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Even Aaron Altman, the hapless network correspondent in Broadcast News, could not have imagined a worse nightmare than the one that befell CBS on Sept. 11. The news division had already weathered a truly awful year of layoffs, dissension and drooping ratings. Then, on that memorable Friday, network technicians switched to a studio in Miami for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, only to find an anchor chair without Dan Rather. He had left the set minutes before, miffed that coverage of a U.S. Open tennis match was running over. The result was an unprecedented six minutes of empty...
MORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK by Saul Bellow. An eminent botanist is the hapless hero of the Nobel laureate's rueful, comic tale of love and money among the intellectuals...
...days following his dramatic return from Elba, Hart dominated the television screens like a Mikhail Gorbachev in cowboy boots. Even as he peevishly decried the power of the media, he launched his revival by dominating the news and eclipsing the hapless six other Democrats, who were stuck at yet another of their interminable debates...
Much of the blame lies with his unwillingness to heed warnings about his hapless state organization. One top Iowa supporter, former State Party Chairman Ed Campbell, finally got his attention by asking, "How do you sleep at night?" With that, the usually unemotional candidate exploded into profanity and demanded an accounting from his organizers. He has since named his third state coordinator in a year, and the new team is scrambling to make up lost ground...
...sitting in the dappled shade of a banana grove near Lake Victoria. By the time Mama Alice went into hiding two weeks later, seated on a bicycle that was being pushed by half a dozen still loyal followers, as many as 6,000 Ugandans had died in the hapless cause of lakwena...