Word: hapless
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...Shut out of the room, a hapless Daschle tried to play an outside game-rallying seniors against the measure. But Frist outfoxed him. He began huddling privately with top AARP officials last December and held some 15 meetings with them over the next 11 months. Frist was dogged, tracking down aarp executive William Novelli at home or on the road to trade ideas by cell phone on reforming Medicare. "I don't think they were used to that," Frist told Time, noting that Republicans had traditionally seen the group as being too close to Democrats. "But I made it clear...
This farce by Michael Frayn (Copenhagen) depicts the travails of a hapless acting troupe as they tour a sex comedy across Britain. As their tour progresses, romances wither and egos are bruised, and soon there’s more mischief being wreaked offstage than on. Recent revivals of the play in London and New York were well-received. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets $10; $5 students; $4 Adams House residents. Through Nov. 23. Adams Pool Theatre...
...previous two weeks returned in full force for almost the entire game. Linebackers Dante Balestracci and Bobby Everett mercilessly hounded Columbia quarterback Jeff Otis and running back Ayo Oluwole with a fierceness that implied they, too, were frustrated and angry by how this team has been playing. The hapless Otis received the full brunt of Balestracci’s aggravation in the second quarter, when the Harvard captain delivered a crushing hit that temporarily knocked the Lion quarterback out of the game...
Practice makes perfect: Conservative M.P.s in Britain last week dumped their third leader since forcing out Margaret Thatcher in 1990. The mutiny was smooth and quick. After the hapless Iain Duncan Smith - who had failed utterly to exploit Prime Minister Tony Blair's Iraq problem - was shown the door, the normally intrigue-prone Tory M.P.s quickly rallied behind one man: shadow chancellor Michael Howard, 62, who seems likely to become leader this week unopposed. But can this football-loving lawyer do any better than Duncan Smith? Howard, the son of Jewish immigrants, has sharp elbows and broad experience in government...
...with Ellen’s airport confession to Laura Dern. Since then, Jack McFarland has danced into our hearts with his delicious rendition of “Oops… I Did it Again,” and the Fab 5 have revealed the inner beauty of dozens of hapless heteros (you’d find it under those dead skin cells, boys, if you only exfoliated). Right...