Word: haplessness
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...prosecution: Peter de Vries, a Dutch crime journalist, who presented his eagerly awaited take on the case on a Dutch commercial television station. The advocate for the defense: a rival channel, which aired an interview with one of the prime suspects in the case. Left in the dust as hapless bystanders were the official prosecutors in Aruba, who have failed to bring anyone to trial almost three years since Holloway was last seen leaving a nightclub with Joran van der Sloot and two friends on the night...
...their gladhanding and hyper-scripted stump speeches. Meanwhile, so many of our states lack the economic or cultural grandeur of California or New York and become little more than whistle-stops in the general election. This is, of course, the problem to which the Electoral College is the hapless, nonsensical solution. Better that the self-styled salt of the earth in Dubuque and Davenport fill that role when the time to vote finally arrives than that same Geffen-and-Soros cabal that donates millions in the months beforehand and afterward. If there’s one thing keeping the race...
...This in itself created some historic irony - the cable companies absolutely refusing to impose a price increase on their hapless customers. And that isn't the only strange play in this gridiron battle. The league has succeeded in accomplishing something unique, something unheard-of in the history of modern media: getting consumers and politicians to side with the cable companies...
...work, as long as you hail from inside Route 93.It is less of a stretch than you might think to draw a parallel between these Boston sports powerhouses and the Harvard squad that finally tamed the undefeated Bulldogs. Saturday’s victory, a 37-6 joyride past the hapless Elis, was downright Belichickian, from the defense’s ability to neutralize its opponent’s greatest threat (running back Mike McCleod), to the offense’s aerial proficiency. You’ll be forgiven if you mistook quarterback Chris Pizzotti’s passing totals...
Hundreds of people were trying to pack their way through the single front door, while a hapless police officer attempted to regulate. Stemming from the mass, a trail of people curved around the corner where more police officers looked to be quietly praying a riot didn’t erupt. Teams of local cable news camera vans were parked out front...