Word: haplessness
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...Baby, Just Win: UNH has become something of a media darling lately. The Wildcats are the not-so-proud owners of the nation's longest home losing streak. When hapless Delaware stopped the Wildcats in Durham last week, the skid hit 31 games...
Bowles made this caravan of horrors persuasive by suggesting that tragedy was the destination his travelers sought. His prose got under the skin of . hapless Port and Kit and revealed their itch for romantic catastrophe. But movies are as different from novels as show is from tell. The director who would adapt this treacherous tale must find resources other than interior monologues and wan philosophizing. Bertolucci knew this when, after conquering China and Hollywood with The Last Emperor, he and co-screenwriter Mark Peploe approached The Sheltering Sky. "Instead of using language and psychology, I wanted to be more physical...
...Sununu has most of them scared to disagree with him. One Sununu tool is aide Ed Rogers, who spends much of his time wielding a yellow highlighting pen, marking up articles critical of his boss and guessing the identities of the reporter's sources. Sununu then harasses the hapless suspects...
...token a gambit as this four-second solution seems refreshing amid the depressing political landscape. It might be tempting to cast the media consultants as villains who substitute deceptive advertising techniques for high-minded dialogue. But many admakers feel as trapped by slash-and-burn campaigning as the hapless voters. "I hate going negative," says G.O.P. consultant Don Ringe, who is creating ads for Senate candidates in Colorado and Hawaii. "But all of us, Democrats and Republicans, are corrupted by the system...
...Hapless Columbia and Brown fell to Lehigh and Fordham, respectively. Princeton got thumped by Ivy-killer Colgate, and Penn lost to Lafayette...