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What if Abby from "Dear Abby" married Cliff from Cliff's Notes? What if somebody spiked Chicken Soup for the Soul with Harvard's Core Curriculum? What if a hapless humanities major condensed his four-year, $120,000 liberal arts education into a 100-page, $9.95 self-help manual...

Author: By Jeremy N. Smith, | Title: What Would Juliet Do? | 4/28/2000 | See Source »

Yesterday's men's tennis match between Harvard and Dartmouth was also like a war--the Persian Gulf war, that is. The Crimson (14-11, 5-2 Ivy) utterly dominated the hapless Big Green in its season finale, quickly dismissing Dartmouth...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Rolls Over Big Green in Season Finale | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...subdued students carrying posters and placards, quietly clustered around President Neil L. Rudenstine's office in Massachusetts Hall. All of a sudden I saw the logic. They thought that I was a spy sent from across the Yard to infiltrate the University's administrative headquarters and carry some hapless administrator down the stairs in a commemoration of the "Harvard riots...

Author: By David I.L. Beecher, | Title: Showdown at University Hall | 4/25/2000 | See Source »

...Crimson finished off the hapless Independent, Harvard's weekly...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Defeats IGP, Indy 23-2 | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...dear, oh dear. By the time Bridget has landed in a Thai prison (don't ask) more than halfway through Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Viking; 338 pages; $24.95), the reader is beyond caring. Hapless is one thing--as the tremendous popularity of Bridget Jones's Diary showed, hapless can be endearing. But hapless with no sign of a learning curve, in a sequel that has none of the novelty of the original yet is much longer--now that will try the patience of even a Bridget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meander Miss Jones | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

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