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...then, on April 29, the spoiler: Raymond L. Flynn, the popular former mayor of Boston and ex-U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, announced that he would not challenge L. Scott Harshbarger '72 for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Instead, he said, he was joining the race for the Eighth...
Curiously, rather than being a boon to the nascent hypertext-fiction movement, the Web is seen as a spoiler: "The regrettable rump faction says we lost the hypertext movement when the Web came along," says Joyce. "No one knows yet how to make this a popular medium." Why? "The Web is all edges and without much depth, and for a writer that is trouble," he says...
Harry James must have sensed it too, because he had hired Sinatra, then a scrawny spoiler in his mid-20s, to sing with the band. Present at the creation, James could not have read the signs. The title of an early Sinatra-James hit was one of those anthemic declarations of defiance that, over the years and through the decades, was to form the Sinatra autobiography: All or Nothing...
...Trent Lott, meanwhile, was in his usual spoiler's role; his proposal to scrap price supports for tobacco farmers and replace them with a buyout program drew snipes from Democrats, who accused Lott of bursting the bipartisan bubble the bill had enjoyed thus far. Responded Lott: "If you don't want us to try to find a way to deal with children smoking and drug abuse by children . . . go right ahead." The upshot: this could take a while...
...addition to finishing its season away from home, Harvard faces stiff opposition in all three games. Yale, although not at the top of the Ivy standings, has the potential to play the role of the spoiler, as it showed earlier this season with a 74-72 overtime upset of Dartmouth...