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...presentation creeps into the picture. Watching The Hours, one finds oneself focusing excessively on the unfortunate prosthetic nose Kidman affects in order to look more like the novelist. And wondering why the screenwriter, David Hare, and the director, Stephen Daldry, turn Woolf, a woman of incisive mind, into a hapless ditherer. Gentlemen, she was only a part-time madwoman. Most of the time, she possessed one of the most interesting sensibilities of her century...
There's a Gerhard Schröder joke making the rounds in Germany that perfectly captures the hapless Chancellor's predicament. Schröder tries to console an unemployed architect, telling him, "If I weren't Chancellor, I'd be building houses." The irate architect shoots back: "If you weren't Chancellor, I'd be building houses, too." Barely two months after he won re-election by a wafer-thin margin, Schröder's handling of the country's sputtering economy has made him the most unpopular leader in postwar Germany. People feel betrayed and lied to by Schr...
...Saudi intelligence in conjunction with the CIA to recruit young Muslims from around the world enraged by this infidel occupation of a Muslim land, bring them through Pakistan to Afghanistan, train them, arm them, organize them into a kind of Islamist International Brigade and let them loose on the hapless Red Army. That program helped drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan in 1989, but it also built the foundations of the movement known today as al-Qaeda...
...bombings across Indonesia that left 19 dead over Christmas 2000, in which Samudra said he played an instrumental role, three of the attackers died when their devices exploded prematurely. Even more telling is the story of the last bomber Samudra personally sent out on a mission before Bali: the hapless Taufik Abdul Halim. According to his own court testimony, Taufik was dispatched to a Jakarta shopping mall in August 2001 with a bomb concealed in a plastic bag. He reached the target, but the bomb went off before he could escape, blowing off part...
Colgate (5-7-1, 2-4-0) was outskated and outshot, 43-26, as Harvard took out its aggression from Friday’s loss on the hapless Red Raiders...