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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse's Sideshow | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...National Land Agency. Last month Okuno provoked protests throughout Asia by declaring that his country "was by no means the aggressor nation" in World War II. On a recent visit to China, which suffered at Japan's hands from 1931 to 1945, Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno apologized for that remark. But last week Okuno was at it again, telling the Diet that Japan "had no intention of invading China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Okuno the Outspoken | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...Thernstrom incident, any remark, by any professor, threatened to undermine academia's most cherished principle: the sanctity of the classroom. Any remark would make it a shade less true that there is something about what goes on in the classroom that removes it from the realm of debate--that whoever presides there is entitled to some unchallengeable prestige...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Policing the Academy | 4/20/1988 | See Source »

...candidate with the wimp factor, was captain of Yale's baseball team. And after his 1984 debate with Geraldine Ferraro, he indulged in some spontaneous male bonding with a group of dockworkers. "We kicked some ass," he said. The sports allusion, as well as the sexist content, of his remark is clear...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Boys and Sports | 4/16/1988 | See Source »

...remark applies both to the Milagrans and to the rich Anglos nearby who have plans to turn the area into a resort, complete with ski lodge, golf course, condominiums and a man-made lake. The developers are not interested in the resort's effect on Milagro's ecology and psychology. They are interested in Joe Mondragon (Chick Vennera) though. On a caprice, Joe has irrigated his parched beanfield with water destined for the resort, and now the land barons are flexed to strike back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Magic in New Mexico THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

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