...
...There are many other questions." The central issue, these experts agree, is how to protect those in society who are most vulnerable, regardless of age. "The 'intergenerational equity' debate," insists Ronald Pollack, executive director of the Villers Foundation, an advocacy group for the elderly, "is a diversionary and dangerous sideshow...
...actual sports event, between a team from Denver and another from the nation's capital, was really only a sideshow to the biggest commercial extravaganza of the year. The broadcast's real highlight came when Pepsi and Coca-Cola unveiled their brand new commercials...
...treaty is not the first to require reductions in the number of nuclear weapons (SALT II provided for limited cuts), the summit did not represent a victory for his SDI program, and he was not able to make human rights or regional issues anything more than a sideshow to the business of arms control...