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After leading Labor to its worst defeat since 1918, Foot was expected to announce at the party's convention this October that he would step down. But the hapless chieftain did not even have the privilege of announcing his own departure; instead, an overeager union official named Clive Jenkins made the news public after a chat with the party boss...
...program on which Rather was the reporter. On the air, interviewers on 60 Minutes fearlessly ask the right questions, have the goods on somebody and end up "It's On the outtakes of the December 1979 segment titled "It's No Accident," Rather is shown chasing some hapless fellow through a parking lot, and as he catches him he cries victoriously, "Adios - see you on television!" Alas, he had good wrong fellow. The rest of us ordinary mortals should have it as good as these cutting-room reporters, their failures left on the cutting-room floor...
...Feud is further evidence of how deeply Berger remains committed to his marvelously skewed sense of language and the hapless bipeds who use it. The novel is set in the small-town America of the late 1930s, a place and time frequently celebrated in nostalgic memory. It has been said that life was less complicated then and that the Depression bound families to a common cause. Perhaps, but in Berger's small neighboring towns of Millville and Hornbeck, such pretty thoughts do not have a prayer against ornery pride, low animal cunning and the mayhem loosed by the crazed...
...retreat. No longer. Unglued by record spring rains, a 125-ft. wall of muddy earth swept into nearby Spanish Fork Canyon two weeks ago, backing up the small Spanish Fork River for two miles and creating a natural lake, 50 to 80 ft. deep, that has swallowed up the hapless hamlet. Residents of the town's 22 homes fled, and no lives were lost. But despite attempts to drain the new lake, the water has continued to rise at a rate of 4 in. an hour, fed by melting mountain snow. At least part of Thistle could be underwater...
...already injury-riddled lacrosse squad--five starters have been hobbled with recent injuries--seemed stunned by Pew's first half injury Saturday, and it could only manage a 4-2 halftime lead over a hapless Cornell squad But with just 20 minutes left in the game laxwomen went on a scoring spree, similar to the ones the Crimson had enjoyed earlier this year...