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Darrell Evans explains here how Hank Aaron used to try to fool pitchers into thinking he couldn't hit their worst pitch, thus increasing the chances of the hapless hurler eventually lobbing a fat one his way. There's good story about Billy Martin's verbal jousting with a New York Post reporter, as well as an uproarious account of ace hurler Jim Bunning's excellent adventure as a minor league skipper...
...American military power can come to an indecisive conclusion. Two years after the American invasion of Panama, that nation is once again a corrupt parody of democracy. One year after the liberation of Kuwait, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein remains in power, still repressing his own people and threatening the hapless Kurds, while the autocratic Kuwaitis pursue their own abuses against Palestinians in their country...
This game gave him one more reason to hate his one-time cross-town rival. With junior Matt Mallgrave leading the way, Harvard trounces the hapless Tigers...
Bush and campaign manager Robert Teeter worked out their New Hampshire game plan after the President returned from his hapless trip to Japan. Their strategy: take some blame for the economy, stress Bush's longtime ties to the state and, except for some well-placed reminders about the Desert Storm triumph, avoid foreign policy. Masking his patrician demeanor beneath a folksy veneer, Bush began dropping his final g's and r's with a vengeance, substituting "fixin' ta" for "going to" and quoting the lyrics of country- music songs...
Russian sentimentality can be honey sweet, but Tolstaya spikes it with the vinegar of the circumstances that afflict her hapless dreamers. The story of an 80-year-old mother who has spent most of her life caring for her retarded son is told in the voice of that man-child. His burbling narrative takes us through his day as he waits for his mother to rise, dress her thickened body and take up the constant guard she can never relinquish. Like the immobile, anonymous soldier guarding a tomb, she is always present but never animated as the pain...