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...unspectacular, pay. There's a downside, though, including cutesy nicknames like "murses" for male nurses and "mannies" for nannies. And pop-culture stereotyping is hard to shake. Consider Ben Stiller's ridiculed nurse in Meet the Parents, Freddie Prinze Jr.'s fragile nanny on Friends and Eddie Murphy's hapless child-care provider in the upcoming film Daddy Day Care...
...broke his heart. When a young, brutish (and dog-hating) man known only as the Bosnian comes to stay, Cockcroft foolishly agrees to abandon the dog in Rome. Trekking home to his master, Timoleon Vieta, "with eyes as pretty as a girl's," charms food, ear tickles and hapless, bizarre love stories out of the strangers he meets. Disappointed love is the sole subject of Rhodes' two earlier books of short stories, and the dog's journey neatly leads his author back to this familiar and fertile form. His first book, Anthropology, consisted of 101 bleak and charming love stories...
...famous British comics The Dandy and The Beano. Even now, after stints as both a Ralph Lauren designer and a Hong Kong-based corporate artist, he has not forgotten his first love: witness the deliciously twisted (and unpublished) comic strip called Cheap Charlie: the Mental Moon, featuring a hapless backpacker adrift in psycho-tropical Thailand...
...strategy "is an acknowledgment that the very technology it has been peddling all these years has been tremendously complex and expensive," says Barry Goffe, a group manager at Microsoft. Palmisano is quick to fire back at rivals, who have pushed their expensive, "best of breed" tech solutions to hapless customers. "The so-called pure plays were supposed to kill integrated players like IBM every day," he says. "But their model didn't fulfill the economic promises it made...
Playing against familiar conference foe Colgate in the tournament consolation game the following day, Harvard took out its frustrations on the hapless Red Raiders (7-10-1, 2-4-0 ECAC), scoring eight goals and providing a comfortable cushion for freshman goaltender John Daigneau...