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...hapless Pittsburgh Pirates finished in last place in the National League Eastern Division this year, amid scandals of drug use by players...
Lafayette capitalized on Columbia turnovers to blank the hapless Lions, 20-0, Saturday at Easton...
...Harvard, the test is to adjust from playing a highly motivated mediocre team in the first half of its season opener against Columbia Saturday and a hapless mediocre team in the second half...
That score gave the Crimson, which had appeared hapless at the half, four touchdowns in less than eight minutes...
...scenes on the gritty sidewalks of Manhattan allow Berger to find a more congenially savage mode, incorporating an authentic urban snarl into his impeccable diction. His hapless narrator enjoys perfect security by disguising himself as a wino ("That there is no effective form of defense against a derelict is an irreducible truth of city life"). Even the deposed Prince of Saint Sebastian hustles a string of personal appearances, with the Firm as his agent. But these passages make up a mere fraction of the book. As for the rest, one can only agree with a neighborhood hooker who unburdens herself...