Word: hard-luck
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Usually it's not all that tough getting Jesse Jackson's blessing. Whether you're a scandal-plagued President, an ear-chomping boxer or a hard-luck farmer, Jackson generally doesn't mind offering up a little private prayer and some public words of encouragement. Of course, when you're Geoffrey Fieger, the man infamously known as Dr. Death's lawyer, getting even a nod from Jackson becomes a tad more complicated...
...interviews about Viagra after the requests threatened to grow longer than the S&P 500. Earlier, his much larger gifts--to the United Jewish Appeal, the Widows and Orphans Fund, the New York Public Library, among others--had elicited almost no attention. Known to be a pushover for a hard-luck story, he got this idea from a newspaper. "I saw an article saying that at $10 apiece, a lot of impotent men wouldn't be able to afford it. So I said, 'Kathy [his wife, who is on the board of the Hospital for Special Surgery, which will administer...
Duffell (2-2, 2.25 ERA), the likely starter in Saturday's opener at O'Donnell Field, was referring to a home doubleheader against the hard-luck Lions, in which Harvard needed an extra-inning comeback and gutsy relief outings from senior Mike Marcucci and sophomore Derek Lennon to pull out two wins...
...took some of the sting out of two otherwise dreary days of baseball at Yale Field, as the Crimson (20-9,9-3 Ivy) overcame nine errors, hard-luck losses from aces Andrew Duffell and Garett Vail and quality starts from four Bulldog arms to hold Yale (14-17, 6-6) at bay in the pennant chase...
...appears inevitable that by the end of summer, the mine will close and the last 120 miners will lose their jobs. It will be the latest in a series of hard-luck hits for the area, which lost 30 or 40 businesses, its only hospital and the CSX railroad when the Black Fork River flooded in 1985. Another flood in early 1996 provided sufficient excuse for a shoe plant employing 135 to close down and move abroad. That makes a small charcoal plant with 150 workers the largest single employer in Tucker County, where many of the miners reside. Beyond...