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...thought to reality. The fact that a day's rainfall can paralyze the economic hub of India speaks volumes about the complete lack of basic infrastructure and disaster-management techniques in this country. The government machinery was totally overwhelmed by the floods and started providing relief only after the hapless residents resorted to massive street protests. Now we find the bureaucrats playing a blame game. Have these officials given a thought to improving the city's infrastructure and preventing such calamities in the future? If we can build nuclear weapons and launch satellites, why can't we have efficient services...
FORGET THE "HAPLESS TOAD...
...heads of state of some democratic nations who steadfastly believe that massive wars are necessary to solve the terrorist problem. Nearly 90% of the people of some European countries were against their leaders' war plans. It is therefore an even greater challenge for mankind to contain that handful of hapless, disruptive individuals. Most kids in Leeds or Baghdad deplore terrorism and oil wars equally. Kerstin Laurell Rome
...Species Act. Roberts argued that the plaintiffs should at least be granted a second hearing by the full court because the Constitution's commerce clause, which says Congress may pass laws controlling interstate commerce, was being misapplied; it does not authorize Congress to pass laws protecting, he wrote, "a hapless toad that, for reasons of its own, lives its entire life in California." Legal experts wonder if he might use this reasoning to attack other laws, not just environmental laws, that are based on broad readings of the commerce clause...
What we know: Neville is Gryffindor's most hapless dork, but he consistently shows unexpected depths and is never far from the action. He fits the same prophecy as Harry...