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...trousers in the credit crunch. Iceland's Straumur Bank, CB Holding's major shareholder, is itself in the midst of restructuring after being bailed out by the Icelandic government in March. In Spain, once mighty Valencia is effectively controlled these days by local lender Bancaja, its major creditor, after hapless management and a soured stadium-development plan left the club about $725 million in debt. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
Seven days later, junior goalkeeper Lauren Mann’s six saves paved the way for a tremendous 3-0 win over Cornell, which was hapless against Harvard’s 20 shots...
...said abortion should be legal in most cases as recently as October, just 44% do so now. This may inspire some introspection on the part of political operatives in both parties who attribute the Republicans' present frailty to its orthodoxy on social issues. The GOP may have fielded some hapless messengers, but their message, on abortion at least, may be closer to the mainstream than Democrats care to acknowledge...
...bother tearing apart: Connor's short, charisma-deficient brother (Breckin Meyer) who comes from a totally other gene pool, if not gene planet, than his studly sib; cinematography that makes everyone except McConaughey look ugly (the same artless deglamorizing recently evident in 17 Again and State of Play); hapless guest appearances by Michael Douglas and Anne Archer, who must have wished they were back in Fatal Attraction; a background score comprising random samples of a Lite-FM playlist; and enough gaffes of plot and atmosphere to make you wonder if anyone was watching while the picture was being made...
...unclear how seriously Strasburg considered making the trip east, especially since both of his parents attended SDSU, but every time the 6'4", 220 pound righty pumps his fastball by a hapless fellow rookie this summer, people in a Crimson uniform will ponder the what...