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...older ones, anyway. For them, this is prime nostalgia. For those too young to remember the Abba years, it's just faux-stalgia. But even that has its allure. It can turn a hapless movie into a fun one. And if you don't like the Mamma Mia! film, you can still hum those tunes all the way home...
...more important Webb-related business to be transacted now. He has written a book, A Time to Fight, that may be the best evocation of the 21st century Democratic Party's emerging style and philosophy. In the process, the Senator bids a not-too-fond adieu to the hapless late-20th century Democrats - at least those who made "interest-group rights" a higher priority than the economic well-being of the middle class ... and especially those who disdained or didn't take time to understand the U.S. military...
...Cruddas. The Labour leadership now hopes for time to regroup. They are crossing fingers that inquiries into possible breaches of rules on expenses by a few prominent Conservatives will dent the Tories' substantial lead in the polls. But fresh challenges are piling up thick and fast for Labour's hapless leader, including industrial action this weekend by tanker-truck drivers that could cause fuel shortages. Even as Brown breathed a sigh of relief over his narrow escape in the Commons, civil servants were briefing him about an embarrassing security breach in which secret government documents about al-Qaeda were left...
...those who haven't experienced it firsthand, e-recruiting can be thought of as an assembly line that picks up the hapless, risk-minimizing Harvard student with no great interest in the business world sometime during junior year and deposits him in the lobby of a Fortune 500 firm with a suit and six-figure salary eighteen months later. What happens in between requires no great effort on the part of the risk-minimizers—besides a well-developed ability to convince themselves that they will be far better positioned to give back to the world from the comfort...
...literatures, of Shakespeare, and of philosophy. The sciences should expand on a sensible modification recently made public, which allows upperclassmen to count certain introductory science courses, such as Physics 12 and Chem 5a for the Core—presumably to ease the lot of premeds, until now the most hapless victims of Core rigidity. There is no need to eliminate the many fine courses already established which approach these disciplines more imaginatively; some students may well prefer them. But it would be foolish to maintain that students learn less about artistic inquiry by tracing the course...