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...final Ivy teams, Cornell (4-8, 0-3) and Yale (5-6, 1-3), are both in the depths of the league, but they are also the only two teams that have played both Harvard and Princeton. Nevertheless, all they can do now is perform the role of a spoiler for Brown, Dartmouth or Penn...
...Netscape, Lincoln devised a plan to stuff the graphics-rendering power of a $90,000 SGI Reality Engine--the machine that created the T. rex in Jurassic Park--into a $250 box. The result was a calculated delay. After missing its self-imposed deadline last summer, Nintendo played the spoiler last Christmas, cutting into sales of Sony and Sega's $300 32-bit machines by dangling the promise of a cheaper and even more powerful player this spring. Sales of new video-game systems, which had dropped from 27 million machines in 1992 to 10.5 million in '94, rose only...
Nader laughs at the notion that he might bow out to help Clinton. He considers Clinton pro-corporate America, anti-consumer protection and as averse to campaign-finance reform as any Republican. Besides, Nader adds, "it's hard to be a spoiler in a system that is spoiled to its core." He's already in next week's California primary...
...Although the roots of Buchananism as a political philosophy are varied--from Theodore Roosevelt to Catholic theology to the America First movement of the 1930s--the roots of Buchananism as a popular phenomenon lie much closer to home. Republican politicians who are looking for someone to blame for this spoiler in their midst should look in the mirror. Buchanan's populist demagoguery, his fatuous targeting of so-called elites, his pandering to white middle-class self-pity, his scapegoating of minority and outsider groups--all these are familiar themes of Republican rhetoric of recent years...
...fact of the matter is, even if an occassional Core class can be captivating, they have all taken on a certain reputation as being the 'spoiler' in every courseload--whether too boring, too much reading or just plain too required. Under this reformed system, semester final exams could happen in December and May, resulting in more peace of mind during winter break and the chance for second semester to start a little later, considering there is little hope that it will ever finish earlier...