Word: spoilers
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...Playing spoiler is a wireless Internet access system called Wi-Fi that is increasingly available in airports, restaurants, hotels, subway stations and other public places. Originally intended for use in private home and office networks, Wi-Fi (which stands for wireless fidelity) isn't as sophisticated as 3G cellular. The small, stand-alone Wi-Fi transmitters that pass information between computers and the Internet have a range of about 90 m; you can't roam far from a base station without losing the connection. But blazing speed?data zips along at 11 megabits per second, more than five times faster...
...Neither side today has much faith in the other's desire for peace, but neither side wants to be seen to be the spoiler of Zinni's mission. The despair on both sides may, in fact, provide the best hopes for Zinni's success. Still, after the vicious bloodletting of the past two weeks, it may take more than one Marine to keep the peace in the Middle East...
...years later, Harvard (21-5, 12-1 Ivy) and Dartmouth (11-15, 7-6) have switched roles as champion and spoiler. Dartmouth enters the game having won four straight Ivy games over Columbia, Cornell, Brown and Yale, and will no doubt be highly motivated to close out its season by topping the league champ...
With five losses, Harvard’s only real recourse now is to play spoiler when the team visits first-place Yale in two weeks. Asked how he’ll motivate the team the rest of the way, Sullivan talked about wanting to win 16 games. Whether that goal will be enough to spark a team that couldn’t get inspired enough to beat Cornell with its season on the line, remains to be seen...
...Rashid Dostum, who controls a big chunk of northern Afghanistan and who has already announced that the Uzbeks will boycott Karzai's government. Dostum is angry that the three most important government portfolios--Defense, Interior and Foreign Affairs--went to his Tajik rivals within the Northern Alliance. Another potential spoiler is Rabbani, the Alliance leader who was President from 1992 to 1996 but was excluded from the new government. Intelligence sources in Islamabad say that Rabbani's men, using money from Iran, are paying off Pashtun elders in the eastern regions to oppose both Karzai and the return of former...