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...Chief Spoiler In 2005, as an elected Iraqi government struggles to maintain stability, al-Zarqawi intensifies his bombing campaign, focusing on Shi?ite targets, with a view to starting a civil...
...problem and got trapped. In 2007, it will be immigration," he says. "This is not the time to talk about giving foreigners the right to vote. It's a time for rational and humane restrictions on immigration, and that's what Sarkozy is proposing." No question, then, that the spoiler of the 2002 presidential elections, National Front dinosaur Le Pen, is part of Sarkozy's calculations. Le Pen's personal popularity has shot up to 14% in recent months, thanks, apparently, to the riots in the banlieues last fall and the government's capitulation to the protests over labor-market...
...club coach Gene Kininmonth said in a January article on the team website, “If there is going to be a spoiler [to the proposal] it will be the ECAC, which currently controls men’s rowing nationally. I doubt it is about to willingly loosen its grip on the sport...
...solution, the one that literally sticks out, is the addition of a wing to the rear deck of all cars to replace the spoiler now in use, which is what racing outfits like Formula 1 have been doing for years. The wing retains the aerodynamics of a lead car, but the difference is that trailing cars get to play in smooth air and get the opportunity to make high-speed passes...
...aspirations for the Ivy League crown, and beginning both the regular season and conference schedules promisingly enough to bolster those beliefs, the Harvard men’s basketball team now finds itself in an all-too-familiar position: heading to Philadelphia and New Jersey to play the role of spoiler...