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...another embarrassing moment to offer. Last year, when he was free- lancing TV scripts, he pitched an idea for a Seinfeld episode to David. Though David liked the idea, Robin left the meeting unsure whether he had a firm assignment or not. Why not put George (Jason Alexander), the hapless job seeker, in a similar dilemma? At the end of an upbeat job interview, the company president says, "I want you to have this job. Of course . . ." A phone call interrupts, and George is ushered out the door, befuddled...
...being Harvard students, they were willing to risk life and limb--and those of hapless bystanders as well--for that small difference between a B+ and an A- (or for the less fortunate...
...Juppe calls it "premature," and liberals who formerly advocated expansion are having second thoughts. "I can only advise utmost caution when thinking about moving NATO eastward," says former German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. "We should not exclude Russia." Among the few remaining advocates of early enlargement are the hapless Central European countries with better reasons than Russia to fear for their security. Yeltsin's flip-flop caused acute anxiety in Warsaw, Prague and Budapest. "Poland's striving toward NATO is irreversible," said Foreign Minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski. "We are against placing Poland in the gray zone between East and West...
...absurd! A school of unshowered, poorly dressed rock stars have done much more for Seattle's reputation than have either the hapless Mariners or Seahawks...
Workers at the store, so named because "if youneeded it yesterday, we'll do our best," can calla centuries-old tune just by a hapless consumer'svague humming...