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Appearances to the contrary, Lui is not some hapless soul condemned to a lower circle of Dante's Inferno. She has been happily doing such work for eight years as one of the 95 product testers for Consumer Reports, the monthly magazine that has served as an indispensable guide for millions of shoppers since 1936. And a major reason for CR's success is the rigorous, painstaking, maybe obsessive and some might even say nutty striving for objectivity that Ginny Lui and her colleagues bring to the testing of products...
Monday night, Amherst was the latest victim of the machine that is the Harvard men's squash team. The unbeaten racquetmen (11-0 dual, 5-0 Ivy) dismantled a hapless group of Hersters...
...graduate. This is a sorry situation indeed. It must be avoided in the future; Dorksworth's legacy must be destroyed. I would suggest an immediate ban on thesis-writing, with suitable economic safeguards for those vendors of acid-free paper and laser printing who make a living off the hapless seniors...
...enthusiastic, excitable man, Del Monaco is a hands-on operative with his casts. At a piano rehearsal for Boccanegra, a chorister who stepped in front of the hero received a genial tongue lashing. The hapless soprano assigned to cover for Kiri Te Kanawa should she get sick had a bad day, going left when she should have gone right, up the stairs when she belonged on the ground, picking a prop flower off cue. At the beginning of the glorious duet in which the heroine learns that Boccanegra is her father, she began playfully fingering his shirt. For the umpteenth...
...mostly African-American jury of eight women and four men, this was the day's denouement. They were out of the courtroom by the time Judge Ito--informed that a hapless Court TV cameraman had slipped and televised the face of one alternate juror for a fraction of a second--excoriated the press and threatened to shut down the television cameras altogether. But as has happened before, Ito brandished a stick that he ultimately declined to use: he relented the next morning and let the show...