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...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...
...League Championship outright and finish the year undefeated and untied for the first time in over 80 years. This is the last chance for Harvard’s seniors to defeat Yale, an accomplishment they have not yet attained. Yale will try to play the spoiler. But this year, there’s no Eric Johnson...
...League Championship outright and finish the year undefeated and untied for the first time in over 80 years. This is the last chance for Harvard’s seniors to defeat Yale, an accomplishment they have not yet attained. Yale will try to play the spoiler. But this year, there’s no Eric Johnson...
...brilliance at times this season. The Big Green started the year on a tear, losing to reigning Ivy Champion Penn (5-0, 3-0) by one point, after a PAT was blocked with just over a minute to go. Then, one week later, Dartmouth came through in the spoiler role by upending Yale...
...with a third party we might have a chance at a two-party system again. I don’t think Nader ran a particularly strong campaign. There’s a tendency for both parties, for everybody in the process, to treat a third party candidate as a spoiler. And as long as that mentality is with us, the third party candidate doesn’t really get a fair hearing...