Word: haplessness
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...hapless first-year was exercising the ambition characteristic of Harvard students when he used his word processor to cut and paste addresses into an advertisement for last week's Opportunes-Callbacks concert. While he may have gained some concert-goers, he also drew a barrage of tongue-lashings. Former Digitas president Jeff C. Tarr '96 called it a "horrible waste of resources" and "bad e-mail etiquette." And Paul Martin, chair of the Faculty of Arts Sciences Committee on Information Technology insisted that mass mailings could "bring the system to its knees." The most extreme reaction was a piece...
...game last week against Clarkson. During the third period, I thought of the things that I would never witness again--a crowd of students shouting "Sieve!" while pointing at the opposing goalie, or the Harvard Band playing the James Bond theme between periods or defensemen Peter McLaughlin checking a hapless opposing forward into the wall...
Perhaps the most stunning development of the weekend came when hapless Penn (1-22, 1-10) picked up its first win of the season against Dartmouth, behind a masterful showing from junior forward Deana Lewis...
...Hapless Penn (0-21, 0-9) continued its lonely sojourn in the Ivy League cellar, in spite of the stellar play of senior Natasha Rezek, who recorded her 13th double-double of the season against Brown...
...ANYONE CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT it is like to work at TIME, Calvin Trillin's 1980 novel, Floater, is required reading. The story of a hapless writer at a national weekly newsmagazine suspiciously like this one, it skewers some of TIME's most revered traditions, including this very page. Though Trillin now tries to pretend that Floater is "made up," he in fact gathered inside information during nearly three years on TIME's staff. In 1960, after graduating from Yale and serving in the Army, he joined the Atlanta bureau, reporting on the civil rights movement. He then moved...